Get it? ;)

Published as mtgnexus Card of the Day 2019-09-19.

Heh. I'm tempted to suggest that the alt-cost should be . SO I 'll do so. Maybe the alt-cost should be the alt-cost should be ?

If I chose that alt-cost, then any colored deck could cast it at the same cmc as a deck that actually manages to produce two . Might as well change the hard cast to .

A green-white deck (or any two-colors) would be able to cast this for less than the colorless mana deck.

The big discount is explicitly supposed to be a reward for managing to produce ALL colors at once. You only get this much of a discount because it is "all or nothing".

Well, my other suggesiton would be :)

It's part of the Bringer cycle, Vitenka. Why ruin that?

Also, you're going to have a hard time casting those spells of the Bringer ability if your deck is dedicated to producing colorless like that. Just sayin'.

In practice, your deck is either designed to play the mana cost xor the alternative cost. You don't build your deck to be able to play both

Besides, in commander (the only format where you can play doofy 9 drops), it can only go in a five color deck anyway

[Inner Johnny intensifies]

> Also, you're going to have a hard time casting those spells of the Bringer ability if your deck is dedicated to producing colorless like that. Just sayin'.

Let me introduce you to Adarkar Wastes, Mystic Gate, Aether Hub, Crumbling Vestige etc. And that's really only if you care to achieve both mana costs, but why would you?

Two colorless out of your first nine mana sources is far from dedicated unless you rely primarily on basic land types even on your nonbasic lands.

I'd just like to take issue with

> commander (the only format where you can play doofy 9 drops)

Commander might, just about, be more popular than "kitchen table", but I doubt it. There are plenty of less popular casual formats - which is, after all, how Commander itself started. And players with low-power collections all over the world are playing their Ancient Brontodons and Horncaller's Chants and feeling happy about it.

The Bringers were a delightful cycle which some casual players built mono-coloured ramp decks for ("Desperate Ritual, Seething Song, turn 6 Bringer!") and others built five-colour decks without a single rare manafixer for.

Please let's not claim that Commander is "the only format" where big spells get cast.

I played them limited, with relatively consistent "Turn 3 bringer"; but that was using the five-colour option. Colour fixing is much easier than mana fixing.

I was kinda trying to suggest the idea that the multi-colour mode for a devoid-bringer was five different non-colours. But I guess I just failed.