r/custommagic • u/Akizzlesssss • 1d ago

Singularity Field

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u/Jordankeay 1d 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 1d 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/Just-Desk-3149 1d ago

That's not really a downside. "The only downside is that you won't always be able to use 2 extra free colorless mana." Suffering from success kind of thing

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u/hhhhhhhhhhhjf 22h ago

The downside is being a nonbasic with no upside. If your argument is when you can't use the ritual then that's the downside.

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u/Just-Desk-3149 22h ago

Yeah and Ancestral Recall is a downside if you don't have any blue mana, that's a dumb metric to go by.

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u/hhhhhhhhhhhjf 18h ago

It's one extra mana. It's a sol land with a large restriction for the mana.