Pointed Discussion

a double-Howling Mine? sounds like twice that much fun with Underworld Dreams.

hurt me in a draft...but still not a bad card i guess

It can be good, but it can also generate a TON of card disadvantage if your opponent destroys it on the turn after.

works great with Time Sieve or other turn control cards, ie; Time Warp. No loss of card advantage if you get it out the turn you sac for another turn.

Great card for a discader deck especially mono black with Spiteful Visions & Underworld Dreams. Ouch.

this card is pretty good if you dont have a malfegor, but if u have a malfegor, he makes you discard your hand and opponent loses a creature for every card discarded that way, just wen your opponent starts to laugh cuz you have no cards in your hand, i whip out a font of mythos and after 3 turns my hand is full again

turbo fog's best freind and the 5-8 howling mines. still waiting for the flash mine.

Runeflare Trap.

For such an evil artifact it have too many advantages... Spellbook!!!

@wolfbearz: Or is it really Howling Mines 5-12? After all, it is two of them.

Font of Mythos x4 + Howling Mine x4 = 13 cards per turn.

You wanted card advantage? I gave you card advantage.

I run 4 of these in my Extended Elemental deck. After getting a bunch of lands and a Smokebraider or two out, this Fountain is frightening! I've had two out at a time and played 5 Elementals in one turn.

@pigknight
"Font of Mythos x4 + Howling Mine x4 = 13 cards per turn.

You wanted card advantage? I gave you card advantage."

That's not card advantage. You've now given your opponent 12 more draws than you've given yourself, and you've spent 8 cards doing it. You're at a disadvantage of 20. One third of your deck. Disadvantage. That's bad.

I only nitpick because a lot of people seem to be confused as to what "card advantage" means. It doesn't mean drawing cards; that's called drawing cards. It means giving you more cards than your opponent or getting additional effects out of your cards. An example of the first type would be straight draw cards like Jace's Ingenuity or cards that let you search cards when you play them like Civic Wayfinder or Kor Cartographer. An example of the second would be Goblin Ruinblaster or Æther Adept, which give you creature and an effect. Cantrips (Spreading Seas) and man-trips (Wall of Omens, Ichor Wellspring) fall somewhere in between.

Back on the subject, it's not necessarily a bad thing to play universal draw spells, but you're generating card disadvantage to do so, and not all decks can support that. A deck that's heavy on cheap creatures, ramp, alternate cast costs, or control can often pull it off. And you actually can get advantage out of them, and some decks, like those that give you more value from drawing than your opponent (Vedalken Archmage, Psychosis Crawler, Ivory Tower/Venser's Journal, Black Vise) will still be better off either way. But you absolutely cannot look at a card like this and say "card advantage." It reeks of ill-conceived notions of how the game works, and gives a lot of players a false impression of how to play well.

I <3 the lovecraft reference in the name

Hmm. Double Howling Mine that can't be turned off. Sexy.

First play Underworld Dreams
Then Howling Mine
then play spiteful visions
and finally play this
and watch as the "magic" happens

Good Greif!!!

Am I SERIOUSLY the first person to say this?

Consecrated Sphinx. Bampf.

In the immortal words of Jace's Fact or Fiction: Try to pretend you understand what's important

Such a double-edged sword. Yeah, it's twice a mine and can't be turned off. But I've seen many people drop this so early it's more of a discard engine than drawing power. Works best if you have a way to drop additional land per turn.

Heyy this is the same art as used on Culling Dais!!

x4 howling mines
x4 font of mythos
x4 jace's erasure
x4 tefari's puzzle box
equals goodbye opponents deck lol

Based on the replies and pigknight's comment rating, some people don't get sarcasm. -_-
He was speaking as though he was talking to his opponent. Meaning "You want cards? Here, take some more, and more, and more. Choke on them." (See Forced Fruition).

Anyways, I've always like these double edge cards. Sure your opponent gets the first trigger, so? You don't have to do anything else but draw answers and this card will kill them alone. Take a while, sure. But you put this in a mill deck and things move much faster.

With Howling Mine, your opponent is drawing four cards a turn. That means, once they hit seven cards, they have to PLAY four cards a turn or face discarding. Add multiple copies and that number skyrockets. I think only a green ramp deck can manage that tempo, and oh guess what? That land searching you're doing? That's helping mill you as well, thanks.

Makes me want to play Turbofog.

Malfegor's cup? Who would ever even get the opportunity to drink from Malfegor's cup? I thought he just kind of killed everybody.
Nice howling mine thing.

I guess I'm just stupid or something, but when I saw the name of this, I'm like,

"I guess Mythos' favourite font is Comic Sans".

And since then, I've called this card Comic Sans.

Other examples of terrible puns I like to make is Memnite Shyamalan, Calcium Hydra, Constipated Sphinx, Big Gay Al, and I f**king hate infect. Stop playing, you a**hole.

@Combolulz, this isn't really a a reference. 'Mythos' is just a fancy way of saying 'mythology' the Cthulhu Mythos just refers to the myths and stories built around lovecraft's works. You could also describe the Greek Mythos.

That said, with this on the field everyone begins to draw. A lot. That is a pretty dangerous position to be in though, as laying this down can be tantamount to suicide if you are facing RDW or green ramp. Be careful to make sure that your opponent count outstep your own control.

My friend playtested a deck awhile ago that combo'd this with the aforementioned Runeflare Trap and Howling Mine. He played against noobs. It was sad.

This card is drawesome.

I have a artifact deck with a splash of red for Hellkite Tyrant that has a lot of inexpensive stuff, creates tokens etc. and I've put this in there now. I'd still sideboard it out of a game involving RDW, but a game against green ramp will be fun. Many will not keep up and I'm near guaranteed to have the mana I need. I can imprint a Tangle Wire on a Prototype Portal if I really need to slow them down. 20 artifacts to victory.

Also, I made room for a Notion Thief or two.

@wolfbear2

As of Journey into Nyx, we have one! It's called Dictate of Kruphix.