MTG Salvation

Legendary Land
Tap: C
Tap 2 (so 3, basically): Each player loots.

Reminds me most obviously of Desolate Lighthouse meets Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
both of which see/saw play to varying degrees.

Is this new card what we want?

Reminds me of Mikokoro, Center of the Sea plus discard. I'll play this in EDH, sure, but not cube.

I actually really like this card for cube and will definitely give this a test drive.

well its great when your opponent has no cards in hand... not sure if i will be playing this one.

For those that run seperate utility land drafts this is great, or poeple with large colorless matters themes. As for me I don't have room.

This is definitely better than Mikokoro, but Mikokoro isn't particularly close, and this isn't better enough for me to give it a shot. Looking forward to playing it in constructed, though.

If i open a foil one i might give it a whirl cause that art is amazing and Its going to look great foiled up.

I'm not too excited, seems expensive for a symmetrical effect.

Hm, it might be a bit too fair, but a non-spell / almost-free discard outlet makes reanimator decks quite happy.

This seems not close for non-land-pack cubes. There are better discard outlets if that's what you want, there's better looting, there's better draw, and there's no madness so it's hard to break symmetry. What am I even doing with this? 2 mana is way too durdly, and a lot of decks don't want a land that only taps for <> with this marginal of an effect.

Play this in a reanimator deck or any grindy deck that wants to fill its graveyard (decks with Life from the Loam / Crucible of Worlds come to mind).

While there are some decks that can break the symmetry, I think the drawback of giving away free loots is too much.

Loam isn't really a great cube card anymore either, though, and this is a really slow reanimation land. You are reanimating on t4 at the EARLIEST with this land, and you're letting your opponent dig for answers.

Is spending 3 mana to loot away a land, bring it back with crucible, and let your opponent loot worth it? I don't think so.

Maybe in the grindiest of matchups, but if you're resolved recurring nightmare and are activating it you're already winning a grindy game in all likelihood.

The only way I see this making it is if you heavily support <> decks, and I have to imagine there are far better choices for that still.

I think this thing is better than Mikokoro, because your opponent will sometimes be hellbent in the late game, but that's about all I'm going to say about it.

Cool card, but yeah I have no strong desire to cube with it. Decks that want looting in my cube already have a good number of methods without giving the opponent the potential benefit.

I would want to see more really cool interactions with looting that justify it, maybe more madness cards, before I considered this.

I wonder if this is worth considering trying out again with the Wheels pieces we now have available.

Draw prevention - Hullbreacher, Leovold, Emissary of Trest, Narset, Parter of Veils, Notion Thief

This card can whittle an opponent down, then lock them out quite efficiently. It also doubles up as a flexible discard outlet, or filterer to find the reanimate spell, in that archetype.

We also have an additional Crucible effect to break the symmetry in Ramunap Excavator in case that could be build around, since it's in the right colours assuming you're going Sultai for Leovold.

I think this card warrants some re-evaluation in 2022:

TLDR - I feel the looting is less symmetrical as aggressive/ fair decks are too efficient and unfair ramp/ combo decks would appreciate the support.

I played quite a few Streets of New Capanna Drafts and we found that Sky Crier is a decent 2 drop (1-off) in aggressive decks. Its 4 mana both players draw 1 would often approximate "draw 1" for tempo decks backed by Out of the Way, Hold for Ransom, Out of Town etc.

This didn't really make a huge splash in modern, but it was a decent 1-off in UW control decks (with hard counters + narset), grishoulbrand decks and Tron decks as the looting is very asymmetrical in the late game as these decks would top deck much better than the opponent.

What I've noticed with manlands, 4 drop top end, Kroxa/ Seasoned Pyromancer etc., aggressive decks are frequently losing by running out of gas similarly, the curves for fair decks are significantly lower/ efficient that the neon dynasty spell lands - Otawara, Ethereal City / Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire are often seen as unnecessary/ overcosted given their non-existent deck building cost.

On the other hand, I've found that combo decks - Reanimator, Artifact Ramp (Wildfire/ Urza etc.), Jund Walkers etc. frequently struggle with drawing excess mana in the mid to late game with the density of combo pieces/ mana rocks draw.