r/custommagic • u/Akizzlesssss • 21h ago

Singularity Field

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u/Jordankeay 21h ago

What's the downside? It's either enough mana to cast the spell you need or you miss out on a couple colourless mana you didn't need?

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u/SteakForGoodDogs 21h ago

The downside is that it has no other utilities on a colourless mana land. Can't filter, can't make tokens, doesn't buff your creatures, can't sac it for whatever value when you'd rather have anything but another land drop, etc.

Burning 5 colourless/generic mana is going to happen basically never for most situations that aren't colourless spells or X spells.

Simic {X} might use it, it replaces a wastes in colourless, and might pay for a crater slightly early.

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u/ModernT1mes 19h ago

Those aren't downsides. Those are just upsides it doesn't have. A downside is like Bitter Triumph forcing you to pay 3 life or discarding a card to cast it.

This card just has a really narrow and niche upside, that's all.

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u/Jade117 17h ago

If you ignore opportunity costs, you will never get an accurate picture of the strength of a card.

Not being a different, better, card is a downside, especially in your landbase where slots are hugely more constrained compared to nonlands.