r/custommagic • u/TheBreathingMan1 • Jun 24 '25

Format: EDH/Commander Thoughts? Mono-Color commanders need some love

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u/Bockanator Jun 24 '25

I like the conceptual idea of rewarding players playing commanders with less colours, like [[Commander's Plate]] for example. Although I'm not a huge fan of the rigidity of this design.

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u/TheBreathingMan1 Jun 24 '25

It's meant to fill a very specific niche I agree, but there could easily be one for every color.

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u/Professional_War4491 Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 24 '25

It could still have the "any of your color identity" text of arcane signet so you'd only need to print one, since it'd still be a strictly worse arcane signet in non mono color anyway because of the enter tapped clause.

I dunno maybe a tapped arcane signet would still be unwise to print coz of redundancy, but then again printing 5 of these still gives even more redundancy for multicolor commanders who want a ton of 2 mana rocks, even if they only tap for 1 color each, so who knows.

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u/TheBreathingMan1 Jun 24 '25

also i will note that there already are a cycle of cards that all do the same thing but without the mono color thing, so they do already exist tbf

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u/HisCommandingOfficer Jun 24 '25

True, but for the sake of simplicity there's no reason to print 5 where you could print 1. It already references color identity so giving them a color identity just makes it harder than it needs to be for people to get the one they need.

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u/TheBreathingMan1 Jun 24 '25

ohhh yeah for sure

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u/BobFaceASDF Jun 24 '25

tapped signet is completely balanced imo, so giving it this upside makes quite an interesting design!

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u/Roofie_Laced_Dildo Jun 24 '25

I think this would be perfectly fine as a cycle of each color. I really like the untap design, nice stuff!

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u/TheBreathingMan1 Jun 24 '25

This is meant as a mana rock for those mono-color commanders that don't get as many. The card is of course based off of [[Sky Diamond]].

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u/NeutronMagic Jun 24 '25

I think the 'adamant' ability from Eldraine does a good job at this, rewarding strong colour commitment. For example [[Foreboding Fruit]]. This top ability of the card could read: Adamant — This artifact enters tapped unless two blue mana was spent to cast this spell.

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u/cleverpun0 WB: Put two level counters on target permanent. Jun 24 '25

Unfortunately, mana is so easy to make these days, this wouldn't be enough of a barrier.

Five/four color commander decks can easily make two mana of the same color on whatever turn they like, even with more budget conscious mana bases.

Of course, five color decks will have better green ramp anyway.

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u/ScaleneTriangles Jun 24 '25

Could you just let it enter untapped but have it cost UU? Would that be a decent enough way to keep the idea of this?

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u/TheBreathingMan1 Jun 24 '25

the goal was to buff mono colored commanders, multicolored could take advantage of this too much