Lord of Atlantis - " I am LORD OF ATLANTIS, I am the best of the mermaids FEAR ME"
if your playing mer put him in there is no reason you don't want a 2mana lord.
Equinox523
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(4 votes)
Well, not exactly no reason - in the mirror, he makes the opponent's merfolk unblockable too. But otherwise, a great card that came back just in time for Lorwyn's powerful merfolk decks.
PaladinOfSunhome
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
It's a good card if only you are running Merfolk. The fact that it's abilties are for all other Merfolk is a double edged sword, but still a good overall card and the fact it was Time Shifted helped in Standard for a while.
Vinifera7
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Not that it matters much, but I'm just wondering why the Oracle lists Lord of Atlantis as a Merfolk instead of a Merfolk Lord as it is in the printed version.
SinDas
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(5 votes)
The creature type "Lord" doesn't exist any more. ;-)
TheShaister
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(4 votes)
One of my decks is made around the lord of atlantis.I have a bunch of merfolk with him so i can islandwalk my aponent.If my aponent has no islands i use Phantasmal Terrian to backdoor him.
T-101
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(12 votes)
This card is a huge mystery to me. I think some of this was explained in a "Card of the Day" on magicthegathering.com, but I'll repost and elaborate.
For one, when he first saw print, he merely turned Merfolk of the Pearl Trident into a 2/2. No other Merfolk existed, and he didn't pump other copies of himself.
Secondly, he is the only 2-drop true lord (one that gives +1/+1 to his friends), which is extremely aggressively costed... yet he is mono-blue, the least likely color to get aggressively costed creatures.
Third, he himself does not get Islandwalk. WTF? He is the freaking master of the sunken city, and yet he can only show his friends, or other copies of himself how to become unblockable.
Still, all of these weird attributes can't stop this guy from being one of the scariest creatures to hit the Legacy battlefield.
Havens
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
@Guest1527662776
"For one, when he first saw print, he merely turned Merfolk of the Pearl Trident into a 2/2. No other Merfolk existed, and he didn't pump other copies of himself."
remember, when it was first printed, there was no restriction to playsets in magic, so you could run a deck with like 8 to 10 of him, 20 islands and 30 of the regular merfolk. basically meaning a field of say 3-4 of those 1/1s, becomes a field of 2/2 island walkers
BlackAlbino
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
i don't get why the frame is old, thought timeshift had the newer frames... not that it's important just saying
Master-Crimson
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
@ Black Albino The timeshifted cards in Time Spiral had old frames, in Planar Chaos they had frames of darker colours, and in Future Sight they all had funky frames. At any rate, what's the likelihood that you'll get 2 decks facing each other, both playing Merfolk (outside of Lorwyn limited, perhaps)?
Evermint
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(4 votes)
This card is weird. Only the TimeShifted version technically has the Merfolk subtype printed on it. I think I'd get sick of explaining an errata to people whenever using another version of this card.
Zetan
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
I had a mono-blue casual deck for a while that had this guy in it and no other merfolk. A 2/2 for 2 is a really good buy, even without his ability.
Weary_PSI
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(7 votes)
An amazingly aggressive and efficiently-priced creature, considering that it's Blue. For some reason cheaper than it's Goblin, Elf, and Zombie contemporaries, which never made any sense.
Salient
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The Granddaddy of Merfolk. He was Lord of the merfolk before there were hardly any merfolk to be the lord of.
...which makes him the perfect candidate for Timeshifting. :)
friendtoall17
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Good card - however....does anyone else find it odd that they didn't get the wording and creature type completely unambiguous until time spiral? Seriously. Click through the expansions for this card. "Summon Lord of Atlantis" with "All merfolk get...." 1993 version of me wouldn'tve understood that two of these guys out will get +1/+1 and islandwalk.
Later, we have him as summon lord, and saying "Other merfolk" which indirectly indicated he's a merfolk.
LAST TRY they got it right? Type - merfolk lord. "Other merfolk." Done.
Better late than never :)
upgraded
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@T-101
The original cycle of lords correspond to 3 vanilla creatures in alpha. The idea was that the game was so complicated already that you needed some simple cards, but it was pretty easy for simple cards to be boring. So, Richard Garfield attached hidden complexity to simple cards by giving them each a lord.
Why does the blue one cost 2 mana? Blue's just like that, you kind of have to get used to that if you want to play magic. XD
MindAblaze
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Functional reprint in M13?
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
...Aquaman?
Man-O-Megrim
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Fits nicely into my mill-folk deck as added protection against burn and good for extra aggro, but typically I just tap his a$$...no wait...something's not right.
HuntingDrake
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Under his rule, each Merfolk adopts a pet gharial.
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if your playing mer put him in there is no reason you don't want a 2mana lord.
For one, when he first saw print, he merely turned Merfolk of the Pearl Trident into a 2/2. No other Merfolk existed, and he didn't pump other copies of himself.
Secondly, he is the only 2-drop true lord (one that gives +1/+1 to his friends), which is extremely aggressively costed... yet he is mono-blue, the least likely color to get aggressively costed creatures.
Third, he himself does not get Islandwalk. WTF? He is the freaking master of the sunken city, and yet he can only show his friends, or other copies of himself how to become unblockable.
Still, all of these weird attributes can't stop this guy from being one of the scariest creatures to hit the Legacy battlefield.
"For one, when he first saw print, he merely turned Merfolk of the Pearl Trident into a 2/2. No other Merfolk existed, and he didn't pump other copies of himself."
remember, when it was first printed, there was no restriction to playsets in magic, so you could run a deck with like 8 to 10 of him, 20 islands and 30 of the regular merfolk. basically meaning a field of say 3-4 of those 1/1s, becomes a field of 2/2 island walkers
The timeshifted cards in Time Spiral had old frames, in Planar Chaos they had frames of darker colours, and in Future Sight they all had funky frames.
At any rate, what's the likelihood that you'll get 2 decks facing each other, both playing Merfolk (outside of Lorwyn limited, perhaps)?
I think I'd get sick of explaining an errata to people whenever using another version of this card.
...which makes him the perfect candidate for Timeshifting. :)
Later, we have him as summon lord, and saying "Other merfolk" which indirectly indicated he's a merfolk.
LAST TRY they got it right? Type - merfolk lord. "Other merfolk." Done.
Better late than never :)
The original cycle of lords correspond to 3 vanilla creatures in alpha. The idea was that the game was so complicated already that you needed some simple cards, but it was pretty easy for simple cards to be boring. So, Richard Garfield attached hidden complexity to simple cards by giving them each a lord.
Why does the blue one cost 2 mana? Blue's just like that, you kind of have to get used to that if you want to play magic. XD