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Mox Amethyst 3
Artifact (R)

Delve (You may exile any number of cards from your graveyard as you cast this spell. It costs 1 less to cast for each card exiled this way.)
Tap: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.

Illus. Alan Pollack
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I just looked at the MTGSalvation and found this card. Seems awesome. Lets pretend, for the sake of discussion, that this is real. Wowzers. This seems really good at enabling multicolor Control decks. Mana of any color with no card disadvantage associated with the other Moxes. Obvious great synergy with Fetchlands (What doesn't these days?) and cantrips. Could also see play in some sort of Dredge based deck be it Ichorid or Aggro Loam.

Perhaps it will enable something else all together. What do you guys think?

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=176138

Its casting cost is 3? Seems exceptionally good and almost to the point of broken. I'll take 4.

if this is real, combo just got another boost.
except its bad off of AdN
which is bad

Not if you play doomsday. Which I think, is better.

It seems like it would be a little too inconsistent for combo. I'm not into combo all that much, but it seems like it would be hard to utilize more than one a game.

That's probably one of the best EDH mana artifacts ever.

Stronger in EDH than Legacy for sure. As mentioned, it's not Ad Nauseum friendly, and it's interesting for control. The extra mana is a lot stronger in the first turn or two than it is in the fourth turn and on, but you'll never cast it the first turn (unless you get Thoughtseized, Fetch, and tap out, I guess).

I guess I'll have to pay attention to how often I could drop it for free on the second turn while playing Landstill. I suspect that more than half of the time, it'll cost one (or two) on turn two, so you won't net anything until turn three. What do you cut for them in control? If you cut some number of land and a spell or two, I'm not sure that just having the land and making that fourth land drop every game isn't just better.

An interesting card, for sure, though. Not format ruining like Ad Nauseum and Coatl, though.

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Originally Posted by AngryTroll

Coatl

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Did this really ruin the format?

Anyway, at first glance I saw it as completely overpowered, but then I realized that in the formats that Wizards cares about, there aren't fetchlands. It won't ever drop turn 1, so the earliest it'll come down is turn 2--and probably not for free. Since Chrome Mox was mostly used so that a blue player could represent a counter Turn 1, I'm not sure this'll even see more play than that.

Mox Amethyst is not too great in ANT, but it's nuts in 2-land Belcher. Super nuts.

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Originally Posted by The Professor

Mox Amethyst is not too great in ANT, but it's nuts in 2-land Belcher. Super nuts.

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Except you're still playing 2-Land Belcher.

It's a control card and will get control to 4 mana quicker, assuming they play fetches and cantrips of some sort.

Turn 1: Flooded Strand - blue land - Ponder.
Turn 2: Land - StP or Bolt or second fetch - Mox Amethyst. Or just delve 2 and cast it with Daze protection.
Turn 3: Land - Planeswalker or WoG or whatever.

No card disadvantage incurred anywhere in the process, although the control deck had to play 3 Mox Amethyst and 22 land instead of 25 land which means that the overall chance of having 4 mana on turn 4 is down slightly for an increased chance of having 4 mana on turn 3. Color issues are greatly fixed by the addition though, since it will be rare for a Mox Amethyst in the opening hand not to land pretty reliably by turn 3. The Mox is not Spell Snare-able or Daze-able in most cases or Stifle-able.

It's not clearly better than just playing more land but it's also not clearly worse in a meta defined by Wasteland and Stifle at this point.

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Originally Posted by Roman Candle

Except you're still playing 2-Land Belcher.

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Hate hate hate.

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Originally Posted by Spoiler Times

Mox Amethyst

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ZOMG the sky is falling again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1¹º

Card has been declared as fake in mtgsalvation.

Not just that card. Everything on that thread.

Was too gimmicky for me though. Especially the Sway mechanic...

Sway looked sweet for a mechanic, but then again... some cards could be too good

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Originally Posted by Roman Candle

Did this really ruin the format?

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I seem to recall it breaking Thresh to the point that the format wasn't fun anymore. I seem to distinctly remember the sky falling!

Well, the thread discussing it sure sounded that way.

This might be one of the best posts in the Coatl thread:
http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/s...&postcount=209

That whole thread is pretty funny to read after the carnage that Coatl has caused since it was released.

At first glance, I was thinking: playable acceleration that doesn't die to a Deed for X=2? Fuck yes! Get thee behind me, Mox Diamond, Chrome Mox, and Exploration!

But if it's fake, that's probably a good thing, because it seems like it would be subject to the 'goyf effect' of fitting into a ton of different decks, which is both boring and would drive the price sky-high.

It's been proven that there fake. The guy was just spamming so we dont have to worry about this card doing anything to legacy.

this is like super lotus vale all over again...

Why the hell would anyone make so much fake cards and pretend there from the new set. How lifeless is that person:laugh:. I dont think the new meganic would be overpowered if it was real.