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CardName: Anchor Cost: {4} Type: Artifact Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {T}: Tap target creature. As long as Anchor remains tapped, that creature does not untap, and its controller may sacrifice it to add {1} to their mana pool. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Community Mashup Set Uncommon

Anchor
{4}
 
 U 
Artifact
{t}: Tap target creature. As long as Anchor remains tapped, that creature does not untap, and its controller may sacrifice it to add {1} to their mana pool.
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Updated on 02 Aug 2012 by Vitenka

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2012-08-01 11:07:59: Vitenka created the card Anchor
on 01 Aug 2012 by Vitenka:

­Mind Stone + Crow's Nest

CMC2 Uncommon artifact. Beyond that... we've got an untapper and a less than great cantripping mana source.

Both do share ships in common, so there's flavour at least. What ship things can I come up with...

Image of a boat of goblins beached; one has a chain around its leg, dragging it back towards the sea.

on 01 Aug 2012 by Alex:

FWIW, Mind Stone is very good. Being able to cantrip your mana source away once you're done with it is huge. See how hard they had to nerf Horizon Canopy to stop it being an auto-4-of in mono-white or mono-green decks.

I'm also not sure where the "ship" bit comes from on Mind Stone.

This seems like a rather stonkingly good Icy Manipulator. It can't hit lands, but it can keep pingers / looters tapped! Compare with Tumble Magnet and I think it's clear this ability needs to cost more than {2}, sadly.

The flavour is great though.

on 01 Aug 2012 by Vitenka:

Yeah - my problem is that I look at Mind Stone and see Sol Ring and think "Ok, next!"

Mind stone is from the weatherlight set; which is a big ship, no? I'm sure there's some "While this stays tapped so does that" stuff; I guess it's mostly critters though. You're right that at the very least this should have a cost to use though; which unfortunately would make it unusable as a mana source. Time for a rethink methinks.

2012-08-01 12:31:54: Vitenka edited Anchor:

remove 'stays tapped' part; so it's no longer so useful against pingers

on 01 Aug 2012 by Alex:

Oh, the Weatherlight itself! Haha. Yes indeed, it was an awesome skyship and it probably did have an anchor. I missed that connection.

I think this'd be more flavourful as an Anchor if you kept the doesn't-untap, but bumped the cost up to about 4. It'd still often compare reasonably to Icy.

2012-08-02 13:59:03: Vitenka edited Anchor:

The {2} was in common between the source cards, but it's a shame to lose it - but you're right, this is more fun.

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