I think this is way underrated. Yeah, it is kinda expensive, but it's colorless card advantage and a great sifter. So even if you don't build a morbid-type deck, it can still be pretty good in a control mirror-match as a 1-of
phyrexiantrygon
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Wait... You are telling me theseguys both have two eyes apiece?!?
Axelle
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(8 votes)
And let's not get into all the creatures with more than 2 eyes or have no eyes at all...
ichorNet777
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(7 votes)
@phyrexiantrygon: Someone needs to do totally unflavorful Eye tribal with those and the Jar!
Paladin85
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(4 votes)
Well its not too bad, would have liked to have a cheaper activation cost though since you need your own creatures to die first
zenitramleirdag
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(7 votes)
pickled eyeballs! yummy..
yeah! it seems underrated..
but it seems solid..
not a power creep but a solid card..
DarthParallax
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(7 votes)
interesting...thought for sure this would be lauded as the next Top...maybe I'm way off base. Still, if it's at junk rare prices now, why not be safer than sorrier and pick it up while you can, just in case?
Gelzo
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(16 votes)
Protip: Go to a craft store and buy some plastic googly eyes to use as eyeball counters.
Hal_41n
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(6 votes)
EYEBALL COUNTERS FTW
BluthBanana
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Decent in the right limited deck. Probably wouldn't play it in constructed. In a morbid/undying situation deck, this could prove some use.
sonorhC
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Mmm, olives. I didn't know there were white olives, though.
And yeah, mechanically it's a bit lacking, but you've got to love the flavor.
Dregrage
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
And this is how I discovered that those things on the top shelf of my house were not candies...
ZEvilMustache
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
I agree, this is a terrible card. Please mail all of your unwanted copies to:
Z EvilMustache 4 Casual Deck Lane Somewhere, USA
Pontiac
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(4 votes)
only seems half as good in my cyclops tribal deck.
Myth042
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The perfect place for this card is in a token based commander deck. Any time someone wraths, it lets you go find the next big token generator and start stacking your deck.
Goatllama
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Savor the flavor of the moist, squishy ocular organs. I know I will.
Infect with lot's of Proliferate seems to be cynergistic..
PastProphet
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
it is pretty good - the digging deep to pick a card is better than it sounds; sometimes better than simple 'draw a card' since you get to mini-tutor- I found a land when I really needed one, and then found a removal spell the next turn - and since the other cards go to the bottom, not the graveyard or exile, you don't have to worry too much about losing them. also, it's repeatable, unlike Shrine of Piercing Vision. sure, it's not the BEST card ever, but it's surprisingly useful (in limited at least) and perhaps in a deck built to take advantage of it - I'm thinkin of using it next to a Skullclamp / Bloodghast engine
JanusAurelius
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
So the problem of Cyclops's and the big eye cards and spiders have been mentioned, but no one mentioned the equally vorthosian problem of a human dying with two of these on the field. That would put two eye counters on each of them, that means you somehow got four eyes off of one poor shmuck... Hmmm....
Radagast
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Decent card, great flavor!
Phyrexian_Boss
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Nice flavor, R&D... and will you people stop freaking out about the number of eyeballs the creature has?
Vividice
★★☆☆☆ (2.4/5.0)(5 votes)
This card is BAD.
Even for colorless draw it's way overpriced and to conditional.
3+3 Mana to just replace this card and even 3+3+3 Mana (and two turns and two creatures dead) to gain any advantage is horrible. It's unreliable (not every turn is something dying) and thus can't even give you a card every turn. With a good manacurve you shouldn't be able to spend 3 Mana every other turn. The mediocre card quality you gain for several dead creatures is hardly an advanatge outside of extremly narrow decks.
Farsight Mask (uncommon!) is far more reliable for 2 Mana higher CMC but ZERO cost to draw a card. Mind's Eye (again uncommon) is very reliable and possibly draws more than just 1 card per turn (more so in Multiplayer), and 1 Mana per card is far more suitable than 3.
I don't know how can even compare this card to Sensei's Divining Top @DarthParallax. Top is card filtering at it's finest while this is just bad carddraw with a tiny bit of card filtering. If anything it's comparable Seer's Sundial which is a 0.10$ card. And Seer's Sundial is better than this card :D
lordDeathsBlood
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
what i see this card going great in is an Eldrazi spawn deck excuse me while i dig out my Parallel Lives and then what ever else i want
Wulfsten
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Top-notch flavour in a set that's already brimming with it.
As with all slightly oddball cards, though, R&D have been a bit timid in pricing this card. The correct cost would have been 3 to cast and 0 to activate, meaning that although you had to wait a few turns for eyeballs to accrue, you would be able to make use of the card you search for the turn you get it, rather than tapping out just to fetch it.
Still, LOVE the flavour.
Lash_of_Dragonbreath
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Wulfstein: activation cost should be 0? Really? Then this thing would be pretty much a Skullclamp on steroids!
@Vividice: it kind of depends on your deck, but I don't think Farsight Mask would be much better than this card most of the times. The probably won't come into play before turn 4 at least, and at that point relying on your opponent's creatures and spells to hit you will end up with you dead before you get to use any of your drawn cards. Not to mention people playing mill.
I think this is solid. Maybe a bit to slow for most games, but still very solid. I got this in a draft with a playset of Dawntreader Elks and lots of undying creatures. Worked pretty well. Also, it's not a bad trinket for commander if you can't afford a Skullclamp.
all you 'players' sayin how 'bad' this card is need to shut up, and recognize this for what it is. its a token EDH decks way to stack their deck easily. example- i have bookoo squirrel tokens cuz im "that guy". day of judgement. aww snap. well, thanks to THIS CARD i can now LEGALLY stack my entire deck. haters, commence hating sequence now.
i really thought that ppl would understand that this card isnt meant for standard or really any format outside of casual. considering theyre printing so many great EDH cards in the whole innistrad block, this shouldnt come as a suprise. now go hate on cards that deserve it! like--> verdigris
Trygon_Predator
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Best usage of googly eyes as counters on Magic cards goes to...
Tsuichoi
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Oh come on wizards, its great that it doesnt force you to sacrifice it after one use, but you could atleast made it ALL graveyards while you were add it...
McKnuty
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
By the time you set anything up that can actually make use of this card the game is already decided. Would rather use some more Rain of Tears or something else to fill its overcosted 3cmc slot. I run monoblack ever since gravecrawler came out.
RedAtrocitus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I like this card. I don't know if I will really put it into a serious deck, but it is flavorful and fun, and Magic is a game and suppose to be fun and flavorful, not serious, right?
Beefycheese
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think that this is a decent rare, all things considered. It has a lot of flexible uses, especially given the set it came from - with undying and morbid as keywords, and with sacrifice mechanics a plenty. Not to mention the token generation in the set, and other cards that have synergies with creature death like Lumberknot.
And that's not really touching on formats outside of Standard, given the strength of devour or Eldrazi decks. Same goes for its uses in EDH/Commander.
I really don't think this is that bad a card. Certainly not the worst rare I've seen.
Arguably full of eyes that Storm Crow plucked out, mind.
TzarChasm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Cellar Door. First, this allows you to stack your library with creatures, removing the randomness of Cellar Door's ability. Together, this can guarantee 2/2 creatures without reducing the cards in your hand. Third, this combo can be used when Cemetary Reaper's ability cannot: if there are currently no creatures in graveyards. In the process, it puts a creature there for you to reanimate at will.
WiNGSPANTT
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card has so much flavor, I can stave off hunger just by reading it.
wholelottalove
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
What part of this is bad? Your creatures are going to die during a game so that's free counters on it. Also this card sticks around after you tap and remove counters when many legacy cards have to be sacced for almost the same thing.
This card should be at least a 3.5 if not a 4. You people are insane.
DeFectiveDeity
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
That awkward moment when a cyclops dies...
vardaris
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's quite complicated... for a jar.
Silver-Paladin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Endrek Sahr EDH says OMGWTFBBQ. All those thrulls you're saccing are letting you get the right cards.
RuscoJames
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It would seem that a lot of people here have never used it in the right deck. It works wonders in my Black Green Eldrazi Spawn/Vampire deck. Get a blood artist out and start sacrificing eldrazi spawn all day to feed this thing. It will get you what you need, removal, more spawn, more combo pieces. This belongs in a deck where your things are meant to die.
Sure it doesn't match up to the brokenness of cards like Fecundity or Sensei's Divining top, but this is still a great card. There is a lot to be said for budget rares that are good but cheap because of the old and brokenly powerful.
idrinkyourmilkshake
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I agree. This card isn't top notch, but it's tons of fun. I use it in a black/red deck, usong Act of Treason-effects to borrow their creatures, swinging with them. And if they don't die, I'll just Fling them at my opponent, or Undercity Informant afterwards. "But first, I'll need your eyeballs..."
BobbySinclair
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Such an entirely underrated card. I use it in my Kresh Sac/Token/Counters deck for EDH, and more often than not, opponents will look puzzled when I put it out instead of Sensei's Divining Top or other good artifacts. But in the right deck, this is a killer card. Not only is 3 colourless relatively cheap in EDH, but in the right deck, you could be putting a card in your hand every turn, from a pool ranging from 2 to 10 cards that you've cycled!
With Doubling Season or Parallel Lives and Awakening Zone, it's pretty much paying for itself! Create two Eldrazi spawn, sacrifice them, place four counters on the Jar, pay an extra one from somewhere, select a card. Then throw in exciting stuff like Grave Pact or death abilities, and you've got yourself a powerful artifact that can still chug along while you're making your combo.
Plus what other card can you place on the battlefield with the announcement of "I play... Jar O' 'Balls!"
TheWallinator74
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
That awkward moment when you get two eyeball counters from killing a cyclops...
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yeah! it seems underrated..
but it seems solid..
not a power creep but a solid card..
And yeah, mechanically it's a bit lacking, but you've got to love the flavor.
Z EvilMustache
4 Casual Deck Lane
Somewhere, USA
the digging deep to pick a card is better than it sounds; sometimes better than simple 'draw a card' since you get to mini-tutor- I found a land when I really needed one, and then found a removal spell the next turn - and since the other cards go to the bottom, not the graveyard or exile, you don't have to worry too much about losing them. also, it's repeatable, unlike Shrine of Piercing Vision.
sure, it's not the BEST card ever, but it's surprisingly useful (in limited at least) and perhaps in a deck built to take advantage of it - I'm thinkin of using it next to a Skullclamp / Bloodghast engine
and will you people stop freaking out about the number of eyeballs the creature has?
Even for colorless draw it's way overpriced and to conditional.
3+3 Mana to just replace this card and even 3+3+3 Mana (and two turns and two creatures dead) to gain any advantage is horrible. It's unreliable (not every turn is something dying) and thus can't even give you a card every turn. With a good manacurve you shouldn't be able to spend 3 Mana every other turn. The mediocre card quality you gain for several dead creatures is hardly an advanatge outside of extremly narrow decks.
Farsight Mask (uncommon!) is far more reliable for 2 Mana higher CMC but ZERO cost to draw a card.
Mind's Eye (again uncommon) is very reliable and possibly draws more than just 1 card per turn (more so in Multiplayer), and 1 Mana per card is far more suitable than 3.
I don't know how can even compare this card to Sensei's Divining Top @DarthParallax. Top is card filtering at it's finest while this is just bad carddraw with a tiny bit of card filtering. If anything it's comparable Seer's Sundial which is a 0.10$ card. And Seer's Sundial is better than this card :D
As with all slightly oddball cards, though, R&D have been a bit timid in pricing this card. The correct cost would have been 3 to cast and 0 to activate, meaning that although you had to wait a few turns for eyeballs to accrue, you would be able to make use of the card you search for the turn you get it, rather than tapping out just to fetch it.
Still, LOVE the flavour.
@Vividice: it kind of depends on your deck, but I don't think Farsight Mask would be much better than this card most of the times. The probably won't come into play before turn 4 at least, and at that point relying on your opponent's creatures and spells to hit you will end up with you dead before you get to use any of your drawn cards. Not to mention people playing mill.
I think this is solid. Maybe a bit to slow for most games, but still very solid.
I got this in a draft with a playset of Dawntreader Elks and lots of undying creatures. Worked pretty well.
Also, it's not a bad trinket for commander if you can't afford a Skullclamp.
Why did I get 2 eyeballs from my Galvanic Juggernaut?
Sweet, you can pay {3}, {T}: Look at your library, put one card into your hand, and organize the rest of your library however you want.
i really thought that ppl would understand that this card isnt meant for standard or really any format outside of casual. considering theyre printing so many great EDH cards in the whole innistrad block, this shouldnt come as a suprise. now go hate on cards that deserve it! like--> verdigris
And that's not really touching on formats outside of Standard, given the strength of devour or Eldrazi decks. Same goes for its uses in EDH/Commander.
I really don't think this is that bad a card. Certainly not the worst rare I've seen.
Arguably full of eyes that Storm Crow plucked out, mind.
This card should be at least a 3.5 if not a 4. You people are insane.
Sure it doesn't match up to the brokenness of cards like Fecundity or Sensei's Divining top, but this is still a great card. There is a lot to be said for budget rares that are good but cheap because of the old and brokenly powerful.
With Doubling Season or Parallel Lives and Awakening Zone, it's pretty much paying for itself! Create two Eldrazi spawn, sacrifice them, place four counters on the Jar, pay an extra one from somewhere, select a card. Then throw in exciting stuff like Grave Pact or death abilities, and you've got yourself a powerful artifact that can still chug along while you're making your combo.
Plus what other card can you place on the battlefield with the announcement of "I play... Jar O' 'Balls!"