That awkward moment when the most anticipated card by competitive players from a new set is just a retooled City of Brass.
hot4boys
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.9/5.0)(14 votes)
as a member of the le reddit army i feel like this card is for filthy net decker plebs and has 0 casual apeal. btw wizards when are we getting fetchland reprints?! i cant save 200 dollars of mommys money i need cheap fetchlands!
RapSnitchKnishes
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This is currently the highest rated card on Gatherer. Hm.
at0micpickle
★☆☆☆☆ (1.3/5.0)(16 votes)
really community, REALLY? couldn't you up vote something other than a slightly edited city of brass? i really think this set has much more to offer, between godsend and athreos, people only want an essential reprint of a land? we already have shock lands in standard...
car2n
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(5 votes)
Hey, that's some gorgeous art! I bet that'll look downright purty on a foil.
Continue
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(14 votes)
Easily the best card printed since Griselbrand... and it's just a fixed City of Brass. Go figure!
@at0micpickle: Do people play the shocklands in Legacy and Vintage? No. But they sure do play City of Brass.
TheWallinator74
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(9 votes)
This card gets a resounding "Meh" from me.
DaLucaray
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(7 votes)
@Continue
In Vintage you're playing a four color deck that plans on winning in less turns than you have fingers on one hand.
In the current standard, games are slower, and mana bases are much less wild. If I'm playing WU control, I know a Hallowed Fountain is going to, in an average game, hurt me less than this and be just as useful. In a tricolor you can utilize three shocklands, and use of this card is really up to how aggro you're going.
Nonetheless, there are a few archetypes that need this bad: two color aggro decks. See, shocklands were the only dual color lands in standard that can enter the battlefield untapped. Aggro decks need their mana as fast as possible, before the other guy can stabilize. Confluence is untapped, and will only deal marginally more damage than a shockland in all goes as planned. In a tricolor deck though, you can utilize three shocklands.
So all in all, a card is only as good as it's environment say it is.
BorosGreengrocer
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(7 votes)
The five rivers refer to the five rivers of Hades in Greek mythology.
Acheron - the river to get into the underworld - White Lethe - the river of forgetting - Blue Styx - the forsaken marsh - Black Phlegethon - the river of fire - Red Cocytus - the river of sorrow - Green
casualhorror
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(5 votes)
Basically why people care is suddenly we might have a metagame with multicolor aggro again. By which I mean a two whole colors instead of a splash in a one color devotion deck. No other decks want it, but that doesn't change that it is the most likely card to change the metagame.
RedJaron
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(7 votes)
Why the "meh" response? It's a City of Brass that your opponent can't use to hurt you. Why is this a bad thing?
At first glance it looks strictly better than City of Brass. While this card may be a better overall choice, remember that you can't pay life you don't have and that life loss can't be prevented like damage can. Overall a great land and a much-needed upgrade to an old favorite.
MechaKraken
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Paying 1 life to tap this is irrelevant, when you have a deck that you know can win on turn 3-4 when it does it's thing. Being stuck with lands that can't pay for the cards in your hand is one of the worst things in the game. This land is insurance that you will always have the mana you need to get rolling, and believe me, in vintage/legacy, speed is everything.
I believe pretty much any of those formats, with decks that run 4 copies of City of Brass, they will run 4 copies of this too. Perhaps 4x Reflecting Pool also, to take advantage of lands that can produce any color, like this one.
It's a City of Brass card, which create more colour variations viable - easy the best land in standard set like Muta Vault, but with other uses. It'll be an expensive card, because control decks needs it.
onixsun
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Hi there evryone! I have this huge doubt about this card, could be something realy huge... So as i read the card: you turn, and then you can pay as many life points you want! Am i right?! This is something that would make this card not just something like a city of brass....
Gcrudaplaneswalker
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Really depends of your deck I guess... Aggressive decks can afford the life loss early on for fast, cheap spells, and control decks can afford this late game with all the life gain. Some 2 color decks can afford to go without this if they have good mana fixing, because the life does add up, after all. It really depends on your deck. Nonetheless, there is no way I can possibly give this anything less than a 5.
Pakku
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
People are missing a point, City of Brass will deal 1 damage to you whenever it is tapped. With cards like Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth you can make this one into another source of mana without it dealing you any damage.
Seriously though, I can't imagine how big a deal this is going to be for Standard. Depending on what comes out in the next set, this may have to be the universal fast-land for multi-color. It's already fantastic in my mind for any 3+ color deck.
Sarach
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The moment I saw this, I knew I had to get a foil version of it. The art is amazing.
CptStormCrow
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Great for legacy, meh for standard. Now you can run 8 City of Brass!
NinStarRune
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
x8 City of Brass
Mother of god.
gunkookshlinger
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Best card in standard besides Mutavault. It might make slivers playable... If that would ever happen without Crystalline Sliver.
Gallega123
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
People say strictly better than City of Brass. But can the City be stopped by Angel of Jubilation? No. No it's not. But seriously, this card is funderful.
seaniferr
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is exactly what aggro needs. If Gruul aggro returns i wouldn't be surprised.
DoorDie
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Just rolls right off the tongue.
FlashCaster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Extremely cool card.
I am about to buy a foil one here soon for my 140 card singleton 5 color deck, and believe me it won't be cheap.
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@at0micpickle: Do people play the shocklands in Legacy and Vintage? No. But they sure do play City of Brass.
In Vintage you're playing a four color deck that plans on winning in less turns than you have fingers on one hand.
In the current standard, games are slower, and mana bases are much less wild. If I'm playing WU control, I know a Hallowed Fountain is going to, in an average game, hurt me less than this and be just as useful. In a tricolor you can utilize three shocklands, and use of this card is really up to how aggro you're going.
Nonetheless, there are a few archetypes that need this bad: two color aggro decks. See, shocklands were the only dual color lands in standard that can enter the battlefield untapped. Aggro decks need their mana as fast as possible, before the other guy can stabilize. Confluence is untapped, and will only deal marginally more damage than a shockland in all goes as planned. In a tricolor deck though, you can utilize three shocklands.
So all in all, a card is only as good as it's environment say it is.
Acheron - the river to get into the underworld - White
Lethe - the river of forgetting - Blue
Styx - the forsaken marsh - Black
Phlegethon - the river of fire - Red
Cocytus - the river of sorrow - Green
I believe pretty much any of those formats, with decks that run 4 copies of City of Brass, they will run 4 copies of this too. Perhaps 4x Reflecting Pool also, to take advantage of lands that can produce any color, like this one.
set like Muta Vault, but with other uses.
It'll be an expensive card, because control decks needs it.
So as i read the card: you turn, and then you can pay as many life points you want! Am i right?! This is something that would make this card not just something like a city of brass....
Seriously though, I can't imagine how big a deal this is going to be for Standard. Depending on what comes out in the next set, this may have to be the universal fast-land for multi-color. It's already fantastic in my mind for any 3+ color deck.
Mother of god.
I am about to buy a foil one here soon for my 140 card singleton 5 color deck, and believe me it won't be cheap.
An easy 5/5 obviously.