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Great card, both mechanically and flavorfully, if LD wasn't so hated, I believe this card could of made it into M10 dur to its simple flavour. You think Armageddon, this mechanic comes out...

With proper use, this is simply great, especially after crippling your opponent by killing most of their creatures.
With improper use, this will simply make everyone hate you.

I can understand why Land Destruction is so hated... being mana screwed is already the worst thing in Magic. Why would anyone want to make mana screw part of the game?

The only acceptable response to this resolving is leaping across the table and strangling your opponent.

It seems like a lot of people complain about land destruction. I'm aware that R&D are starting to or have been limiting land destruction and I agree that its not very fun to play when you can't even well, play! But I think there definitely still needs to be a limited amount of land destruction. It's another mechanic of the game and I think taking that away would ruin the game. Hopefully they don't limit it too much. I guess it's about finding that balance. Anyways, this card is a classic of course, but I doubt any card like it will ever be printed again.

if you really want to be an @$$ play this card especially the alpha printing iv got an @$$hole white blue deck with 3 alpha armageddons and i swear everytime i play that deck (never in sanctioned tourneys) i feel a little of my soul whither and die

From a strategic point of view this is astounding, escpecially for what white had at the time, field Serra Angel and play this, you've won. However, I've been mana-chocked on a bad shuffle and that alone made me mad, no lie, if I had no creatures out and someone up and destroyed all my lands, I'd pry quit.

Hell Yeah So Sick. Apocalypse Lookin. Reprint This DANK

@EvilCleavage Land destruction has always been a part of Standard competitive play. Some of the modern (post-Stone Rain) examples are Ghost Quarter, Avalanche Riders, Primal Command, Spreading Seas, Tectonic Edge, and each of these was/has been a big player in the format.

I don't like because it destroys your lands too. I know if the amount of mana you and your opponent have easily favors your opponent, it's a good card to have, but othwise it's horrible.

Pussies. LD is awesome, and Desolation Angel is the sexist card in MTG.

Many people consider land destruction to be "unfun," but it's an integral component to Magic in all formats, from Standard all the way to Vintage.

Your mana base is just another resource that you have to protect if you want to win...just as Lightning Bolt zaps your life total and Hymn to Tourach mutilates your hand, land destruction screws up your mana base--and like any other strategy, it has its counter-strategies...if your friend is killing you with massive discard, you'd sideboard in Leyline of Sanctity. If your friend is killing you with Armageddon, you sideboard in Sacred Ground. What's the big deal?

Pretty good. Fairly skill intensive card because you gotta lay it at the right time, if you don't you just end up with a reset, boring game. Also really good if you have random stuff that adds mana on the field.

12:40 AM

12/24/2012

I'm sending this back in Time in the Mad Hope that someone can save us. I hope someone can save us.

It is Dawn of the Third Day

The ZOMBIES are everywhere, rising from their Ancestral Recalled homelands in Ancient May, the true birthplace of the Mayan Civilzation, one of the 12 districts of the Island Kingdom of the Lord of Atlantis, Zedd. It shockingly rose in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The Power Rangers were all killed on the Moon by Mockingbirds that nobody knew How to Kill, because they hadn't seen this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KevzcHUUKAY
Mockingbirds are like Storm Crows, only 1000 x 1000 x worse.
But we had no Pirates or Ninjas or Literary Devices to save us this time, because Lord Voldemort came back and destroyed all the books in the Library. All the Potterheads committed suicide at this.

Three days and nights' pursuit. No food. No rest. We've given no sign of our location to our hunters but what bare rock can tell. Bare rock is all that survived the nuclear blasts that OBLITERATED the surface. We few, we refugees of Human Civilization, crawled out of our shelters just 24 hours ago to bear witness to the Devastation of an Entire Planet. We are the last hope for Resistance against the Empire. The zombies attacked Washington, DC first and killed everyone doing anything important. There weren't many casualties, but nobody knew what to do, so a Totalitarian Regime was established. It takes Time to set up a Free Nation, but a Hostile Takeover can happen pretty quick, especially when it runs on the popular "Kill All Zombies" platform during a Zombie Apocalypse

The zombies took everything that survived the nuclear holocaust, and burned it. They can't run, but they're on fire, and that's even scarier. I've been keeping this journal in elvish, because I think if any aliens land on our planet, they'll find that easier to read than lolspeak. There aren't even any ***roaches to eat. The zombies burned them all.

I've been making my way from the city of Fredericksburg, VA to New Rishadan Port, in the hopes of finding my lost love. I won't dare use her real name here, in case the KGB track her down through these notes if I'm captured. The KGB are working with the zombies. We think the virus started when they began experimenting on troops in response to the Avengers Initiative. I forgot to mention I'm an Agent of SHIELD. Her codename is Lily, because I'll Always love her.

We're making camp now, in an Abandoned Warehouse district. Wait. That noise. What is it? Oh. No.
Oh NO. The zombies. They are coming! We cannot get out! Drums, in the deep! We cannot get OUT! They ARE COMING!......


This wasn't the End we Deserved. But it was the End we Needed.

APOCALYPSE NOW

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