This card comes with a pretty good pedigree. The
last card I played that was a little like this
one, Mirari, was plenty good in its day. Rings
of Brighthearth might be better, while its
usefulness is more narrow than Mirari, Rings
copies activated abilities where Mirari copied
actual spells.
Nevertheless, Rings sounds like an interesting
card that could easily see several different
constructed decks built around its cheap cost to
play and use. Rings is not really a card that is
likely to be abusive in limited play. I think a
card like this just waters down your booster
draft and sealed decks.
I won't go into how many awesome activated
abilities there are for this to copy. I'll let
you find them, or wait for a Rings of
Brighthearth deck to show up in my Garage. For
now, I'll just say, it's a powerful weapon in
the right deck.
Constructed- 3
Casual- 4
Limited- 2
Aethereal
Friday - Rings
of Brighthearth
Hmm, a Mirari for activated abilities. This is
cheaper than Mirari both to play and use, but
I'm not sure where it'll fit in. There aren't a
lot of activated abilities that this would work
well with in the normal decks; this is much more
suited to a combo deck, where it might be
amusing to copy effects like Ambassador Laquatus
or something. I think this will be a popular
casual card, but probably not tournament worthy.
In limited, if you have a killer activated
ability, this might be worth playing, but I
probably wouldn't bother.
Constructed - 2
Casual - 4
Limited - 2
David Fanany
Player since
1995
Rings of
Brighthearth
The most obvious use for the Rings of
Brighthearth in constructed play is to get more
bang for your (huge) investment out of Urza's
Factory or Icy Manipulator. It's difficult to
predict what exactly this card will do without
seeing what else is in Lorwyn, but it seems
likely that a combo deck will be made with this
somewhere. In casual play, this card likes
Mishra's Factory and Millstone. I doubt the
Rings are worth playing in limited. They don't
attack, they don't block, and they don't remove
creatures.
Constructed: 2/5
Casual: 4/5
Limited: 1/5
Arcane
Rings of
Brighthearth
Constructed: Mirari for activated abilities has
a great potential to be very abused. If you
don’t believe me pull up Gatherer and do a
search for “:” and you’ll see the huge list of
devastating creatures, artifacts, lands, etc.
that all have great effects that could get
really out of hand by just adding a pair of
colorless mana to them. While I can’t think of
any cards that will get ridiculously broken when
replicated, I’m sure it won’t take long for
someone else to. Easiest thing I can think of
off the top of my head: cycling. Turn a few more
mana into a lot of extra cards and overpower
your opponent with card advantage.
Casual/Multi: As if there weren’t going to be
enough activated abilities abused in
constructed, casual opens up the door to some
potentially downright ridiculous effects to copy
and spread around. Trying to shove someone out
the Door to Nothingness or take over their turn
with Mindsalver? Pay the extra 2 mana and do it
to someone else as well. The effects just
snowball from there. The Johnny in me quivers
with anticipation. Obviously the card isn’t
going to do anything on its own, but being an
artifact means that it can go everywhere and
everywhere and will bring along a great effect
with it.
Limited: Odds are that no matter what color you
play you should be able to get some good use out
of this. White cards that tap to deal damage to
attacking or blocking creatures, black destroy
effects, red damage, green token generation or
blue mill. Don’t forget that you can copy any
effect, including the new planeswalkers. I have
giddy dreams of copying the effect of Jace
Beleran to mill out 40 cards of my opponent’s
deck in one go. A safe bet to grab, and very
easy to use and easy on the mana.
Constructed: 3
Casual: 4
Limited: 3.5
The Missing
Linc
-Balding
for just over 5 years
-Playing MTG for just over 10
Rings of
Brighthearth
So far, I think this is my favorite card of the
set. It will take a particular deck with great
synergy to break this card. Immediately, a Life
from the Loam/ Seizmic Assualt deck seems just
right. Assualt for extra, cycle lands for
extra, dredge for extra. This works great with
sac lands, terramorphic (get two lands), that
blue creature that gets you two lands for a
discard (now you get four). The list of
possiblities is fantastic. The trouble again
will be in constructed, you must have so many
cards with synergy to validate putting this into
your deck. This will be fun with Plainswalkers
as well. Just simple fun fun fun. Double your
pleasure. Too bad it only doubles the
pleasure. Remember it can only be used upon the
activation of an ability. It cannot be
retriggered by a copied ability.
Constructed: 4 (if the right deck comes out)
Casual: 5
Limited: 4
Thanks,
The Missing Linc
Necro
nomikron
MTG Rules Advisor
Rings of
Brighthearth:
I'm really trying to find a use for this card,
but failing. I suppose that it's mainly just
there for the new planeswalker cards (which can
be a valid reason for playing this card). I
doubt its usefulness in limited, mainly because
it's a niche card. I could see it being useful
in constructed, for some decks.
Constructed: 2.5/5
Casual: 3/5
Limited: 1/5
PsychoAnime
#1
Magic Noob in Canada since 2002
Rings of
Brighthearth
I can't think of any ability that you would like
to copy enough such that you would include this
in a deck. You could copy a Martyr of Sands
ability to double the life gain or Terramorphic
Expanse to get another land, but that just seems
so unnecessary to me.
The problem with this card is if you're copying
an inexpensive ability, you could just play it
again anyway. If you're copying an expensive
ability, well, those are usually bad.
Constructed: 1/5
Casual: 2/5
Limited: 1/5
Meb9000
9/28
Rings of Brighthearth
Thought a bit unimaginative, this new Artifact
can make a lot of powerful combos happen. There
is a myriad of fun abilities one can copy with
this card. Grandeur creatures are my personal
favorite. Discard one legend, get 2x the
powerful effect. Korlash or Tarox Bladewing seem
especially fun. Transmute and Transfigure, any
Cycling, and even Forecast effects can be
duplicated with this card. It will be up the
Johnnies of the world to figure this card out,
so we will wait and see for this one.
