Aw man I love losing life AND if you have yawgmoths bargain you could pay more life and draw it as well!
SlackWareWolf
★★☆☆☆ (2.1/5.0)(10 votes)
Or you could tutor for your Win Con and not be a loser :)
wgillespie
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(10 votes)
Can someone please, please tell me why this card is worth $300??? The ability is great, well kinda great, well not really at all actually, aren't there several other cards that let you go through your deck and pick a card that don't hit you for two life? I am just baffled by these Three kingdoms cards and what they are selling for! the price of this one will buy you a mox! someone, please explain???
GainsBanding
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
It's expensive because Portal Three Kingdoms was never released in America, so it's very hard to find. And when you're playing vintage and relying on just a few cards in your deck to make your combo happen, you need all the tutors you can get to find those cards. And when most of those tutors are restricted, this looks alright.
theabyss
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(6 votes)
this is the one card missing from my type 1 deck....got the rest..mox lotus library of alex...just need this
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(6 votes)
Yay, you get to use a second Vampiric Tutor in some formats. I'm not dropping 300 bucks for one of these.
knob_goblin
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(5 votes)
@ wigglespie this card is great because as opposed to other tutors, witch are either banned or cost 4-6 mana, this costs ONE mana, so instead of wasting a turn you make your next turn as strong as you want, also its a rare from a really old set,and a boomby one, at that, but once you play the game longer and build more decks you'll see the importance of this card
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Broken in vintage. Black will do anything to win.
coyotemoon722
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Oh boy this card is insane.
scumbling1
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
I can't believe they released this card in Master's Edition! This is one of the most obscure cards in all of Magic, but Wizards was willing to make it available to the those on the internet. Even if you're willing to drop the serious cash on a physical copy of this card, it's still difficult to find a vendor with one to sell.
@ wgillespie: It's simply supply and demand. Portal: Three Kingdoms was printed in very small quantities, and primarily for Asian markets. The English versions of the cards were (I believe) only released in New Zealand and Australia. This leads to anything being remotely playable from the set reaching sky-high prices.
Imperial Seal is much better than "remotely playable". It costs you two life, which is completely irrelevant. What is important is that it's one black mana to get anything you want. Notice how Vampiric Tutor and Demonic Tutor end up on banned / restricted lists, while Diabolic Tutor doesn't even see the slightest play; paying life is a much preferrable alternative to paying mana. Notice how cards such as Channel and Necropotence also need regulation. You start the game at twenty life, but you don't necessarily start with any mana.
Drewsel
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(1 vote)
My goodness...
Max_Glycine
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Vampiric tutor at sorcery speed? I can live with that.
tavaritz
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(3 votes)
This is as banned or restricted as any other good black tutor, but this sucks. The sorcery speed means that your tutored card is on the top of your library during your opponents turn (of course unless you have some card drawing capability) and they can get rid of it quite easily.
LunarAvenger
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This card is now worth $800.
gman92
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Wow, black will do anything to win. Even spend 700 dollars on a Sorcery speed 2nd Vampiric Tutor. "Greatness, at any cost." indeed.
FourEx
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
the sorcery speed and 2 life is just not enough of a drawback. too good!
BongRipper420
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Absolutely bonkers with Miracle cards. Or just about any combo deck.
Aquillion
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Why is this card rated higher than the strictly-superior Vampiric Tutor? (Of course, superior is relative; you use both.)
Maybe it's because this card is more obscure; the people who find it are more likely to realize how broken it is, while some people who see Vampiric Tutor don't realize.
Also, what's the flavor here, anyway?
Ferlord
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I was trying to trade some things from a guy at my local card store. Before I showed him my binder, I asked him if there was anything he was looking for.
"Yeah. I'm looking for an Imperial Seal."
I don't even know if he had enough in his trade binder to trade for that...
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this card is great because as opposed to other tutors, witch are either banned or cost 4-6 mana, this costs ONE mana, so instead of wasting a turn you make your next turn as strong as you want, also its a rare from a really old set,and a boomby one, at that, but once you play the game longer and build more decks you'll see the importance of this card
@ wgillespie: It's simply supply and demand. Portal: Three Kingdoms was printed in very small quantities, and primarily for Asian markets. The English versions of the cards were (I believe) only released in New Zealand and Australia. This leads to anything being remotely playable from the set reaching sky-high prices.
Imperial Seal is much better than "remotely playable". It costs you two life, which is completely irrelevant. What is important is that it's one black mana to get anything you want. Notice how Vampiric Tutor and Demonic Tutor end up on banned / restricted lists, while Diabolic Tutor doesn't even see the slightest play; paying life is a much preferrable alternative to paying mana. Notice how cards such as Channel and Necropotence also need regulation. You start the game at twenty life, but you don't necessarily start with any mana.
Maybe it's because this card is more obscure; the people who find it are more likely to realize how broken it is, while some people who see Vampiric Tutor don't realize.
Also, what's the flavor here, anyway?
"Yeah. I'm looking for an Imperial Seal."
I don't even know if he had enough in his trade binder to trade for that...
All I wanted was Rout. It's all I wanted...