Not a bad two for one land destruction spell, but still prefer Into the Maw of Hell to this.
Awesome artwork.
Tommy9898
★☆☆☆☆ (1.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Really couldn't have made it cost 4? or 3? :3
mutantman
★★☆☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(12 votes)
That is not a maw. A maw is a mouth. Those are hands. Hands are not a mouth. Try "Palm of the Mire." Or "Poorly-Groomed Fingernails of the Mire." I would even accept "Stinky Sweaty Armpit of the Mire".
I demand anatomical accuracy in land destruction spells!
Gavrilo
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Main problem with land destruction spells is that you need cast them asap to hurt your opponent, and 5th turn is far too late. Even 4 mana LD spells don't see much play in limited. Overblown manacost and negligible upside make this card one of the worst in the set.
Gabriel422
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@mutantman: sorry, anything but the armpit.
@Hayw: while it's true this is two-for-one in the sense that it is Stone Rain + Sacred Nectar, the Nectar part is kind of like a zero-for-one. Life gain can only provide nonzero card advantage if your opponent relies on burn spells instead of creatures or any other type of spells. So we usually think of something like Maw as a 1-for-1 land destruction spell.
longwinded
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
And thus falls the House of Usher... er, Avacyn.
Tanaka348
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(3 votes)
No, gain 4 life isn't worth even one more mana.
Eternal_Blue
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
oh ld, ld, ld... how far you've fallen.
Raikel
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(3 votes)
This seems more green than black to me.
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I don't know why...but sometihng is possessing me to put this in a deck with Knowledge Pool....and then say 'the power of the Sun- in the palm of my hand!' :P
Spider-Man 2 reference in Magic. Now I've seen everything. (lolz, I know its just me, there's no way it was intentional....STILL)
majinara
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Too expensive to hit early to manascrew opponents, and the four life ain't important either. Why not just play befoul? Costs less and is far more versatile. This is just one of those "let's take an existing card, make it overcosted and add a useless boon" set fillers.
Hey, it blasts Gavony Township on the same turn it would start making your life difficult.
Atali
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Ugh, and the reverse power creep of land destruction continues...
AncientTimer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Should not have seen print.
Enchantment_Removal
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
"Draw a card."
ge_erskine
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
why does the ruling say that a land has to be destroyed for you to gain 4 life. i see a . it seems to me that they are two separate effects that are not co-dependent. either way its no good. for 5 mana i can choking sands and lightning helix or heroes reunion.
JanusAurelius
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Awesome artwork, that's really all it's got going for it though.
Binaro
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I know a friend who, for whatever reason, runs this card in her vampire deck. And amazingly enough, every time she draws it, she manages to use it in a way that actually allows her to win, whether it's to destroy the only mountain her opponent has, leaving him with a handful of unusable red werewolves, or it's to gain enough life to last her the one more turn she needed to win the game(those examples, by the way, actually happened).
Ligerman30
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Tommy9898 4 cmc would SHATTER the color pie, making black better at land destruction in standard. 3 cmc would break formats AND the color pie. Stone Rain was a busted card and red is the color of land destruction. Strapping a Sacred Nectar to a Stone Rain and giving it a mana cost of would be so broken especially for black aggressive decks. Black doesn't even really do land destruction or even life gain (life drain is part of their slice of the color pie though). Not only is this card bad, it breaks the color pie by giving something that is meant for to mono-black. This card shouldn't even exist no less be good.
DoragonShinzui
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Card is decent, if somewhat underwhelming, but...dat art!
Continue
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'd rather it dealt 4 damage; as it is, it's a Craterize glued to a Healing Salve where someone scribbled over the 3 with a 4. (Which I've actually seen, but that's a different story.)
Ferlord
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Maybe this is a bad complaint, but I wish there was Rare land destruction. Maybe destroy 2 lands and gain/deal 4 life for or .
Maybe Wizards is holding off on LD until there's a set where it's really prevalent. Maybe they're waiting to reprint a SInkhole.
One way or another, this isn't that great. If it were or , it'd be more playable. (obviously)
kor6sic6
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The only real redeeming quality to this card is a noticeable feature in the artwork. And that's the Avacyn Restored symbol on the front peak of the church being destroyed.
Other than that, 1/5.
OwlSolar
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The hands are made out of skeletons.
The_Evictee
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Wizards please return black land destruction at 3 CMC.
OstravaBoletaria
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
terrible card, but awesome artwork. and yeah, mutantman is right, silly wizards/artist.
Comments (27)
Awesome artwork.
I demand anatomical accuracy in land destruction spells!
@Hayw: while it's true this is two-for-one in the sense that it is Stone Rain + Sacred Nectar, the Nectar part is kind of like a zero-for-one. Life gain can only provide nonzero card advantage if your opponent relies on burn spells instead of creatures or any other type of spells. So we usually think of something like Maw as a 1-for-1 land destruction spell.
Spider-Man 2 reference in Magic. Now I've seen everything. (lolz, I know its just me, there's no way it was intentional....STILL)
Maybe Wizards is holding off on LD until there's a set where it's really prevalent. Maybe they're waiting to reprint a
One way or another, this isn't that great. If it were
Other than that, 1/5.