It doesn't fit into any of the current top decks. Phoenix, Dredge, Humans, Spirits, Death's Shadow, Hardened Scales, Tron, UW control, Amulet, Rock, Jund, Burn, Whir Prison.
The only deck it fits into is Ad Nauseam, and even there its awkward and probably worse than Spirit Guide. So can someone explain this to me? Are there any decks I am forgetting?
Chrome Mox makes Modern Belcher a thing, and nobody wants that. Even if it wasn't for Belcher, think about what that card does. Fast mana only speeds decks up, and the decks that would most want something like this are fast combo decks. Does Modern really need to be faster and even more unfair than it currently is? No, it does not. So Chrome Mox would not be a good card to put into Modern.
I don't buy the argument that Belcher suddenly becomes playable with Chrome Mox. It's still a glass-cannon deck, much like Griselbrand combo and Cheerios. These type of strategies tend to mulligan terribly and fold to commonly played sideboard effects
It doesn't fit into any of the current top decks. Phoenix, Dredge, Humans, Spirits, Death's Shadow, Hardened Scales, Tron, UW control, Amulet, Rock, Jund, Burn, Whir Prison.
The only deck it fits into is Ad Nauseam, and even there its awkward and probably worse than Spirit Guide. So can someone explain this to me? Are there any decks I am forgetting?
I would like some advice regarding the power level of this card, and some questions such as it would it cause infinite loops if you played a second copy and exiled it with the first? Should I reword it to prevent this from happening?
Oblivion Ring / Vindicate Mashup1BW
Enchantment
When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, exile target non-land permanent until CARDNAME leaves the battlefield.
Whenever another non-land permanent enters the battlefield, you may exile that card until CARDNAME leaves the battlefield. If you do, return all other cards exiled with CARDNAME to the battlefield.
I'm a fan of the leylines, but I always felt like they should have been costed more aggressively because they honestly suck when they aren't in your opening hand.
So here's a new cycle with cheaper casting costs:
Leyline of Oblivion2W
Enchantment
If Leyline of Oblivion is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
If a nontoken creature would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.
As long as they keep printing things like Arclight Phoenix, more effects like this are always welcome as a counterbalancing measure
Leyline of Winter2U
Enchantment
If Leyline of Winter is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Permanents enter the battlefield tapped.
This one I designed to capture to flavor of winter slowing everything down
Leyline of Shadows2B
Enchantment
If Leyline of Shadows is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card.
This one could make for some non-games but putting players in topdeck mode too quickly, but I'd love to see a Madness deck take advantage of this effect.
Leyline of Explosives2R
Enchantment
If Leyline of Explosives is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Whenever a player casts a spell, Leyline of Explosives deals damage to that player equal to the number of spells that player cast this turn.
Storm/combo hoser but is also fine against any deck because it still deals a guaranteed 1 damage per spell.
Leyline of Abundance2G
Enchantment
If Leyline of Abundance is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any color that land could produce to their mana pool.
Potentially very powerful mana acceleration, but as it affects all players I think this should be ok.
I really don't want Faithless Looting to be banned. The card is very fair - its the creatures that come out of the graveyard for free that break it.
They need to stop printing things like Arclight Phoenix, Prized Amalgam, ect. My fear though is that they won't stop printing creatures like these and they will be forced to ban the card.
From the Ashes is a card I would like to see in this product. It is a very fair version of Armageddon that is nonetheless decent against some of the top tier strategies.
I don't buy the argument that Belcher suddenly becomes playable with Chrome Mox. It's still a glass-cannon deck, much like Griselbrand combo and Cheerios. These type of strategies tend to mulligan terribly and fold to commonly played sideboard effects
Sorcery
Each player loses life equal to the number of cards in their graveyard.
Better than Gavony Township?
Downside: can't pump tokens or Inkmoth Nexi without counters on them already.
Upsides: requires no colored mana, proliferate infect counters, mess with chalice, works with planeswalkers
It doesn't fit into any of the current top decks. Phoenix, Dredge, Humans, Spirits, Death's Shadow, Hardened Scales, Tron, UW control, Amulet, Rock, Jund, Burn, Whir Prison.
The only deck it fits into is Ad Nauseam, and even there its awkward and probably worse than Spirit Guide. So can someone explain this to me? Are there any decks I am forgetting?
Oblivion Ring / Vindicate Mashup 1BW
Enchantment
When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, exile target non-land permanent until CARDNAME leaves the battlefield.
Whenever another non-land permanent enters the battlefield, you may exile that card until CARDNAME leaves the battlefield. If you do, return all other cards exiled with CARDNAME to the battlefield.
So here's a new cycle with cheaper casting costs:
Leyline of Oblivion 2W
Enchantment
If Leyline of Oblivion is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
If a nontoken creature would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.
As long as they keep printing things like Arclight Phoenix, more effects like this are always welcome as a counterbalancing measure
Leyline of Winter 2U
Enchantment
If Leyline of Winter is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Permanents enter the battlefield tapped.
This one I designed to capture to flavor of winter slowing everything down
Leyline of Shadows 2B
Enchantment
If Leyline of Shadows is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card.
This one could make for some non-games but putting players in topdeck mode too quickly, but I'd love to see a Madness deck take advantage of this effect.
Leyline of Explosives 2R
Enchantment
If Leyline of Explosives is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Whenever a player casts a spell, Leyline of Explosives deals damage to that player equal to the number of spells that player cast this turn.
Storm/combo hoser but is also fine against any deck because it still deals a guaranteed 1 damage per spell.
Leyline of Abundance 2G
Enchantment
If Leyline of Abundance is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
Whenever a player taps a land for mana, that player adds one mana of any color that land could produce to their mana pool.
Potentially very powerful mana acceleration, but as it affects all players I think this should be ok.
They need to stop printing things like Arclight Phoenix, Prized Amalgam, ect. My fear though is that they won't stop printing creatures like these and they will be forced to ban the card.
Surgical Extraction without phyrexian mana that cantrips
Entomb would be pretty good, but maybe too strong with Goryo's Vengeance and Protean Hulk combo?
Rule of Law type effects seem particularly powerful against phoenix. Is Ethersworn Canonist starting to see more play? Eidolon of Rhetoric?
I'm curious to see how the meta adapts to the these decks' dominance.