combine with Magus of the Moat, Gravity Sphere or Mystic Decree, and any creatures that deal direct damage.

  -- By dylan from mesa, az on January 14, 2010

Or combine with Ascendant Evincar for some hilarity.

  -- By Anonymous from under your bed on August 21, 2009

or combine it with guile and voidslime (you'd need a shusher for the voidslime to stick, but thats not rly a big problem) to get infinite tokens...this is broken. especially against control decks?! it sticks forever and they can never bounce it unless...they get a shusher or something?! (cryptic command) im not sure what a shusher would be doing in a blue permission/control deck's sideboard, lol. but awesome! im sure that this has at least like 4 broken applications...i love it! also, some people might say it costs too much: in a G/U/W deck with this (almost undoubtedly the best kind, since it gives you extra mana accel and you need green for voidslime and probably shusher anyway) you can go turn 1 lanowar elves or birds of paradise, *or* turn 2 coiling oracle or sakura-tribe elder, which speeds up into a turn 3 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV , which speeds up into a turn 4 dovescape! from there, play some efficient creatures, plus an azorius herald to offset some damage and a selesnya guildmage to make your creatures win. if you really feel like winning, elvish piper plus darksteel colossus? lol.

  -- By greg from here on November 04, 2008

Combine it with Boseiju, Who Shelters All. The tokens are put into play whether or not the spell is countered. You can't do it forever cuz of the 2 life, but play it with maybe Decree of Pain (or whatever the red Scourge Decree is)? That's AWESOME.

  -- By Greg Johnston from Atlanta, GA USA on May 28, 2008

hello....enduring ideal

  -- By Josh from PA USA on May 02, 2008

Great card, combine with Guile for infinite tokens.

  -- By Taylor Fricke from Sacramento, CA on February 24, 2008

Awesome card to use in conjunction with Leyline of the Singularity...:)

  -- By Alex Rodriguez from Del Rio,Texas,USA on August 09, 2007

That would work. Or... Use this and palliation accord. Then, as long as they don't use creature abilities to destroy either, you just need to keep their dangerous monsters tapped and you are invulnerable-ish.

  -- By Anonymous from New England on July 26, 2007

It's decent if you get pride of clouds and then maybe crawlspace...otherwise not so very good.

  -- By Alex Mamone from parma on June 25, 2007