Dies to Removal

Maze's End

Land Mythic Rare
Maze's End enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add 1 to your mana pool.
3, {T}, Return Maze's End to your hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. If you control ten or more Gates with different names, you win the game.

Seriously...fuck this noise.

They might as well have made it a common. The only thing mythic rare about it are the chances it will actually be played in decks

Well, and since it's the pre-release promo...it can be brought up in statistics that they're giving us a mythic promo.

Quite frankly, I'm kinda happy it's mythic. Means I won't get many of these pieces of crap. I hope...I mean, in our first box of Gatecrash, we DID get two Enter the Infinite...

: puke:

I don't know what all the puking and complaining is about. It's Thawing Glaciers with a win condition attached. I feel like there's already a market for this in Commander and this can't be the absolute worst inclusion in a constructed deck, given the nature of grindy match ups.

My personal dislike for it is because I don't play EDH...not yet, anyway. For this to be useful in Standard, you'd have to be running all 10 gates, which could kill tempo badly, and by the time you can start using it...you have better things to be spending four mana on.

It's crazy flavorful, which is cool, but it just doesn't excite me. I want to be seeing cards that excite me, and I'm usually one of the people who others accuse of hanging from WotC's nutsack, so this isn't a normal response from me.

Kind of the point, Thrillho. "Play lands win" is not my favorite thing in the world.

Kind of the point, Thrillho. "Play lands win" is not my favorite thing in the world.

is it better or worse than "do nothing drownyard you"

Probably mythic because of drafting with the guildgates going to be in most packs. Of course, that sucks for those of us who want to actually get something when we buy packs and you get one of these. This is why I don't like to open packs. I immediately check the back of the pack for any foil/rare and don't give a crap about the rest of the stuff. I'd be pissed to blow $4 and get this in return.

Do cards like Chameleon Colossus count as Gates?

I believe "Gate" is not a creature type, so no.

Kind of the point, Thrillho. "Play lands win" is not my favorite thing in the world.

is it better or worse than "do nothing drownyard you"

Meh, perhaps you're right. Hell, you probably are. It's not so much the power level or lack of board interaction that bugs me, it's that the archetype (if it takes off) is pretty mindless: pack the deck with game-stoppers and win off a land (that dodges the pathetic vestiges of land removal we have now, even!). Perhaps I'm just an old codger who loves an intensive, thought-provoking meta a little
too much, but that ya go.

I believe "Gate" is not a creature type, so no.

You don't have to use this to win the game...you can use it for fixing and thining in the mid/late game. I don't know if it will get played or not but in block it could be a 1 or 2 of in 4/5 color control

Kind of the point, Thrillho. "Play lands win" is not my favorite thing in the world.

is it better or worse than "do nothing drownyard you"

My only problem with this is... are Standard control decks really going to want to play all 10 gates in their decks as one-ofs that MUST come into play tapped?

Shit, lol, I need to pay more attention to spoilers. Another "you win the game" card for my Battle of Wits deck. Now I MUST put gates in the deck...

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