this card is perfect for any sunburst deck or multi color deck. in combination with crystal quarry which lets you tap itself and 5 lands to give you 1 of each color, it practically owns the playing field.
Forgeling
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this let's you play Pentad Prism or Suntouched Myr with five counters on them, doesn't it?
Belz_
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(7 votes)
Actually, I think that's a "yes". The Fist lets you pay WUBRG to cast your spell. Since all five colours were used to casr it, it should get five counters.
Zulp
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(4 votes)
Progenitus at half price. Also basically everything that costs 6 or more is now cheaper, by a lot in some cases. A must-have for a 5-color deck, or just any deck that plans on using this as a spell engine. So many normally unreachable spells can be cast with this. Time Stretch, Gleemax, Plague Wind, Searing Wind, whatever you can think of. Great card.
Wusanderz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Yep, Belz_ is right. Besides, Sunburst doesn't care about CMC, so your argument is invalid.
ScissorsLizard
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
FUNFUNFUNFUNFUN
EnV
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(4 votes)
Use this with Darksteel Colossus
brockdjwest
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
at EnV, I just might do that. This card is perfect for my 5 color deck!
metalevolence
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this card has the most badass name ever. and, of course, lets you play the most obscenely expensive cards.
EvilCleavage
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Is it just me, or do I see this card becoming comppletely broken as soon as Rise of The Eldrazi comes out. Unless they have specific rules for casting the Eldrazi, those eleven and twelve costing creatures are going to come out for way less. But who knows maybe they will HAVE to cost only colorless mana. I dont know. I can't wait though!
SleetFox
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The Eldrazi are going to have a lot of colorless acceleration anyway. I'm sure this won't break much. It'll be nice to say the least, but it's not like we don't already have Darksteel Colossus, Progenitus, Autochthlon Wurm and friends.
statiefreez
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Cast Emrakul, the Eons Torn for WUBRG?
SereneChaos
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(6 votes)
Nobody's mentioned yet the combo with Channel the Suns? Not just the insane mana-fixing ability, but the ability to get anything out on turn 4. Sure most high-cost cards can be cheated out even earlier through various means, but in a 5 color deck, this combo is easy and consistent. You should already be playing four CtS and maybe four FoS, and be a little more green, not to mention having plenty of expensive goodies to cheat out. So, no needing a 4 card+ combo, no strange requirements or massive luck (3 red cards in hand/get lucky with cascade/it must be the third Sunday in June and your seat must be facing East), just "Turn 3: Fist of Suns. Turn 4: Channel the Suns, Progenitus. GG."
Neutralion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
SUNBURST!!!!
Mindbend
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
surly there are easer ways to get big cards down. and five man is still alot of mana ......
One of two key parts in being able to play any spell on turn 3.
the other being Channel the Suns.
T1 : Forest, any cmc that can tap/sac for (Llanowar Elves)
T2 : Basic Land, Fist of Suns T3 : Basic Land, Channel the Suns, (Insert spell's name)
ChippyForever
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
Great for sunburst, great for mega-expensive creatures, and as for the art...I can't do it justice.
DespisedIcon
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Not THAT fun when you're a serious Timmy and you're 13 years old. I remember myself hating my luck to death when i got 2 of these as the rares of the only couple of booster packs i could afford at that time. Playing mtg on a third world country kind of sucks :(
Nagoragama
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(5 votes)
Epic flavor text highlighting the height of Memnarch's delusions of grandeur and the depths of his insanity.
A 15 CMC cascade is pretty unimpressive. That's just "Put the next permanent card in your library onto the battlefield."
Sironos
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Now you can cast that 1 mil cmc unhinged card for 5 CMC Oo. Have this in an eldrazi deck >:)
SpencerDub
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
It's such a shame that this hasn't been reprinted since Fifth Dawn, for the simple reason that those mana symbols deserve to be in full, beautiful, -y color.
DarkbladeWraith
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
This just gets terrifying when paired with Mycosynth Lattice. Why wouldn't I want to play any spell in the game for 5 colourless mana? Even doing it the hard way and just playing one land per turn gets you Draco, Autocthon Wurm or Emrakul, The Aeons Torn on turn 7 which is pretty good by any reckoning, and it can only get faster with any number of tricks.
It also shines in a 5-color EDH deck. Your more expensive cards can be dropped much sooner, and your general is going to cost {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} every single time!
Don't simply run this in a 5-color EDH deck. Design that deck around it! Commander=Progenitus. No surprise there. Throw in tutors of all sorts, even Tezzeret the Seeker. Once you get this out, Cultivate or Prismatic Omen or Chromatic Lantern should get you the rest of the way to 5 colors. Then toss down Progenitus and Coalition Victory or whatever you want. The point is, if your opponents don't have removal and you have this and 5 colors of mana, you win. 5/5
I built a Fist of Suns deck. Still need the low drop utility spells like Birds of Paradise or Enlightened Tutor but I have everything else to get the job done. I've only got 4th turn Omniscience out once thanks to Channel the Suns but it was cool to drop my whole hand so quickly. Watch out for board wipes if you don't have haste!
PopcornBunni
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I am now extremely disappointed with the ruling of X spells and alternative casting costs.
turn 5 Progenitous, and then play Knight of New Alara for a 15/15 Progenitous commander then play Savage Beating for a turn 6 win! Also can use Channel the Suns and Composite Golem for easy 5 color mana gen.
kor6sic6
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Perfect for casting those Chromanticore's! /trollface
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Thank you Chippy! I never noticed that this would work with Sunburst; that's so cool I may make a deck after it :)
For my contribution: Chromatic Lantern and a tiny bit of ramp could easily get you whatever you want on turn 4
LordRandomness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Amusing but overlooked use: Casting Pentad Prism with this gives you access to 10 mana the following turn minimum.
Lazrbeams
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Let's you get the extra turn off emrakul without paying the full cost, that's pretty sick.
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the other being Channel the Suns.
T1 : Forest, any
T2 : Basic Land, Fist of Suns
T3 : Basic Land, Channel the Suns, (Insert spell's name)
Beautiful art too, and interesting card mechanic.
You're welcome.
Oh, and some scary big unanswerable threats to pump out. Blightsteel Colossus, Time Stretch, Eldrazi Con***ion, Phage the Untouchable, Kozilek, Butcher of Truth and especially Myojin of Life's Web. (Why yes, I will play all creatures I have for 5 mana!)
5/5 Stars
Initiates of the Ebon Hand takes care of the B mana (assuming you had a rainbow land to get it out).
EDIT: Edited as I found the fastest way to win is chain together Nim Deathmantle and Composite Golem via rainbow-casting Bringer of the Black Dawn.
/trollface
For my contribution: Chromatic Lantern and a tiny bit of ramp could easily get you whatever you want on turn 4
Any card that allows you to cast (yup, you get the extra turn) Emrakul on turn three is cool in my book.
T1: Forest, Birds of Paradise
T2: Lotus Cobra, Misty Rainforest, crack to get Stomping Ground, Fist of Suns
T3: Play any land that can tap for the right color, then with Cobra, Birds, and your other two lands, cast Emrakul, the Aeons Torn for