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CardName: Aliban's Talisman Cost: 2 Type: Artifact Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Aliban's Talisman deals 2 damage to you. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Ulgrotha: Darkness Falls Forever Common |
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to your mana pool.
Seems a lot worse than Prismatic Lens, and that card was useful but not exactly overpowered.
2-cost mana rock is still a 2-cost mana rock. Remember, it is Homelands so some things might be a bit worse.
I guess... I don't see why you'd deliberately reduce the power of standard utility cards though. I can certainly see wanting to get away from the recent power-creep in strong creatures and spells, but utility cards? Why make a mana rock that's worse than Archaeological Dig? It seems to be destined to make players grumble and avoid players getting excited about your set.
I mean, it is your set so you should feel free to do it however you want. But reduced power levels like this don't seem to fit with your stated aims of making cards that are worth playing in EDH or Cube, or that are of the "same perceived power level" as recent cards.
Well, for one, Archaeological Dig is a land; two this is also a draft set. A 2-cost mana rock that produces
is still on par at common for most sets. Yes, Prismatic Lens is a tiny bit more powerful, but it is from a different concept (futuresight block and all) Nor did I wan't to do a functional reprint of Prismatic Lens. Something a tad bit weaker is fine. And mana rocks are always received nicely in draft. Its use in EDH might be a bit less, but I do know several decks that would have no problem with adding it.
Ah, maybe you haven't encountered the principle. There's a fun principle whereby a lot of nonbasic lands have precisely the same rules text as 2-mana artifacts, and so it's a fun game to take the rules text of a 2-mana mana-rock and put it on a land, or vice versa. It doesn't always work, of course; it's interesting to try analysing the reasons why it doesn't.
For examples, see Adarkar Wastes vs Talisman of Progress, or Shimmering Grotto vs Prismatic Lens.
Well, I'll be..I didn't even know about the relation between that sort of thing, dang.
Hmm...Tarnished citadel rock ??
Heh, yeah, could do :)
More flexible, but also more painful Talisman of Impulse? Nice. I'd certainly want lots of them, but probably wouldn't put them in every deck.