Quote Originally Posted by Skurt View Post
I'm just curious. why is this card so amazing?

In my point of view: Jund, BUG and Junk all run Abrupt Decay. Why would it be so great to just put Oblivion Stone on the table?
It's also exposed to opposing Oblivion Rings and such.

And against those decks you are the one running alot of artifacts, not them! Especially relevant are Pithing Needle and Candelabra which you'll lose when cracking O-Stone.

Several avantages of All is Dust over O--stone:
I find the power of being unexpected and cast directly from the hand much bigger. To do this with O-stone it costs 1 mora mana and you're exposed to both counterspells and Stifles all in the same turn!!

Another advantage of All is Dust is ability to cost less with Eye of Ugin.

I don't see how it's so much better than All is Dust? Can someone plase explain.
O-Stone kills MUD (one of our terrible match-ups game 1), and is an out against SnT decks because it kills Emrakul as well. It also kills Helm of Obedience.

Its weakness to Abrupt Decay is easily remedied by activating it the turn it comes into play, or if you have to play it early, by providing a good Abrupt Decay target to your opponent as bait (Most players start getting nervous when I play a Candelabra, for example).

If your local meta doesn't run a lot of Emrakuls and Helms, then All is Dust is probably better.