I was thinking about what sorts of fun things a Golgari set might do beyond the typical dredge/reanimator type strategies. One of the ideas I had was a win-con that rewards you for dumping literally all of the creatures from your hand and library into your graveyard.
I had to give it the added functionally of ramping a bit, so it's not a dead card in the early game. I also worded it so that a deck can't just be built with no creatures and win with this as soon as the card gets drawn.
Barren Legacy1BG
Sorcery (R)
Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard, then return up to one land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Then you may reveal the cards in your hand and library. If no creature cards were revealed this way and there are ten or more creature cards in your graveyard, you win the game. Otherwise, shuffle your library.
This seems to heavily encourage playing dredge/reanimator. You need a threshold of creatures but want to deliberately get them into your graveyard, exactly what dredge/reanimator wants to do.
It will be treated like laboratory maniac -- mill yourself (ie dredge), then win.
The "extra functionality" should really make it cost more. Lab maniac, I feel, is perfectly fine at it's cost, but is significantly weaker as a win con.
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"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
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I had to give it the added functionally of ramping a bit, so it's not a dead card in the early game. I also worded it so that a deck can't just be built with no creatures and win with this as soon as the card gets drawn.
Barren Legacy 1BG
Sorcery (R)
Put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard, then return up to one land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Then you may reveal the cards in your hand and library. If no creature cards were revealed this way and there are ten or more creature cards in your graveyard, you win the game. Otherwise, shuffle your library.
What do yall think?
The "extra functionality" should really make it cost more. Lab maniac, I feel, is perfectly fine at it's cost, but is significantly weaker as a win con.
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn