morgan_coke
03-01-2010, 02:24 AM
I think this is a card that's really being overlooked right now in Legacy. For reference:
Prismatic Omen
1G
Enchantment
Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.
On the surface, this qualifies as bad card is bad. However, when combined with two cards printed in Zendikar - Emeria, the Sky Ruin and more importantly, Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle, we get this:
Prismatic Omen
1G
Enchantment
You have domain. All your lands tap for any color of mana with no drawback. Daze and Knight of the Reliquary work on all your lands. So does Choke.
At the beginning of your upkeep return 1-4 creatures from your graveyard to the battlefield if you control more than seven lands.
Landfall - cast 1-4 Lightning Bolts if you have more than five lands.
Thats a really, really, really good card. Like, Tarmogoyf good. The combo costs 1G, the same as 'Goyf, but isn't a creature, so its harder to kill. It's completely graveyard independent. It doubles effects off of fetchlands. It works completely outside of the combat phase and can double as removal. The damage is colorless. Once Omen is in place it doesn't require casting spells. It is vulnerable to Wasteland/Blood Moon, but not Rishadan Port or Back to Basics. The obvious question is what shell does it go in? I think there are three primary options.
Option 1: The straight combo deck. Goal is to go Scapeshift once you hit six lands and an Omen in play. Everything else in the deck is designed to support this. Personally, I think this is the weakest, least diverse option.
Option 2: Hybridize combo win with a g/x aggro and/or aggro control strategy. Think something like the way various decks have added Natural Order/Progenitus as an alternative win condition. Harder to include than NO/Prog due to more slots required, has advantage of being able to use incrementally though. For optimal results probably needs its own list that includes other land interactions.
Option 3: Add to an existing land based deck. The two main land based decks in Legacy are 43Lands, where this probably doesn't fit unless you have something like Treasure Hunt or a Burning Wish/Golden Wish chain to find it (or unless Wizards finally prints an enchantment version of Stronghold/Ruins), and may be redundant to the 43Lands plan anyway. The other land-based deck in Legacy is called 5c Eternal Garden and has fallen in popularity lately, but this was due primarily to issues caused by the decline of goblins and the rise of better combo decks like ANT.
I think Garden might be one of the strongest candidates for getting a boost from Prismatic Omen. The main problem the deck always had was that it takes awhile to kill someone with recurring Barbarian Ring or Nantuko Monastery. Garden is uniquely suited to take advantage of Omen because it has many ways to find the lands to fuel Valakut/Omen and also gains a noticeable benefit from simply being able to tap all its lands (Tabernacle, Chasm, etc.) for mana.
A sample list to help discussion: (this list is not tuned, perfected, or anything else, don't freak out and overanalyze it)
Enchantments
4x Exploration
4x Prismatic Omen
Artifacts
4x Crucible of Worlds
3x Sensei's Divining Top
1x Engineered Explosives
1x Zuran Orb
Instants
4x Swords to Plowshares
4x Crop Rotation
4x Intuition
Sorceries
2x Scapeshift
1x Regrowth
1x Life from the Loam
Lands
3x Misty Rainforest
1x Verdant Catacombs
1x Windswept Heath
1x Wooded Foothills
1x Island
1x Forest
1x Plains
3x Tropical Island
2x Savannah
3x Wasteland
3x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
1x Bojuka Bog
1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1x Glacial Chasm
1x Horizon Canopy
1x Cephalid Coliseum
1x Academy Ruins
1x Maze of Ith
So what do you guys think? Is Prismatic Omen a potential engine card for winning in Legacy? Does the possibility of turn 4-5 wins make Eternal Garden more viable? Discuss.
Prismatic Omen
1G
Enchantment
Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.
On the surface, this qualifies as bad card is bad. However, when combined with two cards printed in Zendikar - Emeria, the Sky Ruin and more importantly, Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle, we get this:
Prismatic Omen
1G
Enchantment
You have domain. All your lands tap for any color of mana with no drawback. Daze and Knight of the Reliquary work on all your lands. So does Choke.
At the beginning of your upkeep return 1-4 creatures from your graveyard to the battlefield if you control more than seven lands.
Landfall - cast 1-4 Lightning Bolts if you have more than five lands.
Thats a really, really, really good card. Like, Tarmogoyf good. The combo costs 1G, the same as 'Goyf, but isn't a creature, so its harder to kill. It's completely graveyard independent. It doubles effects off of fetchlands. It works completely outside of the combat phase and can double as removal. The damage is colorless. Once Omen is in place it doesn't require casting spells. It is vulnerable to Wasteland/Blood Moon, but not Rishadan Port or Back to Basics. The obvious question is what shell does it go in? I think there are three primary options.
Option 1: The straight combo deck. Goal is to go Scapeshift once you hit six lands and an Omen in play. Everything else in the deck is designed to support this. Personally, I think this is the weakest, least diverse option.
Option 2: Hybridize combo win with a g/x aggro and/or aggro control strategy. Think something like the way various decks have added Natural Order/Progenitus as an alternative win condition. Harder to include than NO/Prog due to more slots required, has advantage of being able to use incrementally though. For optimal results probably needs its own list that includes other land interactions.
Option 3: Add to an existing land based deck. The two main land based decks in Legacy are 43Lands, where this probably doesn't fit unless you have something like Treasure Hunt or a Burning Wish/Golden Wish chain to find it (or unless Wizards finally prints an enchantment version of Stronghold/Ruins), and may be redundant to the 43Lands plan anyway. The other land-based deck in Legacy is called 5c Eternal Garden and has fallen in popularity lately, but this was due primarily to issues caused by the decline of goblins and the rise of better combo decks like ANT.
I think Garden might be one of the strongest candidates for getting a boost from Prismatic Omen. The main problem the deck always had was that it takes awhile to kill someone with recurring Barbarian Ring or Nantuko Monastery. Garden is uniquely suited to take advantage of Omen because it has many ways to find the lands to fuel Valakut/Omen and also gains a noticeable benefit from simply being able to tap all its lands (Tabernacle, Chasm, etc.) for mana.
A sample list to help discussion: (this list is not tuned, perfected, or anything else, don't freak out and overanalyze it)
Enchantments
4x Exploration
4x Prismatic Omen
Artifacts
4x Crucible of Worlds
3x Sensei's Divining Top
1x Engineered Explosives
1x Zuran Orb
Instants
4x Swords to Plowshares
4x Crop Rotation
4x Intuition
Sorceries
2x Scapeshift
1x Regrowth
1x Life from the Loam
Lands
3x Misty Rainforest
1x Verdant Catacombs
1x Windswept Heath
1x Wooded Foothills
1x Island
1x Forest
1x Plains
3x Tropical Island
2x Savannah
3x Wasteland
3x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
1x Bojuka Bog
1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1x Glacial Chasm
1x Horizon Canopy
1x Cephalid Coliseum
1x Academy Ruins
1x Maze of Ith
So what do you guys think? Is Prismatic Omen a potential engine card for winning in Legacy? Does the possibility of turn 4-5 wins make Eternal Garden more viable? Discuss.