MTG Salvation

Quote from Maniac227

I've been waiting for this to show up in green.

Green has no (good) answer for the tap kill combos, i.e. the Cunning Sparkmage + Basilisk Collar, Kalitas, Drana, or even royal assassin.

Quote from Srqt

heh thats what I get for Googleing comp rules from work


you would thin wotc would have taken that down. I knew it was interchangable with play and just found the first thing that supported the fact.

Quote from RunFromMANBEAR

First post

I love the idea. Seems what he needs. I would try to use some ramp. Maybe splashing green for some Rampant Growths so you can drop Sarkhan as early as possible. Or maybe a Trace of Abundance in there.

Damn, s'narthed :/ Though it is the first time I get to use that phrase

Quote from Xyver

here's black-
xB- 1
B- 16
1B- 6
2B- 9
3B- 4
4B- 1
5B- 1
7B- 1
xBB- 1
1BB- 3
2BB- 2
3BB- 3
4BB- 1
5BB- 1
3BBB- 1
4BBB- 1
5BBB- 1

that's all the black costs, I did variations of xB and all the way up to 7BBBB. for all three I did other odd costs like 1BBBB, BBBBB, and BBBBBB. did green and red like that too.. so unless it's a huge mana cost and/or a weird combo I think I got them all.

Quote from Sniffnoy

Let's remember, he specified a card from Alpha. That means, say, Royal Assassin is highly unlikely, because, well, it's in M10. Sure, it was in Alpha, but if you say "a card from Alpha" and you meant Royal Assassin, people are going to be very disappointed. Chances are it's a card that didn't remain in the core set for long. Ideally it should have been in A/B/U but not Revised, but that requirement may well be too strict. Still, I expect it's something that hasn't appeared since Revised or Fourth Edition, or maybe Fifth Edition at the latest. By the time you hit Sixth Edition, nobody's going to think of it as a "card from Alpha" anymore, due to the presence of a rarity symbol pointing out its recency to anyone who looks.

For reference, a full list of cards that haven't been printed since Unlimited (ignoring Masters Edition, FTV, and other things that don't count towards legality):

Ancestral Recall (Ancestral Vision is as close as we're like to come; how do you keep it "like Ancestral Recall" while still being something they would print?)
Berserk (note, this had a near-reprint in Planar Chaos as Fatal Frenzy)
Black Lotus (very hard to balance properly; Lotus Bloom is as close as we're like to come; how do you keep it "like Black Lotus" while still being something they would print? Even Lotus Petal is considered too powerful)
Blaze of Glory
Camouflage (highly unlikely, too complicated)
Chaos Orb (not a chance)
Copper Tablet
Cyclopean Tomb (also unlikely)
False Orders
Forcefield
Gauntlet of Might (as others have pointed out, Gauntlet of Power makes this unlikely, unless maybe it were for colorless?)
Ice Storm (doubt it; how do you keep it "like Ice Storm" while still being something they would print? Add a mana to it and you've got a worse Creeping Mold)
Illusionary Mask (not unless morph is in the set, which what we know suggests it isn't; and any way of implementing something like this is bound to be hideously complicated anyway)
Lich
Mox Emerald (see comment on Ancestral Recall, Black Lotus, Ice Storm, e.g.)
Mox Jet (ditto)
Mox Pearl (ditto)
Mox Ruby (ditto)
Mox Sapphire (ditto)
Natural Selection (pie issues)
Raging River (not as bad as Camouflage or the Mask but still too complicated)
Sinkhole (see comment on Ice Storm; add a mana to it and you've got Rain of Tears)
Time Vault (Magosi, the Waterveil makes this unlikely)
Time Walk (see comment on Ancestral Recall, Sinkhole, e.g.; also Time Warp makes this unlikely)
Timetwister
Two-Headed Giant of Foriys
Word of Command (they failed at it in Time Spiral - recall Sudden Spoiling was originally going to be a split second version of this, till they just ran into too many templating issues - and I doubt they'll do any better now)