After the 5 original moxen I think this is the best mox ever printed. I play 4 of these in my 5c stax deck now + the 5 originals. Stax just got meaner on the play. Just Bazaar of Baghdad the other Mox Opals when you draw them. Goblin Welder loves this card too. Definately a vintage worthy Mox, in a Workshop deck it's almost a sure bet it will accelerate your first turn.
Posted By:
Kartakass
(11/5/2010 6:05:06 PM)
Why did they make it legendary if they are going to restrict or ban it anyway?
Posted By:
Davidian
(1/13/2011 7:31:39 AM)
The only thing that stops this shattering from being so broken is that it's legendary
Posted By:
qwertycrap
(5/23/2011 12:17:08 AM)
I got one in a booster pack when the set first came out. It is a sick land, only wish you could use 4 of them.
Posted By:
swensonator
(12/4/2011 2:50:31 AM)
It's obviously not an auto-include in every deck, but it is in an awful lot of them. I have at least three where it's just as good as a real Mox.
Just be glad we didn't have this back in the days of Affinity.
Posted By:
sonorhC
(12/4/2011 5:16:31 PM)
Who else re-read this, saw it was legendary and immediately thought it was sort of terrible?
Posted By:
Dream_Twist
(6/16/2012 8:33:35 PM)
If it wasn't for the Legendary supertype, it would have felt as powerful as the other Mox. Imagine, a lucky opening hand: four Mox Opals, a land, a Dark ritual, and your favorite 7 or less CMC card, like, dunno, a Hunting Pack? Well, it's still quite possible to use his ability on the very first turn, with an artifact land and some 0 or 1 CMC artifact card.
Posted By:
Daikoru
(9/27/2010 11:00:38 PM)
limited to artifacts heavy decks, that will see some massive nuke in the future
Posted By:
mlanier131
(9/30/2010 10:58:55 PM)
To play the four glint hawks you would additionally need some more 0 cost artifacts, so that's not a very likely situation to come up. I agree with the previous comments that it is not worth 40-50$, but I do like it as a card. Nice with metalcraft, trinket mage and other cards that abuse cheap artifacts. I'll buy some when they cross the $10 mark ;-).
Posted By:
Akym
(10/18/2010 7:30:20 AM)
4 Glint Hawks on turn 1 (or "turn 0") is, last time I checked, pretty damn stupid. Not to mention that turn 2 could then follow up with an Etched Champion. This will drop in price, but I doubt it will drop as much as people think.
@Akym: It is unlikely, to a point, but still a possibility. I now realize that you actually would not be able to play Etched Champion the next turn after a hand like that...wasn't thinking straight. I don't think it will ever be banned, or that it's worth $40 either. But with all the 0 cost artifacts in standard right now, and all the goofy tricks that you can use, I doubt this will drop any lower than $30.
Posted By:
surewhynot
(10/18/2010 2:05:03 PM)