colorless Inspiration and more

rockshard · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 111

Inspirational Tome, 4
Artifact
Flash
Inspirational Tome comes into play tapped.
Tap, Sacrifice Inspirational Tome: Draw two cards.

House Raider, W
Creature - Beast
1: Turn House Raider face down.
Morph W
1/1

and of course more split cards:

Magic // Wizards
1RU, Sorcery (Magic) Put target land on the top or bottom of its owner's library.
3U, Creature - Wizard (Wizards) Tap: Draw a card. 0/2

Land, Sea // Air
Land (Land, Sea) /large blue mana symbol/
4U, Instant (Air) Counter target spell.

Stamp // Send
Land (Stamp) /large green mana symbol/
3G, Instant (Send) Put a Forest token into play and put Stamp into play.

All comments welcome.

metroman722 · Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 66

i like the morph creature...thats pretty nifty. Very effective in white weenie

w play house raider
turn 2 pay 1 attack for 2

bash face.

I also like the split lands. There pretty cool. It gives you more versatility. Especially the last one. Pay 4 get two land or just play land. I think it should say search your library for a basic forest instead of put a forest token into play. Deckthinning is very good

rockshard · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 111

True but I like the token idea better because it's much faster. I consider shuffling (particularly repeated or unnecessary shuffling) to be disruptive and match-time-consuming. ^_^

Maybe tokens are a little jank but I think they are a better alternative.

That's hardly the first card I thought of that uses land tokens.

Touched by a Ranger
Instant
Put a Forest token into play tapped.
Cycling - Sacrifice a land token.

And a cycle of lands:

Irrigation Leak
Land
Tap: Add U to your mana pool.
Tap, Sacrifice Irrigation Leak: Put a Forest token into play.

mandanglelow · Joined: 15 Nov 2005 Posts: 98

you should make the land tokens like that 1/1 creatre land... might get more use out of the token then... and you can have them for all colors...

green-elf
red-goblin
white-soldier
black-zombie
blue-wizard

MaksymG · Joined: 24 Apr 2006 Posts: 174

the split cards are ridiculously overpowered, the ones with the lands anyhow, they are SCTRICTLY better than basic lands. The only time this has happened was with the original dual lands and with the legend lands of Kamigawa but the drawback was so severe for drawing more than one of them (dead card(s) in hand) that people rarely played more than 1 (with the occasional deck playing 2 of the same one).

metroman722 · Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 66

there no different then the ridiculously broken artifact lands. every deck in mirrodin basically had artifacts and artifact lads... they were strictly better than basic lands

maybe they should be legendary lands. That would be a drawback. then the one would turn into a crappy counterspell..and the other would be useless

Zaid · Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 6

I think they should come into play tapped, that would be a very rasonable drawback and you could play more than one

rockshard · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 111

Avata · Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 370

The need to run basic lands (or have a drawback) is an essential part of the game. This has been true since the very beginning, with the exception of the original dual lands, which were discontinued, and it's something that Wizards watches very closely.

I mean, it's all your own sets so do whatever you want, just know these cards aren't balanced by any stretch of the imagination and would never see print. The spell lands effectively allow you to cut your land count (since if you were in two colors, you could run 8 spell/lands and only 16 regular lands) and the morph lands are nuts - they give you a 2/2 that turns into a land instead of dying, OR gives you the chance to accelerate your mana by playing the morph and unmorphing it immediately.

rockshard · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 111

heey I actually never thought of using the Morphs as mana acceleration. I seriously have to raise the Morph cost on those. Thanks for pointing that out lol. I completely missed the fact that Morph lands could be used to accel, but that's fine as long as they are not too cheap.

But listen. I don't believe my cards are unbalanced per se, but they are a power shift. I am changing the balance of Magic as I would like it to be.

Imagine if nonbasic lands are good enough that basic lands are almost obsolete. Now, all these good nonbasic lands (morph lands, split lands, indestructible lands, and color-fixers with no ability) are competing against each other for slots in your deck. So that's balanced. And if you wanted cards that search for Basic land types or basic lands specifically (Rampant Growth) then you would have to make room for boring old basic lands in your deck too. (kind of like how Loam-Assault netdecks in T2 may have exactly one Forest, one Plains, one Mountain in them solely for Edge of Autumn) So basic lands would STILL have a use out there and would still be fast and efficient lands. That's pretty balanced in my opinion.

Terraformed Rocks
Land
Tap: Add R to your mana pool.
Morph 1