Whats more fearsome and cool than having an army of living trees by your side?
Nickkom
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(8 votes)
I won't deny that entwining this card makes for a really powerful play.
But, when would you ever come across a situation where you would NOT entwine???
If I have 5 mana and I cast this to make all my forests 2/2s, they will be tapped and cant' attack. Otherwise, I just untap all forests and its like I never did anything, except I have another sorcery in the graveyard.
Even if I had something like 10 forests and tapped them all then cast this to untap them all, I get a net of 5 mana. I guess that's okay, but how often do you have 10 forests out and would really need to put 15 mana in your mana pool rather than create 10 2/2 creatures? It just seems useless.
Something like tooth and nail has use for each choice AND an even better use for entwining. THis card only seems useful if you entwine it.
Kurhan
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
If you have mana ramping cards such as keeper of progenitus, sasaya's essence, or other such cards the untap only effect could be useful for an X spell such as a fireball or supply part of supply and demand
Cyberium
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(4 votes)
This card deserves a higher score. It was a major kill card in green back in the days. Using land fetchers you can easily turn 10+ lands into an army to crush your enemy, with the rest of your nonland creatures joining in. If anything, green never lacks lands!
4.0/5, potential one-shot card, requires the right deck. I give it 4.5 to bring the average up up.
SquirePath
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I can tell you exactly when not to Entwine this card.
When you know your opponent has an Eradicate in his hand.
patronofthesound
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Great card, great design, beaten me many times. Hasn't seen much use in recent years, power creep and all I suppose. Now green is much more keen on a primordial hydra or the like. Still nice as a one-card alpha strike in mana intensive green decks. Few cards could claim such a capability. Especially daunting in mtgo or whenever youre not expecting it. 4.5/5...it is 8 mana, after all.
DoragonShinzui
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@nickkom: I can tell you when you won't want to entwine it: You have a lot of lands, a big X spell, and this. Tap all, say, 12 lands you have. That's 12 mana. Now cast this, and tap them again. 12 - 5 + 12 = 19 mana. That's 7 more mana. For just one card.
I will say casting it the "Lands to Creatures" way without entwining is a bit silly, unless you just need a very large creature count for some spell or something.
DYNASTYWARRIOR
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I run a similar card in my omnath EDH deck which i have gauntlet of power, vernal bloom, caged sun etc... These tactics are what i'm best at.
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But, when would you ever come across a situation where you would NOT entwine???
If I have 5 mana and I cast this to make all my forests 2/2s, they will be tapped and cant' attack. Otherwise, I just untap all forests and its like I never did anything, except I have another sorcery in the graveyard.
Even if I had something like 10 forests and tapped them all then cast this to untap them all, I get a net of 5 mana. I guess that's okay, but how often do you have 10 forests out and would really need to put 15 mana in your mana pool rather than create 10 2/2 creatures? It just seems useless.
Something like tooth and nail has use for each choice AND an even better use for entwining. THis card only seems useful if you entwine it.
4.0/5, potential one-shot card, requires the right deck. I give it 4.5 to bring the average up up.
When you know your opponent has an Eradicate in his hand.
I will say casting it the "Lands to Creatures" way without entwining is a bit silly, unless you just need a very large creature count for some spell or something.