This one of my all time favorites. I have a fungus deck that gets the beast of burden out on turn five and as big as 12/12. And since his power and toughness os equal to ALL the creatures in play, genesis chamber is another great one to combo with.

  -- By Tim from Salt Lake City, Ut, USA on August 16, 2010

Use this with Fists of Ironwood, its real great! :D

  -- By Anonymous from Århus, Denmark on December 31, 2007

Awsome Card...Period ...Well Not Period...I Like The Urza's Legacy Art Better...Im Not A Fan Of The Little Girlboy Thing...Other Then That Its Pretty Sick...With The Big Cannon And All...

  -- By Rob The Almighty from Meridian MS on August 10, 2007

This is the best card i have found yet. Put it in a red goblen deck with grinning ignus,a few mana builders, and an empty the warrens and you can quickly put a creature with a 60-70+ power down. and if you have a medallion and a snake pasket it just keeps getting bigger! best part is, if you have pandamonium on the board, someones GOING TO DIE.

  -- By keith payne from North Branch, MN USA on July 27, 2007

I had a 367/367 Beast of Burden in play one time. I was using a rat deck, against an elf deck. I've since added three more of these guys to my rat deck.

  -- By Jonny from Wheeling, WV on December 31, 2006

everyone that posted a review for this card left out some major details like AWE STRIKE, DEAD-IRON SLEDGE, FIRE SHRIEKER, HUNTING PACK, LOXODON WARHAMMER, MAGE'S GUILE. these cards are what i would use to stop or strengthen the beast of burden. awe strike will stop it and give you life equal to the damage prevented by it. dead-iron will destroy it and the creature its attached to. fireshrieker gives doublestrike. hunting pack you play one 4/4 green beast creature token and has storm. warhammer gives + 3/0 trample and when this creature deals damage you gain that much life. mage's guile makes target creature untargetable. so this creature would work best with 5 color decks like mine, that allow quick mana early and has plenty of equipment and creatures like NANTUKO DISCIPLE.

  -- By aquarius196 from the womb on February 14, 2006

white weenie

  -- By Anonymous from chicago,il on September 15, 2005

use orochi hatchery in the right set up and u can make beast of burden huge i have made him a 80/80 before

  -- By jared from OH on March 01, 2005

If you control TEN-12 creatures,that's a DAY.

  -- By boris chiu from hong kong on January 05, 2005

This can be lousy against control but the real application is in Multiplayer, where he is friggin' insane. I usually play in a 5-8 player game and this guy is at the very least a 6/6 for 6. Anything after that is just gravy, and sometimes the potatoes get drowned in it. 10/10 on up is actually fairly common.

  -- By Anonymous from Watertown on September 23, 2004

This is one of those card you center your deck around. but don't put it in a high power creature deck or a deck with a worldgorger dragon (if you havent seen a worlgorger dragon look it up and you'll know what I meen) in it plane and simple

  -- By Anonymous from Las vegas NV USA on December 07, 2003

if your playing an elf or goblin deck watch their creatures disappear

  -- By witeflag from on September 08, 2003

This card rock! It is a must in every players deck!

  -- By magicboy from oslo norway on December 23, 2002

I think Beast of Burden is one of the best artifact creatures in the world, because if you are playing 4 player, and every one of you have 10 creatures in play and you use Beast of Burden, it become 40/40!

  -- By MagicBoy from Oslo,NORGE on December 22, 2002

That card is perfect and was practically madefor the decks of champions therefore mine.The power of this card is immense and rare but unnfortunately I dont have it. Magic Master was the best duelist ever but I beat him so easy it wasnt even funny.

  -- By Cameron from Spirit Lake, ID USA on December 15, 2002

Use this puppy in an elf deck! If you have 20 elves that cost only 1 you could easily make him a 9/9 to an 8/8 by the time he assaults your cowering opponent!

  -- By Boy Wonder from Portland, ME on December 07, 2002

beast of burden with power matrix in a deck of one cast mana producing elves...everything else from goblins to shivan dragons is a spot on the bottom of your boots

  -- By tinker from san francisco on October 01, 2002

EXCELENT! This card was created for the decks of CHAMPIONS!

  -- By TimothyC. from Manchester NH, USA on August 05, 2002

2 words:Now that is just not right. Play a bunch of elves and than gaes cradle to get the mana to play this monster. Beast of Burden just screms elf deck!

  -- By Anonymous from 2 rivers on April 23, 2002

This card can be a mother for decks like stompy and fires because it is often a 7/7 or more if you also play a heavy creature deck. Thoughts on this card. A swarm deck that needs a little more late game pop, like a kird ape or goblin deck would do well to splash three of these, and as a sideboard card they are great creature deck hosers.

  -- By Anonymous from 2 rivers on April 23, 2002

This card can kick so much ass! By the time if/you get 6 mana, chances are that there will be lots of cards in play. The card is good, so its cool.

  -- By Ando from Canada on April 06, 2002

high cost maybe, but shove 1 of these monsters in your goblin deck and he instantly redeems his cost.

  -- By Anonymous from CA on December 17, 2001

This Card is a good one. It will improve many decks, this is the card if your looking for a creature that has high power and high casting cost

  -- By bill albertson from Hamilton, NJ USA on October 06, 2001