Terrible mana ability and quite possibly the blandest art on any card ever printed.
Ibn_Shisha
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(2 votes)
One of the least efficient mana filters ever, this didn't even see much play back in the day (dual lands were easier to get your hands on back then). Now that mana burn is gone, it's not even useful for that.
divine_exodus
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I can draw that.
Kryptnyt
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
The alpha version of this is worth five bucks. Anyone willing to fill me in on that? I mean who's buying?
BongRipper420
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(4 votes)
I really hate to be negative, but not only does this card suck balls, the art does too. It looks like Wizards got exceptionally lazy with this one.
.5/5, for the art alone.
Mode
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This is actually a really great card from some point of view, it ranks really high in various categories:
"Most ridiculously unelaborate art" - Second Place: Amy Weber gave us some memorable artworks, among others she drew Time Walk and Illusionary Mask. But the art she gave us here is rather underwhelming, and its baldness gets outclassed only by Word of Command.
"Most surprisingly weak mana artifact from Alpha": First Place: Celestial Prism brings home the gold in this category as part of the very first set in Magic: The Gathering that not only had colorless mana accelerators like Mana Vault and Basalt Monolith, but also contained the infamous Moxen as well as the one and only Black Lotus.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Its weird how they overvalued mana filtering, but undervalued actually ramping your mana.
DarthParallax
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Am I actually clinically insane for wanting new badass art for this card? :P
Celestial Prism is actually a GREAT card because it has had SO many cards designed after it-- meaning there is quite a lot of Design Space for a card that is "Artifact. Make Gold Mana."
Of course it is 'primitive', but Serra Angel now looks primitive to people who are gluttonous for ETB creatures. :/ Is Serra Angel ACTUALLY a bad card, or is it GREAT that it paved the way for people to want so many "My Creature can Attack AND Defend" cards? (the entire Vigilance keyword probably owes its support to Serra Angel)
Yes. Think about it. In Alpha, there were the Moxen, Sol Ring, Black Lotus, and Mana Vault. I don't think there were any other 'Mana Stones'. All of the actually fair and balanced ones? They come from Celestial Prism, and thinking that 3 mana is the right casting cost for Fixing your Colors. The cards that give only 2 colors are meant to be played in specifically 2-colored Decks, and are really the same concept as the 5-color artifacts. That is why I'm willing to attribute most of the artifacts that produce mana or search for lands as coming indirectly from Celestial Prism. The list of cards that come from those more powerful artifacts is much shorter but many of those cards are just more power than you quite need, or at least more power than is interesting enough to tell a real story about.
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.5/5, for the art alone.
"Most ridiculously unelaborate art" - Second Place:
Amy Weber gave us some memorable artworks, among others she drew Time Walk and Illusionary Mask.
But the art she gave us here is rather underwhelming, and its baldness gets outclassed only by Word of Command.
"Most overshadowed mana fixer" - Tied First Place with Standing Stones:
Both artifacts prevail over a growing amount of vastly superior cards like Mana Cylix, Prismatic Lens, Prophetic Prism, Manalith, Vessel of Endless Rest, Spectral Searchlight, Darksteel Ingot, Coalition Relic, Chromatic Lantern.
"Most surprisingly weak mana artifact from Alpha": First Place:
Celestial Prism brings home the gold in this category as part of the very first set in Magic: The Gathering that not only had colorless mana accelerators like Mana Vault and Basalt Monolith, but also contained the infamous Moxen as well as the one and only Black Lotus.
Celestial Prism is actually a GREAT card because it has had SO many cards designed after it-- meaning there is quite a lot of Design Space for a card that is "Artifact. Make Gold Mana."
Of course it is 'primitive', but Serra Angel now looks primitive to people who are gluttonous for ETB creatures. :/ Is Serra Angel ACTUALLY a bad card, or is it GREAT that it paved the way for people to want so many "My Creature can Attack AND Defend" cards? (the entire Vigilance keyword probably owes its support to Serra Angel)
Mana Prism
Stalking Stones
Coalition Relic
Darksteel Ingot
Ramos Artifacts
Chromatic Lantern
Fist of Suns
Manalith
Prismatic Lens
Alloy Myr
Extraplanar Lens
Borderpost cycle
Keyrune cycle
Cameo cycle
And the two mana artifacts are even more numberous-
Pentad Prism
Spheres
Signet cycle
Diamond cycle
Fellwar Stone
Fractured Powerstone
Coldsteel Heart
Copper Myr
Lead Myr
Gold Myr
Silver Myr
Iron Myr
And the 1 mana artifacts:
Chromatic Star
Chromatic Sphere
Barbed Sextant
Egg cycle
and here are some wierd ones:
Altar of the Lost
Astrolabe
Implements of Sacrifice
Yes. Think about it. In Alpha, there were the Moxen, Sol Ring, Black Lotus, and Mana Vault. I don't think there were any other 'Mana Stones'. All of the actually fair and balanced ones? They come from Celestial Prism, and thinking that 3 mana is the right casting cost for Fixing your Colors. The cards that give only 2 colors are meant to be played in specifically 2-colored Decks, and are really the same concept as the 5-color artifacts. That is why I'm willing to attribute most of the artifacts that produce mana or search for lands as coming indirectly from Celestial Prism. The list of cards that come from those more powerful artifacts is much shorter but many of those cards are just more power than you quite need, or at least more power than is interesting enough to tell a real story about.