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ok, ANOTHER MANA ACCELARATOR FOR GREEN? jeesh, like green didnt have enough, and the casting cost is unbelieveable!! so now, green is gonna really speed up, (having 4 of these in play, sick man, sick!!) but dont forget you can "add one mana of ANY COLOR"
so, this will be a staple in all decks that run green. for standard, and other formats as well.
GET A PLAY SET NOW!!! i can see this also being played in vintage formats, very very soon, someone will break this card!!!! (can we say, all together now, ready? FASTBOND/FIREBALL/ZURAN ORB/CRUCIBLE OF WORLDS?
KUDOS TO WIZARDS, its about time, some of the "urzas" broken ideas are comming back, not as powerful, but good enough!!! AND NOT BROKEN!! (yet)
-- By mike from pittsburgh on October 03, 2009
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It would be really good if you could afford it. you might want it.
-- By Anonymous from my computer on October 03, 2009
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Wow... A great mana accel early in game that nets you ANY COLOR!! I just pulled 3 in packs the other day and can't even say HOW grateful I am that I got them, because they are friggin BEAST!
-- By Mike Hunt from Va. Jayna on October 04, 2009
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Good card, but I don't see why it's mythic.
-- By Jonathon Miller from Pennsylvania on October 04, 2009
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Can you say third turn Ultimatum? I need a playset soon, maybe I can open them in packs
-- By Jake from tempe AZ on October 07, 2009
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It's Mythic because WOTC wants it to be hard to get and expensive so people will buy packs. This card is good...no disputing that, but the price will fall when people realize that it is not nearly as good as everyone thinks it is. Not the best accel when cards like burst lightning and lightning bolt are standard. Have your mythic killed by a cheap cent common and then let it sting lol.
-- By James from Georgia on October 08, 2009
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Very good card! If you dont have birds of paradise though, buy the birds first, as they are better in every way! One mana every turn for one mana is better than mana sometimes for two. Plus birds can block flyers...
-- By Manashort from Minneapolis on October 13, 2009
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Sure it will suck a Lightning Bolt or Blightning, but you can play aroud those with Duress or other items.
The critical thing with this card is it ramps up your mana something fierce. Fetchland, land, tap land = 3 mana, two of which are any colour you'd like.
You don't play birds over him, you play bird or Hierarch WITH him to ramp up even more. Crazy, crazy card.
-- By Larry from Ottawa, Canada on October 16, 2009
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Great with sac and search lands...And nullifies the hurt of any land coming in tapped.
Playing a spell that put lands into play get alot cheaper.
I don't give it a 5 star because it is incredibly easy to kill.
Whether its getting blocked or Tremor'ed...Its gonna die fast...
You have to be up against a deck carrying absolutly no creatures or creature kill.
(Which, when you finally come across, Is likely designed to kill you before your creature can do anything special.)
-- By Nowyoufacedoom from CA, LA on October 18, 2009
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This card is above average, definitely, but certainly not worthy of being a mythic rare. It seems that WOTC can put a hefty price tag on just about any half decent card these days and the mindless robot masses will be convinced it's an awesome card, regardless of its real-game practicality (Tarmogoyf, Mutavault). Sad.
-- By Jim from Madison, WI on October 21, 2009
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This card is definitely overhyped. Ok, it looks pretty freakin' amazing, but here's why the decks that run 4 of these and hope for a turn 3 Ultimatum won't be sticking around for long: as you know, there's a really really large amount of very good creatures in Standard right now. Bloodbraid Elf, Putrid Leech, Baneslayer Angel, Broodmate Dragon, Bogardan Hellkite: they're the strongest cards now, instead of instants or sorceries or enchantments or artifacts. For this reason, all of the competitive decks are packing at least 8 cheap removal spells. So I'm pretty sure your Cobra will just eat up a Terminate/Lightning Bolt/Journey to Nowhere/Path to Exile/Volcanic Fallout/Burst Lightning/Doom Blade, etc.
I give 2 instead of 1 stars because on the very off chance that Lotus Cobra doesn't die immediately, you have a good chance of winning (you can hit a Broodmate pretty easily on the 3rd turn). But good luck...
-- By Greg from Atlanta on October 21, 2009
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A lot you are looking at the metagame aspect of the PRICE or RARITY of cards which should not be an issue when rating the PLAYABILITY of a card. A 3 star card is a Llanowar elf. It's average and works well in most green decks, but there are better alternatives for nearly every deck type.
I'd usually give a card like this 4 stars because it is optimized with the use of certain cards whereas something like Birds of Paradise can not be further optimized and always provides mana and is good in every deck and there are generally no better alternatives, and it stands alone, therefore it is a 5 star card. Ok this is easy to kill, but so is every one or 2 toughness creature that isn't protection from red. Secondly sometimes this card will be better than a BoP or an elf because it's mana production doesn't require you to tap it, allowing you to both accelerate and get in that early damage, And finally this card is insane in conjunction with cards that let you bring more than one land onto the field a turn.
Hell, this actually makes terramorphic expanse look like a really good card, which brings me to the other point that you dont need the dual lands for this card to be good. I think nearly every standard deck running multicolored green should be running a few cobras -- yes, even jund decks. My principles of rating cards want me to give this card four stars but the things that can be simply done with it (combos involving only common cards) force me to give it 5.
-- By D/0 from NJ on October 21, 2009
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It's better than a bird in a lot of ways buddy who said that... watch harrow in conjunction with a Khalni Heart expidition suddenly give your opponent four mana of any colour in conjunction with those untapped lands coming into play... I did in the pre-release, it was brutal.
-- By Eric from Alberta, Canada on October 27, 2009
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Amazing card, it allows you to have 6 mana in the third round with a fetch land and Harrow. On top of that, you would not cast just a spell, but any spell, with any combinations of colors, perfect.
-- By Ekrem Ovunc Ozbey from Ankara, TURKEY on October 30, 2009
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I agree with you guys. Lotus Cobra dies too fast. 1 toughness is awfully low for any 2-drop. Of course, it's capable of some pretty sick plays ... Unless your opponent Lightning Bolts it in response...
-- By Jens N from Denmark on October 31, 2009
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Hey guys, it's kind of hard to break a mana producer that doesn't give you mana when you NEED it. Sad panda is sad.
-- By Anonymous from CA on November 03, 2009
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Lotus Cobra.
Oh dear Lotus Cobra.
In all honesty I would much rather have a bird over you but still you find your way perfectly into my deck.
A Nixilis deck based around landfall with extreme mana ramp.
We're looking at my deck though and it has a playset of both the Cobras and the Birds.
Possible Nixilis on the field by turn 4 and that's not bad but with everyone saying how easy you are to kill I come back saying it's easy to manage that.
Soul Stair Expedition to say the least.
They can waste their spells on you or the Birds but I still have the capabilites to bring you back.
I think that they will find their ways into landfall decks as a staple but not into mono green decks.
They will never replace the Birds but they still have their uses.
3/5
Extremely expensive
Overrated
Hard to keep in play.
Still useful in certain decks though.
-- By Herron from Indiana on November 03, 2009
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