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CardName: Mirrodin's Lumbermill Cost: Type: Artifact Land - Mountain Forest Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: (Mirrodin's Lumbermill isn't a spell) {T}: Add {R} or {G} to your mana pool. Flavour Text: Mirrodin's Lumbermill 2.0 will have "{T}: Add {R}{R}, {G}{G}, or {R}{G} to your mana pool." as it fits for ramping colors. Set/Rarity: Silly String Rare |
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Mirrodin's Lumbermill 3.0? It will probably include the line "TAP to add a GREEN or RED spell to the CHAIN."
I love it!
You're probably not worrying about this, but this cycle is extremely, extremely strong for affinity decks. Fetchable, dual-color artifact lands both eliminates the need for affinity to play mana fixing and also contributes directly to their strategy. By turn two they're playing Thoughtcast for
, every time (besides their free frogmites). Don't know if you care at all, but this is probably not printable as is, let alone the 2.0 version.
Given the silver border, this card is more of a statement on power creep than it is any serious suggestion for a future take on artifact lands.
It's a pity that artifact lands get hammered for how abusive affinity is. Had there been no 'affinity' keyword mechanic stating, roughly, "In this block, some lands produce
.", the artifact lands would have been welcome additions to the set.
But, you know, now that I think about it, artifact lands are still nuts with Atog and cards like Cranial Plating, which are fair cards without art.lands around. I guess the take away is that when you add something to a card, deciding that 'because it makes it vulnerable to certain cards that hate it' isn't good enough to make up for whatever bonus you gave it. You still need to take something away.