Use Drain Power with Blaze once you have Master Transmuter and Static Orb or Winter Orb in play, they will be left with nothing each turn while you bounce your Orbs back to your hand ( so you can untap all your permanents) before the begining of each turn to put Darksteel Colossus in play or whatever fatty artifact creacture you have in mind :) It helps to have Izzet Guildmage and/or Pyromancer Ascension for multiplayer games :)

  -- By Brock from Crystal River, FL USA on August 12, 2010

It seems good at first, but they can tap their lands in response to you playing this. At most you might gain 1 or two mana from this, essentially making this a UU mana short.

  -- By FEC from Minnesota on June 04, 2010

Let's you play huge spells like Eternal Dominion much much easier

  -- By Alucard from Olean, NY on June 04, 2010

When you draw all of the mana from your opponent's mana pool, make sure you can use it all in that one turn. If you can't you get mana burn and they get their mana back next turn anyway.

  -- By William DeFoe from New York on August 01, 2008

Be careful of the mana burn, it's very important that your opponent either has the perfect amount of mana or that you have something to throw the excess into, maybe a freed from the real, a shade, a fire breathing creature, or preferably something that can use colorless mana. If you get it set up right this card can unleash a monstrous fireball or disintegrate. Great card, but you better watch out for that mana burn.

  -- By Eli from Anonymous on March 30, 2008

I'm ordering 4 of these, they're amazing. imagine a fifth turn time stretch. Makes Krosan Cloudscraper, Door to Nothingness, and all sorts of other fatties playable. This card is truly remarkable in my humble opinion. It's easily on the same level as some of the power house cards of magic like Braingeyser and Timetwister... okay not Timetwister. It's still amazing and i can see vintage players going for this if only they knew how rad it is.

  -- By Eli from Anonymous on March 28, 2008

This card is awesome.

  -- By Bob from illinois on March 02, 2002