Sam Black was talking about the original design of the green card in this cycle last night on his Twitch stream. He said it originally was a sylvan scrying effect that could tutor any non-basic onto the battlefield. He told the design team “Do you really want turn 2 tron to be a thing?”, and they changed it. Made me laugh when I heard him say that.
Honestly I wonder if something with cycling is best paired with cards like this in modern, like titanoth rex? Though I wonder if a turn 3 10/10 with trample is good enough?
Maybe Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar isn't a real "Madness" card, but it's something like, "Pay [mana cost], Discard [some number of cards]: Put this card onto the battlefield from any zone."
Not sure how it would work, but that could be interesting and would at least work for Commander. I'd be kinda bummed if he couldn't be cast from the Command Zone in some way.
Seems like just a good value sacrifice card, probably not replacing village rites in rakdos sacrifice, but it could be fun to try to use turn 4 with Kroxa, Titan of Death’s Hunger’s trigger on the stack to sacrifice it and get 6 pests.
This is just EDH chaff really, where it's cute that it can kill all your opponents at once if you have a load of mana. I just don't see it elsewhere, doesn't work with the cheating spells out of the graveyard plan, and costs a truckload to get going, ramp decks don't tend to be short of win conditions, and often don't even play red anyway. Curious how it plays in Limited, its floor is 5 mana deal 5 which is fine of course, but late game this is basically just win the game.
I’m not even sure I’d play this in EDH, by the time I have enough mana to burn out the table using Crackle with Power it’s very likely that I also have enough mana to burn out the table using Comet Storm, and I’d prefer comet storm since it’s way more versatile.
In a deck running four copies Extus can attack and rebuy the copies of himself to cast awaken the blood avatar over and over once you get to enough mana.
I know but read the dwarf again token version gains “when this token leaves the battlefield return the exiled card to the graveyard”
I’m asking if the token leaves by death can I do the iname thing.
Google to the rescue!
I think the answer is no, you can’t use the token’s death trigger to exile the real card once it has returned to your graveyard.
201.4 Text that refers to the object it’s on by name means just that particular object and not any other objects with that name, regardless of any name changes caused by game effects.
So the death trigger should be read as “When this card dies, you may exile it. If you do, return...”
holy cow I just revamped my spirit tribal deck at this rate I got to do it again due to lorehold synergy with spirits
got a rules question for judges if I had a token versions of iname, life aspect or iname as one from this card and the token dies can I do it’s death trigger thing and still keep the real one (Basicly say yes to death trigger on token but still returns the real one to the grave)
I’m not a judge, but I’m pretty sure the answer is no. Both use this wording “When CARDNAME dies, you may exile it. If you do, return...” I bolded the important bit. The token copies would go to the graveyard and then state based actions would automatically exile all tokens that are in any zone that isn’t the battlefield. So the token would be exiled before their death triggers resolve, which means when you are given the option to exile them to their death triggers they are no longer in the graveyard for you to exile and their abilities check to make sure you exiled them to their trigger before giving you the effect.
Abundant Harvest is interesting, kinda disappointed it didn’t make it into strixhaven proper since it seems like a good enabler for magecraft triggers in draft and sealed.
I mean there are ways around not being able to cast your commander from the command zone as Haakon, Stromgald Scourge players can attest. There’s not many, mainly Command Beacon and Netherborn Altar (and perhaps Hellkite Courser), but they do exist.
I’m not even sure I’d play this in EDH, by the time I have enough mana to burn out the table using Crackle with Power it’s very likely that I also have enough mana to burn out the table using Comet Storm, and I’d prefer comet storm since it’s way more versatile.
Google to the rescue!
I think the answer is no, you can’t use the token’s death trigger to exile the real card once it has returned to your graveyard.
201.4 Text that refers to the object it’s on by name means just that particular object and not any other objects with that name, regardless of any name changes caused by game effects.
So the death trigger should be read as “When this card dies, you may exile it. If you do, return...”
I’m not a judge, but I’m pretty sure the answer is no. Both use this wording “When CARDNAME dies, you may exile it. If you do, return...” I bolded the important bit. The token copies would go to the graveyard and then state based actions would automatically exile all tokens that are in any zone that isn’t the battlefield. So the token would be exiled before their death triggers resolve, which means when you are given the option to exile them to their death triggers they are no longer in the graveyard for you to exile and their abilities check to make sure you exiled them to their trigger before giving you the effect.