I'm Not Drawing Extra Cards, I Swear 3W
Enchantment
Shroud, indestructible
When ~ enters the battlefield, you may search your library for any number of plains cards and put them into your hand, then shuffle your library.
You may play with plains cards in your hand revealed. Those cards do not count towards your hand size.
When you discard a plains card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.
But I get that you're trying to mitigate discarding cards in some way. I'm pretty sure I can come up with an infinite for this if they return to hand when discarded..
I'm aware of Endless Horizons. I play Endless Horizons. My card was a joke.
Maros Tumblr got a lot of questions, ideas, suggestions about white card draw. For example.
For white card draw, you mentioned that drawing up to equal your opponents hand is likely out of the question, but would something like Timely Reinforcements for card draw work? Something that gave a set amount of card advantage, but only if you were behind.
To all suggestions Maros answer was similar:
No. White is bad at drawing cards. The solution to white is not making it better at drawing cards. It’s purposefully supposed to be bad at drawing cards. Look to enhancing strengths of white not trying to undo its weakness.
What is the meaning of this? White strengths? More cheap removal or repeatable removal in some way? More token, life gain stuff and more board wipes? I don't think that increasing the quality of this kind of effects will lead to something. Maybe better/more disruption effects but most player hate playing against such things.
I don't think reprinting old cards will do something. Maybe for newer player but that doesn't help white to catch up with the other colours.
I'm Not Drawing Extra Cards, I Swear 3W
Enchantment
Shroud, indestructible
When ~ enters the battlefield, you may search your library for any number of plains cards and put them into your hand, then shuffle your library.
You may play with plains cards in your hand revealed. Those cards do not count towards your hand size.
When you discard a plains card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.
Why go deep on running those enchantresses when you could just dump a fatty go Greater Good?
Because an enchantress deck rarely has a fatty to make Greater Good better than Harmonize. Many enchantress decks don't even go wide enough to make something like Shamanic Revelation a strong play most of the time.
Enchantress support - given tools like Serra's Sanctum and Replenish I would say white is probably the strongest color for enchantress even over green. Green has a few more enchantress effects but I think what they lack is the big payoff cards like the two I just mentioned.
White has good support for enchantress, but almost none of the actual enchantresses. Kor Spiritdancer and Sram, Senior Edificer for auras only (Sram can do vehicles or equipment, too, but those are generally irrelevant to an actual enchantress deck), and Mesa Enchantress.
Another immediate thought (draw-wise) is a colour-shifted Coastal Piracy, give or take a detail or two perhaps. This is absolutely more White than it is Blue.
Uh... what? There are 35 Ophidian-type creature cards (counting two silver-bordered creatures and five creatures that grant the Ophidian effect to one or more of your creatures including itself), 26 of which are blue (counting Deepfathom Skulker, despite having Devoid). Of the nine non-blue Ophidians, one of the three black ones requires controlling an island in order to get the trigger, and the one white one requires controlling a blue permanent to get the trigger. None of the blue Ophidians are WUx. There are 19 noncreature cards that can effectively grant the Ophidian ability to an arbitrary creature (counting a Contraption and a Conspiracy), 10 of which are blue. Of the nine non-blue Ophidian-granters, one (the conspiracy) requires spending blue mana, four are colorless artifacts, and none are white. One of the blue Ophidian-granters is WUx.
In what way is Coastal Piracy more white than blue?
I remember when we first heard that we were getting enemy color pair commanders, I was hoping for something like this:
Tectonic Knight 2RW
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
First strike
When ~ enters the battlefield, if an opponent controls at least four lands, you may destroy target nonbasic land that opponent controls. Then, if that opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
3/3
Doesn't help mono-white, but RW is the color pair that's worst off, and it would have given us a Boros commander that's not rawr combat combat combat!
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Enchantment
Shroud, indestructible
When ~ enters the battlefield, you may search your library for any number of plains cards and put them into your hand, then shuffle your library.
You may play with plains cards in your hand revealed. Those cards do not count towards your hand size.
When you discard a plains card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
(Image by totallynotabrony)
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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OTOH, green gets Argothian Enchantress, Eidolon of Blossoms (which triggers off of itself, or from blinking/recurring enchantments!), Enchantress's Presence, and Verduran Enchantress. GW also gets Satyr Enchanter and GWU gets Tuvasa the Sunlit.
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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In what way is Coastal Piracy more white than blue?
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
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Tectonic Knight 2RW
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
First strike
When ~ enters the battlefield, if an opponent controls at least four lands, you may destroy target nonbasic land that opponent controls. Then, if that opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
3/3
Doesn't help mono-white, but RW is the color pair that's worst off, and it would have given us a Boros commander that's not rawr combat combat combat!
Two Score, Minus Two or: A Stargate Tail
(Image by totallynotabrony)