Sets [NAU] Nauctis, the Sunken Realm

[ravnic]

So, we got a first look and it's been really promising. Cool worldbuilding and cool cards.



I've been waiting for a cool madness signpost for about 9 years. Here it is, enabling your discard and effectively granting your lands Madness .

Therr will be sharks (and blood tokens!) in gruul and izzet!



Probably one of the coolest character/monster designs in all of magic? Might even try it as an occasional.



Okay, that's nuts.



Exhaust lands anyone?

 

[Velrun]

I love the design of that Shimmering Citadel because the cost is so heavy that you really have to think about it and not just do it whenever you have 6 mana in the opponent’s end step.

I do wonder why it draws 2 and give 1 life. Is there something there?

And is ‘Maratheon’ is legendary place in this world? If so, shouldn’t the land have that name and be legendary?

 

[ravnic]

I do wonder why it draws 2 and give 1 life. Is there something there?

I also stumbled over that, since a clean 2+2 would be aesthetically more appealing.

 

[Nanonox]

I've been waiting for a cool madness signpost for about 9 years. Here it is, enabling your discard and effectively granting your lands Madness .

Shark dude looks absolutely cracked. You must be desperate to consider a power outlier like this.

Triggering multiple times a turn means going Wild Mongrel -> Goramou discard two lands ramps you to 6 mana on turn 4 if you hit a land drop.

Also nice for Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald or The Lost and the Damned if you support the from exile theme.

 

[ravnic]

Shark dude looks absolutely cracked. You must be desperate to consider a power outlier like this.

Triggering multiple times a turn means going Wild Mongrel -> Goramou discard two lands ramps you to 6 mana on turn 4 if you hit a land drop.

I don't know, you need three lands in hand for that after casting both to matter and then something to do with all that mana. Seems really tame.

 

[Nanonox]

Maybe Wild Mongrel isn't the best example. But being able to discard lands at no cost means you are keeping your business spells in hand.

Faithless Looting + Frantic Search ramps you by one and makes the discarding that much easier.
Lightning Axe and Molten Vortex now come with a Rampant Growth too?
Merfolk Looter and friends same idea.
Raven's Crime, Rotting Rats, Rotting Regisaur and Barren Moors really shine in Black.

In my higher power cube, there are some sweet sequences with these among others. Rydia is particularly fun because the returned land causes another discard.



Add that to the big body and one time discard outlet (that synergizes with artifacts and sacrifice no less) and I think that it's going to overperform. Curious to see how this comment ages

 

[alvoi]

I don't know, you need three lands in hand for that after casting both to matter and then something to do with all that mana. Seems really tame.

Land Tax -> Wild Mongrel -> Goramou

 

[LadyMapi]

It's kinda surprising that it took them this long to design one-shot utility lands that don't put you down a land.

Also...



My guess is that she's part of the same cycle as Tecton, but I think it'd be funny if Devotion for Blue specifically was a recurring mechanic.

 

[Brad]

My guess is that she's part of the same cycle as Tecton, but I think it'd be funny if Devotion for Blue specifically was a recurring mechanic.

WHALE GOD!

I'd love some devotion to black, but it's easy to imagine them only doing blue. We'll see if it's the same cycle as Tecton. Maybe we get devotion Gods.


I might like this as a late game mana burst to cast a Kozilek.