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Heartbeat of Spring
Champions of Kamigawa
Reviewed October 4, 2004
Constructed: 2.8
Casual: 3.5
Limited: 2.2
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Scott
Gerhardt
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Mana Flare. It's a
friggin' green mana flare. Play your dragons
on turn 4. Heck, play them on turn 3.
Here is the deal with this card: You must be
able to abuse it better than your opponent.
Once you have this card on the board, you need to be
tapping out every turn. Huge monsters, X
spells - most anything that keeps stuff flying out
of your hand at break-neck speed. A friend of
mine from back in Abilene told me, "You're the first
person I've ever see find a proper use for Mana
Flare. It's because it works both ways.
If you can't use the mana and keep it going, it's
almost useless. One you stop tapping out every
turn, then the card yields very little advantage.
Things that dump mana for a good cause...anything.
Remember - 2 or 3 of these on the board and lead to
some nasty mana burn for an opponent as well - make
sure that doesn't happen to you.
In limited, I hate to
say it, but I don't see this card being used often.
MAYBE if you have a LOT of fat, but you simply can't
squeeze the advantage out of it that you can in
constructed.
Casual - your friends
will love you. Two things people love to see
on the table: A Howling Mine and a Mana Flare.
:)
Constructed: 3.5
Limited: 2
Casual: 5, plus the love and admiration of your
peers |
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Chris
Gerhardt
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game store owner in CA,
ShuffleAndCut |
This is a card that
Casual dreams are made of. Double up your mana
production to get your fatties on the board
quickly. A couple of words of caution:
Remember this also applies to your opponents, and
be careful of odd casting cost spells that may
leave you mana burning for one. But if you
can avoid that, you have a nice way to accelerate
into your big creatures or spells, like the
Myojins (Myojin
of Life's Web,
Myojin of Infinite Rage,
Myojin of Cleansing Fire, etc.) or Dragons,
such as
Jugan.
In limited, this is
totally deck dependant. If you're going
green at all, and if you have multiple high cc
spells, like the Myojins or Dragons, then
this is an asset worth playing. If you have
anything less, leave it in your sideboard, as you
have more of a chance to give your opponent an
edge than yourself.
Constructed:
3
Casual: 5
Limited: 3.5 (situationally)
Current Price:
Heartbeat
of Spring -
Champions of Kamigawa -
$4.99
Combos
Well With:
Myojin of
Life's Web -
Champions of Kamigawa -
$7.05
Myojin of
Inflinite Rage -
Champions of Kamigawa -
$6.49
Myojin of
Cleansing Fire -
Champions of Kamigawa -
$6.52
Jugan, the
Rising Star -
Champions of Kamigawa -
$6.99
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Judge Bill
*Level 2
MTG Judge
*game store employee
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Hi, I'm Mana Flae.
In the constant retooling of the color pie, the
ability to produce additional mana globally is
now a green ability. Neat for casual, blah for
constructed, and a waste of space for limited.
Constructed: 2
Casual: 3.5
Limited: 1
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Jeff Zandi
5
Time Pro Tour
Veteran
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Heartbeat of Spring
Mana Flare, a once popular red enchantment, is
alive again in a slighty
different form. Basically, when Heartbeat is in
play, you tap an Island, you
get two blue mana, you tap a Forest, you get two
green mana. Three if you
have two copies of Heartbeat in play, and so on. I
have to admit that the
first time I read this card, I thought it didn't
do ANYTHING at all...I
thought it was simply explaining what happens when
you normally tap a land.
"Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that
player adds one mana of that
type to his mana pool." RIGHT, sounded to me like
a description of tapping a
land for mana. Then I read it again, properly
smacked myself and figured out
the mana described in the text of Heartbeat of
Spring was IN ADDITION TO the
one mana I would already get from that land
without the enchantment... You
learn something new every day.
CONSTRUCTED: 3.0
CASUAL: 3.5
LIMITED: 2.0
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Ray "Monk"
Powers
* Level 3 DCI Judge
*DCI Tournament Organizer |
Heartbeat of Spring
The newest card to
play the “double your mana” game, Heartbeat of
Spring will definitely see play in the constructed
format. I am sure that even as I sit here and type
this, someone is building a combo deck, or a big
burn deck built to take advantage of the huge
amounts of mana this can generate. Maybe even a
Myojin deck….. Nahhhh!
Constructed:
4
Casual:
4
Limited:
1
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DeQuan
Watson
* game store owner (The
Game Closet - Waco,TX) |
I love mana! I know
you do too. Remember all those dragons that we
were showing earlier this week? Well, this is a
way to help you cast them. This card should be
large in casual circles. I'm sure some decks like
Tooth and Nail can take advantage of it. The
downside though, is that it works for both
players. It doesn't hold a lot of value to
competitive players for the most part, but who
knows, I've been surprised before.
Constructed: 2
Casual: 2.5
Limited: 1.5 |
Paul
Hagan |
Heartbeat of Spring --
It's like Wake!...sorta. I'm sitting on the fence
with regards to Heartbeat of Spring. It has
potential to set up some very silly amounts of
mana, much like Wake, and it does it better than
Extraplanar Lens. There are only two problems I
see. First, what do you do with the mana? Second,
why is it any better than stuff like Krark-Clan
Ironworks? I'm sure there are good answers to
these questions, but I haven't seen a new,
inventive way of abusing this card yet.
Casual players should just pass this card over.
There are quite a few cards that have a similar
effect, and I don't think any are that good.
In limited, unless I am trying to be cute and play
a bunch of expensive stuff with this card, I think
it will be sitting on my sidelines a lot because
it got passed to me 14th or 15th pick. It just
doesn't do much without a deck being built around
it.
Constructed Rating: 2.5 [potential for 4.0, but
not yet]
Casual Rating: 2.0
Limited Rating: 1.5 |
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Andy
Van Zandt |
Heartbeat of Spring
Well, it's mana flare. Mirari's Wake did see play
at 5 mana... so I don't
want to discount this card's potential. But only
recently has vernal bloom
found its way into deck, and extraplanar lens got
a lot of hype but didn't
really see so much time in play. Maybe as a way
to use Tooth and Nail
without depending on the lands, like Elf and Nail
decks used the bloom...
but this gives your opponent a distinct advantage
too. We'll see.
constructed 2
casual 4
limited 2
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Heartbeat of Spring
More like “This is
original mana flare; the red one was a BIG
misprint. No more Mirari’s Wake crap.”
Anyways, this review
is pretty simple; the ability is good. If there
are many decks running around using this, this
will be worse. If not too many decks are using
this, it will be good. I can predict a funny
shifting of metagame between decks that use this
and decks that don’t... or maybe I’m just
blowing this out of proportion.
It’s good, we know
that. I’m really not that sure how good it will
actually be though.
In limited, it's ok,
but you can’t really build decks around this.
It’s decent, but wouldn’t be my first pick.
Constructed: 3
Casual: 2
Limited: 2
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