i always thought the art on the earlier cards were sometimes strange. not because of the quality, but because the art didn't really relate to who/what the card is. ok, so it's a dwarf (viking?) stuck in an "ice storm", but the card destroys a land?
i'm on a one-man mission to comment on every card that hasn't been commented on.
It would make me quite sad if my Glacial Fortress was destroyed by something so pedestrian as an ice storm.
gasimakos1
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
i've been trying to build an old-school mono green deck that's worth a shit, and it's *** impossible. this is one of green's only cards from back then that's worth having 4 of in a deck, beside llanowar elves and giant growth. channel is obviously pretty worthless when you're not using fireball... it's too costly for casting anything other than a game-willing spell. birds of paradise is only good for multicolored decks. verduran enchantress looks good at first, but you can't win a game on nothing but enchantments and card-drawing. regrowth is only good when used on ancestral recall, etc. fastbond is ok. jesus. green was getting the shaft back in the day. any suggestions?
Radagast
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Somewhat ironic that this green Stone Rain is rather valuable, yet Stone Rain itself has been printed an insane number of times and is basically worth a penny or so.
SkyknightXi
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Dishwater63: It helps to remember that the artists, before at least Mirage, were usually only given the NAME of the card, not always its effect. So, in this case, Frazier wouldn't necessarily know that the ice was wrecking the land. (Not that I'm sure WHY that would happen. Maybe a sudden sheen of freezing rain redirects the leylines?)
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i'm on a one-man mission to comment on every card that hasn't been commented on.
5/5!!!