MTG Salvation

I'm not sure that instant speed flickering of anything should be at common. Otherwise these all look well done.

The only way I see anyone every blocking this guy is when their life is low ( In which case they won't pay to prevent damage) or if you pump the creature significantly.

I do like seeing that the ability can be activated by someone other the the defending player so it's good for multiplayer games.

I think that it should at least change another legend of the right color identity to your commander

The best thing that I can thing of off the top of my head would be something like...

Shimmering Casting Gloves 2U
Artifact (R)
Spells you cast are the color of your choice.

Basically this should keep you casting away if you get it out before Iona is cast. Otherwise this card does very little.

Cards in the OP have been updated.

Also here is a card that I've been up a long time ago that is in the same card pool as the Tribal land.

Angelic Harbinger 4W
Creature - Angel (U)
Flying
When Angelic Harbinger enters the battlefield you may search your library for an angel card, if you do reveal it and shuffle your library put the revealed card on top.
4/4

Ok so Secluded Warren and Angelic Temple are the best of the bunch. Good to know.
Sorry about the misspelling on Citadel. I'll fix it. You mentioned other typos and formatting sloppiness? I'm not seeing it but then again it's easier to overlook things you've written your self.

Temporal Tidal Zone has been giving me the most trouble of the bunch I think that I'll be changing it to an enchantment, and changing the abilities a little.

As for needing more context for an angel tribal. If you opened Elvish Harbinger in a booster you'd be able to guess that there were non-creature elf cards in the set without seeing any of them. Why not take the same mental leap when you see some non-creature using tribal? Granted Angel tribal is very under developed right now (one of the reasons I'm working on it a little).
I'll try to rework the Citadel when I sit down and redo Temporal Tidal wave.

I guess the only land I've not gotten feedback on is Draconic Summoning Alter.


Changes to the cards in the OP and the posting of those changes will most likely be this evening after my day of taking my daughter up to see my folk. Best estimate around 8-8:30 PM Eastern time. Please continue to add any thoughts and suggestions in the mean time.

It allows it to be searched for by subtype. Though I really didn't think people would look at these lands and get hung up on the use of tribal.

Are there any other critiques on these? I'm worried most about the Blue one, But I want to make sure that they all are as balanced as they can be.

They may have but I felt the land fit the use. Custom cards and sets should be guided not limited by what Wotc does.

Angelic Temple
Land (R)
Angelic Temple enter the battlefield tapped.
T: Add W to your mana pool, Gain one life.
2WW, T, Sacrifice a Plains you control: Put a 3/3
White angel with Flying and Life link onto the battlefield.


Secluded Warren
Land (U)
Secluded Warren enter the battlefield tapped.
T: Add R to your mana pool.
3RR, {T}, Sacrifice Secluded Warren: Put three 1/1 red
goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.


Temporal Tidal Zone 2UU
Legendary Enchantment (M)
Whenever you draw a card put a tide counter on ~.
2UU, T, Remove seven tide counters from ~: Take an extra turn after this one.



Draconic Summoning alter
Land (R)
Draconic Summoning alter enter the battlefield tapped.
T: Add R to you mana pool.
2RR,T: Search your library for a dragon card reveal
it and put it into your hand, shuffle the library.



Serra's Citidel
Legendary Tribal Land - Angel (M)
Serra's Citidel enter the battlefield tapped.
T: Add W to your mana pool, Gain one life.
XWW, T, Sacrifice a Plains you control: Search your library for an angel card with a casting cost of X or less, put it onto the battlefield. Shuffle your library.

I like the idea behind the card.

However the text would be unreadable on the card. This could be made a much simpler card while retaining most of what you want it to do.
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Portal of Darkness 0
Artifact - (R)
Shroud, Indestructible
At the beginning of each players upkeep that play puts a 3/2 black horror creature token with haste onto the battlefield.
Horrors attack each turn if able.

I think that both of these are spot on.

I Personally like Forgestorm the best but feel that there would have to be at least three colorless mana in the casting cost to really get the "feels like a storm of effet". So It might limit itself to cards that will have a higher cost.

Sorry about the misinformation on Dragons in Rav. I did not follow that block closely. I'll edit my opening statement in a little while.

I see the issue with the Azorius Dragon. I'm thinking of changing the damage to a choice to either gain life or draw a card, though the activation cost would likely have to go up at that point.

I'll tweak some of the dragon's when I update the first post.

After reading the books from the first Rav block I was under the impression that the only dragon known to most and of any true power was Niv. And the dragons from Utvara were still un hatched from ages ago.

I honestly couldn't think of something better for the azorius one. Maybe have it target an attacking or blocking creature?
As for the Rakdos on I will tone down the discard ability. I used wither as a way to show how scared anything is after surviving an encounter with anything rakdos. Also the mana to activate it is supposed to be phyrexian mana I'll fix that.

I am open to suggestions on fixing the two dragons in question. How are the others?

the low power high toughness and vice versa were a way for me to show where the a given dragon chose to use it's strength wither in combat or behind the scenes.

I suppose that these could all be closer to 5/5's maybe between 6/4 and 4/6.
I'll likely branch out and do tri-color legendary phyrexian dragons next but I'll like to know how balanced these are first, and if anything NEEDS to be changed about them, before I tackle making more complicated color combinations.