It's a simple, elegant card that lets blue bounce creatures and artifacts while not pushing the power level of the set significantly. Great card to have around.
KyoDarkFire
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(5 votes)
Well obviously Into the Roil is better, I don't get the point of this card existing in this season
lorendorky
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
it's for limited play.
Eternal_Blue
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(11 votes)
this has incredible art even if i don't know quite what's going on.
Htoth3izzO
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(6 votes)
Hey geniuses, ever heard of limited play? Also believe it or not, someday ZENDIKAR BLOCK WILL ROTATE OUT! ZOMG
Lord_Gravesmythe
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Into the Roil is better? Yeah. And so is Boomerang because you can use it to bounce lands. So is Capsize because you can use it over and over. There are several factors at play. Limited environment as mentioned, trying to balance Boomerang (I see this being in the core set down the road since it doesn't have Kicker), and some people play bounce decks with Man-o'-War, Tradewind Rider, Boomerang, Unsummon, and now they have another option. No different really than the bazillion cards they've made trying to "balance" Lightning Bolt before they finally gave up and brought Lightning Bolt back. Not great. Not horrible by any means. And I think it has its place.
SorianSadaskan
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Don't laugh, this helps to kill the Bloody Lich (You know who, in M11) even when he invest his life in the Darksteel Axe.
(yes I know Into the Roil is strictly better than Disperse, but this card is better for comparison.)
For one mana you get to bounce a creature, for two you get to bounce a nonland permanent, and for three you get to bounce any permanent. Cool :)
Mechanically, this card appeals to me alot. Paying one extra mana to be able to bounce a planeswalker, artifact or enchantment? Yes please. The art doesn't really appeal to me though, maybe cos it looks more like a destruction spell than a bounce spell? Could be destroying a token though :P
Tezz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
strictly worse than both echoing truth and into the roil. boo
DacenOctavio
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ugh, I feel like I'm cheating on Into the Roil whenever I run this. Which I now have to because Zendiblock is gone :<
This takes a back seat compared to Boomerang, Echoing Truth, and Into the Roil, but this is still really quite good, especially for a common. The cost is dead on - it shouldn't cost any less, and there's no way it would be played at all if it cost any more.
Though I do like the other three cards listed better than this, I'd welcome seeing this make its way into the core set on a permanent basis. The balance between rarity, cost, and effect is just right.
Paradigm012
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
had a close game awhile back, me with u/b infect and my opponent with tempered steel. After his attack step, we each only needed one attack to win, and he plays vault skirge as a blocker against my lone phyrexian crusader. The Go for the Throat and Doom Blade wouldn't help, and I needed to get through this turn or lose. I top-decked this :) my opponent spent the rest of the night ranting about how he lost to such a horrible card
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Maybe because the Roil doesn't exist on Mirrodin? Oh, and also limited formats exist.
(yes I know Into the Roil is strictly better than Disperse, but this card is better for comparison.)
For one mana you get to bounce a creature, for two you get to bounce a nonland permanent, and for three you get to bounce any permanent. Cool :)
Mechanically, this card appeals to me alot. Paying one extra mana to be able to bounce a planeswalker, artifact or enchantment? Yes please. The art doesn't really appeal to me though, maybe cos it looks more like a destruction spell than a bounce spell? Could be destroying a token though :P
I'm looking at Silent Departure and Grasp of Phantoms now.
Though I do like the other three cards listed better than this, I'd welcome seeing this make its way into the core set on a permanent basis. The balance between rarity, cost, and effect is just right.
Man, those time rifts must've hit you hard!
4/5