I LOVE the art. Shame the card is so ridiculously narrow. I have had it work, long ago in the distant caverns of history, but that was probably just sheer chance.
energeticpenguin
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(9 votes)
The point of this card is to hose the homelands set. Problem is that most of the set is redicously underpowered. So why hose something that doesn't need to be hosed?
XsaemarX
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(6 votes)
I really don't like the set so anything which hoses it has to be a good thing, right?
AlphaNumerical
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(8 votes)
Why god, why.
This card should simply be banned, as this is unfair and mercilessly brutal in all the wrong ways. Shame that Wizards are probably too prideful to admit that Homelands sucked that bad. And they thought they failed in Odyssey..
Volcre
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(11 votes)
This card is overkill... having to play with Homelands cards is punishment enough...
mrredhatter
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Will my Fifth Edition Serra Paladin get hosed because he has a Homelands counterpart?
Megrimage
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
they have something similer in arabian nights
jbeleren
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(11 votes)
Oh god, imagine this in homelands draft. lol
r-e-meatyard
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(18 votes)
I think everyone is missing the point of this card. You aren't hosing Homelands because it's at all powerful. Isn't it merciful that they included a built-in way to pretend it never happened?
GainsBanding
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(7 votes)
The Arabian Nights version, City in a Bottle, has a ruling that says it only affects cards with the Arabian Nights scimitar on them, so probably this would also only affect cards with the Homelands planet on them. Strange that there's not a similar ruling here, probably it has never come up.
Atmos
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(4 votes)
It destroys the worst set in Magic history, and does absolutely nothing else. Hey, anything that stops people from wanting to play Homelands is a good thing.
FugimSky
★☆☆☆☆ (1.9/5.0)(11 votes)
destroy all lands basically. thats actually not that bad.
ScissorsLizard
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(13 votes)
Actually, I like this card. It's sort of like a two legged cat- interesting to look at, but I wouldn't take it home with me. Unique, but useless.
Also, this has some of my favorite flavor text in all of Magic.
lukemol
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(20 votes)
Card text: "Sacrifice Apocalypse Chime to bury all cards from the Homelands expansion."
They actually made an omission at the end. It was originally supposed to include the following: "in the desert and never look back."
dragonking987
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(3 votes)
well everything from homelands sucks and if someone has a lot of cards from homelands in there deck they stand no chance anyway so I dont really see the point.
Radagast
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(3 votes)
A wonderful card - it helps ease the pain of Homelands.
I just wish the card really worked - that it really wiped out all Homelands cards and replace them with something useful, such as basic lands!
MacBizzle
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(21 votes)
Make a Homelands-only deck with the exception of Barren Glory.
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(27 votes)
I'm still waiting for Homelands Chime, which sacrifices to destroy all cards from the Apocalypse expansion.
Demonic_Math_Tutor
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Its so conditional. WHo plays Homelands in any format?
Fert12334
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Cool idea, but does this include cards that were reprinted from homelands in other sets?
Wanderer25
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(21 votes)
It's the Homelands Spellbomb! Hose that which never needed hosing.
scumbling1
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(7 votes)
But Homeland's best cards were Memory Lapse and Merchant Scroll (ie. not permanents)...
VarteDod
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(15 votes)
You don't need this to beat someone who's playing with Homelands.
Zacklar
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(9 votes)
we need a Mirrodin version of this, seriously
Shadoflaam
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(5 votes)
Give me one, I want to kill Homelands! Best card from Homelands IMHO.
NeoKoda
★★☆☆☆ (2.4/5.0)(5 votes)
Wizards should have used this card before shipping Homelands, so we'd be spared the worst set in the history of the game.
Bulhakas
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(7 votes)
Wizards should have used this card before shipping Homelands, so we'd be spared the worst set in the history of the game.
Don't diss homelands, dude. It has great art and flavour!
GengilOrbios
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(4 votes)
As if ANY homeland card was worth destroying...
marwinshieldscale
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
question, if I made a deck with all homesland cards and barren glory, because no plains were printed in homelands, would they still be destroyed?
UncreativeNameMaker
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(2 votes)
In addition to making the card nearly useless, the Homelands only thing is just a really funky mechanic. Technically because this card exists reprints of Homelands permanents are strictly better than their original versions.
@MacBizzle Homelands doesn't have any basic lands. Of the five lands it does have, the best at producing white mana is Aysen Abbey. So good luck with that.
@dberry02 That's two cards and a total of 8 mana to mimic a Wrath of God. Still doesn't really make this playable.
Half-dead
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(6 votes)
...
I'm fetching my shovel
Mike-C
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
It's ability does us all a favor.. Matter of fact, everyone should just sacrifice all cards from homelands.. Just burn, shoot, stab, fold, crease, frisby toss and rip every last one of em to SHREDS.. Except Baron Sengir, he's a cool guy.
Hackworthy
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(5 votes)
Do us all a favor and combo with R&D's Secret Lair.
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Set-specific cards are so lulzy...
LRats
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
They made this card in case anyone donates you a card from Homelands
TheWrathofShane
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
That does it im going to make a homelands deck and shut you all up!
Lord_Seth_02
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Because Homelands was such an overpowered set it needed a hoser for it.
The funniest thing is that the best card from the set (or rather, the only one that's actually competitive), Merchant Scroll, is unaffected by it.
LordRandomness
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Like with the other two set hosers, Mirrorweave makes this far more amusing.
zombub
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
All I can say is thank god they never printed Homelands basic lands
Arachnos
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Bury all cards from the Homelands expansion. All the cards from around the world. In the same desert where they buried those old Atari E.T. cartridges.
Yes, Homelands is THAT bad.
Cool art, though. And I like the flavor of it.
DeviousPie
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
If you play this card with R&D's Secret Lair, you win a Nobel prize.
Bubmeister
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Always sideboard a playset. Imagine the look on your opponent's face when you use this and they only play homelands basic lands.
Claytoon
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Proof that Wizards knew Homelands was gonna suck even during the R&D phase.
BigBer
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Useless card.
Not because of it's ability: being able to clear the board for 4 is very useful and cheap.
The problem lies in that NOBODY PLAYS HOMELANDS.
flameroran77
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Every deck needs 4 of these. EVERY DECK.
Technetium
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(2 votes)
It'll never see use, but it's still a pretty interesting card. Only card ever made, I believe, that references the name of an expansion set.
NormanG
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
To summarize: 1. Homelands has no basic lands 2. It is unclear if it works with Mirrorweave (but I guess it does work) - since the older versions of such cards have been ruled 3. Barren Glory is one of the coolest ways to win, though extremely difficult due to missing basic lands and a missing 'Homelands'-way to sac other basic lands. I'm thinking of some 'sweep'-action plus a 'discard-all' spell... 4. I wonder why nobody mentioned changing around creatures/permanents as with "Puca's Mischief" or "Cultural Exchange" yet - or, if you like that sort of card, Thieve's Auction, Scrambleverse or such (which is extremely un-powerful of course).
So, if anyone could check the Mirrorweave-question thoroughly (and not just guess!), that would probably solve almost everything in question.
blurrymadness
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I thought this was an unhinged card for a second. What the heck!?
Glycan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I played a homeland draft once, 8-card rarity-less packs and all. Now that I know this exists, I seriously regret that I didn't get it.
Zetan
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
The comp rules update for M14 changes how this works. Now it will destroy every card whose first printing was in Homelands:
109.3
Expansion symbols are no longer a characteristic. Magic cards are recognized as individual game pieces by their English card names. One of the central tenets of that system is that all cards with the same name are considered the same for deck building and play purposes. This system lets us reprint cards, print promo cards, and have cards appear in many languages. But three older cards referred to cards from a specific expansion, and that runs contrary to the system. The Arabian Nights Bird Maiden and the Fourth Edition version should be the same, but City in a Bottle says they're not. In fact, it makes the original version worse!
So, cards will no longer refer to expansion symbol as a characteristic. The three cards that used to do this (City in a Bottle, Golgothian Sylex, and Apocalypse Chime) will receive errata in a future update to refer to cards "originally printed" in the Arabian Nights, Antiquities, and Homelands sets, respectively). This means that City in a Bottle no longer affects any cards named Mountain. It also means that those three cards can affect cards that were in the appropriate set and then reprinted. City in a Bottle will affect the aforementioned Fourth Edition Bird Maiden.
References to expansion symbol being a characteristic were removed in several other rules as well.
Jamesy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
With the new oracle text, this powerhouse is going to completely shut down minotaur tribal in eternal formats.
for all who say this is useless, use it with R and D's secret lair... we can get rid of homelands!
Salient
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If there's ever a set whose cards deserve to be buried, it's Homelands.
Aquillion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Finally, a card that can stop the outrageously overpowered shenanigans of Homelands cards. All those Aysen Highway decks better watch out.
Kyric1899
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
THE STRONGEST CARD IN ALL OF MAGIC: THE GATHERING!
themicronaut
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Best card in the Homelands expansion. Why? Because it wants to kill the worst set ever printed. Thanks for almost ruining Magic, Homelands.
SeriouslyFacetious
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's weird that they decided to print another set hoser three full sets after the last one.
The Golgothian Sylex and its activation was treated in-universe as the mother of all nukes! The destruction it caused brought about the Dominarian Ice Age and also caused all those Fallen Empires! See the flavour text from Pentagram of the Ages and Skull Catapult to get an idea of how much story impact the Antiquities set hoser carried.
Now apparently the Apocalypse Chime was used before the events of Homelands and did bring about the destruction, of, well, everything. Which indirectly caused the events of Kamigawa block. But this was done by a (real) Planeswalker named Ravi... how Granny Sengir ended up with the thing again is anyone's guess...
So ol' Chimey here really did carry some weight, I just wish the cards gave some indication!
EDIT: I just read over in the comments for Grandmother Sengir that she is the Planeswalker Ravi... interesting. If true, boy did she eat the nerf bat!
TheWallinator74
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Would it be too much to ask for a reprint of this in FTV: Annihilation?
Comments (59)
This card should simply be banned, as this is unfair and mercilessly brutal in all the wrong ways. Shame that Wizards are probably too prideful to admit that Homelands sucked that bad. And they thought they failed in Odyssey..
Hey, anything that stops people from wanting to play Homelands is a good thing.
It's sort of like a two legged cat- interesting to look at, but I wouldn't take it home with me. Unique, but useless.
Also, this has some of my favorite flavor text in all of Magic.
They actually made an omission at the end. It was originally supposed to include the following: "in the desert and never look back."
I just wish the card really worked - that it really wiped out all Homelands cards and replace them with something useful, such as basic lands!
Don't diss homelands, dude. It has great art and flavour!
@MacBizzle
Homelands doesn't have any basic lands. Of the five lands it does have, the best at producing white mana is Aysen Abbey. So good luck with that.
@dberry02
That's two cards and a total of 8 mana to mimic a Wrath of God. Still doesn't really make this playable.
I'm fetching my shovel
The funniest thing is that the best card from the set (or rather, the only one that's actually competitive), Merchant Scroll, is unaffected by it.
Yes, Homelands is THAT bad.
Cool art, though. And I like the flavor of it.
Not because of it's ability: being able to clear the board for 4 is very useful and cheap.
The problem lies in that NOBODY PLAYS HOMELANDS.
1. Homelands has no basic lands
2. It is unclear if it works with Mirrorweave (but I guess it does work) - since the older versions of such cards have been ruled
3. Barren Glory is one of the coolest ways to win, though extremely difficult due to missing basic lands and a missing 'Homelands'-way to sac other basic lands. I'm thinking of some 'sweep'-action plus a 'discard-all' spell...
4. I wonder why nobody mentioned changing around creatures/permanents as with "Puca's Mischief" or "Cultural Exchange" yet - or, if you like that sort of card, Thieve's Auction, Scrambleverse or such (which is extremely un-powerful of course).
So, if anyone could check the Mirrorweave-question thoroughly (and not just guess!), that would probably solve almost everything in question.
109.3
Expansion symbols are no longer a characteristic. Magic cards are recognized as individual game pieces by their English card names. One of the central tenets of that system is that all cards with the same name are considered the same for deck building and play purposes. This system lets us reprint cards, print promo cards, and have cards appear in many languages. But three older cards referred to cards from a specific expansion, and that runs contrary to the system. The Arabian Nights Bird Maiden and the Fourth Edition version should be the same, but City in a Bottle says they're not. In fact, it makes the original version worse!
So, cards will no longer refer to expansion symbol as a characteristic. The three cards that used to do this (City in a Bottle, Golgothian Sylex, and Apocalypse Chime) will receive errata in a future update to refer to cards "originally printed" in the Arabian Nights, Antiquities, and Homelands sets, respectively). This means that City in a Bottle no longer affects any cards named Mountain. It also means that those three cards can affect cards that were in the appropriate set and then reprinted. City in a Bottle will affect the aforementioned Fourth Edition Bird Maiden.
References to expansion symbol being a characteristic were removed in several other rules as well.
The Golgothian Sylex and its activation was treated in-universe as the mother of all nukes! The destruction it caused brought about the Dominarian Ice Age and also caused all those Fallen Empires! See the flavour text from Pentagram of the Ages and Skull Catapult to get an idea of how much story impact the Antiquities set hoser carried.
Now apparently the Apocalypse Chime was used before the events of Homelands and did bring about the destruction, of, well, everything. Which indirectly caused the events of Kamigawa block. But this was done by a (real) Planeswalker named Ravi... how Granny Sengir ended up with the thing again is anyone's guess...
So ol' Chimey here really did carry some weight, I just wish the cards gave some indication!
EDIT: I just read over in the comments for Grandmother Sengir that she is the Planeswalker Ravi... interesting. If true, boy did she eat the nerf bat!