Seaside Citadel

PaladinOfSunhome 2009-09-18

★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)

A good staby card for getting the right colour that you want, so long as it's Green, White or Blue, but it's still a great card.
4.0

Donovan_Fabian 2009-10-28

★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)

It's a great card for no other reason than a tri color fixer that you don't have to pay mana for is great for any multi colored deck. The coming into play tapped is a signifigant downside if you need mana and only have this card available, but otherwise including at least 1 in any deck with the relevant colors seems to be straight forward.

Styny 2010-01-07

★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (2 votes)

Try saying it 5 times fast!

capitalR 2010-01-22

★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)

I love it, for the same reason as I love the Bant basic lands I mean look at their artwork its awesome and way out of the ordinary for any land bravo wizards, bravo.

ivorythunder 2010-04-19

★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)

The five tricolor lands of Shards of Alara are direct upgrades of the five tricolor lands of Homelands, with this being an upgrade of Aysen Abbey.

Gaussgoat 2010-04-21

★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)

Pretty tough to argue with a land that taps for 3 colors and whos only drawback is coming into play tapped. Very useful in any tri-color deck and obvious (duh) match for Bant players.

4.5/5

Bulhakas 2010-06-23

★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0) (3 votes)

This cycle has made the similar, albeit worse, tapland cycle from Invasion obsolete. I wish Wizards would stop doing that to good cards. Splendid art, though.

SirZapdos 2011-09-22

★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)

I wouldn't say that these lands are upgrades of Homelands lands like Aysen Abbey. I would say that they are upgrades of the Invasion cycle of dual lands, with Seaside Citadel an upgrade (or a fusion) of both Elfhame Palace and Coastal Tower.

The Homelands lands, while sub-par, did enter the battlefield untapped, and could provide 1 colourless mana on the first turn, something that the Alara tri-lands can't do.

Either way, these lands are quite good. I love the flavour of this particular land.

Skeletextman 2012-03-21

★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0) (8 votes)

For wisdom's sake, it was built high to gaze on all things. For glory's sake, it was built high as a testament of power. For strength's sake, it was built high to repel all attacks.

Look, it was just built really high, okay?

Shadoflaam 2012-06-29

★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (7 votes)

I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite Citadel in the store.

wholelottalove 2012-09-29

★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)

All of these tri-color lands are so damn good.

james2c19v 2013-02-23

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)

I'm surprised that these are valued the way they are (over a buck fifty a piece even). This is pretty much strictly worse than Evolving Wilds.

I know there are some minor differences (Evolving Wilds thins your deck and makes you shuffle) but in most cases Evolving Wilds is just more flexible.

MojoVince 2013-05-28

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)

I was thinking the same about evolving wilds and then if you don't have lands that are many basics land types and cost a lot of bucks this is better cause evolving wilds makes the land coming taped and this too but grants 3 different color when a basic only one .
The same for the last RTR gates and i replaced my evolving by gates when i'm running only 3 colors.

ttt3142 2013-06-08

★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)

@james2c19v
*shakes head*
You forgot about a very important detail: Seaside Citadel can make 3 different colors of mana, but any basic that Evolving Wilds searches up can only make 1.
If you want to play a spell that costs White