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Landlocked Lemur
Creature - Beast
As -this- ETB, search your library for a land card and put it on the battlefield. That land remains on the battlefield until- this- leaves the battlefield. Shuffle that land into your library as -this- leaves the battlefield.
2/2
It uses the modern 'until' wording so it is shenanigan-free.
Plippir, Chief Librarian
Legendary Creature - Goblin
Players take 1 damage for each card he or she draws
2/1
Notes
Fuck you Brainstorm.
That 2/2 guy is legendary. Others search for basic, all of them put them tapped and they got Squire's p/t for double colored mana. I don't think they're too powerful, but if they're op, then simply colorshift them into blue, give them flying or pro:you and they should be fine.
Banestorm
-1-
-Instant-
Draw 3 cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library. If you control an Island, punch yourself in the dick and give your opponent 20 bucks.
I modified a design from Finn a bit:
Goblin Spellthief
Creature - Goblin Rogue
Goblin Spellthief can't be countered.
Haste
Whenever Goblin Spellthief attacks, defending player reveals the top card of his or her library. If it’s an instant or sorcery card with converted mana cost 3 or less, you may exile that card. If you do, you may cast a copy of that card without paying its mana cost.
2/2
Orzhova Councilman
Creature - Human Cleric
As long as -this- is exiled, white creatures you control and black creatures you control get +1/+1.
Exile -this-: target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
2/1
Giant Mountain Goat
Creature - Goat Giant
If at any time you control a Swamp, Plains, or Island, sacrfice ~.
5/5
Flash Boil
Sorcery
Destroy target Island an opponent controls and target land you control
Jund Monster
Creature - Beast
Whenever an opponent draws a card that isn't the first draw of their draw step you may pay 1 life and draw a card.
2/4
Anti Mage Sword
Artifact - Equipment
Equipped creature gets +2/+0 for each each instant and sorcery card in target opponent's graveyard and gains protection from blue and red.
Equip Remove two target instant or sorcery cards from an opponent's graveyard.
I think I've come up with a card that kills Brainstorm's dominance for good, is fast and cheap enough to be maindeckable as a 4-of by any deck that doesn't want to run other cantrips/card draw (and thus not being a mandatory card like Mental Misstep):
Being Legendary mainly prevents blow-outs in multiples, yet it's never dead because it still replaces itself when played. Since it's a colorless cantrip, it also helps the consistency of the decks that don't run card draw otherwise.Relic of the Ancients
Legendary Artifact
Flash
When Relic of the Ancients enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Whenever a spell or an ability of a card not named Relic of the Ancients causes a player to draw a card, each of that player's opponents may draw a card.
Is this card ridiculous? Yes, but so are Brainstorm and company. Could cost and be uncounterable instead to be more balanced, but you get the point.
Edit: Or to make it actually reasonable:
Still good, but no immediate CA/Ancestral Recall potential. Also, more in line with Relic of Progenitus and friends.Relic of the Ancients
Legendary Artifact
Relic of the Ancients can't be countered.
When Relic of the Ancients enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Whenever a spell or an ability of a card not named Relic of the Ancients causes a player to draw a card, each of that player's opponents may draw a card.
Raze exists, nearly the same thing.
Goblin Flagbearer
Creature - Goblin Soldier
Goblin spells cost less to cast
2/1
Notes: There hasn't been any real power-creep with goblin creatures for quite some time. Meanwhile, other creatures have entered the meta: Deathrite Shaman, True-Name, Delver, etc. Goblin Flagbearer is essentially Goblin Warchief, but is 2/1 instead of 2/2, doesn't grant haste and makes all goblin spells cost less, even those cast by your opponent (this would really only be relevant in a mirror match). All this for two mana less. Goblin Flagbearer can attack into Deathrite, unlike Lackey. The point isn't to make Lackey obsolete, I just want to make another really good goblin 1-drop.
Wizards will never print a symetric creature, because 21 y/o children dislike them "how come mah goblin helpz the other goblinz?"
Good design. I think there could be a boost in other colors, too. White for soldiers/knights, black for imps/thrulls, green for dryads/beasts, blue for homarids/drakes/leviathans or some other silly tribe. Nerf blue, improve other colors, introduce some interesting not often seen tribes to shake up things in less mainstream formats like Tribal Wars, all this in a Homelands/TSPblock setting with reasonable power level. Must be good.
There's that Sliver that gives all Slivers defender and "when this ETB draw a card" but you probably wanted one w/out the drawback right :P
Actually now that I think about it that guy might be randomly OK with Hibernation Sliver (not in Legacy, just in a 'cards that do stuff together' way)
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