MTG Salvation

Temple of the Forsaken Gods
Land (Rare)
T: Add 1 to your mana pool.
T: Add 2 to your mana pool. Use this ability only to cast colorless spells. Activate this ability only if you control seven or more lands.

Source: http://mtg-news.net/archives/11011

And I thought we got something insane until I read the "... unless you control seven or more lands" clause. So this is basically garbage, I guess. Very nice artwork, though.

Ummm, not bad, maybe tron can use this ?

The flavor text says that the three gods worshiped by the merfolk as Ula, Emeria, and Cosi were actually mistaken memories of the three Eldrazi titans, Ulamog, Emrakul, and Kozilek.
Useful for colorless EDH and not much else.

Good in colorless commander decks, for sure. Who are these forsaken gods in the art, though?

Quote from racerxen »

Ummm, not bad, maybe tron can use this ?

Why should tron use this? Once they have 7 or more lands they have all the mana in the world. No need for a land like that.

So excited to see this art used on a card!

I wish it wasn't restricted to colorless though. Seven or more lands is enough to add 2 IMO.

this is true, I didn't read that last part about having 7 lands quickly enough. Was hoping for something a little more epic, art's nice though.

Bleh.
I was hoping for a Temple of the False God rainbow land-
This pretty much rules that out

This is a fine land. Not quite as sweet as Eldrazi Temple in most scenarios, but sufficient as a tool for making Eldrazi monstrosities happen.

This is just bad design. If the worry was power level, then they should have just scrapped this or made it legendary without the land count restriction. This would be fine at uncommon otherwise.

I totally thought this was going to be the art for Temple of the False God. I guess I'm semi-right... oh well.

EDIT: You can also totally tell who is who. From left to right: Ulamog (Ula), Emrakul (Em), and Kozilek (Cosi). Dripping with flavor.

Quote from Gerrard"s Mom »

The flavor text says that the three gods worshiped by the merfolk as Ula, Emeria, and Cosi were actually mistaken memories of the three Eldrazi titans, Ulamog, Emrakul, and Kozilek.
Useful for colorless EDH and not much else.

This was previously known, but seeing them as statues is quite cool-
I love how Emeria's wings resemble Emrakul's silhouette.

Ugh. Absolutely horrible. My initial suspicion about the Priceless Treasure lands is coming to fruition. They'll need them to sell the set if the rest of it is this bad.

Quote from Duke Daemon »

Sweet Jesus YES!! Right into edh deck u go! Hope this art is on a playmat.

That's what I thought until I hit that "Activate this ability only if you control seven or more lands." clause. Instead it sits well below Temple of the False God and Ancient Tomb.

Does this mean that we wont have all 5 man lands in BFZ?

Quote from Pouncing Kavu »

Good in colorless commander decks, for sure. Who are these forsaken gods in the art, though?

After the Eldrazi were locked up Nahiri told tales of them and likened them to evil gods. After thousands of years that got distorted into gods that were worshipped.

Ula = Ulamog (one on the left of the art)
Cosi = Kozilek (one of the right)
Emeria = Emrakul (one in the center)

Seriously?

A rare that's worse than one of the preconstructed DD:ZvE uncommons?

That's just insulting. Is the translation on that 100% for sure?

Yes, that has been confirmed. They are spread out between this and the next set (probably 3-2).

This is terrible. It ramps you only in the late game, in an extremely narrow fashion, and hurts your fixing until then.

Tron doesn't need it, it's too slow for any normal 60-card Constructed deck, and I'm not even sold on it being EDH playable.

Goddamn wizards, stop wasting good art!

Oh well. At least I would be able to get one for cheap.

Quote from gcsmith »

Does this mean that we wont have all 5 man lands in BFZ?

It is allready known that that is a mega cycle (part of it is in Oath).

Quote from FuriousMarsupial »

This is terrible. It ramps you only in the late game, in an extremely narrow fashion, and hurts your fixing until then.

Tron doesn't need it, it's too slow for any normal 60-card Constructed deck, and I'm not even sold on it being EDH playable.

It will be fine in colorless edh decks which is fairly restrictive in the ways you can build the manabase due to color identity rules. Especially in budget builds as I can't imagine this thing holding more than $1 in value after it rotates out.

I assume the name is a place holder. It's collector's number is 245, which places it between P and S.