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CardName: Grief Seed Cost: 3 Type: Artifact Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Grief Seed doesn’t untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, an opponent may pay {1}. If he or she does, untap Grief Seed. At the beginning of your draw step, if Grief Seed is tapped, it deals 1 damage to each of your opponents. {T}: Add {2} to your mana pool. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Madoka Magi-ka Rare

Grief Seed

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Grief Seed doesn’t untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, an opponent may pay {1}

. If he or she does, untap Grief Seed.
At the beginning of your draw step, if Grief Seed is tapped, it deals 1 damage to each of your opponents.
{t}

: Add

to your mana pool. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.

Updated on 31 Dec 2012 by Alexander

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2012-12-23 12:44:41: Alexander created the card Grief Seed

by Alexander:

"each opponent may pay {1} . If they do, untap Grief Seed." Does this work?

2012-12-23 12:46:54: Alexander edited Grief Seed

by Alexander:

Also, does the clause about only being able to activate the mana ability during your main phase make sense for power level? Or should you be allowed to tap this during your upkeep if your opponents untapped it, potentially use your {3} mana on an instant and deal 1 damage to each of them?

2012-12-25 04:52:07: Alexander edited Grief Seed:

Changed the mana ability from "only during main phase" to sorcery speed to match typical magic wording.

by dude1818:

Because it is a mana source, you should probably use your original wording. I wouldn't let yourself tap it in response without playtesting it first.

by Alex:

So it's a Basalt Monolith that damages opponents as well? You know how broken Basalt Monolith was, right? I was using it in the MTGO Cube to cast Consecrated Sphinx or Wurmcoil Engine on turn 4 (well, turn 3 off a Mox).

by jmgariepy:

This, of course, assumes you aren't playing a group game with 'frenemies'. If you played this card, I'd untap it for you every chance I could get. It's nice to have a powerful friend... it distracts my other opponents. :)

by Alexander:

How about CMC {3} and {t} : {2} ? I know about Basalt Monolith, but I wanted control of when it untaps to be in your opponent's hands. What if it was more like Thran Dynamo?

by Alex:

It might be fine as is if it just ETBed tapped. As it is, it doesn't matter when or even whether it untaps; the burst of mana it gives you on turn 4 is all that matters. If it ETBTs but the opponent could untap it... well, okay, they wouldn't, even if doing so dealt you about 5 damage.

A {3} -> {2} would be better; they printed Palladium Myr, although that's a lot more killable.

by Alexander:

Grief Seed is already pretty dang wordy, so I don't know if adding another line that says, "ETB tapped" is such a good idea. It's approaching Mana Vault levels as far as lines of text go. So I think I'll go the Palladium Myr route.

Playtesting some of my other cards shows that even with some of the creative restrictions I'm coming up with, a lot of my designs are undercosted.

2012-12-31 22:36:06: Alexander edited Grief Seed:

Now adds 2 mana instead of 3.

2012-12-31 22:54:42: Alexander edited Grief Seed

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