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Tech in dwarven decks against black players. Play this and sacrifice Bloodfire Dwarf to leave them without lands! Bwahaha.

Pfft. I use to have this as sideboard against black with my red deck. Kormus Bell + Pyroclasm (Or 1 pt earthquake) = LOL

Interesting combo if you use this with a Wrath of God to leave your black opponent without anything while you retain all your lands :D

Huge fun ensues when you use any of the blue "color/land alteration" spells to change the wording to another land type.

4/5

I was going to ask why the Oracle text contradicts the card, then I saw that all the earlier printings agreed with the Oracle. So I guess the question is why they decided to change what the card does for the 4th edition printing and make the creatures black.
Also, "these creatures are blacknot."

Are the effects of this card cumulative with multiple creature types?

In a recent game i was faced against an opponent playing a mono black deck with 3 vampires in play (one of which was mephidross vampire), 4 swamps, plus coat of arms...

my opponent then played kormus bell (I never saw this coming and i should have!). now his 3 vampires (already +2/+2 from coat of arms) gained an additional +4/+4 each (swamps are vampires too now) for a total of +6/+6 OUCH!

but my opponent then claimed that coat of arms gave each swamp a +1/+1 bonus for each other vampire plus an additional +1/+1 for each also being a land creature... so he claimed each of his 4 swamps are now +3/+3 (for land creatures) AND +6/+6 (for vampires)

Next thing i know he uses icy to tap my veteran bodyguard with a black ward, attacks me with three 9/10 (or better) vampires and four 10/10 "land creatures"/vampires and i don't have enough defenders and white mana (to fuel my CoP Black) to block everything. If those 10/10's hit me i'm dead! if they recieve only a single bonus, i can block and prevent some of the combat damage to survive the attack for 1 turn and hopefully get armageddon off next turn...

So the big question is, should the lands that became black creatures that became vampires get double bonus from Kormus Bell for mulitple creature types in common?

From the rulings:
10/4/2004 The creatures are not black.
From the card:
All Swamps are 1/1 black creatures...

Little mix up?

This, Blanket of Night, anything that pumps all of your creatures up, and then some form of 1 damage to all creatures effect. It isn't like there is a shortage of the last two.

EDIT: @TalShiar: Coat of Arms only affects each creature once. Coat of Arms states "Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it" - This means that it only counts how many creatures share a creature type, and not how many creature types are shared. Additionally, Kormus Bell does not give the swamps creature types - So without Mephidross Vampire or a similar effect, they don't get ANY bonus from Coat of Arms or things that rely on creature type.

Second Edit: This, Urborg, tomb of Yawgmoth, and Linvala, Keeper of Silence. Oh, hey, you can't tap your creatures for mana. Or your lands for mana. Hope you have some artifacts. Oh, wait, what's that? March of the Machines, you say?

Bane of Pestilence.

Funny with Lethal Vapors.

Devastating with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and Linvala, Keeper of Silence.

Kormus Bell and Pyroclasm to mess with your swamp playing friends

This and Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth are legal in a Linvala, Keeper of Silence edh deck! Someone needs to try it out.

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite. Opponents scoop in sadness.

Fun with electrickery (or any similar spell) for black hate. Not very good yif you're the black player though. A single spell from your opponent, and bye-bye lands, while making future lands unuseable the first turn they come into pay.