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Diamond Valley

Multiverse ID: 159124

Diamond Valley

Comments (17)

Vektor480
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Crazy and powerfull land 5 stars for it
Laguz
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0) (6 votes)
Just one of many reasons why Arabian Nights was one of the best sets ever printed, if not the best set.
Designer_Genes
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0) (3 votes)
ArabNites has the best lands.
stygimoloch
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0) (5 votes)
Hurt by the M10 updates, and it could really do with tapping for colourless mana. As it stands, it's outstanding sometimes but a dead card at other times.
RafiqTheMiststalker
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (11 votes)
I'll agree with that, Designer_Genes. These kind of lands that do more than tap for mana are very cool to me :p
The card's funny too, for its... reminder text..? Like "Oh btw, here's a cool trick with this..." Just like if Channel's printed text said "Hey, try a Fireball."
channelblaze
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
awesome with things like vedalken shackles =)
Bowshewicz
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (5 votes)
Run with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth to get the most out of a great card.
TPmanW
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Currently sitting at $80. Not bad for an uncommon that got a reprint (as a rare). This is why they should do a from the vault: lands someday.
lioncubs
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
You see, walls weren't completely useless back in the day.
Ihateworking
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Crazy cool story, possibly my favorite of Sinbad's voyages.
Salient
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
This land makes Oath of Druids deck pilots cry.
mkniffen
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I underestimated this card until i tried it out. It is REALLY pivotal in my legacy walls deck

Usually it goes like this:
block with wall of blossoms. Sacrifice it with diamond valley. Then use volrath's stronghold to draw wall of blossoms again next turn. Infinite blocker and you still get to draw a card every turn.
pedrodyl
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
@TPManW They are now doing FTV: Realms (AKA Lands). I'd be surprised if this weren't in it.
I mean really, the only downsides to this card are that it can't make mana and it will cost you real diamonds to buy one.
drpvfx
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Quite possibly my favorite land ever... well, after Tolarian Academy ;-)
*incredibly* useful in my Gimme deck.
If they try to reclaim one of their critters, into the Valley it goes!

I put one of these in pretty much every EDH deck I build,
as it can make you come out ahead when someone plays a Wrath.

My favorite EDH use for this is in tandem with Dominus of Fealty-
I don't just steal someone's critter every round... I eat it, too!

@Pedrodyl- this will not be in FTV... it's on the Reserve List.
If you want one, might as well get one before they cost even more!
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Its kind of similar to an uncounterable enchantment that costs 0 mana, but with a drawback of taking up a land drop.

Brutal card, can turn your opponents removal into life, can get some life out of chump blockers who were dead anyways, and can sacrifice stolen creatures.
tehjdot
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Great for a Skullbriar commander deck. While it is unfortunate that it doesn't produce mana, it is a sac outlet that is typically fairly difficult to deal with. The artwork also looks really nice. 4/5