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Tideforce Elemental

Multiverse ID: 194012

Tideforce Elemental

Comments (17)

crimon149
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Combine this with Knights of the Reliquary. Knights taps and sacs a land. Tideforce untaps the Knights and it goes again. Landfall triggers and allows the process repeat as long as you can spare a single blue mana.
evenblackerlotus
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
crimon149 add lotus cobra for more fun. add rampaging baloths, emeria angel, or Ob nixilis for even more fun
majinara
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Fine in limited, but in constructed pretty crappy. 2/1 for 3 is bad, sitting around for a turn waiting for death is bad too, and needs mana to activate is bad as well.

It's not horrible, but not good enough.
Lateralis0ne
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
I figured out a infinite mill combo with this and Ruin Ghost. It's hard to pull off, but when it does, you bounce lands infinitely. Guess what you do with them? :)
True_Smog
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Yet another "almost good" uncommon from Worldwake.
Demonic_Angel13
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (3 votes)
This thing is annoying to play against. my opponent tapped out my whole army of creatures with one of these and a Ruin Ghost. Good card, but not good enough alone.
faisjdas
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Absolutely amazing in Limited, can do work as a combo in constructed, but is to weak, slow to work well.
QAZAZ
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
This thing with Walking Atlas in a landfall deck
Cheza
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm so glad, tapping has returned to blue and isn't white!!! Well done R&D!
f_fivefiftyseven
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (2 votes)
@ Lateralis0ne
SCRIB NIBBLERS!!!!!

And the best part is, in the current standard environment, its not hard to do, considering all the good mana fixing for 3 ally colour decks there is, and this combo's in the colour for esper. The best part is, the three combo pieces are all 3 mana or less uncommon creatures, so it shouldn't be too hard to get your hands on them and get them out. Right now I'm thinking of building a esper colour mill/control deck, with this combo, and a lot of early control in the forms of negate and Duress to help the combo actually make it. The only downside of the combo is that you have to until at least turn 5 to pull it off without any kind of mana accel. (turn 2 ghost, turn 3 nibblers, turn 4 Elemental, and win on turn 5). However, if your willing to add either red or green, you can make this happen faster, red with cards that grant haste (Burst of Speed comes to mind), green for mana accel (if you can't think of any, open 5 boosters of any block that is currently legal, you'll find at least one card).

My bet is that if you wanted to pull this off, a blue-black deck with a splash of white and red. White for the ghost, red for the speed, plus terminate. my blue cards will mostly be early cheap creatures and removal, and my black will be discard, mill, and a couple of tutors.
NecroticNobody
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
I played against someone who pulled Ruin Ghost and this in the same draft. He pumped up his Landfallers, tapped out my few creature and then overpowered me.
divine_exodus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love the flavor text. Is it true chippy writes it?
TheSwarm
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Combine with cunning sparkmage and basilisk collar to go to work
NeoKoda
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Demonic, if you had more than 2 creatures, how could he do that?

Cheza, tapping is both Blue and White, but Blue usually has the choice to untap, as well.
Phelplan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@majinara and Demonic_Angel13 This card is perfect. You two want too much. The whole point of balance is that if you get an amazing ability at a low casting cost, you pay for it with squishiness. That is what makes this game fun and the reason why Wizards f'd up on cards like Baneslayer and Traft and H of Bladehold. No card should be too powerful in and of itself without giving way to a steep casting cost -> not even if it is "mythic".
Mode
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
He's like a twisted image of an elemental-type Puppeteer with a handy landfall extra untap premium use option.

I don't think anything else is.