As a way of getting arround counterspells, dealing with an empty hand, or sinking large amounts of mana in the days of mana burn, this is a fairly good creature. Most other man-lands are better, but in formats where they are not available, this is reasonable.
Treima
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The art looks ridiculous, but the card is...eh...alright.
UNBAN_SHAHRAZAD
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Not terrible but one of the reasons you want animateable lands is to get around Wrath effects. This just walks right into them.
nibelheim_valesti
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Hell, if your monocolor deck has no problems with colored mana... why not?
Kind of the same point as for Blasted Landscape. Although you should probably play that first.
Faidite
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I run one of these in an artifact with black splash deck. It rarely gets used as a creature, but it doesn't really have any drawbacks as a land.
djflo
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This was used in counter heavy control decks as a finisher. It gave mana, it activated on your opponent's turn so you never had to be short of mana, and at the time a lot of removal didn't effect it. Lightning Bolt hadn't been reprinted for ages and terror didn't hit artifacts.
Made for incredibly boring games, from what I hear.
land_comment
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Dread Statuary is better, because it's not permenant, costs less to activate, and is more powerful.
Wow, the Mirrodin art outclasses this so much it's kind of ridiculous.......
leomistico
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
What? Mirrodin's art is so ridiculous, this not! How can be a goofy Stonehenge could be compared with a T1000 terminator-like made of stone that emerge from the ground?
However, this has quite a few point over other until-end-of-turn manland. You can activate it at the end of your opponent's turn, advoiding sorcery-speed kill spell, and attack the turn after, while keeping your other land untapped for counter or other... Moreover, you can tap this to pay for its ability, while the others couldn't. Quite underrated. 4/5
Gandlodder
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ art critics: While the Mirrodin art might look better, this one's clayface style appearance makes sense for the block it was in. The plane of Rath, main setting of the Tempest block, is the home of flowstone, a kind of liquid rock that usually gives +1/-1. For an animated land of gooey, liquidy flowstone, this art is spot on. Very weird, yes, but very setting-appropriate.
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Kind of the same point as for Blasted Landscape. Although you should probably play that first.
Made for incredibly boring games, from what I hear.
CAN'T FIGHT THE WORLDWAKE POWER!!!!!!!!!!!!
How can be a goofy Stonehenge could be compared with a T1000 terminator-like made of stone that emerge from the ground?
However, this has quite a few point over other until-end-of-turn manland. You can activate it at the end of your opponent's turn, advoiding sorcery-speed kill spell, and attack the turn after, while keeping your other land untapped for counter or other... Moreover, you can tap this to pay for its ability, while the others couldn't.
Quite underrated. 4/5