General "Looking for a card"-Thread

[TekLazar]

I've been loving

really screams GRAVEYARD SPELL SYNERGY, but probably not considered elegant (if you include the cascade rules text version it's basically the whole card )

 

[ravnic]

After my last update, the Elegant Cube's red section's mana curve is woefully awkward. I need three 2-drops to patch it, particularly aggressive ones. Thinking of:



I value agency, simplicity, and resonance. I don't need synergy cards, but it's a plus. Red archetypes are:
- Madness/Graveyard (penta)
- Artifacts/Equipment (tetra)
- Tokens/Sacrifice (tetra)
- Spells (triangle)
- Goblins (mono)

Suggestions?

I like both of these. But how come you're not playing this guy?



It's a good madness/graveyard enabler, carries equipment very well and has a very solid floor as a red Youthful Knight (it's better in red due to burn spells)

There are also these that bring a token or two and synergies with Artifacts or Goblins and/or Spells.

 

[Sheltem]

What about
?
She can do something even in late game and clear the board.
Or what about something recent?

He has synergy with grave and madness.
Other cards from my list:

Though none of these is overly simplistic...

 

[Velrun]

Looking for low-powered fixing lands that are good with landfall cards.

Also post your medium-powered lands if you want.

 

[Sheltem]

The Mirage fetchland cycle comes to mind, it doesn't get weaker imho.

 

[Velrun]

I’ll take them! Can you suggest some enemy-colored fixing lands to go with them?

 

[Sheltem]

Unfortunately there aren't any. But what about this gem?

Should give you a steady stream of triggers, but not too many.

 

[Sheltem]

And of course there are the Plainshift lair lands:

 

[ravnic]

You can even bounce themself late game to get a guaranteed trigger every turn.

 

[blacksmithy]

 

[japahn]

Thanks for the two drop suggestions! Decided to go with a somewhat wordy lineup but hopefully high agency and supporting archetypes well:

 

[Brad]

I’ll take them! Can you suggest some enemy-colored fixing lands to go with them?

Allied slow fetches into enemy tricycles?

 

[Erik Twice]

Unfortunately there aren't any. But what about this gem?

Should give you a steady stream of triggers, but not too many.

Note that this can get you two lands per time it returns to your hand.

 

[Velrun]

Note that this can get you two lands per time it returns to your hand.

It can? How?

 

[Erik Twice]

It can? How?

It returns to hand at the beginning of the next cleanup step. Hence you can activate it in your opponent's turn, untap, use it again and then return it to hand.

 

[Velrun]

It returns to hand at the beginning of the next cleanup step. Hence you can activate it in your opponent's turn, untap, use it again and then return it to hand.

If you activate it during opponent's turn, how do you not return it to the hand at the beginning of opponent's cleanup step?

 

[Erik Twice]

If you activate it during opponent's turn, how do you not return it to the hand at the beginning of opponent's cleanup step?

You activate it at your opponent's cleanup step.

 

[Velrun]

You activate it at your opponent's cleanup step.

You can't.

514.3. Normally, no player receives priority during the cleanup step, so no spells can be cast and no abilities can be activated.

 

[Erik Twice]

Oh I see. I thought you could, perhaps the ruling was different or I was just misremembering because I read it here haha.

 

[Velrun]

Oh I see. I thought you could, perhaps the ruling was different or I was just misremembering because I read it here haha.

Maybe it got an errata since its original printing for the very reason you described?

 

[Velrun]

Here’s the original wording



So I think you are right in that it once could grab to lands if you knew the ‘trick’.

 

[Velrun]

I think I’ll run 10 karoo bounce lands from Ravnica + 5 slow fetches + 5 custom slow fetches. They seem appropriately low power and supports landfall decks.

The only thing is I dislike customs these last two years but I will have to live with that since Wizards hasn’t made anything close to slow fetches in enemy colors.

 

[Rasmus Källqvist]

The only thing is I dislike customs these last two years but I will have to live with that since Wizards hasn’t made anything close to slow fetches in enemy colors.

I think custom "cycle completers" for lands are probably a very light way to dip into customs. I'm not conceptually a fan of customs, but here we're really only taking an existing card and replacing every mention of one land type and replacing it with another.

 

[ravnic]

I agree with rasmus. I am against customs in my cube personally, but since I run some proxies anyway, I completed incomplete fixing cycles.

 

[Velrun]

I think custom "cycle completers" for lands are probably a very light way to dip into customs. I'm not conceptually a fan of customs, but here we're really only taking an existing card and replacing every mention of one land type and replacing it with another.

Totally agree. I try to keep customs at the minimum and this is a legit solution in my opinion.

I could also include Campuses as the enemy dual land but they don’t particularly help with landfall.