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Pojo's Magic The Gathering
Card of the Day
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Howling Mine
7th Edition
"Drawing
extra cards is nice. Letting your opponent draw
extra cards... Not so nice."
-Mason Peatross
Pojo's Average
Rating -
Constructed: 2.59
(9 Reviews)
Limited: 1.77 (9 Reviews)
Reviewed April 18, 2002
Ratings are
based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being the worst. 3 ...
average.
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Fletcher
Peatross
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Ok,
for all you new players out here, THIS is the card
that makes a deck
'Turbo'. You can't have a Turbo deck without
Howling Mine. For example,
you don't have a X-Go deck without Counterspell.
Anyways, Howling Mine has
old school written all over it. I don't know
that its exceptional in any
environment that doesn't have an enchantment that
says "permanents do not
untap," but it is very solid. Most
likely a skilltester card. In
Constructed, very situational, a 2. In
Limited, always gives your opponent
more cards than you, a 1.5 |
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Mason
Peatross |
Drawing
extra cards is nice. Letting your opponent
draw extra cards... Not so nice. This only
works in certain decks, and that's too
limiting. You don't always want to give
your opponent that advantage.
Stasis
rating: integral to the master plan
Limited
Rating: 2
Constructed
Rating: 2
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DeQuan
Watson
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OK,
this is time for the writer to share himself with
the readers.
NO!, Not like that. Come on, get your head
out of the gutter.
What many of you don't know is that I actually
have a large colelction of Howling Mines. I
think it was at 220 or so at one point. Why
you ask? Simple.
I hit a point where every time I bought a starter
or booster pack, I was getting a howling mine.
When I drafted...howling mine. Sealed
deck....howling mine. So I simply just
figured I see how many I could get.
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Fun game time: If any readers have a Howling
Mine to part with, it would be cool for you to
autograph it and send it to me at my store! :)
I'll even mention you in my article after I
get it :)
e-mail me at PowrDragn@pojo.com
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Constructed: 2.0
Limited: 1.3
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Scott
Gerhardt
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This
is kinda unfair for me to review what might be one
of my favorite cards of all time. I also am
in the bad situation that I seem to read everyone
else's reviews before I write my own. That
said, let me TRY to be imparital.
If
you don't build a deck around Howling Mine, it
sucks....bad. If you do build around it,
then it's quite good. The trick is to use
your opponents drawing cards a bad thing.
Combo with cards such as Orim's Chant and
Millstone in Type 2, or the very obvious Stasis in
extended, what was at one point a very symmetrical
relationship turns into something downright
wrong. Reviewing this card for what it does
is one thing. I, though, am going to review
it for what it can do in the hands of a good
player. There is nothing else in the game
quite like the Mine - in the right deck, it just
wins games.
In
limited, on the other hand, it's complete and
total crap. I'd rather play with a Woodland
Druid than give my opponent better card advantage
than me. :(
 Constructed
- 4
Limited - 1.2
Current Price - $4.75
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Judge
Bill
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Due
to the fact that this is symmetrical, this is a
very hard card to make any good. Good at what it
does, but what it does isn't very good these
days.
Constructed:
2.3
Limited:
1.4
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Doctor
Mackerel
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There's
not a lot to say about Howling Mine. It helps both
players equally,
so you should only use it as part of a combo, or
in a deck that has problems
with card drawing eg. Sligh.
Constructed - 3.5
Limited - 2.5
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Aaron
Teare
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Andrew
Chapman
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Howling
Mine has been around for ages and has never
seen very much play, consitantly. It pops up
here and
there. A deck that should be able to stay
ahead in
card advantage and speed as long as they just
don't
run out of cards would make best use of this card.
In Limited, it seems a little dumb to play.
On one
hand, you can get to all your bombs faster.
On the
other hand, so can your opponent.
Constructed: 3
Limited: 2
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Rob
Lawing
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Once
upon a time back in the dark ages of MTG this
card was played by many players. Then someone
realized that your opponent enjoyed extra cards
as much as you did. Nowadays it rarely sees play
except in very specialized Millstone type decks
and these don't seem to win much anymore. In
casual play he can be great fun, especially as a
way for people not to want to kill you in group
games. But since rating here are based on
tourney play he gets a fairly low rating.
Rating
Constructed
2
Limited
1.5
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Robby
Hinton
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Limited:
2 1/2 Stars
Constructed: 2 1/2 Stars
Howling Mine is one of those cards that is good
only
in certain situations. If you're opponent is
having a
hard time drawing what they need, you're not going
to
play this. If you're doing just fine, you're
not
going to play this. If they're beating you
down,
you're probably (key word there) not going to play
this and make things worse. If you've got a
Stasis
out, you probably will play this. Kind of
one-sided, no?
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