Lotus Cobra

I had the best hand ever. turn 1, played a arbor elf. turn two, played lotus cobra. turn three, played 4 harrows. i had seven land and five mana to spare on turn three. so i played omnath and another lotus cobra so i didnt lose the 15 mana i used. just awsome.

Ooh pretty! Wait what!? Where did you get that mana? Oh no ahhhhhhh!

Ruin Ghost, Tideforce Elemental, and Lotus Cobra... Correct me if im wrong but im pretty sure that thats an infinite landfall ability combo. Can you say Ob Nixilis, the Fallen??

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.

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.

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.

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...

Can you say third turn Ultimatum? I need a playset soon, maybe I can open them in packs

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!

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)

I think the guy above is a little confused about the workings of Omnath. Omnath says that green mana doesn't empty from your mana pool as phases and turns end. However, when you cast a spell, that mana does get used and is no longer in your mana pool. So the 15 mana you spent to cast your harrows and second Lotus would be gone. Still a nice turn, though.

I agree on the weakness of this card, but with a way found around this, its a nice addition. I'm thinking of adding it to my green/black vampire deck. Mephidross Vampire/Door of Destenies/Perilous Forays/Bloodghast/Butcher of Malakir/Lotus Cobra. Still a deck in progress but I think I see the light.

I'd like to scratch my previous review:
Lotus Cobra is good, and many players have proven that fact. I know it's very vulnerable to burn spells, but on the other hand, so are most good creatures.
Lotus Cobra can power out some good, if not insane combos really early, and I fully understand why they chose to make it fragile - kinfs like the most badass artifact combos can be stopped by a tiimely Naturilize or Krosan Grip.

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.

Good card, but I don't see why it's mythic.

It would be really good if you could afford it. you might want it.

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.

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...

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.

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.)

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.

i don't see why this card is all the rage. like some of the people who wrote their reviews above mine, i completely agree it has too low a power and toughness (seriously, a 1/1!? give me a break!), and against a black mana user, there's no way you could get this creature past turn 5 with the possibility of a bazillion doom blades and deathmarks in their deck, also there is the issue of a white mana user having an iona at their back. but it can be good if you're careful enough with the timing, and if you have maybe even more enticing creatures in play, which probably won't be a problem if you play red-green.

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...

Finhorn elder are more better then these are becuz they make you 2 manas for your army any time you need becuz you can just tap them for manas you cant do these with lotus cobra and lanowar elfs are better then cobra to

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.