When cast, this card pulls a green creature of
your choice out of your deck and puts it
straight onto the battlefield. This card
basically says that for an additional G, you can
use your entire library as an extension of your
hand and cast a creature card from straight out
of your deck. Need a Wurm right this very turn?
With this card, you don't need to draw that Wurm,
you just need to know it's in there somewhere
and pay one more mana for it. Also you can spend
mana as though it were mana of any color to cast
that creature. Progenitus is a green creature--
why pay WWUUBBRRGG when you can pay 10G?
Absolutely any creature in your deck, and the
Green Sun takes that card's place in your deck,
so you can topdeck it again later. Especially
nuts in Elf decks, where you can fire this off
as early as turn two to go grab another mana
elf, then when you draw it later you'll
undoubtedly have enough mana to grab whatever
you can imagine.
There was a gap of ten years between Natural
Order and Chord of Calling, and five years
between Chord of Calling and Green Sun's Zenith.
I hope we don't have to wait as long for the
next card like this. Playing it means you'll
have to spend a lot more time shuffling your
deck, but that won't seem so bad when you can
grab a Sylvan Ranger, an Obstinate Baloth, or a
Primeval Titan on demand. Lots of cards reward
you for building around them, but few reward you
as well as Green Sun's Zenith does.
Magic The Gathering Card of The Day:
Green Sun’s Zenith
Welcome back readers today we are continuing our
reviews of the zeniths today’s card of the day I
s Green Sun’s Zenith. Being able to search your
library for a green creature card is a powerful
ability paying a single green mana on top of
what the creature would cost is more than
reasonable since you get to grab it from your
deck. In standard this card could become a
lynchpin of elf decks although it has to
compete with Genesis Wave they perform two
similar but different things, Green Sun’s Zenith
is better if your looking for a particular
card where as Genesis Wave is good just for
dumping things on the board. In extended and
eternal once again elf decks will definitely
test this card and it should be see significant
play. In casual and multiplayer this is an auto
include in green EDH decks that run a fair
number of creatures. Its also an effective tutor
type card for green decks that will see a large
amount of casual play. In limited it limits you
to green creatures but only has a single green
in its mana cost making it easy to cast and get
your green bomb. Overall a powerful card
with a host of casual and constructed
applications.
Today's card of the day is the excellent Green
Sun's Zenith which is one Green and X that
allows you to search your library for a Green
creature with a converted cost of X or less and
put it directly into the battlefield.
Paying one mana more for any creature you want
at the time you want it is great for getting
acceleration early, removal if needed, or
aggression when there's an opening. There
is absolutely nothing bad to say about this card
and just about any Green deck can make good use
of it.
For Limited this Zenith only having one Green in
the cost allows it to be splashed in with any
deck using even a few Green creatures and should
be played whenever your Sealed pool includes
powerful, but situational options. In
Booster this can be a viable first pick that
helps support an aggressive Green draft.
The format often has single copies of cards and
this is the way to bring the tool you want out
when you it will do the most good.
Today’s Card of the Day for Zenith
Week is Green Sun’s Zenith. One of the two
cheaper, and yet better, zenith’s, Green Sun’s
Zenith only costs one green mana before your X
value. For your X value, you can search your
library for any green creature card with
converted mana cost X, and put it into play. Too
bad this is a sorcery, cause I think it should
have made instant, it’d be more fun that way.
In standard formats, the uses are simple. You need something, go
get it. There aren’t a whole lot of great BIG
creatures in standard that you would want to
lose this on necessarily. However, there is no
shortage of amazing green creatures that you
would want to use this to fetch. For instance,
Thrun from Mirrodin Besieged would certainly be
worth spending one extra green mana to pull him
into play as soon as possible. Another creature
that would be useful as soon as available is of
course Ezuri, Renegade Leader. Or let’s be
honest, any elf these days is a good card to
need.
In vintage and casual formats, I think one card makes this
super useful, Painter’s Servant. Now any
creature in your deck could become green,
meaning any creature you need is open game for
the Green Sun’s Zenith.
All and all, another very good card to come from Mirrodin
Besieged, and we still have yet to find any
Zenith card we could consider useless. These
powerful spells were put here to overwhelm our
senses, and wreak utter destruction in their
wake.
