How about "You may discard your hand, pay 5 life, rip this card, remove 3 digits from any number of target fingers you control, and concede at the end of the next end step rather than pay It Will Go Through!!'s mana cost.
I love the idea of this card, and hope we're looking at something like its final form. Utility lands never get enough appreciation, and I've always wanted to try my hand at a Lands deck without having to shell out a thousand dollars on the legacy version.
Ghost Quarter does mean you likely need to play more than exactly 10 gates, but I think that shoehorning it into standard control decks is a bad idea anyway, since Farseek doesn't fetch it. If it's going to see standard play, it needs support in the form of ramp that can fetch something other than basic lands, and some form of land tutor a la Expedition Map.
Wow many are making comes-into-play-tapped lands seem way worse than they are especially being they can provide insane mana fixing in a Standard full of completely busted multi-color cards.
Just saying... And, yeah this could be insane in Modern.
It's an instant speed 5/5 trampler for 4. Wtf do you people want seriously? It has applications in populate/ above the curve beats decks, or in Bant control/ flash. I seriously think anyone mad at this card for any reason other than losing an attacker to instant speed wurm, should go home and make their own awesome card game and leave the rest of us alone.
Wow many are making comes-into-play-tapped lands seem way worse than they are especially being they can provide insane mana fixing in a Standard full of completely busted multi-color cards.
Just saying... And, yeah this could be insane in Modern.
The problem with defending gates as standard playable is that you have to ignore the fact that shocks and m10/inn duals exist. There is really no good reason to play gates, not even in 2 color decks.
Additionally, alternate win conditions are almost universally terrible.
That said, we don't know anything about the upcoming set, so who can say whether it will be good or not. Not holding out hope though.
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Doubtful. It would be a 4-of in every non mono colored deck with all of the other lands. Why pay two life for Godless shrine when you could play amulet of vigor and use it's ability instead?
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Doubtful. It would be a 4-of in every non mono colored deck with all of the other lands. Why pay two life for Godless shrine when you could play amulet of vigor and use it's ability instead?
Because they are a cards themselves, and multiples are useless. C'mon man.jpg
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Amulet of Vigor seems like it would be too good but we do have the Elf in Gatecrash that interacts with Gates and with the ongoing Gates matter theme I have a hard time imagining we won't be getting something else that interacts with Gates (maybe not have them enter the battlefield untapped but maybe a creature that gets bigger the more you have)
Without any kind of support this version of the mythic land seems like it would be near impossible to assemble and not die before getting the tenth gate. Obviously not all alternative wincons are created equal but you have to think that a mythic land will get some kind of support; it seems silly to go through the trouble of making a mythic land (which is something MaRo has indicated is something they were toying with for a bit) for the sake of it.
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Rare land
Tap ~: add a mana of any colour a gate you control could produce for each gate you control
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How can you say that this is a junk mythic when it isn't even taking up the mythic slot in a booster? It is taking up the land slot (of which most will be gates, and maybe a shockland)
I can understand being a little annoyed at getting this instead of a shockland, but really, boo hoo. It is a bonus rare that would in any other set be a basic land.
How can you say that this is a junk mythic when it isn't even taking up the mythic slot in a booster? It is taking up the land slot (of which most will be gates, and maybe a shockland)
I can understand being a little annoyed at getting this instead of a shockland, but really, boo hoo. It is a bonus rare that would in any other set be a basic land.
And its not even unplayable in Draft.
It might be possible to collect 10 gates, at which point this becomes quite a win option (slow, sure, but its reliable as well).
so its any 10 gates? that seems less fun. I hope they make a card thats like 1 or 2 cmc that reads
"Gates you control don't come into play tapped" or something. that would be awesome.
These 11 cards all generate (and even fix) mana.
But all 10 are inferior choices if it weren't for this card.
Ghost Quarter does mean you likely need to play more than exactly 10 gates, but I think that shoehorning it into standard control decks is a bad idea anyway, since Farseek doesn't fetch it. If it's going to see standard play, it needs support in the form of ramp that can fetch something other than basic lands, and some form of land tutor a la Expedition Map.
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And even when the mythic is only partially spoiled and none of the cards that go along with it are revealed people are still finding ways to complain!
I like the idea we will see how it turns out in 3 or 4 months
Just saying... And, yeah this could be insane in Modern.
The problem with defending gates as standard playable is that you have to ignore the fact that shocks and m10/inn duals exist. There is really no good reason to play gates, not even in 2 color decks.
Additionally, alternate win conditions are almost universally terrible.
That said, we don't know anything about the upcoming set, so who can say whether it will be good or not. Not holding out hope though.
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Doubtful. It would be a 4-of in every non mono colored deck with all of the other lands. Why pay two life for Godless shrine when you could play amulet of vigor and use it's ability instead?
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Because they are a cards themselves, and multiples are useless. C'mon man.jpg
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Actually, multiples allow you to tap a CIPT land for mana more than once when it comes into play.
It still wouldn't exactly take over the format
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
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Without any kind of support this version of the mythic land seems like it would be near impossible to assemble and not die before getting the tenth gate. Obviously not all alternative wincons are created equal but you have to think that a mythic land will get some kind of support; it seems silly to go through the trouble of making a mythic land (which is something MaRo has indicated is something they were toying with for a bit) for the sake of it.
Just had an idea! How about
~
Rare land
Tap ~: add a mana of any colour a gate you control could produce for each gate you control
Or something along those lines
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
I can understand being a little annoyed at getting this instead of a shockland, but really, boo hoo. It is a bonus rare that would in any other set be a basic land.
And its not even unplayable in Draft.
It might be possible to collect 10 gates, at which point this becomes quite a win option (slow, sure, but its reliable as well).
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Will be kept until 12/31/2013 to prove if Right or Wrong.Proven right 1/27/2013"Gates you control don't come into play tapped" or something. that would be awesome.
inb4 someone complains about lost opportunity cost of this compared to pulling a shock off the nonbasic land slot...