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Multiverse ID: 5711

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Comments (16)

ThadeGelna
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (4 votes)
You will be the target after playing this in a multi-player game.
iondragonx
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (7 votes)
Could be game-breaking or useless. I guess its the greatest sideboard card ever!
ESUpin
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0) (5 votes)
This and Blood Moon are sideboard dark horses.
True_Smog
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (6 votes)
Like iondragonx wrote: it can win games or be useless.
Necrolysis
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (6 votes)
Oh WotC, I love your puns
TreeTrunkMaster
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0) (4 votes)
If you don't want them to get one use of that nonbasic land you can use Frozen Æther.
DacenOctavio
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
This just murders decks currently in extended.
JaxsonBateman
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
What's that? You spent $500 on your awesome mana base for your 3/4/5 color deck?

Back to Basics.

Weep as your lands become near useless, mwahahaha!
Purple_Shrimp
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (3 votes)
Like True_Smog wrote: it can win games or be useless.
SIlverSkyz
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Like Purple_Shrimp wrote: it can win games or be useless.
flavioal28
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Haha I was thinking of making a legacy deck with artifact lands, glimmervoids, cloudposts, but now i see this card wins them the game :/
igniteice
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0) (1 vote)
In tournaments, this can win a game. In casual, you just lose people to play with.
EGarrett01
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (4 votes)
I just realized how color inappropriate this is. Blue has no business punishing people for using "advanced technology" or strategy. But of course it was Urza's Saga where they thought about every card for 10 minutes then printed them.
Lord_of_Gelectrodes
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Barrin, Wizard on a Budget.
talcumpowder0046
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Nowadays a huge number of competitive decks are running on half to all nonbasics. Needs a reprint!

WotC might be afraid that people will stop spending 10 bucks a land if nonbasic hosers come back, but premium lands should have more of a drawback than their pricetag.
remas
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Flavour text has a bad case of 2deep4u.

Great card, though!