Because the condition is so easy to achieve, even in limited, I expect that any overpowered spell mastery card will be more on par with delver and goyf than treasure cruise.
Something like this is probably outside their current policies, but could be interesting:
Burning Ritual
R
Instant
Add RR to your mana pool
Spell Mastery - If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard add an additional R to your mana pool.
I was also on the DTT train immediately, heck, I still think DTT is more powerful than Treasure Cruise but I guess that's because I think Delver is a glorified burn deck unworthy of tier 1 status.Originally Posted by Lemnear
@Rufus: Red ritual sounds highly playable.DrainLeak
UU
Instant
Counter target spell unless it's controller pays 3.
Spell Mastery: Add x colorless mana to your pool, where x is that spell's converted mana cost.
Hahaha ... I share the same sentiment about linear aggro decks as you know ;)
I dare WotC to hand me more Rituals of any color ...
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So I realize this card must be fake, *but if it wasn't*, pretty much every deck would be playing 4x copies of it. The 'downsides' don't matter when you consider that you'd be playing like 8-12 copies of instant speed, uncounterable Unsummon.
But I think it *would* be cool if there were some fetchable lands that had ETB effects. Like, if they made Bojuka Bog an actual Swamp, perhaps weakening it so that it could only exile a single target card instead of an entire graveyard.
Maybe the Blue fetchable Island could be 'fixed' by making the effect symmetrical like Curfew -- this way, it would still be extremely powerful against some strategies (Reanimator, SnT, etc), but would be a bit weaker against dedicated Creature-centric decks since they could just choose to bounce their weakest threat (or gain advantage since many of their creatures have ETB effects as well).
These sort of effects could be very maindeck worthy, but could also be quite nice as sideboard cards. Every deck would have access to some form of tutorable answers to narrow strategies without having to dilute everything else.
Another possibility: perhaps tack on a price to the ETB effect, e.g.: "When ~this~ ETB, you may pay [cost]. If you do, [effect]." Thus, the Unsummon and Bojuka Bog effects would still require color and mana investment to be slightly more fair.
In any case -- I am excited to see what this set will bring to the table. I fully expect for there to be some Eternal playables with the new mechanics.
Someone on Salvation made a bot make Magic cards. I'm sure he's bullshitting because these clearly came from R&D:
That bot came up with the mechanic fuseback . . . a flash back that lets you cast a split card fused. . . . which is BRILLIANT. . . . .
We're a couple years away from just having an AI generated set.
That was hilarious. The training set is so horribly biased in favor of blue that it results in cards like this :-)
Man, that thread is full of gold.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
They should honor this guy by immortalizing Slidshocking Krow as an invitational card. Blue gets all the goodies again :-).Man, that thread is full of gold.
Slidshocking Krow is bizzarly balanced. If you chump with 1/1's, Slidshocking Krow deals 3 damage to the attacker lol.
WotC should call these randomly generated cards Contraptions. That would make Steamflogger Boss so awesome. LITERALLY a card from the future.
The point at which I lost it.
That's fucking gold.
Who knows, maybe Mointainsplock is really a bad thing? It seems the AI thought it's effect was so obvious that it didn't even need reminder text!
Another gem:
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
Obviously, since it's multicolored.
But can we stop with the mock cards, please?
I'm still of the opinion that DTT is more powerful than TC - just because everybody was busy rubbing their dick to UR Delver with TC doesn't mean that DTT isn't the stronger card, hence it seeing way more play than TC and pushing blue decks to a new all-time high.
I would love to cast that green card in a Professional REL tournament.
Tapping my Trop for green... I name "Snapcaster Mage"!! I gain ONE life! Pass turn!
opponent: O_o
So, back on topic, if the Gideon spoiler I've just seen is legit, he might actually fight for a spot in Death and Taxes. Apologies if the images are huge; they're the only ones I've seen so far.
Just because it's a white creature doesn't mean it fits into D&T.
In the end, it would take the spot of a beater. Legendary Savannah Lion is not where you want to be at. Flipping it with D&T isn't going to be that easy and the PW mode is rather unimpressive.
Tell that to Serra Avenger and Brimaz.
But yeah, no, this probably has actually zero place in Death and Taxes.
Total flavor win. Love Gideon. It will make waves in other formats. Flipping it aint easy though
If fast zoo ever makes a resurgence (which it certainly won't just because of him), he can be the warden with the muckrake.
Current Legacy Decks: Elves, 12Post, Eldrazi Stompy, Burn, Reanimator, Death&Taxes
@Gideon
I really like the design even if I consider the 3-creature-clause a total no-go in Legacy and with Terminus around.
@Red Ritual
You know that this is a straight upgrade to Rite of Flame? Given that red based storm is a thing in Modern and Legacy, I doubt we see any kind of Ritual for years
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I think you're underestimating that +1, and the fact that PW Gideon can attack into most things not named Emrakul and come out decently enough. Having an indestructible dude is weaker in Legacy, where we send things Farming, but outside of that, the core removal spell is Bolt, which struggles with the PW Gideon.
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