This card + Fastbond + Crucible of Worlds = destroy all Lands someone has in play all at once. If you worry about losing from that one damage Fastbond gives, sac an Island over and over too, and gain life.
Zuran Orb+Crucible of Worlds+Fastbond+Grazing Gladeheart+Strip Mine= HAPPINESS!! HAHA!! Not only can you run you opponents decks DRY of ANYTHING they have, you can steadily kill them with an Antelope!! HAHA!! unless you have some removal spells, or Unsummons just in case they have some big creature blocking your way. :'D
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
The gimp forgot to mention the use of a Zuran Orb.
markarmor
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Even before the days of Crucible, this got itself put on the 1-per list by providing too many cheap troublemakers when included with Blight and Sinkhole.
OpenSeasonNoobs
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
why would you want this card and grazing gladeheart over banefire and a mountain..?
madlights
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
+1 on everything Hovercraft said! Decks today are so fast that they can kill you on turn 1 or 2 and we all need strip mine back! just as we needed lightning bolt back and still needing counterspell back. we need early game breakers like these to level the competition!
limbrooke
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
One of my all time favourite cards, and given a second wind thanks to Entomb paired with Crucible of Worlds. No quarter stopping power - nuff said.
Hovercraft
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(5 votes)
What would make Legacy better... Legalize this in the format. Ban Crucible Of Worlds for being an abusive engine. Ban Blight and Ghost Quarter for being bad. Legacy as it is now for blue mages is : Play a fetch land. Sacrifice for an Island to cast Daze if they have a Wasteland. Stall for the beginning of the game with Standstill. Strip Mine would fix the format from decks that STALL. Strip Mine is -needed- in Legacy. Badly. There is a large number of very noble cards on teh Legacy banned list. Gush, Black Vise, Balance, Strip Mine. Why the hell do they unban Grim Monolith and TImespiral ? The format is full of the worst offenders and yet cards at common and uncommon rarity which need engines to be broken are banned? Are the people in charge of Legacy smoking crack? And yes I'm aware of what Stasis does with Gush. Stasis is unfun enough to be banned. Strip Mine is a fair balanced card one of the best cards in the game in terms of balancing, a true great equalizer. Same with Balance (a 2 mana spell that needs a deck built around it, probably would be slower than High Tide too).
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
So, 4th was supposed to be strongly depowered versus Revised (which was strongly depowered vs. ABU).
And then they toss this in, one of the most awesome cards ever made...
bay_falconer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of my first broken cards. Always put it in Vintage decks. Secret tech for today's games: Sun Titan.
The_Evictee
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Please reprint this wizards. Please return BLack Land Destruction.
You can consider this a 'basic' land in the sense of how Staple and Simple it is and how it goes in all decks. Mishra's Factory, is a good card, but nothing to hyperventilate over.
4th has the weakest mana base of any Core Set, ever, and that record will not be broken, lol. Strip Mine is 'just' a 0-cost Stone Rain in 4th Edition, what it DOESN'T do is screw you out of a color, because with only Basics?....yeah..
The_AC
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A 0 mana sorcery with "this can't be countered; destroy target land" would be ridiculously overpowered. Isn't this basically the same as that? Were the designers thinking when they made this?
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Legalize this in the format. Ban Crucible Of Worlds for being an abusive engine. Ban Blight and Ghost Quarter for being bad. Legacy as it is now for blue mages is : Play a fetch land. Sacrifice for an Island to cast Daze if they have a Wasteland. Stall for the beginning of the game with Standstill. Strip Mine would fix the format from decks that STALL. Strip Mine is -needed- in Legacy. Badly. There is a large number of very noble cards on teh Legacy banned list. Gush, Black Vise, Balance, Strip Mine. Why the hell do they unban Grim Monolith and TImespiral ? The format is full of the worst offenders and yet cards at common and uncommon rarity which need engines to be broken are banned? Are the people in charge of Legacy smoking crack? And yes I'm aware of what Stasis does with Gush. Stasis is unfun enough to be banned. Strip Mine is a fair balanced card one of the best cards in the game in terms of balancing, a true great equalizer. Same with Balance (a 2 mana spell that needs a deck built around it, probably would be slower than High Tide too).
And then they toss this in, one of the most awesome cards ever made...
No real Non-basic Lands to speak of. It had Oasis, Mishra's Factory, and this.
You can consider this a 'basic' land in the sense of how Staple and Simple it is and how it goes in all decks. Mishra's Factory, is a good card, but nothing to hyperventilate over.
4th has the weakest mana base of any Core Set, ever, and that record will not be broken, lol. Strip Mine is 'just' a 0-cost Stone Rain in 4th Edition, what it DOESN'T do is screw you out of a color, because with only Basics?....yeah..