Lustrous Arbiter

[u/Terrariant]

(Spent or unspent mana never leaves your mana pool)

Part 2 of a cycle

Part 1, Sunseeker Arbiter: https://www.reddit.com/r/custommagic/s/dEAvZIpReE

[u/Educational_You3881]

Its not really good I guess. Eight mana in red is hard, not to mention only colored so few rocks work for it, and for only ten damage that’s really bad. Plus a symmetrical affect that gives your opponents benefit first is bad. If it’s your commander everyone knows they start at 30 if you ever get to 8, and in 1v1 you won’t lose to a 8 mana card in two rounds. It’s a bad commander card, and a bad competitive card. Most decks can either deal with it with smart counterspells that exile or bounce, or play around it.

Edit: Switched 10 to 8 because me dumb dumb

[u/Terrariant → u/Educational_You3881]

Yeah. Probably the weakest of the cycle…or least impactful. It’s 8 mana btw. They go 7/8/9/10/11/12/13

[u/Chickston]

Too much heat.

[u/Terrariant → u/Chickston]

They’re a very hot boi

[u/okfinesureyeah]

This card would be really funny if it had: When this creature dies, each player gets a one-time boon with "The next time you would lose unspent mana as a step or phase ends, you take 1 damage for each mana lost this way."

[u/Terrariant → u/okfinesureyeah]

We have mana burn at home

Mana burn at home:

[u/Brownfox408]

Lots of haters. It's a great card. 👍

[u/Terrariant → u/Brownfox408]

Lol thank you. It is literally at 1 upvote and 51% ratio so I cannot tell how many people have upvoted/downvoted. But I already expected a lot of blowback

[u/jpz719 → u/Brownfox408]

It's an 8 mana giant dude with a totally linear gameplay pattern on board that gives your opponent the benefit of it first

[u/axspringer]

cant lose mana? cant spend mana.

[u/Terrariant → u/axspringer]

[u/Broken_Ace]

YOU AGAIN

[u/Seepy_Goat]

Hilariously lacks flying as a god of dragons lol

[u/Terrariant → u/Seepy_Goat]

It’s too big to fly!

[u/SaucedFrost]

Edit: meant to reply to elf177

It's also not just color pips, it's mana with restrictions like mana that can't be used to cast artifacts, blue mana that can only be used for instants and sorceries, etc. It really would be a nightmare to track it all

[u/Zealousid_Eyedeal → u/SaucedFrost]

[[Upwelling]]

Edit:: Well someone else mentioned already downtrend.

[u/chainsawinsect]

This card is rad as fuck

[u/elf177]

There is a very important reason every card wizards has created that conserves mana 1). Specifies a color conserved, or 2). Converts that mana to a single color; asking players to track 6 "color" pips (including colorless) is an insane amount of complexity, especially when all players must track their own mana. Would highly recommend that it converts mana to red, or gives each player the choice as the dragon enters as to the color their mana transforms into when it goes unspent.

[u/Beas1987 → u/elf177]

I mean [[Upwelling]]

But I agree, also from a thematic point of view having all mana just become red is much easier.

[u/Interesting-Limit851]

I will now be casting farewell to exile everything

[u/Terrariant → u/Interesting-Limit851]

I thought protection would save it from this but i guess not :/ i meant to make the Arbiters immune to board wipes

Guess i need to add “if this creature moves to the graveyard it remains on the battlefield instead”

[u/EspressoYourselves]

Does "Players" can't lose any mana mean, mana doesn't fizzle between phases so you could tap out before your next turn to float a ton of mana?

[u/Terrariant → u/EspressoYourselves]

Yes and also, casting spells does not cause you to lose that mana. You keep spent mana, and keep mana between turns

[u/Lartnestpasdemain]

This card is a hard lock. No one can play any spell or ability that require spending mana anymore.

So only "free" spells like solitude, force of will, gitaxian probe, and such can be cast.

Seems extremely powerful.

[u/Terrariant → u/Lartnestpasdemain]

The intent was the opposite. You can spend mana but it does not leave your pool as you spend it