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Quote from rowanalpha »The casting cost question for the WWWW sorceries is really more of a thought exercise. If your intention for the set is that it would only ever be used for limited, its completely reasonable as is. If you are trying to design the set like something that would be in a standard or other constructed environment, that's when its power level would be more of an issue, because getting to WWWW a two color deck would be quite easy. The thing is that the sorcery is heavily color intensive color in a block not meant to have great mana fixing but I'll see how to revise that cycle If your goal is a wedge set you will need good fixing built in. Shards of Alara was 3-color focused and the fixing was too low, where Khans got it pretty much on the nose (morph helped too). You'll want to balance your fixing around how heavily you push the 3 color archetypes: push them hard and you'll want Khans level fixing, push them only a little and you can run at Shards level.
The thing is that the sorcery is heavily color intensive color in a block not meant to have great mana fixing but I'll see how to revise that cycle
Quote from rowanalpha »So big questions first: Whats the goal of the set (draft, constructed or both? power level? themes?) Is there a story or plane to tie these cards together like a regular set or is setting agnostic cards like a core set? Rares are cool, butt what kind of common cards are there that can show the meat and potatoes of the gameplay?
Quote from rowanalpha » There are a few minor typos and grammar checks needed ("gain 2 lifes","At the begginning of you end step...") and maybe some templating tweaks, but nothing too major. Winterbloom is a reasonable mana dork, and probably doesn't even need defender. If you are planning on the "control 4 snow permanents" being a theme, you should give it an ability word a la Ferocious or Spell Mastery
Quote from rowanalpha » The white cards are mostly good. The trigger cost on your ape lord may be too low. I know Mentor of the Meek is almost the same trigger at 1, but spreading those counters will make a bunch of weenies a whole lot scarier. The WWWW board wipe would probable be too strong for Standard, since those effects sit at 5-6 these days or otherwise push aggro decks out of the format. The thing is that the sorcery is heavily color intensive color in a block not meant to have great mana fixing but I'll see how to revise that cycle Blue: The Kraken might be overcosted with the hoops to jump through for untapping. The Ooze is a neat combination of Oozes and clones; it captures the thematic combination well. Kraken is a limited card, is not meant to be THAT good, so no biggies. Black: The ooze is another creative take on Oozes (do you have an Ooze theme?) and the discard card is a reasonable uncommon. Red: For the Phoenix, I don't think we've seen a permanent with a snow mana cost that isn't also snow itself. Also, you'll want to playtest to see if 4 snow permanents is the right threshold for this ability. The Kobold will likely get banned in any format where Storm is relevant, since its almost always going to be a Pyretic Ritual, or better. You are indeed correct in both of these, so I corrected them. Green: The creature token charm actually feels just slightly weak for a rare. Maybe give each kind of token a keyword? Haste for the Dino, Trample for the Beasts and vigilance for the Bears maybe? Your snow duals are a good take on the idea, but you can go with 2 snow permanents instead of 3 since the Tango lands are balanced at 2 basics and two snow permanents is at least that hard or harder to get consistently. Your Lairs are better than you think. If you play one with a mana untapped, you can respond to the bounce trigger by activating the Lair and sacrificing it before you have to choose a land to bounce. If it just said, "When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, return a non-lair card to your hand." there would always be a cost, except playing a lair on an empty board.
Quote from user-11102155 »how is that alternate art not fitting ? an tree in autumn (which kind of means he is about to die, sort of) is growing new plants (like sacrificing himself for the next generation) this is totally fitting crop rotation. u sacrifice an old land to get a new one. art is perfectly fitting EDIT: lol nevermind. i was just reading the flavor text which is exactly the same what i just descriped
Quote from FlossedBeaver »Quote from 5ColorsEDH »Raid - At the end of combat on your turn, if you attacked this turn, create a Treasure Token (It’s an artifact with “T, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.”). There now your pirate lord is at least interesting and worthy of its rare status. B-but this goes infinite with Deadeye Navigator and Doubling Season / Yarok, the Desecrated . - - - #BLM #DefundThePolice
Quote from 5ColorsEDH »Raid - At the end of combat on your turn, if you attacked this turn, create a Treasure Token (It’s an artifact with “T, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.”). There now your pirate lord is at least interesting and worthy of its rare status.
Quote from Tormented »I almost think WOTC is trying to make command zone infinite combo pieces - from the fox in Ikoria (+basalt monolith, grim monolith) to Kalamax (+any fork card) to zaxara (+pemmin's aura and freed from the real) and now a command zone eldrazi displacer (although I cannot think of any infinite combos in green/white - nothing like peregrin drake). It really feels like there needs to be some rule change (a forced break after 4 iterations of a repeatable loop or something like that) in order to make cEDH anything more than a demonstration of the most redundant, lowest cost combo.