The combo: throw all of those cards away, and play a deck that might win a game, ever.
Kurraga
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
I can't wait until the Green/white one of these comes out so I can play Temple of Garden.
MasterOfWaves
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Seriously? Rated less than Rage of Purphoros? This will see play in standard.
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(6 votes)
Yes, they will see play in Standard, but we're not going to like it!!
On the other hand, the NEXT standard might be even more mono-colored, so I'm sure these will fetch a decent price one day.
Taudisban
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(7 votes)
Bad standard land is bad.
chainsmoker
★☆☆☆☆ (1.6/5.0)(4 votes)
everybody was like, "hey this is rare?"
Doaj
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This is pretty good considering it's scry in RG. But, RG wants to be on curve every turn, and this just isn't up to snuff. 3/5 for casual and EDH considerations, and for being unique.
Flyheight
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I don' t care what anybody else says, I think this card (and every other one in it's cycle) is fantastic.
RAV0004
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Loving the land art, hating the rarity. Duals NEED to be uncommon to get into the hands of newer players.
Maro's answer for rare lands is ***. It's not about replacing a common or uncommon slot and taking power from limited, it's about taking away relevant creature, perhaps the only relevant creature you could draw. Every rare Creature is loads and away better than an uncommon one, regardless the color.
pedrodyl
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Presaling for 6 dollars since because dual land. :/ It's not even that good...
MrSunso
★★☆☆☆ (2.4/5.0)(7 votes)
I don't understand why these are rares. These should be uncommons. They're literally guild gates that let you Scry 1. They aren't like the shocklands where you could get the mana you wanted when you wanted it for a price.
Worst part? NOTHING in Theros interacts with these like several cards in the Return to Ravnica block interacted with the gates. They don't have an actual land type like the shocklands or gates had, so unless wizards makes cards that actually references the temple's names, these won't be even helping you in the limited environment with commons or uncommons you'll get.
I'm sorry, but these cards are such a bad excuse for rares. These are "feel bad" rares in a sealed pool.
A3Kitsune
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@MrSunso: Not quite true. There is one card in Theros that has "whenever you scry", so that interacts with this. And it's quite likely that the next two sets of the block will have more "whenever you scry" cards.
gaulderdash
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I wish the land had an untap clause... I dunno, maybe it could have entered the battlefield untapped if you scryed that turn, or something. R/G aggro honestly can't afford to miss a turn, and is scry 1 worth paying an extra five dollars for a guildgate?
BloodCrank
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(4 votes)
This thing needs to kill a guy, gain you two life and make a 5/5 dude before it becomes rare.
Try4se
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
These are the single most powerful cards in theros, you are complaining about them being rare?
DarthParallax
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Xenagos, God of Abandon. This is the exact name I predict for the Red-Green God. :)
SpaceMagic
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I for one love sitting in blood-stained chairs.
MisterAction
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I'm disappointed with the art. Abandon is defined as "a complete lack of inhibition or restraint," and Satyr Hedonist suggests that the RG presence on Theros is up to some insane stuff. This, on the other hand, is a picture of a large crowd of people milling about, with one man touching a woman's shoulder.
But then again, maybe Wizards decided it was a bad move to print a card depicting a pie-f*cking contest.
Cabbieboy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Artwise, this has to be one of the least attractive lands I've ever seen. It seriously looks like an Agrycula card.
Syrtees
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
*Don't mind me*
Arachibutyrophobia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
people hated on these so much. then they turned out to be standard staples. we're so spoiled.
Phelplan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Kinda wish all these would have been better without being strictly better than the guildgates: ie. Temple of Abandon Temple of Abandon comes into play tapped and you may only cast one spell this turn. When Temple of Abandon enters the battlefield, you may tap creatures to Scry X+2. : Add or to your mana pool.
Bigger scrying means much bigger advantage, but at a cost. The flavor is that You (the most powerful one of your group and the 2 part of the Scrying) get extra divinations when you make your followers pray with you at the various temples. You also only have time to cast a single spell because you are spending time at church. (Usually not a drawback.)
This would also make this worthy of rare because digging deep in a deck is a big deal.
Bladrud
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This card has so much flavour, it's a little crazy. You see, before Xenagos became a god, the pantheon of the gods only had 14 gods. There was no Red/Green god. Looking at the name and art of this card, it suggests that long ago, there was such a god but it was long forgotten and it faded away. So, at least the way I see it, the gods in Theros can't be killed (Indestructible), but they can be forgotten (Exile). Maybe the RG god was simply forgotten by the people of Theros, and that's why this card's art barely shows a temple at all, and the people around it don't seem to care about it.
Also, the throne in the art is shown in the Born of the Gods trailer, when Xenagos is ascending.
bobw123
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I opened this card up in a booster, when I took a closer look I realized those are Satyrs. So I guess one of them just found some abandoned temple ruins and decided "lets party!" and so here they are fooling around. Though I do agree with Balrund's theory that there may have been another god of revels that faded away
MojoVince
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Agree with the guy who said dual land must be uncommon in order to have plenty of them for new players.
deworde2510
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The comments are a prime example of how expectations get influenced by multicolour blocks. Ravnica needed more common multi-colour, so we got the gates. Theros doesn't, so lands revert to rare.
RAAAAGE.
steinburger1109
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So those monsters decks that did really well earlier and are coming back in Jund flavor? Yea, those Gruul colored ones of old ran 4 of these. The Jund ones also run scry lands. Scry helps improve your draw. Dual means you can play your shit instead of being colorscrewed. Just because R/G is aggressive doesn't mean a R/G dual land isn't good. Stomping Grounds comes in tapped a solid amount of the time because the two life isn't worth the tempo sometimes.
syrazemyla
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@MisterAction: It's a double meaning. Before Xenagos's ascension, the temple was abandoned. Now, it's full of people, acting with abandon.
You know, if there didn't used to be a RG god, WHY WAS THERE A TEMPLE TO A RG GOD!?
Seriously, this bit of flavor has been irritating me CONSTANTLY ever sense Xenagos ascended. He just fits too well into the cycle. He doesn't feel like he doesn't belong in the pantheon. If anything, he was the missing link, and that just feels lazy. There were two simple solutions to this:
1. Have two RG gods to hammer home the point that Xenagos isn't supposed to be there.
2. Have Xenagos have committed deicide. This would've not only made Xenagos more threatening, but would've done damage that couldn't simply be undone, which in turn would change Theros forever no matter what Elspeth could do, which would make her trials even more sympathetic as she tries in vain to fix something that cannot be fixed, and eventually be forced to decide between killing Xenagos and leave the pantheon fractured, or leave him to maintain the stability of the plane.
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The combo: throw all of those cards away, and play a deck that might win a game, ever.
On the other hand, the NEXT standard might be even more mono-colored, so I'm sure these will fetch a decent price one day.
Maro's answer for rare lands is ***. It's not about replacing a common or uncommon slot and taking power from limited, it's about taking away relevant creature, perhaps the only relevant creature you could draw. Every rare Creature is loads and away better than an uncommon one, regardless the color.
Worst part? NOTHING in Theros interacts with these like several cards in the Return to Ravnica block interacted with the gates. They don't have an actual land type like the shocklands or gates had, so unless wizards makes cards that actually references the temple's names, these won't be even helping you in the limited environment with commons or uncommons you'll get.
I'm sorry, but these cards are such a bad excuse for rares. These are "feel bad" rares in a sealed pool.
But then again, maybe Wizards decided it was a bad move to print a card depicting a pie-f*cking contest.
ie.
Temple of Abandon
Temple of Abandon comes into play tapped and you may only cast one spell this turn.
When Temple of Abandon enters the battlefield, you may tap
Bigger scrying means much bigger advantage, but at a cost. The flavor is that You (the most powerful one of your group and the 2 part of the Scrying) get extra divinations when you make your followers pray with you at the various temples. You also only have time to cast a single spell because you are spending time at church. (Usually not a drawback.)
This would also make this worthy of rare because digging deep in a deck is a big deal.
Also, the throne in the art is shown in the Born of the Gods trailer, when Xenagos is ascending.
RAAAAGE.
temple of malady B/G
temple of mystery U/G
temple of deceit B/U
temple of plenty W/G
temple of triumph W/R
temple of malice R/B
temple of enlightenment W/U
temple of epiphany R/U
temple of silence W/B
temple of abandon R/G
Seriously, this bit of flavor has been irritating me CONSTANTLY ever sense Xenagos ascended. He just fits too well into the cycle. He doesn't feel like he doesn't belong in the pantheon. If anything, he was the missing link, and that just feels lazy. There were two simple solutions to this:
1. Have two RG gods to hammer home the point that Xenagos isn't supposed to be there.
2. Have Xenagos have committed deicide. This would've not only made Xenagos more threatening, but would've done damage that couldn't simply be undone, which in turn would change Theros forever no matter what Elspeth could do, which would make her trials even more sympathetic as she tries in vain to fix something that cannot be fixed, and eventually be forced to decide between killing Xenagos and leave the pantheon fractured, or leave him to maintain the stability of the plane.