MTG Salvation

At a glance, Iceburg seems like an easy way to get another counter type on the board. You'd probably want at least one land that can use or lose depletion counters, and Enclave Cryptologist should probably be Lighthouse Chronologist. Coral Reef also provides 2 unique counters for minimal cost. Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle, Djinn of Wishes, Magnetic Web, Oracle's Vault, Paradox Zone, Quarantine Field, Rasputin Dreamweaver, Replicating Ring, all cards with interesting abilities and unique counters.

I know this isn't the right forum for this, but I posted in the help-desk like half a year ago and heard nothing. I know MTGS was in it's death throes a while ago, but then it got put on life support, does it even HAVE any back-end support anymore?

I'd say 1 to play, 1 to activate. Gaining all creature types is usually more beneficial than becoming an artifact(which is usually a disadvantage), and Ashnod's also has a clause that prevents multiples from stacking. Using Runed Stalactite as a point of reference, 1 to play 1 to use seems balanced enough, given the abundance of things that care about counters.
Alternatively, you could keep the costs the same and just drop the +1/+1 counter, it seems ancillary to what this'd be used for anyhow, while ALSO functioning as a soft "this effect does not stack" clause. Of course, in that case the effect seems solidly like an artifact(or instant) that should cost U, not 1. (using Moonlace, etc. as a reference)

There's also an argument to be had for it to have a sorcery speed clause, for the same reason Samite Healer is not a card they print anymore. WotC does NOT like tricky on-board math.

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So we can have a Dog with Partner but not the damn Yamazaki sisters with "Partner with"? You are cruel WotC.

"Partner with" has the extra rules baggage where playing one lets you tutor your deck for the other. I don't think a set of 8 efficiently costed Squadron Hawks with abilities that generate more card advantage is something they want to unleash on standard... or historic...or pioneer... probably too slow for modern.

The Cheese Stands Alone. Given that they literally made a black-border version of the card, making it legal is just a formality at this point.

I guess I missed an email a while back where Twitch required us to add more information to our accounts, and now I can't log into Twitch or this site because the password needs to be changed, there's no phone number associated with the account, and apparently despite receiving account updates through an email, that is not sufficient to reclaim my account via said email.

I can only guess that the reason I can even post this is that I was logged in here on my PC BEFORE that change, and have not logged out since.

So, would it be possible to get this account merged with a hypothetical NEW Twitch account, or am I just SOL across the board?

EDIT: Honestly, if there's a way to just recover THIS account, that'd probably be the best solution, but customer service has stonewalled me when I tried doing that on the main Twitch site.

I definitely agree red shouldn't outright plus with repeatable card draw. I'd make it card-neutral and replace the 5 with x, where x is equal to your hand size. That way you're drawing x cards, dealing x damage, and the cost scales with the number of cards you're shifting. Also, I guess an argument could be made for the cards going to the bottom of your deck instead of exile, or possibly even shuffled in.

So... I guess there's at least one more Lair drop after this? We were supposed to get one from the Foglios, right? Still, Stranger Things aside, this is what Secret Lairs should be, lots of cool but not terribly expensive reprints with neat new art that wouldn't fit in a regular set.

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Does not allow you to play cards from the hand, which is not so nice.

But otherwise, if you ever get to use it, the worst part is to get stuck on lands (you can at least play 1, but the 2nd is bad).

For a 6-drop thats pretty bad.

You're looking at this all wrong. If there's a land on top of their deck you choose not to play anything so they draw a land for their turn. Xanathar is a one card Lantern lock.

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So theoretically the modular land is a storage device if all your modular creatures get wrathed.

Just because it HAS a counter and modular, doesn't mean it can receive counters from modular. It is NOT a creature.

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If they ever print some free spell enabler like 1 mana you may cast target card with mana value 1 or less without paying its mana cost this turn. Though I guess that's just so obviously dangerous, but over the years there have been plenty of cards like this that are total garbage at their release and then in 10 years become good when some insane enabler slips through the cracks.

We got that, it's called As Foretold, and this won't see any play with that because if you can cast something like this for free, Balance, Living End, Eureka and now Warp World are ALL much better choices than Sol Ring.

Interesting design, but I'd think a card called Dire Straits would create gold tokens and let you check the top card of your library.

Nope, as you've identified, the fact that it does not immediately instruct you to cast the spell means you are beholden to all relevant timing restrictions.

"The List" is in Set Boosters, not Collector Boosters.

Man... if the wall didn't have a mana cost for the activated ability it MIGHT have done a bit to bring Lantern back to Modern... I guess we can't have nice things.