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Both abilities have been in monoblack ever since they began existing.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT| War of the Spark - Enter the Bo-Las (36 Planeswalkers)
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Serra Angel is Black-Green!
The first creature with haste was monoblack.
Yes, let's cite Alpha for everything!
The difference is that haste has always been in black's color pie, direct damage moved out of blue.
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I'll do one better. I'll post one with haste and lifelink!
Disgusting.gif :P
Looking for thoughts on an idea for a format variant -
Minimum deck size: 65
Before starting remove any 5 basic lands from your deck and place them in the command zone
Once per turn you can pay X mana to place a land from the command zone into play tapped, where x = the number of lands you've moved from the command zone to the battlefield + 1
You can't do this if you went first and it's your first turn
Minimum deck size: 65
Before starting remove any 5 basic lands from your deck and place them in the command zone
Once per turn you can pay X mana to place a land from the command zone into play tapped, where x = the number of lands you've moved from the command zone to the battlefield + 1
You can't do this if you went first and it's your first turn
Are you intending to let everyone ramp, or is this just to let everyone have the mana they need?
The former would be kinda bad. If you're going for the latter, just let everyone put one of the lands in their hand during their upkeep. Or make the cost "Discard/exile a card from your hand" or something.
Should also limit it to a single color. Or even just require the 5 lands to be Wastes.
Devouring Hellion
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Creature - Hellion
As CARDNAME enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice any number of creatures and/or planeswalkers. If you do, CARDNAME enters the battlefield with twice that many +1/+1 counters.
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What bird? The land enters tapped.
One in the hand during upkeep for free gives burn a massive advantage. They could just build a deck with only those five lands in it. The exile card from hand in addition to the increasing cost might be a good idea, though. As would going into hand instead of directly into play.
All wastes or only a single color feels like it'd favor monocolor decks to too great a degree, I think. They should have a consistency advantage, but I think not having to spend mana to fix their mana is enough of one.
What are your goals with this format? What experience are you trying to provide. This info would be helpful for giving feedback
Just trying to give players a greater degree of control over the consistency of their mana while trying to avoid favoring any archetype too heavily. Reduce the number of games that end before they begin due to mana screw/flood.
Meh, I'm glad there are edicts and ways around hexproof in this set. Otherwise, barf. After playing against Vine Mare repeatedly on Arena lately, get me off this train.
If the meta allowed decks with creatures to be more viable instead of esper + 5 planeswalkers, hexproof wouldn't be so necessary. :(
Makeshift Battalion; Grateful Apparation; Stealth Mission; Rescuer Sphinx
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Unlabeled battalion (even says so in the name) and a white Thrummingbird that works on planeswalker damage.
Both seem good.
Rescuer Sphinx seems very good, in limited anyway. 4/3 flyer for 3, probably with some small upside since it seems like there will be a lot of creatures with ETB effects, even if it's just an Amass.
The Sphinx gets out of hand quickly if you bounce something that proliferates. I just started drafting, I've M19 a few times (10 or so) and Guilds once and it's kind of crazy how much more powerful a lot of the revealed cards are than what I'm used to.
The Sphinx gets out of hand quickly if you bounce something that proliferates. I just started drafting, I've M19 a few times (10 or so) and Guilds once and it's kind of crazy how much more powerful a lot of the revealed cards are than what I'm used to.
And Birds of Paradise has summoning sickness. But if you play it (or use your extra ability if it goes into play tapped) and don't miss your normal land drop, next turn you've got three mana up when it's only turn two (only works on the draw by your rules, but still).
Putting a land into play is not what you want. You definitely want it going into hand, and you definitely want to be swapping with a card in hand so it's not straight card advantage. You're still making it incredibly easy to fix colors, meaning you're encouraging decks with more colors. And ultimately anything that makes decks' mana more consistent will hurt aggro and help control: aggro gets win% because it can win with two lands and control can't.
If you're looking for a way to have more fun with your friends, just allow free mulligans of 1-landers and concede more aggressively since the goal is to play Magic, not to maximize win%. But any sort of sweeping change like this in a competitive environment will result in a shift in the meta, and it will make new problems.
Mizzium Tank
Trample, Whenever you cast noncreature spell it crews itself and gains plus 1/1 until eot. Crew 1.
Im sure UR can put this to work, seems pretty good.
Merfolk Skydiver
That's really nice. Merfolk already play a strictly worse card than this.Now here's a good card
Merfolk is strictly a BO1 arena deck yeah, but I don't know if it's worse than monored for that ?
I've got a peasant cube where the Simic guild in +1/+1 counter themed, and that card will fit in perfectly!
Mayhem Devil
Tenth District Legionnaire
If your opponent shocks her nothing happens, right? That's a bit disappointing.
Something you really don't want to Shock.
Seems pretty... Heroic.
It only works when you cast a spell, spells your opponent casts don't trigger the ability.
I love how much of a crossover event this set is. You've got Boros Legionairres and Rakdos devils fighting alongside Alaran leonin to take down Amonkheti super-zombies. Meanwhile Emrakul in human form (probably) is hanging out and Sorin and Nahiri are busy in the middle of their epic, centuries-long duel.
And who knows what 5-color Niv Mizzet is up to.
The only thing missing here is an appearance by the Phyrexians. I wonder if there might be a card or two in this set that hints at signs of Phyrexians who have infiltrated as observers or something.
And who knows what 5-color Niv Mizzet is up to.
The only thing missing here is an appearance by the Phyrexians. I wonder if there might be a card or two in this set that hints at signs of Phyrexians who have infiltrated as observers or something.
Yes! More legacy around these parts!Got the last couple of pieces for this yesterday, can't wait to try it out.
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