They could easily have added the word 'nonartifact' if they didn't want people to use it to dig for artifacts with a green spell, if the thinking was that green was not allowed to artifact-sift.
It doesn't get artifacts as an accidental side effect. It gets them among their set of findables by design. They could have excluded them but opted not to.
They could easily have added the word 'nonartifact' if they didn't want people to use it to dig for artifacts with a green spell, if the thinking was that green was not allowed to artifact-sift.
It doesn't get artifacts as an accidental side effect. It gets them among their set of findables by design. They could have excluded them but opted not to.
The main reason why "non-artifact" didn't end up on Ancient Stirrings is the same reason why it got taken off Terror. It's clunky and unnecessary. Not wanting to go through the trouble of adding a random exclusion was definitely much stronger than them specifically wanting green to dig for artifacts given the game's design direction at Rise of the Eldrazi's release. It would have been remarkably strange to see that clause so soon after the introduction of Doom Blade and in the midst of their attempts to find a replacement for fear.
There was also no way that they could have foreseen the card's usage in modern tron and lantern control decks, particularly the latter.
They just printed Haphazard Bombardment with exactly that sort of exclusion (nonenchantment permanents) so don’t pretend it’s something that they never do or is against their new world order or templating rules. If they think an exclusion is necessary to keep a card in its color pie they’ll do it - they didn’t want red to get enchantment removal so they excluded it. If they wanted to exclude artifact digging for Ancient Stirrings because they think it out of pie for green they could have. They didn’t, but they could have. Ergo it’s not really considered out of pie.
They just printed Haphazard Bombardment with exactly that sort of exclusion (nonenchantment permanents) so don’t pretend it’s something that they never do or is against their new world order or templating rules. If they think an exclusion is necessary to keep a card in its color pie they’ll do it - they didn’t want red to get enchantment removal so they excluded it. If they wanted to exclude artifact digging for Ancient Stirrings because they think it out of pie for green they could have. They didn’t, but they could have. Ergo it’s not really considered out of pie.
Haphazard Bombardment doesn't exactly have a kind of wording you see very often to begin with, and it has nothing to do with the non-artifact exclusion, which used to be ubiquitous and lost that status with M10 and Zendikar block.
Anyhow, I'm not part of the crowd saying that positive artifact interaction is totally out of pie for green, but I am trying to qualify it. The Antiquities War does not fit into green's color pie because green does not typically single out artifacts for these kinds of effects outside of extremely artifact-heavy blocks like Mirrodin and Kaladesh. What green does get is broad-scale interaction that names a wide variety of types or affects everything, under which artifacts frequently fall.
Green would never search a library for an artifact, unless 1) it was in an artifact heavy block where the normal rules are slightly bent and 2) unless it was to do something with destroying or exiling them. I could see a version where Green searches target player's library for an artifact and then makes them exile it, but tutoring for artifacts for you to use is not something Green would do.
Green would never search a library for an artifact, unless 1) it was in an artifact heavy block where the normal rules are slightly bent and 2) unless it was to do something with destroying or exiling them. I could see a version where Green searches target player's library for an artifact and then makes them exile it, but tutoring for artifacts for you to use is not something Green would do.
I could see that as a green-black sorcery(with maybe more of an upside than usual due to being multicolor) Searching and exiling from an opponent's library is pretty firmly in Black nowadays.
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It doesn't get artifacts as an accidental side effect. It gets them among their set of findables by design. They could have excluded them but opted not to.
The main reason why "non-artifact" didn't end up on Ancient Stirrings is the same reason why it got taken off Terror. It's clunky and unnecessary. Not wanting to go through the trouble of adding a random exclusion was definitely much stronger than them specifically wanting green to dig for artifacts given the game's design direction at Rise of the Eldrazi's release. It would have been remarkably strange to see that clause so soon after the introduction of Doom Blade and in the midst of their attempts to find a replacement for fear.
There was also no way that they could have foreseen the card's usage in modern tron and lantern control decks, particularly the latter.
Haphazard Bombardment doesn't exactly have a kind of wording you see very often to begin with, and it has nothing to do with the non-artifact exclusion, which used to be ubiquitous and lost that status with M10 and Zendikar block.
Anyhow, I'm not part of the crowd saying that positive artifact interaction is totally out of pie for green, but I am trying to qualify it. The Antiquities War does not fit into green's color pie because green does not typically single out artifacts for these kinds of effects outside of extremely artifact-heavy blocks like Mirrodin and Kaladesh. What green does get is broad-scale interaction that names a wide variety of types or affects everything, under which artifacts frequently fall.
I could see that as a green-black sorcery(with maybe more of an upside than usual due to being multicolor) Searching and exiling from an opponent's library is pretty firmly in Black nowadays.