This is honestly my favorite Magic the Gathering card ever produced. Quality doesn't matter when it comes to novelty like this. :
AlphaNumerical
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(8 votes)
"Overrated", in terms of flavor alone, speaks volumes.
Mode
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(6 votes)
Why did Wizards not change this card with the Grand Creature Type Update? "Townsfolk" was changed to "Human", yet this Citizen card were kept as it is and even new onesgot printed? That's not a creature type, being a citizen is rather a condition.
FragNutMK1
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Maybe Icatia was a multi-cultural place, the citizens could have been dwarves and humans and goats for all we know.
mrredhatter
★☆☆☆☆ (1.7/5.0)(5 votes)
MTG please change Citizen into Human!
Lateralis0ne
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
I couldn't disagree with you more, beowulf. The flavor alone is incredible, from the effect to the cost to the art to the flavor text to the relevancy this card has within its own set and block. The cost is a little high, but you're comparing it to cards now; that's a huge fallacy, considering where the game is now and where it was when this was new. The citizen deal makes sense to me, as well, and I can see an argument for why it wasn't changed in the grand creature type. I think that adding "Human Citizen" might have been an okay idea, but then again, it would ruin the flavor of this card, which is very potent and (for me) worth keeping the integrity of the original printing.
Yes, I'm a major Vorthos, but that's what appeals to me about Magic in the first place. As such, cards like this just set my brain whirling with stories, lore, myths and customs that these Icatians might have had in their day.
Richard_Hawk
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(5 votes)
White Weenies ftw.
Shinigami-2099
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
racism
monkeymonk42
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(17 votes)
Why they gotta be white citizens? There aint no brothers in this village?
Veazey
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
How does this card have "awesome flavor" when its name and illustration make it look like a land?
I do see the potential... but ultimately this card is a failure.
I love this card. Conqueror's Pledge may be better in mono-white, but it could be hard to scrounge up that WWW in a multicolored deck.
Also, I love this card partly because it has bogus flavor. This town is a Sorcery? What?
Aquillion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card was overcosted and mostly not that useful even when it first came out (it could occasionally be valuable in white weenie decks with Crusade and Jihad, but decks like those weren't supposed to get to six mana anyway; usually you'd rather Armageddon first.)
However, the idea behind it was very sharp, even if they missed the balance point this time. Fallen Empires was the first set to really play around heavily with tokens, and they were a bit overly-cautious about them as a result. (Especially since earlier token-generators like The Hive and Serpent Generator had been flatly overcosted; they were probably trying to avoid balancing too far away from those.)
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"Townsfolk" was changed to "Human", yet this Citizen card were kept as it is and even new ones got printed?
That's not a creature type, being a citizen is rather a condition.
Yes, I'm a major Vorthos, but that's what appeals to me about Magic in the first place. As such, cards like this just set my brain whirling with stories, lore, myths and customs that these Icatians might have had in their day.
I do see the potential... but ultimately this card is a failure.
Also, I love this card partly because it has bogus flavor. This town is a Sorcery? What?
However, the idea behind it was very sharp, even if they missed the balance point this time. Fallen Empires was the first set to really play around heavily with tokens, and they were a bit overly-cautious about them as a result. (Especially since earlier token-generators like The Hive and Serpent Generator had been flatly overcosted; they were probably trying to avoid balancing too far away from those.)