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Quote from Artyom »

This is an interesting one:

Stunning Growth
3G
Sorcery
Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Seems better in legacy lands.

Quote from Equinox2793 »

Quote from Artyom »

This is an interesting one:

Stunning Growth
3G
Sorcery
Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Seems better in legacy lands.

I agree, Wasteland being the first to come to mind.

My first thought was 'fetchlands.' Why would wizards want to make these things incidentally even better than they already are? I also like it with Flagstones of Trokair and Harrow or other such tomfoolery.

I guess it lets you try to run a graveyard centric Valakut deck.

I'm looking for library dumping cards to the GY (other than Dredge) to try to abuse this but not coming up with much. Any 3 cmc spells (or less) out there let you mill your library or most of it at once?

Stunning Growth is a very Johnny card. I like it!

I'd start with a shell like this:
Molten Vortex may be worth a spot, but it's not as broken as Seismic Assault because you have to pay mana every time you use it.

Note that Explosive Vegetation gets two lands into the battlefield for four mana. Stunning Growth must beat that rate for it to be worthy of inclusion in a deck.

I was thinking a Naya shell with Countryside Crusher and Knight of the Reliquary.

EoT - Realms Uncharted for Valakut, Mountain, Sacred Foundry, Stomping Ground into Stunning Growth would be pretty good, too.

Maybe make swords more relevant?



Sigarda's Blessing
W
Enchantment
You may cast Aura and Equipment spells as though they had flash.

Whenever an Equipment enters the battlefield under your control, you may attach it to target creature you control.

Quote from inwiththenoose »

Maybe make swords more relevant?



Sigarda's Blessing
W
Enchantment
You may cast Aura and Equipment spells as though they had flash.

Whenever an Equipment enters the battlefield under your control, you may attach it to target creature you control.

Maybe... swords were good with stoneforge because she selected the needed one, and cheated it. This discounts it, but doesnt tool box it.

Batterskulls at instant speed, yay!

T1 Sigarda's Blessing
T2 Double striker: Kor Duelist OR Boros Swiftblade OR Fencing Ace OR Viashino Slaughtermaster OR Warren Instigator.
T3 Sword of Feast and Famine, attack, untap, flash in another sword or aura.

Opponent has discarded two cards and you have a pro black pro green plus more double striker. GG.

Also turns swords into counterspells. Noice.

If it cantripped it'd be useful, otherwise 0,1$ rare.

Siggy's Blessing/Aid/Whatever is cute and all, but it seems kinda jank on its own.
I do like the interaction it has with Puresteel Paladin, though.

Maybe I'm just greedy and I want it to also have Steelshaper's Gift stapled onto it... dammit Stoneforge Mystic why did you have to be so cool.

lmao, blue gets its version of Song of the Dryads. Blue already has Detention Sphere as an answer to anything, if you're desperate enough to play it in a UW deck. If you're not in UW, that means you're probably in Grixis, and you have Dreadbore.

I like cards that say "look at the top _ cards of your library", but Courageous Outrider doesn't do enough. I'd rather play Collected Company in a Human deck that can afford 4-drops, or Ranger of Eos to get two Champion of the Parish.

UW spirits with Thopter Foundry could become a thing.


Some cards come to mind:

Geist of Saint Traft
Drogskol Captain
Tallowisp
Rattlechains
Topplegeist
Spell Queller
Spirit of the Labyrinth
Mausoleum Wanderer
Imprisoned in the Moon
Thopter Foundry
Sword of the Meek
Muddle the Mixture
Getting crazy here
Sovereigns of Lost Alara
Eldrazi Conscription
Arcanum Wings
Steel of the Godhead
Promise of Bunrei
Starfield of Nyx
...

edit: Found more cards

Wizards REALLY wanted Madness to be a thing. I suppose a Putrid Imp/Tireless Tribe would have been too strong for their design philosophy:

Why would I play Olivia's Dragoon when I have Wild Mongrel? lol

It'll be good for the Standard version of Madness since it's a Vampire (gets Stromkirk Condemned and Stensia Masquerade bonuses), and it's easier on their mana (whereas we can play Noose Constrictor pretty easily with fetches and shocks).

Is Imprisioned in the Moon modern playable?
a 3 cmc removal seems pretty bad (cards like Maelstrom Pulse see play but are definetely better than this) but decks like UR Blue Moon don't really have creature removal for big butted creatures and it helps their Blood Moon plan. Seems not unreasonable, although I wish it would have flash (so you can actually used it to trap new Emrakul without needing to topdeck it, would be a lot more flavourful if you ask me)

Quote from izzetmage »

lmao, blue gets its version of Song of the Dryads. Blue already has Detention Sphere as an answer to anything, if you're desperate enough to play it in a UW deck. If you're not in UW, that means you're probably in Grixis, and you have Dreadbore.

I like cards that say "look at the top _ cards of your library", but Courageous Outrider doesn't do enough. I'd rather play Collected Company in a Human deck that can afford 4-drops, or Ranger of Eos to get two Champion of the Parish.

Actually I kinda sorta like it in Bant Eldrazi sideboard as a way to get colorless through a Blood Moon.

Quote from Be_lakor »

Sigarda's Blessing is super relevant for Puresteel Paladin. Drawing cards at instant speed, protect him against Lightning Bolt at instant speed and allowing to hold up the Defense after playing Retract is just... a blessing.

Even Midrange versions with Paladin get ridiculous with it. Flash in Swiftfoot Boots or Lightning Greaves as a permanent Vines of Vastwood?

Puresteel and Shikari Buyout could be a thing, even if it is just for a while.

Then there is also things (if you want to bulk up on the equipments) like Accorder's Shield. Flash in on Turn 2 to fade the lethal bolt and draw a card for 0. There are worse things you could be doing. The one thing that is for certain, if equipment can't see play with this thing.. they likely won't see play in Modern which is sad because we lose that design space essentially. I think this has a real chance to make a deck though. 1 CMC is totally where you want it. Comes down early, not the easiest to remove (how many people pack MD enchantment hate? Essentially Jund and Tron?). If they are using Abrupt Decay on the enchantment so be it. I also have a feeling this potential archetype would have an awful Jund/Grixis matchup due to Kommand.

I dunno how to feel about Imprisoned in the Moon.

On one hand it's slow as balls being a 3 mana card that replaces choice land/creature/planeswalker with half a Sol Ring, on the other it hits three different things.

But on the third tentacle, it's an aura. And it kinda ramps the opponent when used on non-land cards. And it doesn't disrupt Tron like a Spreading Seas does [DISREGARD THAT, READING IS HARD]. And it doesn't cantrip like Spreading Seas does.

So really I dunno. It's like, you're paying quite a bit upfront for a patchwork job of a card, but the design it's going for is still appreciated. It's just, would it kill it to go full Song of the Dryads and turn the enchanted card into a Waste so that it at least affects Urza lands? [DISREGARD THAT, READING IS HARD].

Or maybe be a bit cheaper?

Or be a non-Aura enchantment?

Or have Flash?

Really I'm looking at it and trying to figure out how you put Convincing Mirage and Hero's Downfall together and make something out of it that's slightly better than IitM, because IitM is like the rough draft concept of a card I would like to play (mind you, I don't think colorshifting Song of the Dryads gets me the card I want either. There's something missing to it...) CONSIDERING THAT READING IS HARD, I DUNNO. IT'S OK?

I think there's to much enchantment hate for Imprisoned in the Moon to be good in modern. It maybe ok on the play.

Quote from Torpf »

With the ease of Modern manabases I can't see people playing this over the snake unless they really wanted more than 4 effects and things like Lotleth Troll aren't cutting it. Still great to have access to this kind of effect.

Oh yeah, there's basically no way that's Modern playable when we have Mongrel, Troll, and Infestation already. Just remarking on Wizards pushing the Madness strategy, primarily with an eye for Standard.

I am simply curious, as I have built the deck as a gift for a friend, but could Sigarda's Blessing actually create advantage in Bogles. Is the advantage of flash enchantments potentially worth the card slot in a deck that is mostly auras?