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CardName: Expansive Acres Cost: WW Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Search your library for up to X Plains cards, where X is the number of spells your opponents have cast this turn. Reveal those cards and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Rare |
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See Challenge # 167.
1-4-5-2-4. White rare instant, CMC 2, ramp.
Well, at least it's not common. White does get occasional ramp at rare, things like Cartographer's Hawk, Endless Horizons, Gift of Estates, Knight of the White Orchid, Keeper of the Accord, Kor Cartographer, and of course Tithe and Land Tax. On a 2 CMC instant is harder. And the thing about most of those is that it's not really "ramp" if it requires an opponent to have more lands than you. "Ramp as long as someone else is ramping more".
I was trying to think of some other white way to ramp, and I thought of "Fetch a Plains for each spell an opponent has cast this turn." I was somewhat tempted to write it with Storm... but that's just asking for trouble really. And this way is less shuffling.
Huh. Yes, that probably does the trick. You can usually fetch one, and if you're behind you might be able to fetch more.
That does feel a bit ineffective though -- if you're usually getting a single plains, wouldn't you just play another plains in your deck instead? I really want it to put them onto the battlefield, but I agree, white doesn't usually do that unless it's catching up. But if you're getting lands to hand there's a limit to the amount of upside so it could potentially be more generous -- maybe attacking creatures?
I need to design a BLUE 2-cmc instant ramp spell, which I'm pondering...
Maybe the version with Storm would be better after all.