I already know this is probably broken, but I thought I'd pitch the idea anyway.
Mox Crown0
Artifact T: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
At first glance, this closely resembles Command Tower as a free to play color fixer for any commander deck. However, as it's an artifact and not a land, there are a few key differences:
It can be played on the same turn as a land, essentially being free ramp. T1 2CMCs, here we come! Though to be fair, Sol Ring comes very close to being as efficient, but only produces colorless.
Being a nonland card, you cast it rather than simply play it, which has a ton of interactions, many of which are probably broken.
Being a free artifact, there are way too many combos to list that an artifact deck can take advantage of.
If I'm correct and this is "bah-roken" as is, is there a way to salvage it while maintaining appeal? Or is it simply too good to happen?
MTGS Wikia Article about "New World Order"
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
Consider that Commander already allows Sol Ring, Mana Vault, Mana Crypt, Mox Diamond, Mox Opal, and Chrome Mox. That's a mixture of mana rocks that are all various levels of broken. I suspect that were it not for availability issues, the original Moxen might be allowed in Commander too.
You could not print Mox Crown in a normal set, it would overwhelm Brawl and be a non-card in all other formats, but if you were to make it a common in a commander precon release (thereby making its availability high), I would consider allowing it to exist; though it would be an automatic and mandatory include in every deck that's not colorless, because you're right about how powerful it is.
If you did want to tamp it down a bit, it's already getting close to Mox Amber. If you made it "T: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Activate this ability only if you control your commander." It would be a slightly worse Mox Amber and would lose it's auto-include status.
Buut...
I like creative solutions. If we want to maintain the power level of the original for yourself, we need to tack on either a downside or a gift for your opponents.
Mox Crown0
Legendary Artifact T: Each player adds one mana of any color of their choice in their commander's color identity.
Tossing mana to your opponents when they're not expecting it often results in them being unable to use it, or them pouring it into a mana sink. But sometimes will come back to bite you, creating tension in the Mox's use without depriving you of the full power of the effect.
Mox Crown could enter tapped unless you control your Commander.
Mox Crown0
Artifact
~ enters tapped unless you control your commander. T: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
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MTGS Wikia Article about "New World Order"
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
Yeah, the original version I posted is basically strictly better Mox Opal, heck as far as Commander's concerned it would be the best Mox ever. Thus the ETBT clause I suggested in my second post, though even with that it's still better than Mox Opal most of the time. But hey, Command Tower is far more efficient than any land they would print in Standard.
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
MTGS Wikia Article about "New World Order"
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
But hey, Command Tower is far more efficient than any land they would print in Standard.
This is true, but the colors restrictions imposed to the player in both formats are different.
In standard the number of colors you play are restricted by land base alone, while in commander you have the commander identity rule. This is why the power level of fixing in Commander are allowed to be much higher then in constructed formats.
Your card, on the other hand, is not only fixing but ramping so the reasoning does not apply.
You could go the other direction and limit it on the spending side rather than the ETB side.
Mox Crown0
Artifact T: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Spend this mana only to cast legendary spells or activate abilities of legends.
(You could also use historic if you wanted to open it up a bit more)
The only way to even consider printing something like that is to ditch the zero casting cost.
Command Mox
Artifact
: Add 1 mana of any color in your Commander’s color identity.
I like this even better...
Command Ring
Artifact
: Add 2 mana in any combination of colors in your Commander’s color identity.
They would both be too good to print
Unlike Lotuses, which are a little more flexible in their design parameters, "true" Moxen are always 0 cmc artifacts. Now Wizards could decide to deviate from that in the future, but doing so would dilute the Moxen's identity.
You could go the other direction and limit it on the spending side rather than the ETB side.
Mox Crown0
Artifact T: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Spend this mana only to cast legendary spells or activate abilities of legends.
(You could also use historic if you wanted to open it up a bit more)
Legendary-only is an interesting restriction to consider. Since the main purpose is fixing for your commander, this makes some sense. However, it then beomes extremely limited outside a legends-themed deck.
MTGS Wikia Article about "New World Order"
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
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Mox Crown 0
Artifact
T: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
At first glance, this closely resembles Command Tower as a free to play color fixer for any commander deck. However, as it's an artifact and not a land, there are a few key differences:
If I'm correct and this is "bah-roken" as is, is there a way to salvage it while maintaining appeal? Or is it simply too good to happen?
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
You could not print Mox Crown in a normal set, it would overwhelm Brawl and be a non-card in all other formats, but if you were to make it a common in a commander precon release (thereby making its availability high), I would consider allowing it to exist; though it would be an automatic and mandatory include in every deck that's not colorless, because you're right about how powerful it is.
If you did want to tamp it down a bit, it's already getting close to Mox Amber. If you made it "T: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Activate this ability only if you control your commander." It would be a slightly worse Mox Amber and would lose it's auto-include status.
Buut...
I like creative solutions. If we want to maintain the power level of the original for yourself, we need to tack on either a downside or a gift for your opponents.
Mox Crown 0
Legendary Artifact
T: Each player adds one mana of any color of their choice in their commander's color identity.
Tossing mana to your opponents when they're not expecting it often results in them being unable to use it, or them pouring it into a mana sink. But sometimes will come back to bite you, creating tension in the Mox's use without depriving you of the full power of the effect.
Mox Crown 0
Artifact
~ enters tapped unless you control your commander.
T: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
This would be as well.
How to fix it? Depends, exactly, on what you want from it. I like manti's solution, but that almost makesa turn 1 use veru difficult.
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
This is true, but the colors restrictions imposed to the player in both formats are different.
In standard the number of colors you play are restricted by land base alone, while in commander you have the commander identity rule. This is why the power level of fixing in Commander are allowed to be much higher then in constructed formats.
Your card, on the other hand, is not only fixing but ramping so the reasoning does not apply.
BGU Control
R Aggro
Standard - For Fun
BG Auras
Command Mox
Artifact
: Add 1 mana of any color in your Commander’s color identity.
I like this even better...
Command Ring
Artifact
: Add 2 mana in any combination of colors in your Commander’s color identity.
They would both be too good to print
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Captain Sisay | Rhys, the Redeemed | Trostani, Selesnya's Voice | Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight | Obzedat, Ghost Council | Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind | Vorel of the Hull Clade
Uril, the Miststalker | Prossh, Skyraider of Kher | Nicol Bolas | Progenitus
Ghave, Guru of Spores | Zedruu the Greathearted | Damia, Sage of Stone | Riku of Two Reflections
Mox Crown 0
Artifact
T: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Spend this mana only to cast legendary spells or activate abilities of legends.
(You could also use historic if you wanted to open it up a bit more)
Unlike Lotuses, which are a little more flexible in their design parameters, "true" Moxen are always 0 cmc artifacts. Now Wizards could decide to deviate from that in the future, but doing so would dilute the Moxen's identity.
Legendary-only is an interesting restriction to consider. Since the main purpose is fixing for your commander, this makes some sense. However, it then beomes extremely limited outside a legends-themed deck.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.