Cursed Lotus0 Artifact
Cursed Lotus enters the battlefield with three counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep you may pay 3 life to remove a counter from Cursed Lotus. T, Sacrifice Cursed Lotus: Add 3 minus x mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool, where x is the number of counters on this.
Cursed Diamond0 Artifact
Cursed Diamond enters the battlefield with three counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep you may discard a card to remove a counter from Cursed Diamond. T, Sacrifice Cursed Diamond: Add 3 minus x colorless mana to your mana pool, where x is the number of counters on this.
Silver Lotus Petal0 Artifact T, Sacrifice Silver Lotus Petal: Choose a color of a permanent you control. Add one mana of that color to your mana pool.
Crystal Shard0 Artifact T, Sacrifice Crystal Shard and an untapped land: Add CC to your mana pool.
Bad Lotus0
Legendary Artifact T, Sacrifice ~: Draw a card. Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool. Activate this only if you have no cards in your hand.
The problem with all of these (and most attempts at creating a "balanced" Lotus) is that they are either completely unplayable garbage until someone finds a way to break them and then they are just, in fact, broken. Just look at Lion's Eye Diamond. The card was laughed at and mocked until someone figured out how to use it as a Lotus, now it's arguably the best mana accelerent in the Storm deck.
cursed lotus is broken. If you think 9 life is a hindrance to squeeze 3 mana out on turn 1, you're mistaken. You can even incrase this life loss to 5 each (15 total for 3 mana) and it will still be broken. And you don't even have to pay the life, if you can wait a bit -- the lotus bloom was certainly playable.
Cursed diamond is hard to evaluate. Certainly fine in eternal, dunno other formats.
Silver lotus petal, not as stupidly bork as the first, but still broken.
Crustal shard is effectively a colorless lotus petal. Likely unacceptable in vintage, perfectly fine in legacy, likely not fine anywhere else.
Artifact
Cursed Lotus enters the battlefield with three counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep you may pay 3 life to remove a counter from Cursed Lotus.
T, Sacrifice Cursed Lotus: Add 3 minus x mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool, where x is the number of counters on this.
Cursed Diamond 0
Artifact
Cursed Diamond enters the battlefield with three counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep you may discard a card to remove a counter from Cursed Diamond.
T, Sacrifice Cursed Diamond: Add 3 minus x colorless mana to your mana pool, where x is the number of counters on this.
Silver Lotus Petal 0
Artifact
T, Sacrifice Silver Lotus Petal: Choose a color of a permanent you control. Add one mana of that color to your mana pool.
Crystal Shard 0
Artifact
T, Sacrifice Crystal Shard and an untapped land: Add CC to your mana pool.
Legendary Artifact
T, Sacrifice ~: Draw a card. Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool. Activate this only if you have no cards in your hand.
BGStandard Green AggroGB
UWRGModern Saheeli CobraGRWU
UBRGLegacy StormGRBU
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Cursed diamond is hard to evaluate. Certainly fine in eternal, dunno other formats.
Silver lotus petal, not as stupidly bork as the first, but still broken.
Crustal shard is effectively a colorless lotus petal. Likely unacceptable in vintage, perfectly fine in legacy, likely not fine anywhere else.
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