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Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree

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Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree

Comments (7)

Shadoflaam
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (4 votes)
first
JFM2796
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (2 votes)
last
BegleOne
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If you're the last, what am I?


I'd rather if these cards came into play tapped but made colored mana...
TheHoovedOne.
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Now I'm Last
P.s love the Art, Love the flavour text, love the ability But I agree would rather it taped for coloured but entered taped.
DarthParallax
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0) (5 votes)
This card and Necropotence are probably the two that I would pick to set aside, not actually teach a beginner with, but AFTER they've made a simple 2-color Timmy Beats Deck using any Tribe, AND after I've shown them a relatively ***ed Mono-Red deck, a Zoo Deck (the tournament version of what they tried to build), and a Blue-Black control deck....

THEN- I start attempting to explain why Necropotence is good and how good it is- That it is good takes only using 4x Sign in Bloods in the U/B teaching deck, but HOW good will take a bit longer...:P

THEN- After they are competetent enough at mana curves to build non-shabby theoretical decks with any spoiler, I throw this wierd-@$$ curve ball at em.

It asks you to pay 4 mana, and tap a land...essentially pay 5 mana to get a 1/1 token. HOW can that possibly be good?!?! I remember my brother played a Selesnya Starter deck to my Rakdos one right around when we were starting out the first time- I can't remember if Ravnica or Time Spiral was new at the time, I do remember I had a sweet Sek-Kuar Coldsnap deck. And I thought this land was complete trash.

Years later, I'm reading up on the Ghazi-Glare deck that could fight Affinity and win. I still can't warp my brain around that, but it works. Glare of Subdual is another wierd one. You will stop being a beginner when you understand any two of these cards, and how they are all from the same game and yet all good:

Necropotence, Vitu-Ghazi, and Ironclaw Orcs
BongRipper420
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Based on it's flavor and name, I'd say these probably could have been legendary.
car2n
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The only reason I would think these lands were not legendary is as one card equals one portion of the true size of the city.