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Far too expensive to be all that great unless of course your playing it in EDH, then its epic.

Well, It appeals to me to pump my creatures as much as this ... but the card is simply way too expensive. You'd be way better off casting a Titanic Ultimatum instead, since it gives your creatures trample, first strike & lifelink, enabling you to gain a massive advantage if your opponent isn't sitting with a Fog in his/her hand

This was my very first rare ever and I built a hilarious saproling deck just to use it in. My friends thought it was OMG SO BORKEN!!!1 but they didn't ban it since I only had one. Ah, those were simpler days...

First when i saw this i was like omfgwtf is this +7/+7 all your creatures? Then i looked at the mana cost and thought its not so very overpower. Definitely a gamewinner when played, if defending player doesn't have that aforementioned fog.

Yeah, what all you clowns that are saying Titanic Ultimatum and Overrun are better (And now Overwhelming Stampede) are forgetting is that little word on this card INSTANT that allows you to do this AFTER BLOCKERS ARE DECLARED. This card is insane, and green ramps SO MUCH that it is very, very, VERY easy to get 9 mana with green. Use your saved up Omnath mana for it if you want, drop omnath 9 then replace it with a +7/+7 AND EVERY OTHER CREATURE YOU HAVE. This card is bar none the best green field pump in the game and you're a moron if you think otherwise, overrun and titanic ultimatum give your opponents the opportunity to predict what is coming that turn and tap your creatures before attackers are declared. This card is at the very least on par with Titanic Ultimatum and Overrun. Maybe not Overwhelming Stampede, but the fact that this card is an instant is BEAUTIFUL.

Maybe it's not particularly great, but it's fun, damnit!

Also, I never noticed it was an instant. Intriguing....

i agree if i had a copy of this in my elf deck it would be a great way to end a game (while it can easily gain life, mana, and creatures out the wazoo, there have been occasions where i have had dificulty getting through a nest of creatures this would easily do just that, first you swing, they decide to block, you then play this and their stuff probobly dies) and thats its offensive ability no one has taken into account that since its an instant it can be used on your defending creatures to buff all of them (they think they are getting a good trade then this drops) and their stuff dies over all i have to say this must be an amazing card in the right deck

My blue/green deck runs this on it's sideboard and fetches it with Cunning Wish! You don't know what it's like! The mere fact that I can tap (10)(U)(G) at instant speed to have my opponent shit himself is the most gratifying experieces that I've ever had while playing Magic.

Seriously folks. I live for this kind of thing.

@openseasonnoobs:

Wow, AFTER BLOCKERS ARE DECLARED?! WOWEE

lol Hold the Line

overrun > this

The problem is, having 9 mana left open lets your opponent know that you're going to do something.

@OpenSeasonNoobs:
"Oh, my opponent left NINE mana open, and now attacks with all creatures. I wonder what he might be up to.
Certainly nothing insidious. Probably he just wants me to use my removal spell of one on his attacking creatures, so he can cast a Krosan Colossus after combat. Ha, i won't fall for that! Now at first i think i'll just leave a bunch of his smaller creatures unblocked and take the tad of damage..."

It doesn't help much that this spell is an instant, it's barely a surprise.
And if you really want to use this in your opponent's turn as a mass Righteousness,
i'd advise to use Hold the Line instead.

I agree it's a flavorful card and i remember being overly amazed about it as a new player. But that's about it.
There are lots of better finishers of that kind.

Oh yeah, the days were you just played with your crappy decks against friends with other crappy decks and from time to time used to have ridiculously long matches. Where the power of a deck was not decided by your deck-building skills, but by the the expensive cards you managed to trade and could proudly show off with once they were cast...those were the days :D
(Not implying that money isn't a question now anymore! But my friends and me shifted from playing decks made with card from our possession to playing all-proxies. And the enitre madness started by seeing awesome cards on the internet and creating single proxies for cards we'd eventually want to buy :D)

This card is just brutal in mono-green EDH decks. I've lost many a Commander games to this spell being played, oh, just after I declare "no blocks."

firstly, if this is in someone's deck, they should always leave nine mana open, regardless of this being in their hand or not. it's just good tactics.

secondly, this being an instant provides tons of flexibility; which also justifies the cost.

thirdly, the cc demands ramp; but, green is all but willing too provide, anyway.

that said, while this card is far from unplayable, I would still take others over this.

Similar to Hold the Line. Only don't cast the latter if you're attacking.

When those three saprolings your opponent left unblocked matter a lot more than he thought.

I remember a casual mono-green deck with elves and saprolings and strong mana acceleration (Gaea's Cradle, Priest of Titania, and similar); the standard way to finish was this + Overrun. This is a really Timmy combo...


Sorcery
Creatures you control get +10/+10 and trample until end of turn.

Competitive Magic is amazing, but casual funny games are too!

Cast off Mosswart Bridge for , win, and for the rest of your life your friends will fear and loathe Moswart Bridge as intensely as they fear your Flying Spaghetti Monster. Then quietly remove it from your deck.

@People saying 9 open mana is suspicious:

I don't know what your playgroup looks like, but in mine, we play our spells second main unless we have a good reason not to. This is both good strategy and common practice in competitive magic. Going to attacks with all your mana open is the norm, not the exception. Sure, attacking with your saprolings into their anything might hint that something's up, but it could just as easily be a Skarrg Goliath (or might of Oaks, if your comment predates Gatecrash), in which case blocking is exactly what you want them to do. And even if they do know it's coming they...block to stop themselves from dying? Last I checked, bonfire of the damned was a good card.

It's completely unplayable in competitive constructed (by virtue of its cost), sure, but nobody is seriously suggesting this card for constructed. It's great in EDH tokens and/or creature swarm, which is exactly where it goes. Niche card, but good one.

Wow, your opponent is going to wish he blocked more of your creatures.

Might of Oaks for EVERYONE!

In terms of boosting, this card gets some bonus scattergory points for being an instant, but without trample, it might not make a difference.

If you are looking for an instant-speed "Overrun" effect, play Kamahl, Fist of Krosa. You get trample, can do it as many times as you want (per increment of mana), and you can turn your lands into creatures for creatures to receive the boost. This can double-up as a "get out of a boardwipe-free" card, since you can then turn their lands into creatures.

But if you don't have much green (Comparably, 2 Kamahl-Overruns costs and gives +6/+6 and trample), this is a much more effective alternative.