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This card has saved my ass more times than one would think looking at it.

I once used this in an Esper deck when I was swampscrewed. It served ad the most inefficient land ever (3 mana = 1 black). All of my spells have at least one B in their cost.

I won that game.

I can't type my comment there, ajani. you already typed your comment there.

woah

Obvious synergy with Fireball and Exsanguinate is obvious.

I really liked this cycle of lands. Sure, they were slow, but the ability to store up goodies and crack them open at will? I'm all for that.

Between all storage lands, this cycle is the most powerful, I think. It comes into field untapped, and can tap for {1}. Yes, it requires actually 2 mana to put a counter on it, but I think that it's a little price to pay, in order to be able to put counters since the beginning, instead of wait for a whole turn like the old lands... Moreover, you can pay {1} from any land to get mana from this, and still be able to tap to add a counter afterward...

My Izzet Commander deck need the enemy-color version of this land!

4/5

Nearly every single Time Spiral card was an homage to at least one previously printed card.

This card is part of a five-card cycle referencing the various kinds of "storage lands;" the first were in Fallen Empires (Icatian Store, et al) then tried again in Mercadian Masques (Subterranean Hangar, et al). This cycle became easily the most successful, finding a way to make the 'storage' part of the land less-clunky, promoting some entrants in this cycle to appear in tournament-caliber constructed decks.

For those interested in the full cycle of these lands:

Molten Slagheap
Fungal Reaches
Saltcrusted Steppe
Calciform Pools
Dreadship Reef