MTG Salvation

We all know those cards, cards that are awesome, but have annoying colour restrictions and thus cannot be ran where we want it. Thought it'd be fun to talk about it.

For me, there's a few:

Charnelhoard Wurm
His stats aren't impressive and his effect is already on a stick due to Eternal Witness, but there's just something fun about opponents having to debate blocking it with their meaty stuff (Especially fun if he has deathtouch as well) or granting me a card. He's big enough to usually kill something when in combat, too. Now, if only he didn't require 3 colours, I'd run him in every possible deck if he was Gruul or Golgari, but no, he had to be full Jund...

Villainous Wealth
In my local meta, this card is called Bribery Wave for a good reason. My Tasigur regularly casts this with X=20 and gets some hilarious combinations of cards from it. Unfortunately, Tasigur is the only deck I have that can ran it. Were this Simic or Golgari I'd have more options, or even Dimir, but it's understandable they made it 3 colours. I think you can justify it with 2 though, given what it does. Most hilarious card to come out of the Khans block, IMO.

Worldheart Phoenix
My Jaya Ballard, Task Mage runs a nice set of Phoenixes, each of them happy to be pitched and returning to either hand (The ones I most want to have) or the field (Less desireable, but helps punching through final damage). Worldheart Phoenix would be a perfect fit to that suite, taking a role akin to Kuldotha Phoenix's, but sadly it is only able to be ran in 5-colour decks. As such, Jaya will always look at it, wishing it could go in her deck...

Bringer of the Red Dawn
This one goes for all of the Bringers, and is one of those points where I think the colour identity rule could be a bit more lenient on. Each of the 5 Bringers have an interesting effect, if on a very pricey body. Only 5 coloured decks can run them, thus heavily limiting their playability. I think that if they didn't have that pesky "You may pay WUBRG" line, they'd actually be worth a few bucks due to commander popularity. Oh, and Grozoth can fetch them, what more do you want?

Snapcaster Mage
Should've been red. Period.

Maelstrom Archangel comes to mind immediately. Not sure what colors it should be, maybe RUG like Wanderer, but it doesn't seem right at 5 colors and it's pretty unplayable.

Wonder how entirely broken Prophet of Kruphix would had been as a mono green card? Think of it, every single green/x deck would be running it for sure. I think it would likely had been banned at this point, and while I don't think it needs a ban in its current form, being mono colored would had definitely warranted it me thinks.



inb4 hybrids

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Edit:Oh and Berserk would have been nice in red too.

Fatal Frenzy comes fairly close.

Mindleech Mass, really cool ability but I have found it hard to get the double black and the blue sometimes.

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Wonder how entirely broken Prophet of Kruphix would had been as a mono green card? Think of it, every single green/x deck would be running it for sure. I think it would likely had been banned at this point, and while I don't think it needs a ban in its current form, being mono colored would had definitely warranted it me thinks.

I don't think I would play it in Jarad. I don't play Seedborn Muse and I don't usually want to actually cast that many of my creatures, so I don't think it would do enough. In general most green decks would play it though.

Aurelia, the Warleader with blue added would be sweet.

Not a card, but a mechanic. I wish Bolster was in Simic colours. Especially Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit.

Wargate is something I'd love to use in G/W or G/U, not just Bant.

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Aurelia, the Warleader with blue added would be sweet.

It would be like Lightning Angel with the extra combat ability! I would play the heck out of that.

It would have been fun if Thopter Foundry would have been less restrictive. I just like the card with recursion but would love it in a Hanna artifact-deck

Snapcaster Mage
Should've been red. Period.

So true!

Crackling Doom. I wish they had skipped the "2 damage to each each opponent" thing and just made it black and white.

Wished Ivorytusk Fortress was only W and G so it could fit into my Dromoka.

I feel that instead of adding ro removing colors, they should just remake the cards with a different color scheme. like Berserk. it should have been red. Dragon Broodmother should also be mono-red.

WHY CAN'T ASHEN RIDER BE MONO BLACK OR BLUE/BLACK!
Mimeoplasm would love him so much....sigh

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WHY CAN'T ASHEN RIDER BE MONO BLACK OR BLUE/BLACK!
Mimeoplasm would love him so much....sigh

That's okay. He gets plenty of love in my Karador deck.

I would play the crap out of it, probably too the point of being my "signature deck"

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Edit:Oh and Berserk would have been nice in red too.

Blazing Shoal?

I would do terrible things for Thopter Foundry to be Azorius or straight up artifact.

Goblin Welder being blue, black, or white so that all the esper artifact generals can abuse him.

Seedborn Muse being really any color. It would be good in any mono blue deck and I wouldn't mind have it for my Daretti, Scrap Savant deck to untap all my artifacts along with my lands. Unwinding Clock isn't enough for me.

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I would do terrible things for Thopter Foundry to be Azorius or straight up artifact.

Agreed. I would love try out Thopter Foundry and Time Sieve with Daretti, Scrap Savant.

stench of evil and flashfires should've been blue, since blue isn't powerful enough as a colour as it is, and needs some colour-hosers to give it a better chance against white decks...

actually, Ayesha Tanaka should've been white-blue-green. green has a lot of banding creautres that don't have a general to lead to victory!

Villainous Wealth should have been dinir rather than sultai.

I wish Nahiri was blue.

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WHY CAN'T ASHEN RIDER BE MONO BLACK OR BLUE/BLACK!
Mimeoplasm would love him so much....sigh

Because if they did, it would read "When Ashen Rider enters the battlefield or dies, target players exiles the top seven cards of his or her library" by the time it gets finalized.

The truth is dim-ir.

Keep brewing.