I've seen one person decry how terrible this card is, then, on another day, have their @$$ handed to them by this same card. I don't know. I've said before that Magic 20XX was intended to be drafted, and in that environment, these costs were very good. Would you even think about playing this in constructed, though? Personally, I think the abilities are reasonable for what they represent... but I don't know if rares are supposed to be reasonable. I suppose I could one colorless off the top, and one in the activation, though, without making a broken card...

Yeah, this looks like it was designed to the power curve 5-8 years ago. These days I'd expect it to be 7 mana with an activation cost of about 4. Reminiscent of Chancellor of the Dross then. (Heh, even down to the "big flying lifelinker that you can reveal from your hand early on so it's not dead in the early game" :) )

Done and done. I could probably get away with one more off the top if this was Mythic. ;p

Oh definitely, if this was mythic both those costs would be cheaper again. But let's not go there.