MTG Salvation

What are your thoughts on Lotus Bloom for EDH? (If I cardtagged wrong, the one from Time Spiral). I have a playset sitting around now and I'm wondering if I should use them in a casual deck or split them between my EDH decks.

And of course, your general thoughts on it

Since it's a one time use I would probably never consider it. Also it's just too slow for my liking. That said some good uses for it might be Auriok Salvagers for some recursion of it. If only it returned it to play. Another probably better use of it would be Salvaging Station and use it with a sacrifice outlet and something like Reassembling Skeletons to produce infinite mana and sacrifices. I would suggest to combo it with Sliver Queen but there are better options for that imo like Mana Echoes. Could work in a Glissa, the Traitor deck to recur it, although that suffers from the same problem that Auriok Salvagers does in that it's just too slow.

EDIT

Prototype Portal with this on there turns it into a Gilded Lotus that can save the mana for later.

I think it's pretty much a must have in mono-blue. You can get it back if you need it with Academy Ruins. Getting 3 turns ahead in mana is huge if you ask me, especially for 0. It might make you a target though. Blue has so many high-cost, game winning cards I think the chance of playing those much sooner is well worth running it.

I've thought about it, and I really see no reason to run it over Gilded Lotus. Sure it comes out one turn earlier, but Gilded Lotus can be used again and again after that.

Also, yay 500 posts!

It's more difficult to abuse than I would like, and using it as a one shot doesn't really have any appeal to me. There are better options for acceleration.

I only run it when I am running a Salvaging Station and a Package for it (Executioner's Capsule, Dispeller's Capsule, Expedition Map, Tormod's Crypt, Wayfarer's Bauble, etc.) Then you can use lotus bloom and the station as a Gilded Lotus. However, wrathing can really break things, kill a few creatures and with each untap trigger, get back lotus, sac it and then repeat. I've gotten 18 mana from a wrath off of this, against a token deck you could get a lot more.

The other things to note, it can be targeted by Trinket Mage and Tolaria West.

Tldr - Alone not so good. With Salvaging station and friends an great mana engine

It's not bad by any means but I would rather have permanent mana such as gilded lotus. It requires more effort to abuse it.

It's an alright card and can lead to some mana shenanigans, but may paint a target on you for that reason. I think red is the only colour that lacks a sound way to get repeated advantage out of it, but generally unless going off or aiming for infinite mana, having a permanent on board is much more preferable (ie. Gilded Lotus or even Thran Dynamo).