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CardName: Seeds of the World Cost: GGGGG Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Search your library for any number of Forest cards with different names, reveal them, and put two onto the battlefield tapped and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Link's Unplaced Cards Rare |
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Seems kinda dependant on owning the cards; and then it drops a choice of up to 13 lands into play (one of them a creature) tapped. Ouch. But it's 5 green, and getting close to "Ok, I'm gonna win now" cost, so maybe?
This card is simultaneously awesome, and makes me want to facepalm.
Also notable that most of the lands it could choose have a ETB tapped clause anyway, so you're not really losing anything by bringing them out this way.
Vitenka, I considered having it drop all of them onto the battlefield, but as it is currently worded, it only drops two. The rest go into your hand.
Why the facepalm, jmgariepy?
Probably because of what the new player's response would be. "Forest cards? With different names? What the bunnies?"
Solution: Use snowbunnies.
The fact that this card can exist is what makes me facepalm. Personally, I think the Dual-Lands in Ravnica was a mistake... especially since cards like Hallowed Fountain don't remind me of being an Island or a Plains. It was probably the worst block possible to start that pandora's box. Now we've got a whole crop of designers who are just adding land types to their dual lands because it makes Spike happy. We've made the game more complicated, with very little return.
That being said, I like this card. And if I was going to see a card abuse the proliferation of land types, I think an over the top rare is a cool way to do it.
La la la. Ice-Age can't hear you.
It is pretty odd though. (And I did say 'a choice of' - dropping all 13 into play would be kinda nutso.)
I take a different tack to jm though - I figure that since "I am a forest" is implicitly "Taps for green", the reverse should be true and more duals should be forests. Of course; that wrecks a whole bunch of pre-existing landsearch; so it can't happen, but I don't see it as repugnant in the same way.
I'd just love to see the deck built around actually using this.
I'd be cool with that. It would get really messy with cards like City of Brass, though. And I'd be tempted to retemplate all old cards... though, that could be done years from now.