Hoary Tutor2S
Snow Sorcery [U] (S can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)
Search your library for a card, then shuffle your library and put that card on top of it.
Skybreen Blessing5S
Snow Enchantment — Aura [C] (S can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +5/+5.
EDIT: Bumped Hoary Tutor down to uncommon, added 1 to its cost.
EDIT: Added the omitted "enchant creature" to Skybreen Blessing. Thanks, Dahammer!
all-coloured, all-round hidden tutor seems crazy good. restricted/banned good, all snow decks would instantly have a 4-of without question good. if it was SB, might be slightly less colour-pie bending? but still immensely good.
Hoary Tutor: After doing a search for artifact tutors, only two of them can grab anything: Planar Portal and Ring of Three Wishes, both of which i would consider terrible cards. Other than that, artifacts predominately grab Lands, creatures, artifacts, then other stuff in that order. My advice would be to limit it to lands and creatures, and maybe artifacts if it proves to be too weak otherwise. Being able to grab other stuff just isn't done often enough in colorless to justify a cheap tutor that can.
Skybreen Blessing: Seeing as how this is almost twice as strong as Oakenform, in power and cost, i'm not sure if common is right, if only because I don't want to see more than 3 or these in a draft/constructed. However, its complexity is defintely common, so take that for what you will. Last thing: don't forget to add "Enchant creature."
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Choose one - Equipped creature gets +4/+0; or Double Strike; or "When this creature deals combat damage to a creature, exile that creature"; or t, unattach ~ from this creature: ~ deals 5 damage to target creature." t: Equipped creature gains flying until end of turn.
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Would Hoary Tutor feel reasonable at 2S and uncommon? That was my first placement for it, but something about the 1S rare version just called to me. I know it's kinda nuts, and would probably get the banhammer in some eternal formats, as well as being a Standard staple in this meta.
That said, I don't think it's an immediate 4-of in any deck with snow sources. Tempo doesn't want it. But yeah, strong.
As for Skybreen Blessing, I wanted one of my "snow-colored" cards to be a feasible ramp target, but I started leaning away from creatures, and I'm also trying to make sure all of these "snow-colored" cards come in cheaper than the cheapest Eldrazi spell, for the sake of contrast. I think it's a big, bomb-y effect that will compel multiple draft archetypes into drafting snow mana, and I want some kind of effect like that at common.
Why not restrict it to tutoring any SNOW card? That would make it considerably more balanced and probably printable.
It's a good suggestion.
The reason I'm not doing it is because I'm trying not to overload players on "snow card" mechanics. They're already extensive in this set, and are one of the primary ways that I'm helping colored cards fit with the snow theme.
I decided that, for the "snow-colored" (i.e., colorless) cards, that the S in the mana cost was sufficient to establish the snow identity, so I was not going to further reference snow on any of these cards. Save for the reminder text, of course.
Your suggestion would totally fit as a black snow card in this set. But I also do think that topdecking is one of the things that I want to enable all of the snow archetypes to do, because it enables one of the major Kaldarjar block mechanics.
It's also one more way for drafters to fish out their snow mana sources in a pinch, which is why uncommon is looking more and more attractive to me, the more I think about it. I think I'm going to make the change.
Not referencing snow on snow-colored cards makes it the most modular of all the mechanics in the set. I'm assuming that's a feature.
Personally, I think it's fine. It's negative card advantage at sorcery speed that can be easily undone by a mill card or a simple Path to Exile. Both Grim Tutor and Imperial Seal are substantially better cards that see next to no play. I do like that it plays well with the snow mechanics in the set but poorly with everything else. I'd like to see more of that in "snow-colored."
Skybreen Blessing is actually pretty icky. All multicolor-heavy decks don't want it and it gets undone by any bounce or straight kill spell. I'd assume more players are going to be unhappy getting passed 3 of these than the reverse.
Not referencing snow on snow-colored cards makes it the most modular of all the mechanics in the set. I'm assuming that's a feature.
I'm assuming that there's some fluidity to the draft archetypes. So, for example, I imagine that somebody going for a 4-5 color spectrum draft might still grab a Hoary Tutor and cross their fingers that they'll find a snow mana source in time to cast it. But I am also assuming that more intensive SS and SSS costs will largely exclude the Coalition guys from the party.
Personally, I think it's fine. It's negative card advantage at sorcery speed that can be easily undone by a mill card or a simple Path to Exile. Both Grim Tutor and Imperial Seal are substantially better cards that see next to no play. I do like that it plays well with the snow mechanics in the set but poorly with everything else. I'd like to see more of that in "snow-colored."
Me too! I decided that the "snow-colored" cards are going to be primarily, or perhaps exclusively instants, sorceries, and Auras. But I think there's still some definition that needs to happen to make these feel cohesive. My current approach is to try to make them as technically compatible with the other snow cards as possible. So the cohesiveness might not appear on the surface, but hopefully it will during play.
Skybreen Blessing is actually pretty icky. All multicolor-heavy decks don't want it and it gets undone by any bounce or straight kill spell. I'd assume more players are going to be unhappy getting passed 3 of these than the reverse.
Anything you'd add to it? Or does its existence as an Aura just counteract the role I want it to play? (Big ramp target that's accessible to each snow color.)
The sad truth is playable commons are going to lean toward creatures and removal more than just about anything else.
As a 5S or even 4S 5/5, this could be the set's Phyrexian Hulk. I'd probably be willing to play at least one in a snow deck, especially if I was nongreen.
ETA: Right now Storm of the Sylex is the sexiest ramp target in the set for snow decks. Which makes sense given that snow white is leaning more controlly.
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Hoary Tutor 2S
Snow Sorcery [U]
(S can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)
Search your library for a card, then shuffle your library and put that card on top of it.
Skybreen Blessing 5S
Snow Enchantment — Aura [C]
(S can be paid with one mana from a snow source.)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +5/+5.
EDIT: Bumped Hoary Tutor down to uncommon, added 1 to its cost.
EDIT: Added the omitted "enchant creature" to Skybreen Blessing. Thanks, Dahammer!
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Skybreen Blessing: Seeing as how this is almost twice as strong as Oakenform, in power and cost, i'm not sure if common is right, if only because I don't want to see more than 3 or these in a draft/constructed. However, its complexity is defintely common, so take that for what you will. Last thing: don't forget to add "Enchant creature."
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t: Equipped creature gains flying until end of turn.
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That said, I don't think it's an immediate 4-of in any deck with snow sources. Tempo doesn't want it. But yeah, strong.
As for Skybreen Blessing, I wanted one of my "snow-colored" cards to be a feasible ramp target, but I started leaning away from creatures, and I'm also trying to make sure all of these "snow-colored" cards come in cheaper than the cheapest Eldrazi spell, for the sake of contrast. I think it's a big, bomb-y effect that will compel multiple draft archetypes into drafting snow mana, and I want some kind of effect like that at common.
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The reason I'm not doing it is because I'm trying not to overload players on "snow card" mechanics. They're already extensive in this set, and are one of the primary ways that I'm helping colored cards fit with the snow theme.
I decided that, for the "snow-colored" (i.e., colorless) cards, that the S in the mana cost was sufficient to establish the snow identity, so I was not going to further reference snow on any of these cards. Save for the reminder text, of course.
Your suggestion would totally fit as a black snow card in this set. But I also do think that topdecking is one of the things that I want to enable all of the snow archetypes to do, because it enables one of the major Kaldarjar block mechanics.
It's also one more way for drafters to fish out their snow mana sources in a pinch, which is why uncommon is looking more and more attractive to me, the more I think about it. I think I'm going to make the change.
Personally, I think it's fine. It's negative card advantage at sorcery speed that can be easily undone by a mill card or a simple Path to Exile. Both Grim Tutor and Imperial Seal are substantially better cards that see next to no play. I do like that it plays well with the snow mechanics in the set but poorly with everything else. I'd like to see more of that in "snow-colored."
Skybreen Blessing is actually pretty icky. All multicolor-heavy decks don't want it and it gets undone by any bounce or straight kill spell. I'd assume more players are going to be unhappy getting passed 3 of these than the reverse.
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Me too! I decided that the "snow-colored" cards are going to be primarily, or perhaps exclusively instants, sorceries, and Auras. But I think there's still some definition that needs to happen to make these feel cohesive. My current approach is to try to make them as technically compatible with the other snow cards as possible. So the cohesiveness might not appear on the surface, but hopefully it will during play.
This will require a lot of tweaking.
Anything you'd add to it? Or does its existence as an Aura just counteract the role I want it to play? (Big ramp target that's accessible to each snow color.)
As a 5S or even 4S 5/5, this could be the set's Phyrexian Hulk. I'd probably be willing to play at least one in a snow deck, especially if I was nongreen.
ETA: Right now Storm of the Sylex is the sexiest ramp target in the set for snow decks. Which makes sense given that snow white is leaning more controlly.
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