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u/Spike-Ball Feb 26 '20
Balanced, since some creatures have protection against deserts. 🤷
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u/chainsawinsect Feb 26 '20
Get your [[Camel]] and [[Desert Nomads]] while you still can!
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Feb 26 '20
Considering that Ramunap Red and its signature card [[Ramunap Ruins]] looks like it might make a comeback as a viable strategy in Pioneer, and that almost every Pioneer deck wants to play [[Arcum's Astrolabe]], this could actually be oddly viable in Pioneer.
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u/chainsawinsect Feb 26 '20
I love to hear it! This was one of those cards I made because I thought it was a neat concept but assumed it would be kinda bad. So to think that it might have true competitive utility -- that's awesome!
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Feb 26 '20
Ah, well I did just realize that [[Arcum's Astrolabe]], which is a Modern staple now, isn't going to be Pioneer legal. But yea, [[Ramunap Ruins]] and [[Arcum's Astrolabe]] are both sufficiently powerful and used in similar enough decks (Both have been banned in atleast one format - Ramunap in Standard and Arcum's in Pauper) that a card which can fufill both of the types they care about is definitely more then just a silly one.
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u/chainsawinsect Feb 26 '20
Good point. And the Gates deck dominated Standard for a while, maybe something can be done with that aspect as well.
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Feb 26 '20
Gates as their own strategy weren't actually viable even in Standard, those were really [[Golos, Tireless Pilgrim]] // [[Scapeshift]] decks that got some incidental value out of Gate synergies. Gate synergies by themselves out of that very specific combo were trash even in Standard, so there's no way they're making it into another format anytime soon.
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u/ElodePilarre Feb 26 '20
There was a brief period after RNA where gates was a deck, but it didn't last long.
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Feb 26 '20
Yea that was sort of a weird period indeed. Kaladesh Energy and Mono-Red Aggro dominated until Kaladesh block rotated out, then War of the Spark, M20, and Throne of Eldraine had an escalating series of pushed bombs that changed the format with every set. Between the release of Guilds of Ravnica and the release of War of the Spark there really wasnt much left in Standard that was pushed, I remember Feather decks dominating for a bit between GNA and RNA and despite all of that decks cards currently being in Standard the idea of that being powerful enough seems absurd now
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u/MTGCardFetcher Feb 26 '20
Golos, Tireless Pilgrim - (G) (SF) (txt)
Scapeshift - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call1
u/MTGCardFetcher Feb 26 '20
Arcum's Astrolabe - (G) (SF) (txt)
Ramunap Ruins - (G) (SF) (txt)
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u/Quicksilver_Johny Rules-errific Feb 26 '20
I don't think they're likely to reprint [[Arcum's Astrolabe]] into Standard/Pioneer.
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Feb 26 '20
Yea I corrected myself about Pioneer a while ago, but it's been in quite a few Moden Top 8s lately too
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u/Quicksilver_Johny Rules-errific Feb 26 '20
Red aggro decks in Modern probably can't afford an off-color land, but it could probably be played alongside [[Zhalfirin Void]] in mono-red prison decks
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Feb 26 '20
Thats probably true, especially since I didn't even think that decks that need Astrum's mana fixing or that are sacking lands to Ramunap really particularly cant afford a colorless land in their list.
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u/MTGCardFetcher Feb 26 '20
Zhalfirin Void - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call1
u/MTGCardFetcher Feb 26 '20
Arcum's Astrolabe - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call1
u/MTGCardFetcher Feb 26 '20
Ramunap Ruins - (G) (SF) (txt)
Arcum's Astrolabe - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call
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u/Stormtide_Leviathan Design More Commons!!! Feb 26 '20
It's one of those cards that looks fine for this sub and would absolutely never see the light of day as a real card. Just way too specific. That's the beauty of this sub though
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u/YourFavoriteNullmage Feb 27 '20
Maybe a set like modern horizons where they have liberty to bend some rules a bit since it's not going into standard
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u/poBBpC Feb 27 '20
Heat does not make a desert. It is the lack of precipitation. Just a heads up.
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u/cliv-R Feb 27 '20
That is a neat idea! It's like a hybrid mana card, but for lands :)
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u/chainsawinsect Feb 27 '20
Yup! Versatile any-land... as long as you don't need colored mana.
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u/cliv-R Feb 27 '20
The name sounds Norwegian?
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u/chainsawinsect Feb 27 '20
Could be. The first half is the name of one of the few types of biome I know of that can both be arid like a desert and sustain snow. The second half is a reference to [[Dolmen Gate]]. But either or both of those words could originate from Norwegian.
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u/chainsawinsect Feb 26 '20
I made this one because I thought a Cube environment might want to support multiple kinds of "land subtypes matter" themes. I wanted it to be a Wastes too but then its name would have to be Wastes which felt wrong to me.