They changed, pretty significantly, how the card works with the oracle text.
Original: "Put a green creature into play from your library. Then sacrifice a creature." Oracle: "Sacrifice a creature as an additional cost to play this. Put a green creature into play from your library."
Now, you can only cast it if you have a green creature to sacrifice upfront. Why would they do that?
Gezus82
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(4 votes)
um... the change doesn't matter. your playing green, you obviously have creatures. sac a 1 manna vanilla for a progenitus. i mean really, this is ridiculous. nearly broken, well your nearly right, this is ridiculously broken
Wait. What? Am I reading this card correctly? Sac a 1 drop for any green creature? Playtesting, WotC, perhaps you should look into it.
Sironos
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Broken is such a small word...
Why on earth is this called Natural order? It should be called "extreme polymorph" or something like that.
novasun
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
sacrifice a bird of paradise for novablast wurm or prognitus VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY BROKEN!!!!!!!
justicarphaeton
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Crazy ridiculous. As others have mentioned, Progenitus is prolly the best option. With mana acceleration, you'd have ample bodies for the sac cost, and you could hit it as early as turn 3, or even turn 2 if you used cheaty-acceleration like Moxen or Elvish Spirit Guide / Simian Spirit Guide
ZirilanoftheClaw
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
T llanowar elves and 3 land sac elves PROTEGINUS!
chinkeeyong
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(4 votes)
...remind me why this is 4-of legal in Legacy again?
@ Elysiume,
Portal came out in June of 1997. This card was first printed in Visions which came out in January of 1997. The Visions version makes you sacrifice a creature as part of the cost so I guess they chose to go with the original. Also, if you sacrificed a creature after searching for it, this card would be strictly better than it is right now and it doesn't need to be. You could basically use it like Flash (banned in legacy for good reason) and then auto-win with any of the Protean Hulk combos (search for Heart Sliver and 3x Virulent Sliver). Granted Natural Order has converted mana cost of 4 rather than Flash's cmc of two, but you wouldn't even need the Hulk in your hand and would probably wouldn't need more than one in your deck.
Apparently, in the natural order of things, Progenitus comes first!
Dear Wizards,
Reprint this please!
Thank you, signed, People who admittedly also sort of think you should reprint Force of Will
P.S. It's funny to read people hazarding the guess "Progenitus might be the best option" when NO-for-Progenitus is currently filling up the half of the Legacy metagame not dominated by Stoneforge Mystic. The guess is a safe one my friends! :)
P.P.S. Oh, and: Wizards: you reprinted Progenitus! Thank you dearly! Now let's have some reprint love for the combo's other half!
(From the Vault: Portals with a new-art foil Natural Order and 14 random pieces of junk from Portal would still sell for the same price as Relics did. Promise.)
This card should never have been made in my opinion. Or progenitus. Or both. But yeah, this guy is pretty broken and I see so many folks use that combo for cheesy win after cheesy win. Ah well, such is life.
CrazyLou
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I got started with Magic because I found my dad's old case of Portal cards. At the time I thought they were all awesome. Today though, I'm lamenting my dad's luck with boosters. I can't count all the Bog Imps, Scorching Spears, and other mediocre-at-best cards, but they put gold like this into the set? I think the best thing he had was Wrath of God.
ConManXVII
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why has nobody mentioned the card that first truly made this card broken: Verdant Force. Easy turn three 7/7 creature that drops a 1/1 during EACH player's upkeep!
hedronMatrix
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Everyone says Progenitus, but I say Worldspine Wurm. My favorite thing to do is to play B/G EDH with Jarad, out and Natural order a token into Worldspine Wurm while having Mikaeus, The Unhallowed out, and Sacrifice him with Jarad, everyone but me loses 16 life, and I get a 17/17 and 3 6/6's. Then if I have any mana left...which I usually do since I am running green land ramp, I do it one more time and maybe if someone is still surviving by a little bit, kill some tokens....fast, easy, clean kill
Quadrisphere
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Green Tinker. I never understood why this card is not very famous wheras that is banned in legacy and all. For a cmc of just 1 more, you can have a much more effective tutoring effect depending on the deck you are playing it in, and the stuff you can search out are basically just as good.
I also don't understand why this card has such a big power level errata while stuff like Time Vault are left alone. If you play this card as printed, you can use it to essentially flash a card from deck and sacrifice it right away. Also it would be able to play Iname as One and search for another (because it says play it "as if you just played it from your hand.")
Continue
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Turn 1: Forest, Green Sun's Zenith into Dryad Arbor. Turn 2: Land; if you missed the GSZ, you can play a mana dork or something. Turn 3: Land, Natural Order the Dryad Arbor (or mana dork) into Progenitus or Worldspine Wurm
If your opponent isn't dead by turn 5, something's wrong.
Aquillion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Pity they errataed it. With the printed wording, you could sacrifice the creature you searched for, letting you use it to drop a Worldspine Worm even if you had nothing in play.
Jdrawer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Someone used a proxy of this to pull a proxy Progenitus. Good combo, but I was still bitter about the whole proxy deal...
Nate_Prawdzik
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Terastodon leaving them with zero lands generally wins the game.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
THAT DRAWBACK IS SO BAD!!
Omg, I mean who wants to sacrifice their llanowar elf?? Sacrificing is so bad. Yeah yeah I get my best creature out, but come on!! My llanowar elf!??!?! No way, you would have to cost to get me to do that.
Comments (34)
Original: "Put a green creature into play from your library. Then sacrifice a creature."
Oracle: "Sacrifice a creature as an additional cost to play this. Put a green creature into play from your library."
Now, you can only cast it if you have a green creature to sacrifice upfront. Why would they do that?
5/5
P.S. Clever kids will note that a simple zap of Sleight of Mind will enable to you to get ANY color out on the table... Wheeeee.
Why on earth is this called Natural order? It should be called "extreme polymorph" or something like that.
sac elves
PROTEGINUS!
OR A NOVABLAST WURM!!!!!!!!!!
DON'T FORGET THE WORLDWAKE POWER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Portal came out in June of 1997. This card was first printed in Visions which came out in January of 1997. The Visions version makes you sacrifice a creature as part of the cost so I guess they chose to go with the original. Also, if you sacrificed a creature after searching for it, this card would be strictly better than it is right now and it doesn't need to be. You could basically use it like Flash (banned in legacy for good reason) and then auto-win with any of the Protean Hulk combos (search for Heart Sliver and 3x Virulent Sliver). Granted Natural Order has converted mana cost of 4 rather than Flash's cmc of two, but you wouldn't even need the Hulk in your hand and would probably wouldn't need more than one in your deck.
Dear Wizards,
Reprint this please!
Thank you, signed,
People who admittedly also sort of think you should reprint Force of Will
P.S. It's funny to read people hazarding the guess "Progenitus might be the best option" when NO-for-Progenitus is currently filling up the half of the Legacy metagame not dominated by Stoneforge Mystic. The guess is a safe one my friends! :)
P.P.S. Oh, and: Wizards: you reprinted Progenitus! Thank you dearly! Now let's have some reprint love for the combo's other half!
(From the Vault: Portals with a new-art foil Natural Order and 14 random pieces of junk from Portal would still sell for the same price as Relics did. Promise.)
"Yes sir ?"
I also don't understand why this card has such a big power level errata while stuff like Time Vault are left alone. If you play this card as printed, you can use it to essentially flash a card from deck and sacrifice it right away. Also it would be able to play Iname as One and search for another (because it says play it "as if you just played it from your hand.")
Turn 2: Land; if you missed the GSZ, you can play a mana dork or something.
Turn 3: Land, Natural Order the Dryad Arbor (or mana dork) into Progenitus or Worldspine Wurm
If your opponent isn't dead by turn 5, something's wrong.
Omg, I mean who wants to sacrifice their llanowar elf?? Sacrificing is so bad. Yeah yeah I get my best creature out, but come on!! My llanowar elf!??!?! No way, you would have to cost