That gave me access to the following mana.
4 untapped blue, 8 total
8 untapped green, 12 total
8 untapped colorless, 12 total
12 untapped black, 12 total
That's without including Crumbling Vestige as a colored source, which is regularly was used to hit curve.
Granted that was really good fixing for my deck since it wasn't greedy on symbols. There wasn't a single card that had double of a same mana symbol.
It's first green card was a 3-drop I wanted on curve, its first colorless was a 3-drop. It's first blue was at best a 4 drop, but usually I wanted to wait with it till T5-7.
I only ran 12/60 colorless cards, a 3, 4, 5 drop playsets.
I only ran 12/60 green cards, a 3, 4+X, and 3 cmc playsets, one being a late game 3cmc and the 4+X being later hopefully.
I only ran 4/12 blue cards, the 4+X cmc was X2UG.
The rest was black.
I had 0 1 drops, and only 6 or 7 two drops I think.
So can it be done? Yeah, easily. You just need to be conscious about where on the curve it is, when you want to cast it, and not splash heavy.
I playtested around 20-25 games with that and didn't have to wait for a color once. I did get screwed twice, and flooded twice, but no issues with colors.
I'm not gonna make to many judgments on whether it's a good idea or not to play 3 and 4 color decks, but I will say that people are definitely doing it (I'm guilty of it as well). Even though it doesn't seem like people are doing it, I think there's definitely room to have some land destruction in the sideboard and eviscerate these stretched mana bases. Crumble to Dust should be a punishing sideboard card.
Heavy green can support 4 and 5 color very well, but you have to make very big sacrifices. Traverse and oath of nissa go a very long way to make it happen. And double blue or double black is extremely hard to pull off.
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can we play 3 color+ a very light splash? If not, how does the 4 color delerium deck manage to fit 4 colors?
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I was toying with a sultai eldrazi deck that didn't end up too great, but the mana was surprisingly pretty solid.
The mana base was something like
That gave me access to the following mana.
4 untapped blue, 8 total
8 untapped green, 12 total
8 untapped colorless, 12 total
12 untapped black, 12 total
That's without including Crumbling Vestige as a colored source, which is regularly was used to hit curve.
Granted that was really good fixing for my deck since it wasn't greedy on symbols. There wasn't a single card that had double of a same mana symbol.
It's first green card was a 3-drop I wanted on curve, its first colorless was a 3-drop. It's first blue was at best a 4 drop, but usually I wanted to wait with it till T5-7.
I only ran 12/60 colorless cards, a 3, 4, 5 drop playsets.
I only ran 12/60 green cards, a 3, 4+X, and 3 cmc playsets, one being a late game 3cmc and the 4+X being later hopefully.
I only ran 4/12 blue cards, the 4+X cmc was X2UG.
The rest was black.
I had 0 1 drops, and only 6 or 7 two drops I think.
So can it be done? Yeah, easily. You just need to be conscious about where on the curve it is, when you want to cast it, and not splash heavy.
I playtested around 20-25 games with that and didn't have to wait for a color once. I did get screwed twice, and flooded twice, but no issues with colors.
Crumble2Dust would wreck them.