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[LadyMapi]

Actually... here you go! Maybe. I'm not sure I got everything.

The trick was to search for a string that matched as many burn spells as I could think of, and then remove every instance of "any target" from before Dominaria was printed. Cards reprinted after that change have the updated text.

 

[Brad]

Is there a way to search scryfall for cards printed with proper oracle text? Specifically interested in what burn spells are available with updated wording.

What you can't do (as far as I know, anyway), is search for card text as it was originally printed.

I did a bit of research, and it doesn't appear to be possible, even through the API.

I'm messing with MPCFill and it appears to update all cards to current errata.

 

[blacksmithy]

mpcfill is just a user-generated image gallery, if the people making the images put the errata text on their image then that’s what it shows, if not, it doesn’t

I'm messing with MPCFill and it appears to update all cards to current errata.

 

[Nemo]

Is there a way to search scryfall for cards printed with proper oracle text? Specifically interested in what burn spells are available with updated wording.

To find burn spells with "any target" instead of "target creature or player" you can search for cards printed at least as recently as 2018.

c:r o:"damage to any target" (t:instant or t:sorcery) year>=2018

 

[Brad]

Anyone here running hardcast 7+ mana creatures with success? Curious in seeing your list. Really missing slamming some bombs.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Anyone here running hardcast 7+ mana creatures with success? Curious in seeing your list. Really missing slamming some bombs.

Yes! ZACAMA!

 

[ravnic]

list/nightmare

 

[Rusje]

Anyone here running hardcast 7+ mana creatures with success? Curious in seeing your list. Really missing slamming some bombs.

Yes, but I cheat with my urza block cube. Those sets are in cube, contrary to constructed, quite slow due to having weak creatures.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Yes! ZACAMA!

So, while ZACAMA! is my absolute favorite fatty, I've got more, and most of them are centered on green or its allies (red and blue).

 

[Chris Taylor]

Sandwurm Convergence was a favorite of mine a while back

 

[safra]

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Sandwurm Convergence was a favorite of mine a while back

I run that one as well, but didn't list it as it's not technically a creature

If we include this category, I also run...



Learn / lesson is such a sweet mechanics, people! I'm hoping they revisit the mechanic in the near future.

 

[Modin]

Have you guys heard of CubeCon? My favorite premodern youtube channel just posted a ton of cube matches. I thought you might enjoy them:
https://www.youtube.com/@CloudgoatRanger/videos

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Thanks, I didn't get the chance to watch any CubeCon footage yet, so I'm looking forward to these

Also, oh shit! I just discovered the bookmark funcitonality on this forum!

 

[spicewitch]

Anyone here running hardcast 7+ mana creatures with success? Curious in seeing your list. Really missing slamming some bombs.

high cmc cards are fantastic with

 

[Zoss]

I would have thought I had more, but most of my top end sits at MV5 or has a cost-reducing ability. I guess I'm more restrained than I thought, lmao.

Spoiler: Stuff that gets hardcast at MV6

Spoiler: The real topend

 

[Brad]

Maybe this is the way to get some fatties, honestly. Adventure, Prototype, Cycling, Channel, Kicker (and variants thereof). What else? Obviously Waker is in a fairly unique spot, as well.

 

[safra]

Maybe this is the way to get some fatties, honestly. Adventure, Prototype, Cycling, Channel, Kicker (and variants thereof). What else? Obviously Waker is in a fairly unique spot, as well.

I think Cycling fatties opens up a lot of space, and makes Reanimator a pretty different deck...no need to dredge or loot or rummage means you could see a Reanimator combo deck running stuff like Eternal Dragon, Angel of the Ruins, or going to Red not for Faithless Looting, but for haste...

 

[Brad]

Spoiler: NOT Fatties

This is less than the list I have. I trimmed quite a few to save space. Looks like good potential to run plenty of high MV threats with low MV options.
EDIT: There's also a ton of nice spells.

 

[Zoss]

Maybe this is the way to get some fatties, honestly. Adventure, Prototype, Cycling, Channel, Kicker (and variants thereof). What else? Obviously Waker is in a fairly unique spot, as well.

I think Cycling fatties opens up a lot of space, and makes Reanimator a pretty different deck...no need to dredge or loot or rummage means you could see a Reanimator combo deck running stuff like Eternal Dragon, Angel of the Ruins, or going to Red not for Faithless Looting, but for haste...

That's my thinking exactly. If it costs 6 or more, I want it to have some alternative use if you need to do something before T7, especially as I have no ramp in my environment. I also want my topend to work in as many decks as possible instead of running into the MTGO cube problem of having half a dozen chungi in each color such that only a couple of them see play. It also helps reanimation the way Saf mentioned, as now it can be a secondary plan as well as a primary plan, eliminating the swinginess of the Reanimates and Animate Deads that are needed for it to work as a primary archetype.

 

[Karshtakavaar]

high cmc cards are fantastic with

I tried this when it was first printed, and I run a -lot- of high CMC stuff. I was hoping it'd be the second coming of Firestorm, but it just isn't.

Anyone here running hardcast 7+ mana creatures with success? Curious in seeing your list. Really missing slamming some bombs.

From personal experience, Metalwork Colossus and Ancient Stone Idol give you that feeling while also being very castable without devoting yourself to ramp.

 

[spicewitch]

Everyone kicks tribal around like it's a bag of stinky porridge but liiiiiike woofta woofta, this is a heckuva beating

might have to remove one from my cube for being too good

they're baneslayers but like, less than 4 cmc baneslayers can really run your dog around the house

 

[spicewitch]

yo @LadyMapi whatchoo think about an environment where everyone has phyrexian unlife emblems in play

 

[Brad]

Warrior tribal seems fine, as far as tribal goes. There's enough incidental warriors.

Giving Mapi more ideas feels so wrong to do to her lol.

 

[LadyMapi]

yo @LadyMapi whatchoo think about an environment where everyone has phyrexian unlife emblems in play

I'm not sure that it'd be too interesting? If you don't change any other rules, it's effectively just +10 starting life for everyone. More importantly, though, the way that it achieves that limits how much the cardpool can interact with the changed rules — and, unfortunately, the obvious build-around combos happen to be "oops, I can't lose" stuff.

Honestly, when I think about a white enchantment that fiddles with your relationship with your life total that you could potentially build around, I think of

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Then you at least get some quirkiness due to how lifegain is now effectively life loss. Ever want to use Skullcrack as a superfog?