Cruel Ultimatum is going to be backbreaking in Limited... assuming you can assemble the colors for it. Meanwhile, you technically only want a third of your Outlaws' Merriment tokens, because only one of the three options... is an outlaw.
Yes, but that one outlaw also commits a crime so it does double duty.
Sometimes, I feel magic has become a parody of itself. Loan shark is a card that would fit in an unset, but in an official set? A land grubbing shark? How does that makes any sense? It's not even a simic mutant or hybrid, which at least made some sense in the past.
The card Fasting already has oracle text for how this ability should be worded.
Mental Fasting UR
Enchantment
If you would begin your draw step, you may skip that step instead. If you do, create a treasure token.
(Note that it does not have any synergy Savor the Moment, as you cannot choose to skip a draw step that is already being skipped.)
This is hard to evaluate. I think it is either really good in decks with lots of ancillary card draw, and just bad in most other decks. I think the power-level is probably fine, but I don't think it actually creates choices because your deck either will always want the treasure or won't play it to begin with.
You might want to go back to Fasting's structure, where once you do draw a card you lose the token generation permanently.
It should specify “non-land permanent” just to avoid potentially turning into an Armageddon effect.
And yes I agree with Gothblin that the effect should probably be slightly more expensive because it has the potential to remove a large number of permanents in a manner that can be built around asymmetrically. Probably XX2WW would be fine.
I don't see the benefit to the "any number of cards" text. These types cards should be able to fill all or most of the slots in a deck, but between the damage and having to check other deserts, I'd be surprised if someone even wanted to run four.
As it is, this just seems like a worse City of Brass. I'd cut the damage and "any number" parts, the mana generation by itself is balanced - though the "dunes" flavor feel off, it seems for Oasis-ish to me.
I understand that with that wording Emrakul is basically protected only by instants or permanents with flash and only in the turn you cast Emrakul...and that's it. Pretty sucky protection if thats the corrected interpretation.
How is Emrakul protected from "sorceries, auras, creatures with mutate, oblivion ring or spiteful banditry", unless you give flash of them with a Leyline of Anticipation or whatever? Or without giving flash to Emrakul, since you normally cast him only at sorcery speed in your turn?
No, Emrakul is protected from spells and from permanents that were cast in the current turn, not the turn Emrakul was cast. Any spell cannot target or damage Emrakul (still can be countered though because protection isn’t applicable on the stack) and permanents cannot interact with her on the turn they were cast either.
so for example
- You cannot exile her with Solitude’s etb effect if you just cast it, but you can if you flicker the Solitude or reanimate it.
- You cannot flash in a creature to block her during combat.
-You can cast a universal solvent on one turn and use it to exile her on a later turn, but not that turn, regardless when Emrakul was cast.
So, is there any particular reason why Emrakul's madness cost is spelt out "Pay six " instead of "Madness ?
Theyve said that costs with large numbers of the same symbols (mana, energy, etc) are going to be written like this as the string of more than 4-5 symbols can be hard to parse and players tend to have to keep recounting them.
General templating note: "Dies" only applies to creatures and planeswalkers, so Scrap Storm and Radiation Module should say "is put into the graveyard" instead of "dies" in their text since they can apply to non-creature permanents.
Nature's Rebirth seems kinda like it has too many hoops to jump through, especially because the "cost" of having you opponent lose Rad counters is unusable unless (a) you have enough energy to recur something and (b) the thing you want to recur is a creature and (c) your opponent actually has any rad counters.
I'd suggest:
Nature's Rebirth 2GG
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell pay all your E and/or have target opponent lose all counters of the type of your choice.
Return target land and target nonland permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. You may put that nonland permanent onto the battlefield instead if its mana value is equal or less that the E you paid this turn. You gain E equal to the number of counters target opponent lost this turn.
Do they finally made the enemy filter lands. Wonder why it took so long for this? Simple design.
I think it was probably a question of where to put them. They haven't put new dual lands in a commander product before, but I don't see these designs being good for a standard set.
Mental Fasting UR
Enchantment
If you would begin your draw step, you may skip that step instead. If you do, create a treasure token.
(Note that it does not have any synergy Savor the Moment, as you cannot choose to skip a draw step that is already being skipped.)
This is hard to evaluate. I think it is either really good in decks with lots of ancillary card draw, and just bad in most other decks. I think the power-level is probably fine, but I don't think it actually creates choices because your deck either will always want the treasure or won't play it to begin with.
You might want to go back to Fasting's structure, where once you do draw a card you lose the token generation permanently.
And yes I agree with Gothblin that the effect should probably be slightly more expensive because it has the potential to remove a large number of permanents in a manner that can be built around asymmetrically. Probably XX2WW would be fine.
At RW though, this card is still quite good.
As it is, this just seems like a worse City of Brass. I'd cut the damage and "any number" parts, the mana generation by itself is balanced - though the "dunes" flavor feel off, it seems for Oasis-ish to me.
No, Emrakul is protected from spells and from permanents that were cast in the current turn, not the turn Emrakul was cast. Any spell cannot target or damage Emrakul (still can be countered though because protection isn’t applicable on the stack) and permanents cannot interact with her on the turn they were cast either.
so for example
- You cannot exile her with Solitude’s etb effect if you just cast it, but you can if you flicker the Solitude or reanimate it.
- You cannot flash in a creature to block her during combat.
-You can cast a universal solvent on one turn and use it to exile her on a later turn, but not that turn, regardless when Emrakul was cast.
… I’d suggest going with tax fraud or identity theft
Nature's Rebirth seems kinda like it has too many hoops to jump through, especially because the "cost" of having you opponent lose Rad counters is unusable unless (a) you have enough energy to recur something and (b) the thing you want to recur is a creature and (c) your opponent actually has any rad counters.
I'd suggest:
Nature's Rebirth 2GG
Sorcery
As an additional cost to cast this spell pay all your E and/or have target opponent lose all counters of the type of your choice.
Return target land and target nonland permanent card from your graveyard to your hand. You may put that nonland permanent onto the battlefield instead if its mana value is equal or less that the E you paid this turn.
You gain E equal to the number of counters target opponent lost this turn.