Pointed Discussion

That stone looks more like an arrow.

Why doesn't anyone like this card? I think it has a decent amount of utility.

This card has its utilities and can target either yourself or your opponent. You can shut down your opponent (assuming he's low on hand size or not having the cards he want) but giving him/her another 4 turns of land. The only downside about this going offensive is that your opponents need to have lands in his graveyard for that trick to work.

Oh yes, is this Zendikar we're talking about ? And I think there's that little pesky creature from Shards that grows bigger with more lands in graveyard...

by "player" does that mean you can choose yourself aswell?

Pointiest bauble I ever done seen.

Obviously not that good in a land destruction deck, but it seems like a great way to slow down your opponent for a whopping 4 turns in a mill deck. I wonder why it's rated so low.

It says up to, so you could use it on your self to have an efect almost the same as mishra's or urza's bauble. Though this one requires a mana to do it.

What does Han Solo with a magic arrow have to do with returning lands to your deck?

Extremely powerful if your opponent has four basic lands in his graveyard for some reason. Unfortunately counterproductive if that reason is mill or land destruction.

So, uh, run against Knight of the Reliquary?

I guess it's not that bad to draw a card for , but...

So this comes out for free, is colorless, and stops my opponents from drawing anything new for the next three turns!?

This card can be dangerous in a skilled Johnny's hands. I can smell it.

"Bauble" can mean a piece of oval jewelry (as in Urza's Bauble), it can also mean a staff or walking stick that a jester would carry. When Mercutio said "this driveling love is like a great natural that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole," he was making a bawdy joke about... well, let's just say the joke makes a lot more sense if you imagine somebody sticking a big stick in a hole.

"Lodestone" probably refers to the needle of a compass, which would have been made out of naturally magnetized iron (lodestone) before people figured out how to magnetize metal themselves.

So he's using his staff as a magical compass or divining rod, pointing him in the direction of land. The art probably could have been depicted better, but it's not totally nonsensical.

As for the utility, I had a friend who used this in discard/control decks. Once you've eaten their hand away with Hypnotic Specter, Abyssal Specter (keep in mind this was Ice Age era), and Hymn to Tourach, you flood the top of their deck with basic land to keep them from topdecking anything useful for a while.

Yeah. . . it will stop just about everone not running Life from the Loam.

My friend runs this in his control/mill deck. I have never been so frustrated by a seemingly cheap (cost wise) card.

Mill at least 4 lands into opponent's graveyard, then use this at the right time and lock down draws for 3 turns (first turn the target of this card will draw 2 cards. Proceed to mill after or do your own shenanigans to lock down your opponent. This gets annoying when the process keeps repeating for 2 times or more...

4/5

I'd have loved this card if it could put any lands on top.

In that case it might even be banned right now though, since it would be an easy kind-of-reverse Ancestral Recall against your opponent in the right deck.

Still, i think there should be some interesting way to abuse this card on yourself.
One mana for a slowtrip to put four basics on top has potential...we might just have to wait for the right card to see print that works with this.

I'm thinking Academy Ruins.
In a dedicated mill, they'll have plenty of basics in their graveyard.
So put four back on top of their deck, and you get three turns to develop your battlefield.
On your second turn, academy ruins the bauble back on top.
On your third turn, mill them for however many you can (you just got two turns of draw and three land drops, so hopefully with cards like Glimpse the Unthinkable you can pull this one off) and then play the bauble again.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Also, the extra turns can be spent charging your Grindclocks.

Seems decent as a way to get lands in a dredge deck if you can't seem to draw any and can't afford Loam. You get 1-2 lands for 1 mana, and go back to dredging.

Countryside Crusher

Anyone who survived Mirrodin knows any {0}-cost artifact is dangerous... the effect on top of it is mean in the right situation. Enjoy drawing lands for 3 turns!

Reprint PLEASE. PLEASE. I'M BEGGING YOU.

I play casual, but my group demands all cards be modern legal. I really want to play these!