The decision to reprint this must have been a tough one. I'm glad they did, because every Commander deck wants a Sol Ring and now this clearly superior card isn't limited to just the players who can afford it.
H4yd3n
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(8 votes)
Staple for every EDH deck
raadface
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
Sol Rings for everyone! :D
ClockworkSwordfish
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(11 votes)
Like a $10 rebate for being a precon!
Phantom_of_the_FNM
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(7 votes)
Right now, this actually is the highest rated card on Gatherer. it suits this card.
Crag-Hack
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(22 votes)
Now us common folk can get our hands on the preciousssss :o'
Lyoncet
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(11 votes)
Aww, somewhere between votes #32 and 36, some meanie had to go and ruin the perfect 5/5 rating! *pout*
Not that it should be the highest rated card on Gatherer, but it's hard to find a reason not to rate it a 5.
Ogrenoodle89
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(4 votes)
they've reprinted sol ring! god helps us....
The_Sturm
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(12 votes)
The first card I find with Tezzeret the Seeker. Then next turn I am untapping it making twice as much mana.
Pigfish99
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This is a mana powerhouse. I wish I had 4 copies of these.
tantallum99
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(11 votes)
a must-have in an EDH deck and this art is fantastic. Interesting that it is printed at uncommon when it's last printing was a FTV mythic rare.
What followed was a short one-sided game that wasn't fun for either of us. To this day I only put Sol Ring in a deck if it's fantastically underpowered.
Myrofkoth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(4 votes)
pretty decent card great how they reprinted it in edh
Revelation666
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(11 votes)
There was a time where me and my friends wouldn't make a deck without including this thing, it makes every single deck there ever was better just by being in it. I stopped using it awhile ago because it makes me feel dirty.
metalevolence
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(5 votes)
I've never seen Sol Ring make a game that would have been bad turn good, and I've seen it plenty of times make a game that would have been good go bad. Fast mana makes for godhands and comboing out on turn 3. I think it should be banned in EDH, along with Mana Crypt.
BegleOne
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(19 votes)
You guys are joking, right? This shouldn't be anywhere near EDH. Then again, Wizards probably shouldn't be anywhere near EDH either.
EDIT: So since I have the lowest-rated comment on this card, let me explain. This is a ridiculously powerful card; banned in Legacy, after all. As a 1 mana utility artifact; I can't think of a single EDH deck it doesn't make better. If a card is a star in every deck, it's too good; that's one of the definitions of "broken", like Rishadan Port was in Masques. If you draw it early in EDH, you have a massive advantage over the guy that doesn't; EDH is best a grand exercise in deck-building synergy and strategy, while Sol Ring is just too damn good in everything and does its part in reducing the game to luck of the draw.
Now, since EDH games go long and this isn't the greatest of draws after you have 10 or so mana, I'm not THAT opposed to it when there are better things I can complain about like Command Tower, which is a better example of a card that just should not be. "Hey fellow WotCr's, lets print the best land card in every EDH deck ever and make buying our sealed decks the only way to get it!" Like I said, they should just stay out of it.
RareCardHunter
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Eldrazi!
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
hmmm interesting point the other guy made about reducing EDH to luck of the draw, and downsizing the creativity dept. IMO it's perfectly innocent in Kaalia- helps with the high mana costs, yeah, but I've played two games so far with the deck, and haven't yet gotten my general to work cuz she costs 3 colored mana and only 1 colorless. With or without Sol Ring, she still costs at least WBR. And her deck's mana base sucks. Considering her creatures kick as much ass as they do, I'm actually fine with that.
Personally, seeing the affect Kaalia's cost has on her relationship to Sol Ring, I am more convinced than ever that Jace, the Mindsculptor should have simply cost Cryptic Command mana. Bang. Instant-fix. I think...
When every single deck that can tutor for this on turn one does so, you know its BROKEN and has no right to be legal. This card allows for completely busted starts that are impossible to fight back against like play this on turn 1 play this and tap it to play a signet which enables turn 2 5-drop like Plow Under which is complete and utter bs and impossible to fight back against.
If they ever have the sense to ban this from EDH which I doubt, then I might get into the format.
Kitty_the_Kat
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This should probably be banned in EDH.. As much as I personally love using it, I hate even more to see other people play it turn 1 and bust out with crazy shenanigans as early as turn 3. Granted, there are a ton of cards that should be banned....I'm looking at you Maze of Ith~
Asmodi0000
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I understand that EDH is a longer format that makes the first couple of turns less important, and it's rather difficult to truly abuse this card with combos in a singleton format, but I still don't approve of this card being reprinted so... casually.
It's not a card that belongs on the casual table. Before the commander sets came out, I had purchased a Sol Ring, and after only playing with it a few times, I was convinced that it made the game less fun and that I was better off not playing with it. It's a brutal fountain of power that skews the game decisively in your direction, which is one of the reasons it's considered one of the major contenders for the "Power 10".
It's good that it made the commander sets even more of a worthwhile purchase, but it's as if Wizards is trying to say that it is a well-designed card that they're willing to reprint as perfectly playable. When it was released in the Exiled: From the Vault set, people knew that it was broken, and its new mythic rarity status helped cement that notion.
Reprinting it in decks designed for multiplayer, casual games with uncommon status just sends the wrong message, that this card is balanced, which it clearly isn't. If you manage to get one out, but your opponent doesn't, the scales are tipped so far in your favor that it's not even like you're playing the same game anymore. He's trying to climb a hill while you're rolling down stones at him.
But, I will say this. It does let new players have a chance against more experienced/richer opponents. If they are using a sol ring, you should have access to one as well. Though neither of you should really be using it, if he pulls out a gun, you should have a gun too. Why you're playing with a person like that, I don't know, but it happens and it's good to be prepared.
That's why if Wizards reprinted the Moxes, Black Lotus, and all those other cards that are worth hundreds of dollars, I would support that wholeheartedly. After watching people in game stores toting around decks with Moats and Library of Alexandrias play against people with decks made out of cards they got from their first prerelease, I think I understand the value of providing people with the weapons, even if they're not supposed to use them on a day-to-day basis.
Quentil
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I use Trinket Mage a lot of pull this guy out if I don't get it in my opening hand. Simply one of the best early to mid-game mana boosts there is imo.
That's a turn 4 'I have denied you a whole colour', which is pretty fatal against most decks. Amazing Card. XD
BorosGeneral
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Turn 1: Mountain, Sol ring, Boros signet Opponent may scoop.
stuffydoll62886
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
i have yet to use this card but what i don't get is why black lotus is accepted more so then sol ring. ive read quite a bit about this card and alot of people don't like it i mean i understand why but for me i hate being beat by rich kids with 2000 dollar decks so my only defense is sol ring thats why i ordered 4 of them. if the rich kids are aloud to buy decks that win in turn 2 or 3 then i should be aloud to play sol ring. my solution is not to waste my money on tournaments but go to play people casually befor and during the game. i know some of you will disagree but to be honest i don't care at all.
This is a lot more worthy of a spot in the Power 9 than Timetwister. On the turn you cast it, it gives you as much mana advantage as a Mox, and on every turn after that, it gives you more. The only drawback is that it's colorless mana, but very rare is the deck that can't make any use of that .
And since everyone else is talking about it, I refuse to put this in an EDH deck, for precisely that reason.
UsagiYojimbo
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Miss Mox: Hello Ms. Sol Ring your application for status as the missing Mox has been, unfortunately, denied.
Sol Ring: That can't be right, I have all the qualifications. I'm a mana artifact that costs {0}.
Miss Mox: *ahem* Well, I'll agree you "effectively" cost {0}, but only if colored mana isn't relevant.
Sol Ring: Exactly, and I tap for {2}! That's something that the Moxen can't do! And I don't have a drawback, like those newfangled new Moxen.
Miss Mox: Yes, well, colored mana is very important, and you only tap for {2} the turn after you're cast. I'm afraid the Moxen have very, very high standards. The best I can do is offer you status in the Slightly Less Powerful Than the Moxen Club. Slightly less prestigious, sure, but it still sets you above almost every other card ever printed.
Sol Ring: Oh, well when you put it like that... I'll take it!
I love this card! Almost more than the moxes I have...
iUseBreakOpen
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I love Sol Ring, but I wish Wizards would come up with a less powerful version that could be legal in Legacy. Maybe a version that taps for only 1 mana. If that is still too strong to be Legacy legal, they could make it etb tapped. Just wishful thinking.
DoubleTarget
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Sol Ring is broken but I'm not really against it in EDH. It's only one of many broken cards in EDH and people do love their Sol Ring. There aren't many formats where it's legal and seeing the occasional absurd starts that it powers out can be fun. Plus, if someone does play it turn 1 then they get to be the archenemy for that game.
Personally, I don't even like to use Sol Ring in my decks because I often play against extremely sweep-heavy decks .
gman92
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(5 votes)
It's SOL RING!!!
That is all.
d20Insaneously
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Turn I: Forest, Sol Ring, Iron Myr Turn II: Mountain , Kozilek's Predator Turn III: Forest, Blood Birthing , Cryptic Gateway Turn IV: Mountain , Tap 2 Eldrazi Spawn. Guess what this means if you have both Emrakul and Kozilek in your hand? Enjoy.
kiseki
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is so much fun in my casual no-rares-allowed equipment deck. I don't need to it be attacking for 12 trample damage on turn three, but getting it can make things much worse. Even green doesn't get acceleration this good.
Zokorad
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Amazing and considered by me to be a casual staple.
JimmyNoobPlayer
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(4 votes)
Horrifically overpowered. I'm still not sure if that means I should rate it high or low.
talcumpowder0046
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
Best mana stone of all time, and one of my favorite cards. 5/5
brockdjwest
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Sonic the Hedgehog's favorite card
asskicker123456789
★☆☆☆☆ (1.4/5.0)(5 votes)
lame cant see why it got such a high rating
TheWrathofShane
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(8 votes)
.5/5 for being broken...
@Jimmynoobplayer If you care about your rating being high or low, advertise that you rated it a 5/5. Maybe say something like,
So OverPowered! 5/5
Xenofaust
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
turn 1: Island, Sold Ring turn 2: Tinker, bring out Blightsteel Colossus. wutnao? i personally throw a playset into my affinity/metalcraft artifacts deck. makes a turn 2 win very easy.
RecurringMemories
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
Why is everyone on here so whiny?
Also. 5/5.
sniper_ix
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I really agree with a lot of the comments saying, "Should not have being put in PreCons."
There is nothing more brutal then seeing an opponent in chaos or in a dual lay down turn 1 sol ring + signet/talisman. They have literally timed walked you 3 times. Your only hope is that they are unable to refill their hand.
TheAj
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(3 votes)
I prefer to ignore this card. Its one of those uber powerful cards that isn't even interesting, and neither is it as iconic or flashy as any of the moxes or lotus.
bolttotheface
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(4 votes)
This card is just downright dumb. You get the mana acceleration of an off-color mox on the turn you play it, then get double that each turn after that. I particularly hate cards like these because they are so boring. Its one thing when you get an Over Powered card like Necropotence when you can just sit there like 0.o at it for 5 minutes. This? Its just dumb.
hashtagyolo
★☆☆☆☆ (1.7/5.0)(6 votes)
Stupid card. Honestly. Card is the dumbest thing ever. Not only is it boring as ***, but its so freaking overpowered you're forced to play it in any format in which it is legal. Nor is it as iconic as moxen. Sorry, this one's just dumb and boring.
EisselsEnnui
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Turn 1: Island, Sol Ring Turn 2: Tinker, sol ring into Blightsteel.
Hue.
futte
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I rated 5/5 for power. "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."
atemu1234
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
{T}, Kick target opponent in the balls. Steal their wallet and car keys, run over their dog with said car, crash car, return to game. ... ... Oh, yeah, and add {2} to your mana pool.
Blackhawk9000
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@thewrathofshane So OverPowered! 5/5
azure_drake222222
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think it's better than a Mox. The fact that it costs 1 doesn't matter (unless you didn't play a land on your first turn).
Lifegainwithbite
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why, hello there Minimox.
TheChort
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Just picked up this card yesterday! ...and then this play happened in my edh deck:
Turn 1: Island, Sol Ring Turn 2: Plains, Sculpting Steel (Copying Sol Ring) Turn 3: Darksteel Citadel, Karn Liberated
I felt a little dirty after that play. EDH is supposed to be casual!
Amazing card. Easy 5/5.
thewalkingdead
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
so.... why is this broken a$$ card being reprinted?
MRK1
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Best friends with anything requiring colorless mana. 5/5
Cygore
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I see a lot of people saying how it's OP and all these ways to break it and how it's boring and flavorless bla bla bla... well just think, it can be used to help high cost decks keeps up with the curve of most really good fast decks. I use this card in a deck based around Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker and it helps very much with getting things like Gem of Becoming to actually become practical and useful. The flavor in my deck? Well Nicol has been around for a long ass time, pulling strings throughout the multiverse to suit his agendas... I'm betting somewhere along the way he would come across powerful artifacts from ancient days of artificers (as mentioned in the flavor text.) So for me, this card is awesome and full of flavor :D
Continue
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Literally fits into any EDH deck. There is not a single deck I can think of that can go without this. Even ashlingthepilgrimlavalamp.dec would do better with 97 Mountains, Valakut, and a Sol Ring.
JaxsonBateman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Hate seeing this in casual. Players realise their power, and it's not too hard to come by, so they include a copy (or 4), when it's so good that it's only legal in vintage and as such should not be played in casual (except for perhaps EDH).
If I felt it was casual worthy I'd be running 4 in virtually every deck. Wanting to run 4 in every deck should be an indication that it's not really casual. :-P
mdakw576
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
A card that I would consider to ban in EDH (it is already banned in the french 1v1 rules). Technically mana crypt would be in even higher consideration, but most players I know don't have that because of its massive price tag, while sol ring is like 10 bucks so it's actually affordable.
Players who get a turn 1 sol ring are VERY far ahead of players who don't. There are very few decks that do not get greatly accelerated with a turn 1 sol ring (like, animar and that's basically it).
MightyWhitey
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Crap, I used to have about 10 of these from Revised when I was in college in the mid nineties. I would make starter decks and give them out to a few guys in my dorm to try to encourage them to play. Here have a sol ring on me too while yer at it, every deck should have one. I thought they were common cuz they "just make mana" and I just happened to own a bunch. I figured something like an Air Elemental was a really good card, better hoard those.... Now I only have four really beat rings left... Ugh! What an idiot....
Dragonshoredreamz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
10/5 Oops - I forgot the other zero.
*100/5 :)
I don't see anything boring or uninteresting about this card. As a Planeswalker, why the hell wouldn't I have such a practical item in my possession?...Exactly!
Sol Ring has more flavor than a lot of people choose to recognize.
SAUS3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Cygore Of course it would help slow decks keep up with fast decks - by making them faster. What a load of crap. Fast mana is dumb because then small cards lose their place within the game. The way players get mana in this game is crucial to how it is balanced and how games should play out. There's a reason they don't allow cards like this into standard, modern, or even legacy.
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Not that it should be the highest rated card on Gatherer, but it's hard to find a reason not to rate it a 5.
Then next turn I am untapping it making twice as much mana.
Turn 1: Island, Sol Ring, Ornithopter
Turn 2: Island, Higure, the Still Wind, Ornithopter again
What followed was a short one-sided game that wasn't fun for either of us. To this day I only put Sol Ring in a deck if it's fantastically underpowered.
EDIT: So since I have the lowest-rated comment on this card, let me explain. This is a ridiculously powerful card; banned in Legacy, after all. As a 1 mana utility artifact; I can't think of a single EDH deck it doesn't make better. If a card is a star in every deck, it's too good; that's one of the definitions of "broken", like Rishadan Port was in Masques. If you draw it early in EDH, you have a massive advantage over the guy that doesn't; EDH is best a grand exercise in deck-building synergy and strategy, while Sol Ring is just too damn good in everything and does its part in reducing the game to luck of the draw.
Now, since EDH games go long and this isn't the greatest of draws after you have 10 or so mana, I'm not THAT opposed to it when there are better things I can complain about like Command Tower, which is a better example of a card that just should not be. "Hey fellow WotCr's, lets print the best land card in every EDH deck ever and make buying our sealed decks the only way to get it!" Like I said, they should just stay out of it.
Personally, seeing the affect Kaalia's cost has on her relationship to Sol Ring, I am more convinced than ever that Jace, the Mindsculptor should have simply cost Cryptic Command mana. Bang. Instant-fix. I think...
Turn 1: Ancient Tomb, Sol Ring, Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, Grim Monolith, Black Lotus.
Turn 2: Play Emrakul.
????
Turn 3: Profit!
When every single deck that can tutor for this on turn one does so, you know its BROKEN and has no right to be legal.
This card allows for completely busted starts that are impossible to fight back against like play this on turn 1 play this and tap it to play a signet which enables turn 2 5-drop like Plow Under which is complete and utter bs and impossible to fight back against.
If they ever have the sense to ban this from EDH which I doubt, then I might get into the format.
It's not a card that belongs on the casual table. Before the commander sets came out, I had purchased a Sol Ring, and after only playing with it a few times, I was convinced that it made the game less fun and that I was better off not playing with it. It's a brutal fountain of power that skews the game decisively in your direction, which is one of the reasons it's considered one of the major contenders for the "Power 10".
It's good that it made the commander sets even more of a worthwhile purchase, but it's as if Wizards is trying to say that it is a well-designed card that they're willing to reprint as perfectly playable. When it was released in the Exiled: From the Vault set, people knew that it was broken, and its new mythic rarity status helped cement that notion.
Reprinting it in decks designed for multiplayer, casual games with uncommon status just sends the wrong message, that this card is balanced, which it clearly isn't. If you manage to get one out, but your opponent doesn't, the scales are tipped so far in your favor that it's not even like you're playing the same game anymore. He's trying to climb a hill while you're rolling down stones at him.
But, I will say this. It does let new players have a chance against more experienced/richer opponents. If they are using a sol ring, you should have access to one as well. Though neither of you should really be using it, if he pulls out a gun, you should have a gun too. Why you're playing with a person like that, I don't know, but it happens and it's good to be prepared.
That's why if Wizards reprinted the Moxes, Black Lotus, and all those other cards that are worth hundreds of dollars, I would support that wholeheartedly. After watching people in game stores toting around decks with Moats and Library of Alexandrias play against people with decks made out of cards they got from their first prerelease, I think I understand the value of providing people with the weapons, even if they're not supposed to use them on a day-to-day basis.
Turn 1: Plains, Sol Ring, Gold Myr
Turn 2: Buried Ruin, Baneslayer Angel
Turn 3: Plains, Quicksilver Amulet, Angelic Renewal
Turn 4: Plains, Quicksilver Iona, Shield of Emeria,
That's a turn 4 'I have denied you a whole colour', which is pretty fatal against most decks. Amazing Card. XD
Opponent may scoop.
turn 1: plains, sol ring, shield sphere/phyrexian walker, voltaic key
turn 2: plains, stuffy doll, guilty conscience
And since everyone else is talking about it, I refuse to put this in an EDH deck, for precisely that reason.
Sol Ring: That can't be right, I have all the qualifications. I'm a mana artifact that costs {0}.
Miss Mox: *ahem* Well, I'll agree you "effectively" cost {0}, but only if colored mana isn't relevant.
Sol Ring: Exactly, and I tap for {2}! That's something that the Moxen can't do! And I don't have a drawback, like those newfangled new Moxen.
Miss Mox: Yes, well, colored mana is very important, and you only tap for {2} the turn after you're cast. I'm afraid the Moxen have very, very high standards. The best I can do is offer you status in the Slightly Less Powerful Than the Moxen Club. Slightly less prestigious, sure, but it still sets you above almost every other card ever printed.
Sol Ring: Oh, well when you put it like that... I'll take it!
Hence, the day i stopped using Sol Ring :/
Personally, I don't even like to use Sol Ring in my decks because I often play against extremely sweep-heavy decks .
That is all.
Turn II: Mountain , Kozilek's Predator
Turn III: Forest, Blood Birthing , Cryptic Gateway
Turn IV: Mountain , Tap 2 Eldrazi Spawn. Guess what this means if you have both Emrakul and Kozilek in your hand? Enjoy.
Even green doesn't get acceleration this good.
@Jimmynoobplayer
If you care about your rating being high or low, advertise that you rated it a 5/5. Maybe say something like,
So OverPowered!
5/5
turn 2: Tinker, bring out Blightsteel Colossus.
wutnao?
i personally throw a playset into my affinity/metalcraft artifacts deck. makes a turn 2 win very easy.
Also. 5/5.
There is nothing more brutal then seeing an opponent in chaos or in a dual lay down turn 1 sol ring + signet/talisman. They have literally timed walked you 3 times. Your only hope is that they are unable to refill their hand.
Turn 2: Tinker, sol ring into Blightsteel.
Hue.
...
...
Oh, yeah, and add {2} to your mana pool.
Turn 1: Island, Sol Ring
Turn 2: Plains, Sculpting Steel (Copying Sol Ring)
Turn 3: Darksteel Citadel, Karn Liberated
I felt a little dirty after that play. EDH is supposed to be casual!
Amazing card. Easy 5/5.
If I felt it was casual worthy I'd be running 4 in virtually every deck. Wanting to run 4 in every deck should be an indication that it's not really casual. :-P
Players who get a turn 1 sol ring are VERY far ahead of players who don't. There are very few decks that do not get greatly accelerated with a turn 1 sol ring (like, animar and that's basically it).
Oops - I forgot the other zero.
*100/5 :)
I don't see anything boring or uninteresting about this card.
As a Planeswalker, why the hell wouldn't I have such a practical item in my possession?...Exactly!
Sol Ring has more flavor than a lot of people choose to recognize.
Of course it would help slow decks keep up with fast decks - by making them faster. What a load of crap. Fast mana is dumb because then small cards lose their place within the game. The way players get mana in this game is crucial to how it is balanced and how games should play out. There's a reason they don't allow cards like this into standard, modern, or even legacy.