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Boiling Seas

Multiverse ID: 83012

Boiling Seas

Comments (12)

Personman
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (11 votes)
...but you can't take the sky from me...
Zulp
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0) (6 votes)
I see what you did there.
no_body
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (2 votes)
this is awesome in extended now because of cards like spreading seas and convincing mirage.
Gako
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0) (7 votes)
Hugs for the Firefly reference.
nammertime
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (4 votes)
You can fetch this from your sideboard with Burning Wish. That's a big plus in my book and makes this nowhere near strictly worse than Boil.
Zoah
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0) (5 votes)
Grumble.

Boil should very much never have existed. As an instant, it is nigh impossible to evade. This card is much less broken.
sonorhC
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0) (5 votes)
If you're facing cards like this, it's a really good idea to have a few nonbasic lands that can tap for colored mana. Or in other words, you can't take the sky from me.

Since Personman didn't include the link.
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Because Boil was just too good.
OpenSeasonNoobs
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Strictly worse than Boil. Just because you can grab it with one wish doesn't mean it's better. There are a ton of wishes out there, and if you're looking to combo, you don't mind splashing colors to get them.
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Boil was STUPID... o.O

This is still crazy....but I thnk, at {3}{R}{R}, the effect of Boil would be fair. At Rare. Or perhaps Mythic. I'm not sure. Land Destruction is a very necessary part of the game, but where exactly to put it?

Instant Speed Armageddon is a little bit frightening...but then, it is difficult to argue that it's not necessary. The only REAL question is: What is the fair price of Instant Speed Land Wrath?

The problem is: Any costing that might reasonable in Commander, Modern, or Legacy would be awful for Standard. They now have a problem in that they've pushed Standard so far into not liking LD, that they can't even print any of the fairer imaginable LD cards because they'd be a MESS in Standard. And yet, it's good for the health of all the other formats to access to some kinds of LD.

But the old Designs hover a lot between being not good enough, or too oppressively good and kinda stale. We need New LD cards.
Bbone37
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I would agree with nammertime. yes in 99.9999999% of cases Boil will be better, unless you want to specifically build a deck to grab this with burning wish. Yes its narrow, but it is a viable reason to NOT use the often mis-used term "strict".