With cards like Maelstrom Archangel, Cruel
Ultimatum, and (gulp!) Progenitus out there,
there's no such thing as a prohibitive mana cost
anymore. Prohibitive secondary market prices,
however, are still alive and well, and if you
don't want to shell out the cash for a chase
rare beater, this'll do just fine. It doesn't
die. To... anything, really. Well, okay,
deathtouch, but not much else.
Constructed- 2.5
Casual- 4.75
Limited- 3
David Fanany
Player since
1995
Inkwell Leviathan
There are certain things in Magic we take on
faith: protection is a uniformly good ability,
creatures that die easily are bad, high mana
costs make a card unplayable. Most of those
"certain things" are not true. Protection from
white and protection from red are often better
than protection from black; Tarmogoyf and River
Boa still rock the house despite the literally
thousands of removal spells around; and Inkwell
Leviathan is in the same set as Master
Transmuter, not to mention benefiting from older
cards like Dread Return, Vedalken Engineer,
Mycosynth Lattice, or even Tinker. Be afraid.
