MTG Salvation

Nikya of the Old Ways


Legendary Creature - Centaur Druid
You can't cast noncreature spells.

Whenever you tap a land for mana, add one mana of any type that land produced.
5/5

Survives wildfire and supports ramp I guess, but can't be used alongside the former. Cool card but seems too slow for small cubes imo.

I dislike the drawback too much. I doubt that you can pick enough creatures regularly to construct a strong deck that plays around the drawback. Also, answers in cube are mostly noncreature spells.
I would not even play her as commander in an EDH cube for the same reasons.

Would have tested without the drawback, as is, no chance

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Would have tested without the drawback, as is, no chance

and add trample...

I would like to see some sort of mono creatures payoff, but this isn't it.

Honestly, the existence of that Jellyfish Hydra makes this a bit interesting to me.

The ability to draw 4/gain (cast trigger) 4 with an 8/8 flample the next turn in standard is pretty darn good,

I enjoy Crypt Ghast and Nirkana Revenant quite a bit, but just flat turning off noncreatures is a huge problem. Tapping out for a huge fireball effect looks like what this really wants to do. I'm not sold on this.

You can't cast noncreature spells.

Can I change this to like Trample or Haste or something?

Pass.

I'm starting to think that there might be a new deck type that cubes can promote, which is strictly creature green mid-range.
This card, along with the recently spoiled Hydra thing, as well as Nullhide Ferox from the previous set, Regal Behemoth, and similar cards, can use the already good value cards that exist in green creatures in cubes. Running typical green ramp early with stuff like elves, sakura-tribe, rofellos etc. into maybe Xenagos or Vizier of the Menagerie or even Hazoret. With the mana doublers you could even use Kozilek, Butcher of Truth as a curve topper with Channel as an alternate game plan.

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I'm starting to think that there might be a new deck type that cubes can promote, which is strictly creature green mid-range.
This card, along with the recently spoiled Hydra thing, as well as Nullhide Ferox from the previous set, Regal Behemoth, and similar cards, can use the already good value cards that exist in green creatures in cubes. Running typical green ramp early with stuff like elves, sakura-tribe, rofellos etc. into maybe Xenagos or Vizier of the Menagerie or even Hazoret. With the mana doublers you could even use Kozilek, Butcher of Truth as a curve topper with Channel as an alternate game plan.

Yeah, I think this kind of deck could be built or supported.

The problem is.. it wouldn't be competitive enough
Generally if you want to build around something like "all creatures" you want the payoff there to be a high payoff that is worth the sacrifice.
If anything, you'd gimp yourself, just so you could cast some OK cards that you would get to yourself in the draft.

"You can't cast non-creature spells" is one of the worst downsides a Cube card could possibly have. I would say you could Donate it but, well, you know.

I mean, if you really want to push that theme, there’s always Hymn of the Wilds...