This is what happens to lands who say their prayers and take their vitamins. Even if they hang posters of Tolarian Academy on their walls...
ttian
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(8 votes)
this is where mishra works obviously
Guest57443454
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(8 votes)
One of the cornerstones of Vintage and one of the best lands ever printed...
Dr_Draco
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(7 votes)
Just imagine this card in Mirrodin. It would dominate.
UNBAN_SHAHRAZAD
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(6 votes)
PLEASE restrict this card in Type 1! It is broken! It should have never been unrestricted.
Dark_Raider
★☆☆☆☆ (1.4/5.0)(5 votes)
This. Is. Just. So. Good. I. Can't. Breath. Anymore. *gasp*
Cheesesack
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(4 votes)
Shame it cost's about £150 to buy or I'd definately get a playset.
ClockworkSwordfish
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(5 votes)
Repeatable black lotus in artifact descks? Yes please.
SlackWareWolf
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(25 votes)
Restrict this? Ugh you sissy. When I started playing there was NO SUCH THING as a Restricted list, it hadn't been thought up yet. If you think this card is so bad, go play against a TRUE Balance deck, one that has 12 Balance, 12 Jade Statue, and Moxes, and nothing else, and watch how every turn you're discarding your hand, and killing everything you have in play while they then activate Statues to send over to you. Or better yet, play someone like me who kept a copy of a Stasis deck around with 4 Kismet, 4 Time Elemental, and 4 Stasis, and then threw in Chronatogs to make you sit there doing NOTHING until you decked yourself. Can't understand how people can whine about a Land when years ago Library of Alexandria was unrestricted and so was Ancestral Recall.
Kartakass
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
Simply the best land ever printed. With the advent of Lodestone Golem I suspect these will be even more popular in Type 1. Suddenly Workshop Aggro is a viable option once again.
spectermonger
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
This is not restricted because players who'd forked over $$$ for a playset started whining...go figure
EvilCleavage
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
Wow it's so funny how some people gets all butt hurt because of someone else's comment. Dude no one cares how many balance's were in someone's deck and how they would get their a** kicked, or how you threw forty black lotus or forty eight moxes in your deck. You sound like some dude that thinks he's some old school pro that know's everything. It's not fun playing with those broken combos. I respect them and the people who figured them out were genius's but just because you can copy someone's deck list doesn't make you a godsend. Haha, anyways, this card is freakin awesome!! I love the old school flavor! The art is horrible but it feels GOOOD!
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(7 votes)
They should have realized what they were doing even back then.
Seriously, this is absurd.
Lateralis0ne
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I just remembered how this broke the STAX archtype back in its genesis moment. I want to get one or two now for the casual model I've been tinkering with. Now to find 640 USD to fork over.......
thedarkheathen
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
Mishra: "WTF Are you all you guys doing, get out of my workshop"
18scsc
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
it does need to be restricted, and anywhys i like the good old lighting bolt, mox rubby wheel of fourtene combo.
Silverware
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(5 votes)
@slackwarewolf
Are you saying that because at one point in time the game was unbalanced that it should stay that way forever? I mean, clearly they put the 4 card rule in place for a reason; the game was becoming much less enjoyable without it.
Honestly there is a reason this card is banned in Legacy, and it would not be crazy to restrict it in vintage either.
Gramcrackers
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Wait why didn't Mishra win the war?
Oh and technically Mishra is not necessarily canonically dead (along with squee), Hes just chilling in what remains of the seventh or sixth sphere i believe.
MasterOfEtherium
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(8 votes)
Absoloutley Amazing Fits In So Many Of My Decks, On Turn I Can Play 3 Arcbound Workers HaHa
SolidSoldier
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@divine_exodus: Very funny.
Sironos
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Just imagine if they reprinted this today, it would be even more game breaking that skull clamp. Artifacts must erally have sucked when this was made, or they were just drunk while designing it. I mean, black lotus at least requires a sac, this on the other hand... and it's not even legendary Oo
divine_exodus
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Where's the scars of mirrodin reprint?
EDIT
I just noticed the face in the art. It's like:
o_O
gasimakos1
★☆☆☆☆ (1.4/5.0)(6 votes)
this shit doesnt even stand up to freakin... urza's mine, man!!!!!
seriously, though, wtf is with the prices on these cards recently? this is *** ***
scumbling1
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(7 votes)
"Restrict this? Ugh you sissy. When I started playing there was NO SUCH THING as a Restricted list, it hadn't been thought up yet. If you think this card is so bad, go play against a TRUE Balance deck, one that has 12 Balance, 12 Jade Statue, and Moxes, and nothing else, and watch how every turn you're discarding your hand, and killing everything you have in play while they then activate Statues to send over to you. Or better yet, play someone like me who kept a copy of a Stasis deck around with 4 Kismet, 4 Time Elemental, and 4 Stasis, and then threw in Chronatogs to make you sit there doing NOTHING until you decked yourself. Can't understand how people can whine about a Land when years ago Library of Alexandria was unrestricted and so was Ancestral Recall."
Both Stasis and Balance decks were so fun to play against that they should be the kind of things Wizards tries to preserve and replicate. Magic: the game where you have cards you can't play -- try keeping that business venture afloat for more than a year.
Radagast
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
The irony of all this is that Mishra's Workshop and Factory apparently were used mostly to churn out Mishra's War Machines. I think that explains why he lost the war. While his production abilities were superior to Urza, he simply had no idea how to build anything that was a real threat. Poor guy!
Oh, yeah, as for this card, clearly stupidly broken, even back then.
sarroth
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This could give you only {2} and still be immensely playable. Compare with Temple of the False God, which won't even give you mana for multiple turns. This thing gives you mana right from turn 1, and with all the mana rocks available you can start churning out a bunch of stuff that aren't even artifacts.
landboysteve
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So this bad boy is now going for about $1250 (low end) for a playset. Absolutely one of the most broken to hell cards in all of magic. Imagine playing an affinity deck with this thing. LOL
Whatever R&D was smoking back when they made this must have been really good stuff. LOL
See, here I was thinking, 'what would be the cheapest set in Magic to just go on Ebay and plain BUY all the cards in?
And then, I hit this card....apparently not this set. :p
*EDIT: Setting my sights lower, to only get remotely playable cards that aren't banned in the format I want to use them, Antiquities is still looking pretty nice. It's so small, I'd only need to get, like, 10 cards. If that. :)
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
So, so, sick.
So happy I have one... Bought an entire Antiquities set, at most SP, mostly EX-NM, in 1996 for about 50$. Boo ya.
Also, EDH legal, awesome!!
To bad there are only three legendary Artifact creatures that are colorless: Karn, Bosh and Memnarch.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@slackwarwolf
Can you say Pay 2 Win for me please? Because that is what you are! I bet you like to talk smack after you beat some new player too.
Lord_Ascapelion
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I love how slackwarewolf goes on about his 20 Black Lotus, 20 Plague Rat decks here, then on other cards talks about how ante was designed to prevent people from buying their way to victory. It's delicious hypocrisy, to the point where I think he's just a huge troll. If he's not, I have a message for him: It's not 1993 anymore. The game has changed. Get over it.
Yeah, this card is broken in half. Didn't the antiquities designers realize that this card would pretty much put an upper limit on how good they could make artifacts? Two of these and I can pop out a Wurmcoil Engine on turn 2... turn 1 if I have a Black Lotus, lol. Oh well, at least it's next to impossible to get, so we don't have to worry about that.
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Seriously, this is absurd.
Are you saying that because at one point in time the game was unbalanced that it should stay that way forever? I mean, clearly they put the 4 card rule in place for a reason; the game was becoming much less enjoyable without it.
Honestly there is a reason this card is banned in Legacy, and it would not be crazy to restrict it in vintage either.
Oh and technically Mishra is not necessarily canonically dead (along with squee), Hes just chilling in what remains of the seventh or sixth sphere i believe.
EDIT
I just noticed the face in the art. It's like:
o_O
seriously, though, wtf is with the prices on these cards recently? this is *** ***
Both Stasis and Balance decks were so fun to play against that they should be the kind of things Wizards tries to preserve and replicate. Magic: the game where you have cards you can't play -- try keeping that business venture afloat for more than a year.
Oh, yeah, as for this card, clearly stupidly broken, even back then.
Whatever R&D was smoking back when they made this must have been really good stuff. LOL
What?
See, here I was thinking, 'what would be the cheapest set in Magic to just go on Ebay and plain BUY all the cards in?
And then, I hit this card....apparently not this set. :p
*EDIT: Setting my sights lower, to only get remotely playable cards that aren't banned in the format I want to use them, Antiquities is still looking pretty nice. It's so small, I'd only need to get, like, 10 cards. If that. :)
So happy I have one... Bought an entire Antiquities set, at most SP, mostly EX-NM, in 1996 for about 50$. Boo ya.
Also, EDH legal, awesome!!
To bad there are only three legendary Artifact creatures that are colorless: Karn, Bosh and Memnarch.
Can you say Pay 2 Win for me please? Because that is what you are! I bet you like to talk smack after you beat some new player too.
Yeah, this card is broken in half. Didn't the antiquities designers realize that this card would pretty much put an upper limit on how good they could make artifacts? Two of these and I can pop out a Wurmcoil Engine on turn 2... turn 1 if I have a Black Lotus, lol. Oh well, at least it's next to impossible to get, so we don't have to worry about that.
This is madness.