All things considered, time ran out for the Academy quite quickly after it was printed.
Posted By:
Raibys
(2/18/2014 10:51:28 PM)
This is easily one of the best lands ever printed.
No side effect, just massive amounts of mana for an artifact deck.
Posted By:
GruesomeGoo
(1/2/2010 8:02:59 PM)
If you play artifacts, and you don't play standard, invest in this. Take care of it. Tuck it in at night, give it some of your soda, take it to the movies. Buy it some nice jewelry. And it will take care of you in turn.
That's what happened to me, anyway. And now the two of us have a family and a nice life together.
Posted By:
Lateralis0ne
(6/21/2011 10:21:37 PM)
Beautiful.
Just... I've nothing else to say.
Posted By:
Azazyel
(5/11/2010 10:16:54 PM)
Between Tolarian Academy, Gaea's Cradle, Serra'a Sanctum, Phyrexian Tower, and Shivan Gorge, it's obvious which colors got cheated out of a seriously a good land cycle.
Posted By:
BongRipper420
(11/1/2012 11:16:36 AM)
How on earth does it make sense that this gets banned in Legacy but Gaea's Cradle doesn't?
I mean, seriously, you don't even have to build a deck around Gaea's Cradle for it to be overpowered.
Posted By:
Galgus
(8/4/2010 11:31:54 PM)
(Random card review #81)
This is one I can't say much about that isn't already in the comments somewhere. I remember a couple years before this came out, desperately looking for ways to accelerate a blue deck; almost every other colour had some form of playable fast mana, but for blue there was little short of Mox Sapphire. I soon concluded that if blue were given playable fast mana it would be too good. Then High Tide came out and, though this will come as a surprise to some, didn't get played at first. I knew it was a seriously overpowered card just waiting for the right deck to come along, but apparently its initial lack of success made WotC overconfident enough to print this beast. At least, that's the only explanation I can think of. This card was so obviously broken that its dominance also inspired Extended players to dust off their High Tides and build broken decks around those, once Tolarian Academy's inevitable banning took place.
Posted By:
jeff-heikkinen
(11/16/2009 11:20:26 AM)
THE BEST CARD IN SAGA. must-have in most vintage decks, SO MANY infinite mana combos! Mind Over Matter being my personal fav. Tolaria West to fish it out of all-blue decks. the meat and bones of the best 5-minute-turns. combos with more restricted cards than any other. Frantic Search, Time Spiral, Rewind, the gift that keeps on giving. BLUE MANA ACCELERATION TO THE MAXXX! the vintage highlander (singleton?) deck's best friend. johnny's wet dream. best land since original dual lands, period. UNGH! if it weren't so valuable, i would make out with it. seriously.
Posted By:
kronos539
(6/12/2010 11:27:03 PM)
HOLY.... wow. I've never seen this used, but fully intend to go get one now... yikes.
Posted By:
Gaussgoat
(1/11/2010 11:49:14 AM)
So expensive, so broken, so awesome.
Posted By:
Chrome_Coyote
(9/24/2010 2:42:06 PM)