Then, one stormy day, a Zoq, a Fot, and a Pik were walking up a steep path looking for something good to eat, when a bolt of lightning struck nearby. With a huge flash of light, the bolt of energy carved a strangely-shaped chunk of granite out of a cliff.
It was a disk, with a hole in the middle!
As the rock began to roll down the hill, toward the three terrified beings some dry grass got caught in its hole, and since the rock was still hot the grass caught on fire.
When the rock finally got to the Zoq, the Fot, and the Pik they simultaneously discovered the Wheel, Fire, and Religion thus catapulting them on to the road of progress.
Which has led us to this day, Captain. Oh! How did the flaming wheel give religion to our Culture, you ask? I will explain. You see, when it got to the threesome, the flaming wheel was going at a pretty good clip and it ran smack into the Zoq, killing him. The Fot and the Pik felt so bad that they decided the Zoq hadn't really died when the wheel flattened him he had just gone to `a better place.'
Presumably one without lethal flaming wheels.
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★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(5 votes)
...I'm sorry, does that say ? Really?
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(15 votes)
Lightning Bolts for everyone!!
Just !!
Get them while they last!
Anybody?
PS.: And then you find out you've been cheated and it can't even hit a player...
XTwistedsoulX
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(9 votes)
Beware jank uncommons from an ill-tempered booster pack.
Trygon_Predator
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
Compare to Aeolipile, which costs and activates for to hit a creature or a player for 2. This is reverse power creep. But hey, if you desperately need removal in Limited, it's there.
anotherfan321
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Oh man, I was gonna be all even-handed and say, hey, they printed this to show that artifacts can't be as powerful as actual colored spells like red, because blah blah blah, etc.
But it can't even hit players! Give us SOMETHING.
RedArcher
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(6 votes)
I wanted a Seal of Fire in Theros, but all I got was this janky old CD from the clearance bin...
Pendulous
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(5 votes)
Because Flame Slash was 4 mana too cheap.....
chainsmoker
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(3 votes)
oh gods why?
Fenix.
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(5 votes)
I think they are doing the "toning down limited non-rare non-conditional removal down" a little too hard..
OrgasmandTea
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
People keep flaming this card, but speaking as a person who started magic in mono-green, and who constantly complained about the lack of removal, I... wouldn't play this.
If you want an explanation of why it's so much mana, though, it: a) ignores all kinds of colour protection (only protection from artifacts can save your creatures) b) is an artifact for the purposes of combos. The first ones that spring to mind are Glissa, the Traitor or Trading Post.
Chew on that for a second. You really, REALLY wouldn't want a recurring, colourless creature removal spell that's cheaper than this, would you? No, didn't think so. It's five mana to activate for a reason, people.
LordOfTheFlies87
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Will be grabbed up in limited.
Ferlord
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(2 votes)
The benefit is that it threatens your opponents with a possible kill. If they don't have a way of boosting their valuable 3-toughness or less bomb, they aren't going to play it with this on the field.
However, use deductive thinking: if they DO play something like that (EG: Phalanx Leader), make sure as hell they don't have untapped mana.
That being said, you're not really reducing the cost of this that much if you play it early. The difference between and isn't too far in limited.
Purplerooster
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(2 votes)
If you really, really, REALLY are low on removal.
Nucleon
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
It looks like Nevinyrral's Disk's stunted runt of a brother it keeps in the basement.
Just the thing for my Xena: Warrior Princess theme deck!
Atali
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
{4} to activate would not have broken this, especially at uncommon, neither would 4 damage. In fact 4 damage would put it on par with Flame Javelin in non-red. I kind of see what they're going for, assuming Flame Javelin is the benchmark, reducing the cost by one and the damage by one is reasonable, if underwhelming.
Eternal_Blue
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
This card is awful, just awful. And yet, in the current Limited format, I always try to take these when possible. They aren't an incredibly high pick, but they aren't the dregs either, that some might think they would be. You cast this on turn one when you have nothing else to play, and you let it sit there as a cautionary reminder to your opponent that at any moment you could activate it and destroy their creature. In a way it plays like a really expensive Seal of Fire--which is alright, since colorless damage ought to come at a cost.
mpitcock
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
For those of you who don't know the flavor behind this card, here it is. King Ixion, of the Lapiths, was invited to dinner by Zeus. Ixion saw Hera and fell in love with her. Zeus made a cloud shaped like Hera to test Ixion. He mad love with "Hera" and was struck by Zeus's thunderbolt and strapped to a burning wheel, shown on this piece of junk. It spun until Orpheus played his music in an attempt to rescue his wife.
S733L
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Im so mad this is taking an uncommon spot. It is so similar to spellbombs, however it is SO much worse. and Uncommon.
Theneonwind
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why do they even waste time printing cards this horrible?
Tiggurix
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Well, at least it can help Affinity and Metalcraft for the low price of , and in case you need to, it can burn a creature, so it's not totally useless...
"Nevinyrral, my disk is defective! I want my money back!"
HotHit
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Here's something to think about. I recently read Aron Forscythe's comment on Thunder Totem. In it, he mentions Aeolipile and the huge mistake that is the reserve list. I feel like Flamecast Wheel can't hit players or be cheap-ish burn for all colours, that'd be too close to Aeolipile wouldn't it?
Well, that's not exactly true, the reserve list prevents them from putting a reprint or functional reprint in a set. So... I don't see why they couldn't give us a proper searing spear artifact for a couple of mana cheaper. But then... Well... It's Theros. I'm not sure removal is allowed.
Salient
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One wheel to burn them all, one wheel to revolt them, one wheel to spurn them all and in the darkness... bolt them.
Arcas83
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Chakram from Xena: Warrior Princess !!
HuntingDrake
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Three pages of comments, and NO ONE has mentioned Brittle Effigy??
Technetium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
LOL, this is terrible... not quite Wood Elemental or Sorrow's Path terrible, but probably bottom 10.
Silence9
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
.5/5 Doesn't even make a good coaster.
Travelsonic
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Wow, the **idea** behind this is good, love the cost to cast it, just , but then having to pay to and use its ability? No thanks.
The problem is that the ability, for what it is, is overcosted. The cost to put the artifact into play is great, the sacrificing is ok (maybe I'd be fine with paying if it didn't require sacrificing the artifact), even dealing 3 to a creature - no choice between creature or player is not the end of the world, it's that cost of to use the ability that drives me nuts.
tcollins
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If this had instead cost {3}, {T} to activate it would've been okay because it would give colours like {U} and {G} access to direct damage. As is, it's unplayable... the fact that it can't even win you the game (because it only targets creatures) just adds insult to injury.
troll_berserker
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Pretty much strictly worse than Brittle Effigy in effect and in activation cost. If this could also burn players, that would have been at least one redeeming trait, but they couldn't even do that. 1/5, bad limited fodder.
Aquillion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
What the flavor text is saying is that if you annoy a forge god, they're going to make you artifacts that suck, like this one.
PopcornBunni
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I get the cost division here to be able to put it out cheaply and activate it later on, but I'm not sure if it was divided as well as it could be, a 2-cost 4-activation would let it do its job a little better, saving a turn while forgoing your 2-drop creature. A calculated risk.
2.5/5 for it giving it an earnest try.
@troll_berserker Yeah why can't uncommons be as strong as rares? It's almost like wizards doesn't want you having a lot of a powerful effect in limited environments.
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It was a disk, with a hole in the middle!
As the rock began to roll down the hill, toward the three terrified beings some dry grass got caught in its hole, and since the rock was still hot the grass caught on fire.
When the rock finally got to the Zoq, the Fot, and the Pik they simultaneously discovered the Wheel, Fire, and Religion thus catapulting them on to the road of progress.
Which has led us to this day, Captain. Oh! How did the flaming wheel give religion to our Culture, you ask? I will explain. You see, when it got to the threesome, the flaming wheel was going at a pretty good clip and it ran smack into the Zoq, killing him. The Fot and the Pik felt so bad that they decided the Zoq hadn't really died when the wheel flattened him he had just gone to `a better place.'
Presumably one without lethal flaming wheels.
Just
Get them while they last!
Anybody?
PS.: And then you find out you've been cheated and it can't even hit a player...
But it can't even hit players! Give us SOMETHING.
If you want an explanation of why it's so much mana, though, it:
a) ignores all kinds of colour protection (only protection from artifacts can save your creatures)
b) is an artifact for the purposes of combos. The first ones that spring to mind are Glissa, the Traitor or Trading Post.
Chew on that for a second. You really, REALLY wouldn't want a recurring, colourless creature removal spell that's cheaper than this, would you? No, didn't think so. It's five mana to activate for a reason, people.
However, use deductive thinking: if they DO play something like that (EG: Phalanx Leader), make sure as hell they don't have untapped mana.
That being said, you're not really reducing the cost of this that much if you play it early. The difference between
Well, that's not exactly true, the reserve list prevents them from putting a reprint or functional reprint in a set. So... I don't see why they couldn't give us a proper searing spear artifact for a couple of mana cheaper. But then... Well... It's Theros. I'm not sure removal is allowed.
one wheel to revolt them,
one wheel to spurn them all
and in the darkness... bolt them.
The problem is that the ability, for what it is, is overcosted. The cost to put the artifact into play is great, the sacrificing is ok (maybe I'd be fine with paying
2.5/5 for it giving it an earnest try.
@troll_berserker Yeah why can't uncommons be as strong as rares? It's almost like wizards doesn't want you having a lot of a powerful effect in limited environments.