being able to cast this in modern before throwing down a snapcaster or clique at end of turn sounds pretty decent. Worth some experimentation in modern.
These kinds of "untap your lands" effects need to have a "If you cast this spell from your hand" clause, or else they're going to be abused.
I love the concept of a "free" spell, but most people don't see this is as a "free" spell, they see it as a "find another way to cast this for free and pseudo-accelerate your mana".
They could have even made it a keyword for this set to save room. It's pretty specific to Dominaria anyway, and it would have made it so much cleaner. Something like "Cantrip (If you cast this spell from you hand, untap up to X lands, where X is this spell's converted mana cost)". Done. No abuse, no wordy text boxes, just an ability with Dominaria flavor that lets you cast spells easier.
Excuse me while I go scream into a pillow over the absurdity that something like this got printed in modern magic yet something like counterspell is still deemed too strong. As sure unwind is more narrow in what it counters, but lets face it, this is strictly better than negate even if it costs 1 more mana because it might as well cost nothing since it untaps the lands you used to cast it. And as someone pointed out, you can use Baral, Chief of Compliance to make this even better which is still in standard for quite awhile.
being able to cast this in modern before throwing down a snapcaster or clique at end of turn sounds pretty decent. Worth some experimentation in modern.
These kinds of "untap your lands" effects need to have a "If you cast this spell from your hand" clause, or else they're going to be abused.
I love the concept of a "free" spell, but most people don't see this is as a "free" spell, they see it as a "find another way to cast this for free and pseudo-accelerate your mana".
They could have even made it a keyword for this set to save room. It's pretty specific to Dominaria anyway, and it would have made it so much cleaner. Something like "Cantrip (If you cast this spell from you hand, untap up to X lands, where X is this spell's converted mana cost)". Done. No abuse, no wordy text boxes, just an ability with Dominaria flavor that lets you cast spells easier.
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