Terrible in normal game play, but in EDH this means you general's out in less turns. I got one for my deck and it helps a ton. EDH staple.

  -- By Jacob Cheatley from New Zealand on October 23, 2010

It comes into play tapped, you pay 2 life for 2 colorless mana only for legendary spells, and it's a legendary land so you can only have one. The only good things about this card are its artwork and flavor text - too bad they were wasted on one of the worst lands ever printed! I would give this a zero if I could.

  -- By Chris from Cranbury, NJ on October 06, 2010

LOL! This card is awesome!

  -- By John Kay from tha hood yo!? on January 14, 2009

Wanted to be Ancient Tomb. Sigh it just won't be.

  -- By Anonymous from USA on September 05, 2008

This card is HORRIBLE. But it's really sad because it's a terrible version of what COULD BE an awesome card if you think about it. If it weren't for the two life loss it'd be sort of playable, and with no drawbacks, this would be as cool and possibly degenerate as Mishra's Workshop. It's too bad Wizards will never return to the power level of bomb rares from oldschool sets like Antiquities and Arabian Nights, hell there's even some cards from Ice Age that they'll probably never reprint again (Necropotence)... But I digress.

  -- By Duke DemonKnight from the bat cave on October 22, 2007

worst card in the block

  -- By Anonymous from maryland on August 04, 2005

This card is absoulutely terrible! It comes into play tapped, it costes life to add two colurless mana that you can only spend on ledegends! Poor, very poor.

  -- By Anonymous from Scunthorpe on January 27, 2005