If I'm not mistaken this makes a LOT of mana, doesn't it?
Pantheon
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
This card may experience new play when Zendikar is released. All the new Lands and land matters cards will create an interesting synergy here. Enemy fetchlands, uncommon dual land cycle, landfall abilities and the like. Throw some boarderposts into you deck to send a basic land back to your hand and you can have 7 land in hand to filp this guy with no problem.
Weretarrasque
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Thank god they took out mana burn. Now I can sleep at night.
Anyway, the problem with this is flipping it, but you can use stuff like Elder Pine of Jukai or Kodama's Reach to help you out.
But once you flip it, have a mountain ready for the game-winning Blaze you can cast with your 5 forests.
Donovan_Fabian
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I don't know about this one, I love the ability so hard it makes me wish it was easier to play, but on the other side getting 7 lands into your hand is not easy, especially since you are going to want to play lands or you are going to get killed early. So, in my opinion, unless your opening hand looks like 4 lands, this card, and 2 kodamas reach (and you still need a few more for the 3 used to play her), its going to be very difficult.
Tanaka348
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Pretty much impossible to flip. The only thing that makes this not a complete junk rare is that a) it's a halfway decent body at 2/3 for 3 and b) if you ever do flip it, it will be a glorious event that will be talked about in your playgroup for a long time. Especially now that mana burn is gone, the one in a million shot might just be worth it for having a tale of an epic one in a million shot.
Catmurderer
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
This will be going in my all Land deck once Worldwake is released.
Sweep will flip this card, you just need a way to put multiple lands into play in one turn (and green has a lot of those). Life from the Loam also helps.
Edit: Treasure Hunt is another card that aids in fliping this.
Edit (again): Manabond. For when you manage to flip this.
garbagegatherer
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(8 votes)
It's not intented to be flipped. Use it to suddenly reveal your hand instead.
Rites of spring, seek the horizon, shard convergence, and life from the loam can all put 3+ lands into your hand. So all you really need to keep is 4 lands and one of those cards. That's easy.
im planning on making a moonfolk deck soon and with the reurn land abilities they have ill be able to flip this easy for some tremendous mana this will be fun xD
channelblaze
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If i activate here ability with 7 lands, then activate here again in response, wouldn't she flip, then flip right back? Can things unflip?
VoidedNote
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
My only question is... who the hell is going to have 7 lands in their hand... ever?
Powerful ability, but... nobody will pull it off with an sort of regularity. I've seen less farfetched 5 card combo's than trying to flip this thing. Besides, you can make a far more powerful combo deck than anything this could pull off. In fact, there are cards that do this one's job just as well. And considering this was back when mana burn was still alive (and before Zendikar), this was usually suicide if you didn't have a random X spell in your hand. And really the only kind that would help would be a burn spell, because not many kamigawa cards with X in them need a rediculous amount of mana. Overall, not worth the effort.
The creature is subpar too, 2/3 for 3? No thanks, I'll go with something decent.
1/5
GrimjawxRULES
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Soo ... lands you control become color producing Cloudposts ? ... wow ... just wow ... The hard part is flipping it, but it's basically game over once you do so... One of my friends actually managed to pull it off in his red/green snake deck back when Kamigawa was new. He proceeded to cast a humongous Fireball on the following turn, taking out 2 players in a multiplayer game.
Casual is probably the only place you'll ever see this in use, but it's really awesome when it works.
Pillow676
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
So your lands give you mana exponentially instead of one per land. Use for X costs.
Mr.Wimples
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Obviously no one here remembers "sweep" spells. Which, might I add, came out in the same block.
Snafinturtle
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I love this card, despite the huge improbability of ever actually getting it to flip, even 4 lands in play would allow you to hard-cast a full cost Draco =D
Manabond is probably the most synergystic card once it's flipped, but then you need some way of refilling your hand...
Well of Knowledge seems like the best, considering you could draw your deck in two turns, assuming you take the intelligent route and play a land each turn after flipping it.
Faildini
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This is fun in casual, I like to hoard lands in my hand and complain about how I'm getting mana screwed. I find people tend to both feel sorry for you and feel safe...at least until you flip it.
BarryOgg
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Finally, I've found a card that can make flip somewhat possible: Rites of Spring.
Gabriel422
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I hate the fact that all three rare flippers in green were so highly unlikely. We've got ten creatures, ten lands, and this is the worst of them.
Shadoflaam
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(8 votes)
Oh mother of Progenitus it's doing the Werewolf thing for flip cards now? I WANT TO COMMENT ON ONE CARD WIZARDS!!!
pedrodyl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The question is, what are you gonna do with all that mana?
I'd just like to add that the gatherer text for this flip card states that it has a p/t of 2/3. An enchantment with p/t when flipped. *shrug* gotta obey gatherer text. :P
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Thats crazy mana, but I still want him to be a "fastbond" when he flips.
steinburger1109
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hey, I like exponential mana!
Nazgul-Pookyrune
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Umm with the new Borborygmos Enraged this is madness.
Tradeylouish
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My friend uses this card as an EDH general. Lots of cards like Armillary Sphere and Yavimaya Elder, as well as 70+ Forests, allow him to flip it pretty easily.
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oh no! My opening hand only has lands!
Perfect.
LordRandomness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
How to drive your friends crazy in one easy step:
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ShatterPalm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Works pretty well with the Soratami. Since you're bouncing lands back your hand anyway, you might as well take advantage of that fact.
MagicalHacker
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm surprised more people haven't broken this guy already!
If you play 90ish lands, 10 mana dump cards, and this guy as the general, you can flip him every game at turn 4 if you keep 6 lands and a mana dump card in your hand.
I personally like Nemata, Grove Guardian the best because you only make three saprolings on turn 4, but turn five, after you swing with them, make 8 more saprolings and sac them all to give each saproling +8/+8. So you're taking all that 31 damage (4 from the Nemata) since you said no blocks, right?
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Anyway, the problem with this is flipping it, but you can use stuff like Elder Pine of Jukai or Kodama's Reach to help you out.
But once you flip it, have a mountain ready for the game-winning Blaze you can cast with your 5 forests.
Edit: Treasure Hunt is another card that aids in fliping this.
Edit (again): Manabond. For when you manage to flip this.
add few sweeps, new uu counter and other counter spells, Mind Spring, Teferi Puzzle box to cycle your cards, Magus of the Candelabras and Freed from the Real for inf mana, go
Powerful ability, but... nobody will pull it off with an sort of regularity. I've seen less farfetched 5 card combo's than trying to flip this thing. Besides, you can make a far more powerful combo deck than anything this could pull off. In fact, there are cards that do this one's job just as well. And considering this was back when mana burn was still alive (and before Zendikar), this was usually suicide if you didn't have a random X spell in your hand. And really the only kind that would help would be a burn spell, because not many kamigawa cards with X in them need a rediculous amount of mana. Overall, not worth the effort.
The creature is subpar too, 2/3 for 3? No thanks, I'll go with something decent.
1/5
The hard part is flipping it, but it's basically game over once you do so... One of my friends actually managed to pull it off in his red/green snake deck back when Kamigawa was new. He proceeded to cast a humongous Fireball on the following turn, taking out 2 players in a multiplayer game.
Casual is probably the only place you'll ever see this in use, but it's really awesome when it works.
Or The Tentacle Iceberg, if that's your thing
Manabond is probably the most synergystic card once it's flipped, but then you need some way of refilling your hand...
Well of Knowledge seems like the best, considering you could draw your deck in two turns, assuming you take the intelligent route and play a land each turn after flipping it.
Perfect.
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If you play 90ish lands, 10 mana dump cards, and this guy as the general, you can flip him every game at turn 4 if you keep 6 lands and a mana dump card in your hand.
I personally like Nemata, Grove Guardian the best because you only make three saprolings on turn 4, but turn five, after you swing with them, make 8 more saprolings and sac them all to give each saproling +8/+8. So you're taking all that 31 damage (4 from the Nemata) since you said no blocks, right?
Obviously though, Blightsteel Colossus wins faster.