perhaps the easiest of all "Hideaway" cards to use - keep some powerful and expensive cards in your deck for killing blows
Dingo777
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(18 votes)
pre alara, this card gets 4
post alara, with Bant being all about 1 creature attacking, this card epic fails kinda wondering if the design teams talked to each other about this and bant
crazyknight27
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(10 votes)
"pre alara, this card gets 4
post alara, with Bant being all about 1 creature attacking, this card epic fails
kinda wondering if the design teams talked to each other about this and bant"
wow!
a very uninformed comment..it amazes me, these people....
skiboy427
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(4 votes)
the person who is talking about bant has no idea what is going on in standard. This card is used in at least half of the decks in standard.
Equinox523
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Spectral Procession seems to have been made with this in mind. Flipping an Overrun is insane, and it's really no surprise that this card is doing so well in standard given the current meta.
Th3_Dark_On3
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(5 votes)
I once killed someone's sprouting thrinax then he attacked me w/ all 3 of his tokens and flipped a cruel ultimatum on me... it sucked.
Studoku
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(7 votes)
Turn 1- Windbrisk Heights (hiding titanic ultimatum), 4 ornithopters Turn 2- Plains, attack with ornithopters, play titanic ulimatum, 20 damage.
Probably not going to happen too often, but it's cool. Still, playing a titanic ultimatum with this is usually going to be a win at any time.
Ritius
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Pretty funny how this card, plus both Spinerock Knoll and Mosswort Bridge all fit very comfortably into a Naya deck. While I don't think it's sage to put twelve tapped lands into any deck, having six of these lands, or maybe eight with different conditions of activation in one well constructed Naya deck is frightening.
spectermonger
★☆☆☆☆ (1.6/5.0)(4 votes)
flip an Emrakul--get a 15/15 and your turn back.
Gear61
★☆☆☆☆ (1.3/5.0)(3 votes)
"pre alara, this card gets 4
post alara, with Bant being all about 1 creature attacking, this card epic fails kinda wondering if the design teams talked to each other about this and bant"
this is probably the easiest one to pull off but mosswort bridge has a freakin troll underneath it...
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Actually, while he happens to be wrong about playability (I assume I know what he means by epic fail, but as you will see, it might NOT be what you think), Gear makes a comment about how this is not at all synergistic with what the Design Team wanted to with Bant.
Sure, cheating a big giant dork into play turned out to be a lot more powerful than trying to Build-A-Dork out of different smaller cards, but if you read the Mothership, you'll that Wizards does care about weaving Blocks together to enable cross-block synergies, and thus give Standard a rough shape.
From a deck building standpoint, this card is blatantly good and strong-- however, from a Design or Development standpoint, I could after reading Gear's comment very well imagine that some team memeber might say 'doesn't work well the new mechanic that we want to be exciting. Pulling out of the file, and saving for a later set.'
Just because a Gatherer comment seems confusing, doesn't always mean the poster is stupid. Gear isn't saying 'bad card because Dies to Doomblade' or anything like what the real dumb trolls say-
He's pointing out, fairly, that maybe in future Seasons, we would not see a card like this followed by a mechanic like Exalted. While the card is good in isolation, it doesn't make as much sense looking at the broader picture.
While it's possible that Gear also expected Exalted to completely replace this card in Standard, and that was a false assumption, you should all know by now how difficult it is to predict what will be bad, good, or broken when you only have 1 set of spoilers, and rarely are the early predictions correct. Bant COULD have ended up being even better than it was, so that people really wouldn't have wanted to play this because of that.
Another example is how Nicol Bolas Planeswalker had almost no effect on Standard, and how Zombies on Innistrad are shaping up to be more plain Tribal Aggro than scary Reanimator combo. Sometimes people make guesses, and the guesses are wrong- but just because a guess is wrong, doesn't make the guess stupid. Based on available info, Gear's guess was plausible.
kiseki
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card makes it sound like you can play a sorcery at instant speed. Is that the case?
Buderus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Darth i don't think it was gear who wrote that comment...
EGarrett01
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I don't know about Standard, but in Modern and Legacy, this card is honestly worse than basic Plains. And if you disagree, please show me a game of MTGO on Youtube where it has EVER won for someone. I have never seen it happen.
Just take this card out of your deck. You will win more often. Believe me.
cRAVEN410@
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Would it be possible to flicker this card and have hideaway's built up? i would think it'd mean you lose the first card to exile but the rules don't say anything about it, if you could then it would be fun to play with Venser the Sojourner
Comments (19)
post alara, with Bant being all about 1 creature attacking, this card epic fails
kinda wondering if the design teams talked to each other about this and bant
post alara, with Bant being all about 1 creature attacking, this card epic fails
kinda wondering if the design teams talked to each other about this and bant"
wow!
a very uninformed comment..it amazes me, these people....
Turn 2- Plains, attack with ornithopters, play titanic ulimatum, 20 damage.
Probably not going to happen too often, but it's cool. Still, playing a titanic ultimatum with this is usually going to be a win at any time.
post alara, with Bant being all about 1 creature attacking, this card epic fails
kinda wondering if the design teams talked to each other about this and bant"
Hahahahaha.
hollowborn barghest for howltooth hollow.
isleback spawn for shelldock isle.
knollspine dragon for spinerock knoll.
mossbridge troll for mosswort bridge.
windbrisk raptor for windbrisk heights.
Sure, cheating a big giant dork into play turned out to be a lot more powerful than trying to Build-A-Dork out of different smaller cards, but if you read the Mothership, you'll that Wizards does care about weaving Blocks together to enable cross-block synergies, and thus give Standard a rough shape.
From a deck building standpoint, this card is blatantly good and strong-- however, from a Design or Development standpoint, I could after reading Gear's comment very well imagine that some team memeber might say 'doesn't work well the new mechanic that we want to be exciting. Pulling out of the file, and saving for a later set.'
Just because a Gatherer comment seems confusing, doesn't always mean the poster is stupid. Gear isn't saying 'bad card because Dies to Doomblade' or anything like what the real dumb trolls say-
He's pointing out, fairly, that maybe in future Seasons, we would not see a card like this followed by a mechanic like Exalted. While the card is good in isolation, it doesn't make as much sense looking at the broader picture.
While it's possible that Gear also expected Exalted to completely replace this card in Standard, and that was a false assumption, you should all know by now how difficult it is to predict what will be bad, good, or broken when you only have 1 set of spoilers, and rarely are the early predictions correct. Bant COULD have ended up being even better than it was, so that people really wouldn't have wanted to play this because of that.
Another example is how Nicol Bolas Planeswalker had almost no effect on Standard, and how Zombies on Innistrad are shaping up to be more plain Tribal Aggro than scary Reanimator combo.
Sometimes people make guesses, and the guesses are wrong- but just because a guess is wrong, doesn't make the guess stupid. Based on available info, Gear's guess was plausible.
Just take this card out of your deck. You will win more often. Believe me.