When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
Lava-Island Cavalier - 1(R/U)(R/U) Creature - Lizard Knight
Protection from Red and from Blue (R/U): Lava-Island Cavalier gains flying until the end of turn. (R/U): Switch Lava-Island Cavalier's power and toughness until end of turn. (R/U)(R/U): Lava-Island Cavalier gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
2/1
Swampmoss Cavalier - 1(B/G)(B/G) Creature - Zombie Knight
Protection from Black and from Green (B/G): Swampmoss Cavalier gains trample until end of turn. (B/G): Swampmoss Cavalier gains first strike until end of turn. (B/G)(B/G): Swampmoss Cavalier gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
2/1
Lava-Island Cavalier - 1(R/U)(R/U) Creature - Lizard Knight
Protection from Red and from Blue (R/U): Lava-Island Cavalier gains flying until the end of turn. (R/U): Switch Lava-Island Cavalier's power and toughness until end of turn. (R/U)(R/U): Lava-Island Cavalier gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
2/1
Swampmoss Cavalier - 1(B/G)(B/G) Creature - Zombie Knight
Protection from Black and from Green (B/G): Swampmoss Cavalier gains trample until end of turn. (B/G): Swampmoss Cavalier gains first strike until end of turn. (B/G)(B/G): Swampmoss Cavalier gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
2/1
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Almost everyone I know that played Magic at that time LOVED Time Spiral, so I am always a bit dubious about the claim that it wasn't popular.
Seriously. I can say without sinking into hyperbole that I have not had anyone complain to me about TS block since the initial panic over what was happening with the purple 4th rarity and a small debate over the aesthetic appeal of the future-shifted frame.
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i'm trying to think of how a mana drain-like spell could exist in the current color pie.
UUR
instant
counter target spell. at the beginning of your next main phase, add RR to your mana pool.
too strong? not strong enough?
That would be pretty awesome, and would fit right alongside Voidslime, Absorb, and Undermine..it would probably be the best of all 4, but oh well..we can dream, right?
I once farted during the final match for prizes at an FNM. It was a tense moment, everything was quiet, control vs control, I was about to mana leak, thought about it.. and farted. Then mana leaked.
Almost everyone I know that played Magic at that time LOVED Time Spiral, so I am always a bit dubious about the claim that it wasn't popular.
i've always been a fan of time spiral too, but i would be quite surprised if they deliberately lied about the set and avoided replicating elements of it that helped them make a good profit. that just doesn't make any sense at all.
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
My buddy's idea for red's power-2-drop, to fit in with Goyf, Bob, Stoneforge, and the like. I think it's a really good card actually.
Ascendant Fireheart - 1R Creature - Human Fiend
Haste
When Ascendant Fireheart deals combat damage to a player, put a burn counter on target land, it has "At the beginning of your upkeep, this land deals 1 damage to you for each burn counter on it." (The land continues to burn after Ascendant Fireheart has left the battlefield.) 1/1
My buddy's idea for red's power-2-drop, to fit in with Goyf, Bob, Stoneforge, and the like. I think it's a really good card actually.
Ascendant Fireheart - 1R Creature - Human Fiend
Haste
When Ascendant Fireheart deals combat damage to a player, put a burn counter on target land, it has "At the beginning of your upkeep, this land deals 1 damage to you for each burn counter on it." (The land continues to burn after Ascendant Fireheart has left the battlefield.) 1/1
Almost everyone I know that played Magic at that time LOVED Time Spiral, so I am always a bit dubious about the claim that it wasn't popular.
Yes, most long time Magic players loved Time Spiral, because they got full value of the nostalgia effect. However, the shorter the time someone was playing the game, the more confusion the set created. All those complicated cards and dozens of keywords overwhelmed newer players.
Most of us know mostly people who liked the set, because we are long time players that are heavily invested in the game (to build a good cube, you really have to know all the sets) and we tend to speak to and play with players of a similar level, I suppose. If we would have asked the random kid that just opened his two Time Spiral boosters instead of our friends or regular players at the draft table, I am sure that we would have gotten a more negative answer.
And MaRo didn't say that the set was a failure. It just was one of the least popular sets of the last years.
I really like the UR mana drain. That guild still needs another good card or two. However, I am pretty sure that if Wizards would print it in a standard legal set, it would only give you a single red mana. Two additional mana is quite a jump. If they would print it as a new card in one of the new multiplayer products (like Planechase II), double red could be possible, since the cost of the spell would be too restrictive to make it a true eternal powerhouse.
Trying to make a cubable proliferate card:
Festering Heart of the Tangle
Land
Festering Heart of the Tangle enters the battlefield tapped. T: Add B or G to your mana pool. 1(B/G)(B/G), T: Proliferate.
And since this could be part of a cycle, here is another one:
Molten-Sea Laboratory
Land
Molten-Sea Laboratory enters the battlefield tapped. T: Add U or R to your mana pool. 1(U/R)(U/R), T: Put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Hey, this could be an enemy dual cycle to compliment the Worldwake mandual cycle!
Sanctuary of Terror
Land
Sanctuary of Terror enters the battlefield tapped. T: Add W or B to your mana pool. 1(W/B)(W/B), T: Put a -1/-1 counter on target attacking or blocking creature.
Enter the battlefield tapped lands always make me cringe. O.o
How about when you play them you have to lose two life (no option like shocklands) and they count as Swamp/Mountain/Forest/Island/Plains?
Or how about this card:
Utopia Converter
Land - Plains Island Swamp Mountain Forest
When Utopia Converter enters the battlefield, you lose 2 life. T: Add W,U,B,R, or G to your mana pool. ,T: Add 2 mana of any single color to your mana pool. ,T: Add 2 mana of any color combination to your mana pool.
Enter the battlefield tapped lands always make me cringe. O.o
How about when you play them you have to lose two life (no option like shocklands) and they count as Swamp/Mountain/Forest/Island/Plains?
Or how about this card:
Utopia Converter
Land - Plains Island Swamp Mountain Forest
When Utopia Converter enters the battlefield, you lose 2 life. T: Add W,U,B,R, or G to your mana pool. ,T: Add 2 mana of any single color to your mana pool. ,T: Add 2 mana of any color combination to your mana pool.
That would never see print ever. Too good. It's a fetchable 5CC land that can filter in CC and even CX if need be. For 2 life? It's pretty absurd
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Ravnica, City of Guilds Legendary Land - Mountain Forest Island Plains Swamp
When ~ becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
I didn't want anything that was strictly better than a card that is already seeing cube play. I mean, I would obviously definitely play that (I think everyone would), but it's just making City of Brass better.
Would you guys play this in your cube?
5 Color Reanimator Support Land Legendary Land - Mountain Forest Island Plains Swamp T: Add 1 to your mana pool. T: Add W,U,R,B, or G to your mana pool. ~This~ deals 2 damage to you unless you discard a card from your hand.
^ It can't be 1 damage or it's a straight up better City of Brass.
But you get the life loss every time. I think if we changed it to 3 life instead of 2 with no option to ETB tapped it wouldn't be cubed.
Except it would..because it's a 5 color fetchable land.
That's still outstandingly broken.
I think this would be pretty damn awesome too:
1UWW
Rift Warden
Creature - Elemental
When Rift Warden enters the battlefield, you may exile another target creature.
When Rift Warden leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under it's owner's control, and exile Rift Warden with two time counters on it and it gains suspend.
2/4
Not sure if I have to split up the second ability into both the leave the battlefield effect and the suspend ability.
I once farted during the final match for prizes at an FNM. It was a tense moment, everything was quiet, control vs control, I was about to mana leak, thought about it.. and farted. Then mana leaked.
I didn't want anything that was strictly better than a card that is already seeing cube play. I mean, I would obviously definitely play that (I think everyone would), but it's just making City of Brass better.
Would you guys play this in your cube?
5 Color Reanimator Support Land Legendary Land - Mountain Forest Island Plains Swamp T: Add 1 to your mana pool. T: Add W,U,R,B, or G to your mana pool. ~This~ deals 2 damage to you unless you discard a card from your hand.
^ It can't be 1 damage or it's a straight up better City of Brass.
Your card doesn't work as intended because it is granted the ability to tap for all colors of mana by its land typing.
5 Color Reanimator Support Land Legendary Land - Mountain Forest Island Plains Swamp
(T: Add W,U,R,B, or G to your mana pool.) T: Add 1 to your mana pool. T: Add W,U,R,B, or G to your mana pool. ~This~ deals 2 damage to you unless you discard a card from your hand.
Hmm, k. Just take off all the basic land types then. Would you play it?
How about this...
City Out Of Flipping Nowhere
Legendary Land
While you're searching your library, you may play City Out Of Flipping Nowhere from your library. (You cannot play this card if you have already played a land this turn.)
When City Out Of Flipping No Where enters the battlefield, you lose 3 life. T: AddW,U,B,R, or G to your mana pool. Discard a card, or City Out Of Flipping Nowhere deals you 1 damage.
I didn't want anything that was strictly better than a card that is already seeing cube play. I mean, I would obviously definitely play that (I think everyone would), but it's just making City of Brass better.
Would you guys play this in your cube?
5 Color Reanimator Support Land Legendary Land - Mountain Forest Island Plains Swamp T: Add 1 to your mana pool. T: Add W,U,R,B, or G to your mana pool. ~This~ deals 2 damage to you unless you discard a card from your hand.
^ It can't be 1 damage or it's a straight up better City of Brass.
If you want it to have basic land types you need to have the clause from city which triggers on it being tapped since it can automatically tap for any color of mana with said land types.
And, it is still broken as all hell for normal magic with wild nacatl and the domain burn. Since that is apparently the metric we use to measure cards around here I'll go ahead and say it's not gonna get printed like that.
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UUR
instant
counter target spell. at the beginning of your next main phase, add RR to your mana pool.
too strong? not strong enough?
Creature - Lizard Knight
Protection from Red and from Blue
(R/U): Lava-Island Cavalier gains flying until the end of turn.
(R/U): Switch Lava-Island Cavalier's power and toughness until end of turn.
(R/U)(R/U): Lava-Island Cavalier gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
2/1
Swampmoss Cavalier - 1(B/G)(B/G)
Creature - Zombie Knight
Protection from Black and from Green
(B/G): Swampmoss Cavalier gains trample until end of turn.
(B/G): Swampmoss Cavalier gains first strike until end of turn.
(B/G)(B/G): Swampmoss Cavalier gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
2/1
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Same here. They should print one from either cycle every time they bring back hybrid mana.
Edit - Or they should print another Time Spiral block. I know they have said it wasn't popular due to complexity but I think it's my favorite set.
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Seriously. I can say without sinking into hyperbole that I have not had anyone complain to me about TS block since the initial panic over what was happening with the purple 4th rarity and a small debate over the aesthetic appeal of the future-shifted frame.
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That would be pretty awesome, and would fit right alongside Voidslime, Absorb, and Undermine..it would probably be the best of all 4, but oh well..we can dream, right?
I like it and I don't think its OP by any means. (in cube). In standard, it might be a tad too much, but then again 3 colored mana is always rough.
I really like the design.
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Before Time Spiral, my favorite two sets were Tempest and Onslaught. How could I not fall in love with a set that smashed the two of those together?!
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i've always been a fan of time spiral too, but i would be quite surprised if they deliberately lied about the set and avoided replicating elements of it that helped them make a good profit. that just doesn't make any sense at all.
Ascendant Fireheart - 1R
Creature - Human Fiend
Haste
When Ascendant Fireheart deals combat damage to a player, put a burn counter on target land, it has "At the beginning of your upkeep, this land deals 1 damage to you for each burn counter on it." (The land continues to burn after Ascendant Fireheart has left the battlefield.)
1/1
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I like it. Sort of like Curse of the Pierced Heart but much, much better.
Yes, most long time Magic players loved Time Spiral, because they got full value of the nostalgia effect. However, the shorter the time someone was playing the game, the more confusion the set created. All those complicated cards and dozens of keywords overwhelmed newer players.
Most of us know mostly people who liked the set, because we are long time players that are heavily invested in the game (to build a good cube, you really have to know all the sets) and we tend to speak to and play with players of a similar level, I suppose. If we would have asked the random kid that just opened his two Time Spiral boosters instead of our friends or regular players at the draft table, I am sure that we would have gotten a more negative answer.
And MaRo didn't say that the set was a failure. It just was one of the least popular sets of the last years.
I really like the UR mana drain. That guild still needs another good card or two. However, I am pretty sure that if Wizards would print it in a standard legal set, it would only give you a single red mana. Two additional mana is quite a jump. If they would print it as a new card in one of the new multiplayer products (like Planechase II), double red could be possible, since the cost of the spell would be too restrictive to make it a true eternal powerhouse.
Trying to make a cubable proliferate card:
Festering Heart of the Tangle
Land
Festering Heart of the Tangle enters the battlefield tapped.
T: Add B or G to your mana pool.
1(B/G)(B/G), T: Proliferate.
And since this could be part of a cycle, here is another one:
Molten-Sea Laboratory
Land
Molten-Sea Laboratory enters the battlefield tapped.
T: Add U or R to your mana pool.
1(U/R)(U/R), T: Put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Hey, this could be an enemy dual cycle to compliment the Worldwake mandual cycle!
Sanctuary of Terror
Land
Sanctuary of Terror enters the battlefield tapped.
T: Add W or B to your mana pool.
1(W/B)(W/B), T: Put a -1/-1 counter on target attacking or blocking creature.
Uril, the Miststalker RGW -- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre C -- Vhati il-Dal BG -- Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer RW -- Animar, Soul of Elements URG
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker R -- Maga, Traitor to Mortals B -- Ghave, Guru of Spores BGW -- Sliver Hivelord WUBRG
How about when you play them you have to lose two life (no option like shocklands) and they count as Swamp/Mountain/Forest/Island/Plains?
Or how about this card:
Utopia Converter
Land - Plains Island Swamp Mountain Forest
When Utopia Converter enters the battlefield, you lose 2 life.
T: Add W,U,B,R, or G to your mana pool.
,T: Add 2 mana of any single color to your mana pool.
,T: Add 2 mana of any color combination to your mana pool.
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That would never see print ever. Too good. It's a fetchable 5CC land that can filter in CC and even CX if need be. For 2 life? It's pretty absurd
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True. How about if we take off the last two abilities?
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But you get the life loss every time. I think if we changed it to 3 life instead of 2 with no option to ETB tapped it wouldn't be cubed.
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Ravnica, City of Guilds
Legendary Land - Mountain Forest Island Plains Swamp
When ~ becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
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I didn't want anything that was strictly better than a card that is already seeing cube play. I mean, I would obviously definitely play that (I think everyone would), but it's just making City of Brass better.
Would you guys play this in your cube?
5 Color Reanimator Support Land
Legendary Land - Mountain Forest Island Plains Swamp
T: Add 1 to your mana pool.
T: Add W,U,R,B, or G to your mana pool. ~This~ deals 2 damage to you unless you discard a card from your hand.
^ It can't be 1 damage or it's a straight up better City of Brass.
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Except it would..because it's a 5 color fetchable land.
That's still outstandingly broken.
I think this would be pretty damn awesome too:
1UWW
Rift Warden
Creature - Elemental
When Rift Warden enters the battlefield, you may exile another target creature.
When Rift Warden leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under it's owner's control, and exile Rift Warden with two time counters on it and it gains suspend.
2/4
Not sure if I have to split up the second ability into both the leave the battlefield effect and the suspend ability.
Your card doesn't work as intended because it is granted the ability to tap for all colors of mana by its land typing.
5 Color Reanimator Support Land
Legendary Land - Mountain Forest Island Plains Swamp
(T: Add W,U,R,B, or G to your mana pool.)
T: Add 1 to your mana pool.
T: Add W,U,R,B, or G to your mana pool. ~This~ deals 2 damage to you unless you discard a card from your hand.
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How about this...
City Out Of Flipping Nowhere
Legendary Land
While you're searching your library, you may play City Out Of Flipping Nowhere from your library. (You cannot play this card if you have already played a land this turn.)
When City Out Of Flipping No Where enters the battlefield, you lose 3 life.
T: AddW,U,B,R, or G to your mana pool. Discard a card, or City Out Of Flipping Nowhere deals you 1 damage.
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If you want it to have basic land types you need to have the clause from city which triggers on it being tapped since it can automatically tap for any color of mana with said land types.
And, it is still broken as all hell for normal magic with wild nacatl and the domain burn. Since that is apparently the metric we use to measure cards around here I'll go ahead and say it's not gonna get printed like that.