Amazing art... and an interesting concept. I'm not sure how good this will be actual play. The idea is a bit strange and basically it means that in the early game, you'll get a lot of B and in the late game you'll get a lot of U. Maybe they'll print this in Zendikar. A few of the preview cards are already related to playing lands.
shady-tradesman
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(5 votes)
Style points to the person who uses these effectively in a deck.
littlebeast
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(10 votes)
You know, you could use its ability, THEN play a land. This thing is almost strictly better than an island.
Reliquium
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(8 votes)
So the first turn you play this, you get . Then the choice is whether to play a land before you tap it to get or play a land after you tap it to get ...it's a neat concept. Is it ever useful, though?
The art is spectacular, and suits this frame so well, as a few cards from this set do. Some cards completely clash with it, like Grove of the Burnwillows, which hurts the eyes, or Horizon Canopy, where the blue-green of the frame and the yellow-green of the art clash subtly and wash out the whole card. But I think this is the prettiest MAGIC card I've seen.
STYLE POINTS ARE MINE. This is quite easy to use...and effective, too. A good dual land, given it's 'supposed' restrictions.
SleetFox
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(5 votes)
You can pretty much control when this turns black by tapping for blue mana and THEN playing a land. In that sense, there are very few advantages an Island has over this. This isn't the most reliable source of black mana, but it's still reliable for blue and has virtually no drawbacks.
Preety good land, all you must do is to put a swamp in every turn, wait....
djbon2112
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Great art, great effect, and a very interesting take on a dual land. Precursor to Landfall I think ;)
Gaussgoat
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Awesome Dual-land, outstanding idea. With all of the bounce effects available for Blue, you can easily get whatever color you need out of this thing.
Plus, it doesn't come into play tapped. Awesome.
4.5/5
NeoSin
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(18 votes)
It does what a lot of cards dont make you do anymore: Think.
AXER
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Great art!
faisjdas
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
I love both Future Sight land cycles. I hope to see them finished some day . . .
Rikiaz
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(5 votes)
This card is just simply beautiful in it's color scheme. I want 4 of these for my Blue-Black Control deck.
Prizrak
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Possibly my favourite card art, set in the plane of Arkhos, "where night and day intermingle". Visited only one other time, on the Lethe Lake plane card of planechase.
http://tinyurl.com/4n9g7gt
Ace8792
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This is the first Land Fall card ever woot!
Edit: sorry my mistake.
Anyways I hope wizards makes more flavourful cards with awesome art like this in the future.
Lyoncet
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I just can't give a card this unique with such jaw-dropping art under a 5. Well, actually I wouldn't except it really forces you to plan ahead a bit to fix your mana, and gives you that little boost for putting in the extra effort. Very interesting card.
okaaaaay
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I would have a 6' by 8' painting of this card.
TrueBloodWolf
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This would be nice in my deck I think. I could use it for my blue artifact support, and if I have a land and have minor black abilities I wanna play (like Skeleton Shard) I just play a land before I tap it.
Dx wish there were more cards like this one, it's nice
Superllama12
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
This is really cool! The only problem is that, if you need one more land than you have in your first main phase to play something, and this to play an Unsummon during combat, you can only make , cuz mana doesn't float any more...but still, a very powerful and interesting land!
Wow, this is awesome. First turn, use to play Ponder or Preordain, second turn, sign in blood.
5/5
Paleopaladin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The most amazing and gorgeous art of any land in the game. Did they ever make foil for future sight cards?
@superllama -- It does "float"--just not between phases.
@sgt -- wouldn't work because on the first turn, it makes because you probably laid a land (i.e., this one).
Cyberium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Cry Me a River, great song.
1qazxsw
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Managable drawback, but something I'm surprised no one has mentioned is that on opponent's turns it will nearly always produce blue mana, great for countermagic. And on your turn, it will really always be your choice.
EpicBroccoli
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Condor_96
Actually there's a small distinction between this and Landfall, playing a land isn't quite the same as having a land enter the battlefield.
TheArchive
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Would like to see this and a similar cycle reprinted soon. It might be a bit complex for a core set but it would be cool to see in M13.
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Push on a shove, they don't mean much
gman92
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Fantastic card. I love the art and I'm still looking for a foil one. I may make in Casual/Legacy because of this. I like the synergy with it and Blue instants. It will usually tap for on your opponent's turn making it really really effective.
Fictionarious
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Black on my turn and blue on your turn? *Mario-voice : "Just what I needed!"
EDIT: Wonderful, just wonderful. It's a B mana the turn you play it and a U mana on theirs. As simple and useful as that. Play a land to produce a B with it and If it ends up being your only U source in play, don't worry, you will be extra careful with the timing of your next land drop.
lilwolf2005
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My favorite land in the entire game. I love the artwork, the frame, the flavor, the strange weird unique U/B land mechanic. It's just so perfect. I have a page in my rare binder front and back dedicated to this sole card.
absreim
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Very good for UBx control. Allows you to cast black discard spells on your turn or hold up mana for blue counterspells on your opponent's turn. Not having life loss is very relevant for a control deck trying to stall the game against more aggressive decks.
Hussalo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Quite possibly the best card, art wise, in all of MtG. At least, that's my opinion.
GrayWizard
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I don't think that they tried pronouncing "Kholon" literally.
jonrds
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If this doesn't get reprinted in Journey into Nyx I'm going to be so angry. What set could be better?
Update: It looks like River of Tears is very specifically from the plane "Arkhos". From "The Planes of Planechase":
"Arkhos is the plane represented by the Future Sight card River of Tears (also illustrated by Chris J. Anderson). It's a dreamlike world where night and day intermingle according to its own strange internal logic—check out the delicate quality of the light in the art. Near Lethe Lake on Arkhos, memories ebb away like the current of an old stone watercourse. Most mages tend to steer clear of the psychic ravages of the Lake, but surprisingly, some seek it out, believing they need to be cleansed of all remnants of the past in order to make their minds free for new magical creations."
AzureLazuline
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hm... because half of the text box has a black background, the text needed to be white rather than the standard black. I wonder if that's the reason they never printed any W/B cards in Future Sight, or if it's just a happy coincidence :P
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The art is spectacular, and suits this frame so well, as a few cards from this set do. Some cards completely clash with it, like Grove of the Burnwillows, which hurts the eyes, or Horizon Canopy, where the blue-green of the frame and the yellow-green of the art clash subtly and wash out the whole card. But I think this is the prettiest MAGIC card I've seen.
Other nice ones with Future Sight frames are Bitter Ordeal, Korlash, Heir to Blackblade, and Blade of the Sixth Pride suits full-frame so well; the art reminds me of Sam Keith (of The Maxx comic book fame).
Vinelasher Kudzu
Plus, it doesn't come into play tapped. Awesome.
4.5/5
http://tinyurl.com/4n9g7gt
Edit: sorry my mistake.
Anyways I hope wizards makes more flavourful cards with awesome art like this in the future.
Dx wish there were more cards like this one, it's nice
This and Vinelasher Kudzu
5/5
@superllama -- It does "float"--just not between phases.
@sgt -- wouldn't work because on the first turn, it makes
Actually there's a small distinction between this and Landfall, playing a land isn't quite the same as having a land enter the battlefield.
*Mario-voice : "Just what I needed!"
EDIT: Wonderful, just wonderful. It's a B mana the turn you play it and a U mana on theirs. As simple and useful as that. Play a land to produce a B with it and If it ends up being your only U source in play, don't worry, you will be extra careful with the timing of your next land drop.
Update: It looks like River of Tears is very specifically from the plane "Arkhos". From "The Planes of Planechase":
"Arkhos is the plane represented by the Future Sight card River of Tears (also illustrated by Chris J. Anderson). It's a dreamlike world where night and day intermingle according to its own strange internal logic—check out the delicate quality of the light in the art. Near Lethe Lake on Arkhos, memories ebb away like the current of an old stone watercourse. Most mages tend to steer clear of the psychic ravages of the Lake, but surprisingly, some seek it out, believing they need to be cleansed of all remnants of the past in order to make their minds free for new magical creations."