Okay, some baseline here: Why would someone want to bypass the Reserved List for Alpha duals? Take into account your targets here. It's about people who would be just happy to have Vintage/Legacy legal reprints of the Alphha duals, but won't get them. So the requirement is to give them lands that actually work like Alpha duals in those formats. That's - it seems to me - the baseline.
Any card that is specifically designed to not work with fetchlands is missing its audience on a topic that aims to "bypass the reserved list" for these cards. I really think that should be on anyone's checklist. Ideally drawbacks added to make the new dual lands should be more relevant when *not* fetched - or balance out between both fetching and playing from hand.
Muck and Mire
Land - Muck Mire
(Mucks have T: Add B)
(Mires have T: Add U)
Mucks are functionally swamps except theyre not basic and are not named Swamp. Thered be some rules baggage associated with it but it seems doable.
Mires are islands etc.
To quote myself earlier from this thread since it applies again:
By the letter of the rules they wrote down themselves these cards are considered functional reprints and violate the Reserved List if printed.
To quote WOTC, you would be wrong:
WotC wrote, "Reserved cards will never be printed again in a functionally identical form. A card is considered functionally identical to another card if it has the same card type, subtypes, abilities, mana cost, power, and toughness."
As I said Muck is not a swamp therefore it does not have the same types. How is that functionally identical? Or did you miss the part where it has totally different types?
WotC wrote, "Reserved cards will never be printed again in a functionally identical form. A card is considered functionally identical to another card if it has the same card type, subtypes, abilities, mana cost, power, and toughness."
As I said Muck is not a swamp therefore it does not have the same types. How is that functionally identical? Or did you miss the part where it has totally different types?
Wizards has more recently taken a very broad view to what constitutes a "functional" reprint. Even though certain reprint sets such as FTV are technically excluded from the original terms of the RL, they decided to suck those products under the umbrella. They have made it very clear that using semantics to subvert the letter of the law, so to speak, is close enough to count as a violation.
I tweaked the old cards so they now have a slight drawback rather than a slight benefit (that would only seldom kick in). My rationale was that it would be bad if players in Modern could get dual lands untapped without paying 2 life.
OLD VERSION CONCEPT:
Mauna Loa
Legendary Land - Island Mountain
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control two or more Islands and two or more Mountains, scry 1 and deal 1 damage to target opponent.
NEW VERSION CONCEPT:
Mauna Loa
Legendary Land - Island Mountain
This enters the battlefield tapped if you control more lands than each opponent.
While it won't matter for the format you're designing this for, I also feel like "This enters the battlefield tapped if you control more lands than an opponent." reads better, and also exclusively benefits only the person farthest behind on lands in a multiplayer game.
Now that these cards aren't as powerful as the ones I posted earlier, they certainly wouldn't need to be legendary from a game play perspective. But I decided to keep them legendary because they are based on actual, unique locations on Earth.
I agree that AN is better than EACH, so I updated this series in Magic Set Editor.
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To quote WOTC, you would be wrong:
WotC wrote, "Reserved cards will never be printed again in a functionally identical form. A card is considered functionally identical to another card if it has the same card type, subtypes, abilities, mana cost, power, and toughness."
As I said Muck is not a swamp therefore it does not have the same types. How is that functionally identical? Or did you miss the part where it has totally different types?
Wizards has more recently taken a very broad view to what constitutes a "functional" reprint. Even though certain reprint sets such as FTV are technically excluded from the original terms of the RL, they decided to suck those products under the umbrella. They have made it very clear that using semantics to subvert the letter of the law, so to speak, is close enough to count as a violation.
OLD VERSION CONCEPT:
Mauna Loa
Legendary Land - Island Mountain
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control two or more Islands and two or more Mountains, scry 1 and deal 1 damage to target opponent.
NEW VERSION CONCEPT:
Mauna Loa
Legendary Land - Island Mountain
This enters the battlefield tapped if you control more lands than each opponent.
While it won't matter for the format you're designing this for, I also feel like "This enters the battlefield tapped if you control more lands than an opponent." reads better, and also exclusively benefits only the person farthest behind on lands in a multiplayer game.
Edit: fixed typo
I agree that AN is better than EACH, so I updated this series in Magic Set Editor.