Neat little land. Manage two of them and a Crucible to get a pair of spirits every other turn. Decent filler if you manage to pick up a couple of these in a draft. Not real type 2 appications in my book though. Next! :smile2:
Putting it into magic terms: It's a gate. Probably a gate to some bigger thing. Lots of people see this gate. Lots of people go to this Reikai place to SEE this gate.
The "reikai" is the world where the spirits live. Definitely a bigger thing. So the gate to the reikai is a gate that allows you to pass between the worlds - definitely something a lot of people would be interested in, although likely not for tourism...
Seems like a possible inclusion in the new Akki Sligh deck... although you won't want to risk your mana base with too many colorless lands, 2 copies might be worthwhile for the occasional extra creature when you feed your Akki Avalanchers. Even a 1/1 counts as something, for Sligh's "Philosophy of Fire"... right?
really nice in a control deck. just play it and use it as a mana source early on, then when you have total control simply play another one for your victory condition, two 1/1 creatures.
Yeah, why are they enchantments? They are locations- people go to them to worship. So what the hell are they doing being Enchantments, when they make so much more sense as lands? I thought we cleared this up when Sylvan Library went away...
Most enchantments, historically, are not enchantments. Granted, this improved slightly when Equipment was made, but there's still lots of other enchantment categories that are arguable. This is due to the misfortune of Richard Garfield choosing "Enchantment" as the non-creature coloured permenant type. In spite of all this, Shrines can still be justified:
A shrine is a mystical thing. As such, it's not usually enough to set aside a location, maybe throw together some rocks and sticks, and call it a shrine. The place must be prepared spiritually/magically/whateverally as well as physically. In other words, it must be enchanted. Why are these shrines unique? Because they're very important shrines. It's not just a shrine in honour of your favourite Myojin, it's the shrine to honour its respective Myojin. You may set up a place of worship for the Myojin of Infinite Rage, but it's not going the be the Honden of Infinite Rage.
Now, to the actual card:
This is very interesting, the obvious option is to play more than one of them (probably why it's uncommon). Crucible of Worlds is also a no-brainer. Unfortunately, this requires a deck to be built around it, and such a deck probably won't be as good as it needs to be in the current metagame. Fun in casual though.
is it just me or is this land just horid...sure there might be some stupid combo...maybe an unnessesary alternate win condition in the fastbond zuran orb crucible combo in T1
at least if it produced any color mana it might be worth playing...and the fact that its legendary sure u can sacrifice 2 of your lands to put 2 1/1s into play...but is that really worth 2 lands? it doesn't even work that well with Armageddon/obliterate type stuff (as RE suggested) since you can only have 1 in play at a time.
my opinion is this card is a waste of cardboard
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Well, now on Dragon Combo in T1 you can mill your opponents library while gaining a lot of spirits in the meantime :grin2:........but this is card only got a narrow effect, not that useful, not that bad.
I'm really starting to think that this card is pretty good. Now I know sacking two lands for two 1/1's sounds pretty bad on the surface, but I can think of many situations were two 1/1's would have won me the game. I'm working on a green agro deck for Type2 right now and I think this card MAY have a place. Though testing will give the true picture on that. Untill then I'll rate this card as interesting. It's would be so much better if it gave you two 1/1's for each one of them instead of one. THEN is would be increidible.
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I'll have to jump on the bandwagon of people who really dislike this card. They could have atleast given it another ability of some sort while you're waiting for a way to send it to the graveyard (and I'm sorry, but I'd rather have a colorless mana than a mesely 1/1 spirit token that doesn't even have flying).
I like this card, is prett good, like Darksteel Citadel came out in Darksteel, that lots of people didn't like it, well this is similar to it in a couple of ways, not as good but still pretty good.
if armageddon is reprinted in 9th (doubtful) this card will be good in WW decks. if it's not, though, the best use i can see for it is in some casual decks.
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This is an interesting card in that its potential seems at first glance limited, but when you consider what else is in the format it becomes really powerful. Another examply of how one cannot examine cards in a vaccum, only by examining the entire format can we get any idea of a cards power level.
This makes me think that Armageddon is going to be reprinted.
Remember that colorless tokens are kinda useful in that they aren't killed by all the artifact hate out there, you can't protect yourself from them with CoPs, etc. Being colorless is almost always an advantage in general.
I don't think that this would really be all that powerful in a UR obliterate deck. I mean, you only get 1 1/1 creature, and you'll have ingots or something as your main attackers.
This seems more like a card that is meant to help vs. slith in ponza/big red matchups in standard.
Its a fun card and should be played in every limited deck. Of course I wouldn't make it my first pick in draft but its a fun card and can't hurt. Besides its a spirit, you might be able to do something with that. You are never going to make an effective combo with it. Yes some lame combos work like avalancher, raider, crucible and azusa but I would rather toss the two akkis and use seismic assault instead but I wouldn't bother playing either. Rather try use the spirit side of it opposed to a free 1/1. But I won't deny its a fun card.
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This makes me think that Armageddon is going to be reprinted.
Besides the fact that they just said its not.
I really like this card. It seems like something that should be done more often. Trading a land for a creature seems okay, especially if its done this way....Anti LD or sacrifice is always good. Besides, if you're getting slaughtered by scarifice, this takes two cards to kill
Hehe you can bet I'll be slippin four of these puppies into my Obliterate deck! Hmm that makes me think actually, Now if I play another blue player they can't counter any of my win conditions- The land and obliterate...interesting. That would give the deck a lot more options and make it faster.
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The "reikai" is the world where the spirits live. Definitely a bigger thing. So the gate to the reikai is a gate that allows you to pass between the worlds - definitely something a lot of people would be interested in, although likely not for tourism...
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Most enchantments, historically, are not enchantments. Granted, this improved slightly when Equipment was made, but there's still lots of other enchantment categories that are arguable. This is due to the misfortune of Richard Garfield choosing "Enchantment" as the non-creature coloured permenant type. In spite of all this, Shrines can still be justified:
A shrine is a mystical thing. As such, it's not usually enough to set aside a location, maybe throw together some rocks and sticks, and call it a shrine. The place must be prepared spiritually/magically/whateverally as well as physically. In other words, it must be enchanted. Why are these shrines unique? Because they're very important shrines. It's not just a shrine in honour of your favourite Myojin, it's the shrine to honour its respective Myojin. You may set up a place of worship for the Myojin of Infinite Rage, but it's not going the be the Honden of Infinite Rage.
Now, to the actual card:
This is very interesting, the obvious option is to play more than one of them (probably why it's uncommon). Crucible of Worlds is also a no-brainer. Unfortunately, this requires a deck to be built around it, and such a deck probably won't be as good as it needs to be in the current metagame. Fun in casual though.
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at least if it produced any color mana it might be worth playing...and the fact that its legendary sure u can sacrifice 2 of your lands to put 2 1/1s into play...but is that really worth 2 lands? it doesn't even work that well with Armageddon/obliterate type stuff (as RE suggested) since you can only have 1 in play at a time.
my opinion is this card is a waste of cardboard
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Then again, it could be part of an broken engine that will warp the enviroment. Someone will break it... eventually.
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This makes me think that Armageddon is going to be reprinted.
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This seems more like a card that is meant to help vs. slith in ponza/big red matchups in standard.
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Besides the fact that they just said its not.
I really like this card. It seems like something that should be done more often. Trading a land for a creature seems okay, especially if its done this way....Anti LD or sacrifice is always good. Besides, if you're getting slaughtered by scarifice, this takes two cards to kill
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They said "it's not"...
a) ..."reprinted in Betrayers specifically
b) ...in a section where half of the statements are supposed to be false.
Certainly they've said absolutely nothing about it not being in 9th, say.