Cavernous Lair
Land C
T: Add 1 to your mana pool
T: Add X to your mana pool, where X is the number of times you’ve cast your commander from the command zone. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.
This new land is basically a more limited version of myth unbound for any non-green deck when it comes to casting your commander more often. The benefit however is its a land instead of an enchantment. Less people pack land hate than they do enchantment hate.
With green its a bit more silly, not infinite, unless we are talking needing five to seven pieces.
Shimmering Lotus 4
Artifact R
{T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color. Each petal a mirror
Good thing paradox engine was banned. Could you imagine just staring across the table at a person with this, an engine, and a Jodah, Archmage Eternal? Once they have the two missing colors sorted after like one or two casts tops, that would result in them being able to cast anything for basically free. Unlike Omniscience, this artifact is not only innately cheaper by always costing 1 less than even the Jodah discount, but it also would have helped contribute to furthering your game winning plan before you could have gone off.
I actually feel like that is pretty much exactly the effect you would expect from a WBG ultimatum but also having the exact name makes it really suspect tbh.
Great catch! Now, that same thread from 2008 also has Trollhide 4 years before M12... Same name, grants regeneration and a boost, even though being an quipment instead of an aura...
I don't think it's the first time a card designed here very closely matched a card printed years and years later. I also think that the original page that posted this might be a spanish-language based page? So maybe the Frog name mismatch is just a translation error as well?
I still don't know if I really believe it though, to be honest. The thing I most believe is that tying it to Ikoria means that we're going to get a bunch of draft chaff shoved into the box, but I suppose that's not too far off from some of the original Commander decklists.
So no kaiju creature type, as some were speculating.
Not neccassay
None of the new creatures cards are in the 10/10 or higher area in the list the closet is 8/5 but the offical ones are probably bigger than that based off the bear thing in key art
So none of those might not qualify for the typing if it exist but like boom box mentioned could be “elder” typing like the titans got in theros
So is merge supposed to be the Ikoria mechanic that lets you build your own monsters? Reskinned bestow is not going to get people very excited..
But omg you could go from a board with 30 creatures to just one really really big strong one for no real reason after you spend all your mana too! Isnt that great! BUY MORE PACKS FOR THAT ONE MYTHIC THAT MAKES THE DECK VIABLE. SPEND SPEND!
Mosurag, a legendary "venerated" flying insect? Like Mosura (Mothra?) Not the most subtle ripoff (which leads me to think fake).
Cool if real.
Wizards recently had a card depicting someone essentially opening a Pandora's Box, only the character looked male and was referred to in the flavor text as Pantor, so...
I should tell you guys there’s a “ultimatinum” in abzan In there and we don’t have wedge colored versions of those
I mean we can all see it right there, so a mention isn't really necessary
That said, though, I was gonna say that wedge Ultimatums are sweet. I hope to see more Cruel Ultimatum style cards that cripple the frick out of your opponent.
The problem with defining this format by what is "fun" is that everyone seems to define fun as what they don't lose to. If you keep losing to easily answered cards, that means you should improve your deck. If you don't want to improve your deck, then you should come to peace with the idea that you are going to lose because you chose to not interact with better strategies.
From how Merge is worded here, people seem to be misinterpreting it. Bestow is an alternate cost when the card is cast from your hand. Merge actually turns a creature on the battlefield into an aura. And if that creature has any auras of it (i.e. other merged creatures) then all the auras get transferred as well. It's more like how Voltron or Megazord work.
From how Merge is worded here, people seem to be misinterpreting it. Bestow is an alternate cost when the card is cast from your hand. Merge actually turns a creature on the battlefield into an aura. And if that creature has any auras of it (i.e. other merged creatures) then all the auras get transferred as well. It's more like how Voltron or Megazord work.
The problem is... how does this mechanic work if the enchanted creature is killed? All the merged auras fall off and become creatures again?
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As far as we can tell with merge, if, at any point, the merge creature that's become an aura stops being attached to a creature, it becomes a creature again. That's the same way bestow works. It just doesn't have the mandatory power/toughness bonus or making you choose while in hand whether you want the aura or want to skip it. This is a mechanic you can actually cost where you can use it before late game. It isn't that bestow wasn't neat when you could actually use it. The way it and merge work, you don't have the card disadvantage of auras. You can also merge repeatedly for only 1-3 mana. It's only sorcery speed, though, other than the aura mover card, so it isn't a combat trick and gives the "shields down" moment,though. It's actually a very well designed mechanic that I think people will really enjoy, if real. It isn't bestow. It's improved bestow that might actually let them print a constructed merge card or two. I think it looks really fun, kind of like bloodrush. It's a creature you can also use for something else, but like cycling, adventure, channel, or reinforce, you can actually use it reasonably because it isn't locked behind 6+ mana. It also fits with the trend of monstrosity improvement, channel that lets you have both at a reasonable cost (adventure), and flashback that can work on any card type (escape). I could actually see it existing along with mutate, especially if mutate is something like monstrosity but you can have a choice of keywords. This is black border host/augment set but without the card disadvantage and the design issues of a+b mechanic. It isn't that contraptions or host/augment weren't good ideas but this improves the latter and food improved the former.
As for designing a card that later saw print, I personally designed the exact card Murder only with a different name. An enemy ultimatum that's practically a ripoff of Violent Ultimatum isn't exactly the pinnacle of innovation. It's spicy and exciting but lets do the opposite of a card in the same cycle isn't going to surprise.
Cavernous Lair + Thespian's Stage
Cavernous Lair + Mirage Mirror
Myth Unbound
Crop Rotation
Scapeshift
Hour of Promise
Expedition Map
Seedborn Muse
Awakening
Winding Canyon
Leyline of Anticipation
Vedalken Orrery
Phyrexian Altar
Ashnod's Altar
Food Chain
This new land is basically a more limited version of myth unbound for any non-green deck when it comes to casting your commander more often. The benefit however is its a land instead of an enchantment. Less people pack land hate than they do enchantment hate.
With green its a bit more silly, not infinite, unless we are talking needing five to seven pieces.
I actually feel like that is pretty much exactly the effect you would expect from a WBG ultimatum but also having the exact name makes it really suspect tbh.
Great catch! Now, that same thread from 2008 also has Trollhide 4 years before M12... Same name, grants regeneration and a boost, even though being an quipment instead of an aura...
I still don't know if I really believe it though, to be honest. The thing I most believe is that tying it to Ikoria means that we're going to get a bunch of draft chaff shoved into the box, but I suppose that's not too far off from some of the original Commander decklists.
They'll probably be Elder Beast Nobles. /s
Cool if real.
Not neccassay
None of the new creatures cards are in the 10/10 or higher area in the list the closet is 8/5 but the offical ones are probably bigger than that based off the bear thing in key art
So none of those might not qualify for the typing if it exist but like boom box mentioned could be “elder” typing like the titans got in theros
But omg you could go from a board with 30 creatures to just one really really big strong one for no real reason after you spend all your mana too! Isnt that great! BUY MORE PACKS FOR THAT ONE MYTHIC THAT MAKES THE DECK VIABLE. SPEND SPEND!
Wizards recently had a card depicting someone essentially opening a Pandora's Box, only the character looked male and was referred to in the flavor text as Pantor, so...
If this spoiler is correct you don't get any p/t bonus
I mean we can all see it right there, so a mention isn't really necessary
That said, though, I was gonna say that wedge Ultimatums are sweet. I hope to see more Cruel Ultimatum style cards that cripple the frick out of your opponent.
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The problem is... how does this mechanic work if the enchanted creature is killed? All the merged auras fall off and become creatures again?
As for designing a card that later saw print, I personally designed the exact card Murder only with a different name. An enemy ultimatum that's practically a ripoff of Violent Ultimatum isn't exactly the pinnacle of innovation. It's spicy and exciting but lets do the opposite of a card in the same cycle isn't going to surprise.
https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/612390937378897920/are-there-dinosaurs-on-ikoria-maybe
It’s a maybe response but however it’s not a “can I get a maybe” question
And one of the new cards from this suposive leak is a dinosaur the 8/5 that bans creatures power 2 or less from blocking
Well yea but there’s a huge problem
One of the new cards is called Whiptongue Frog unless mistranslated
It already exist
(Sorry ment to merge this to my original post didn’t mean to double post)
Almost identical!
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