For Challenge # 087

What's a Gruul-esque accelerant? I decided, one that helps you curve out into big four and five cost spells, while giving you a bit of a chance of smoothing out your mana to cast RR and GG spells, but not really fixing your mana otherwise.

I nearly made this "reveal the top N, put the basic lands revealed onto the battlefield" but decided that was too swingy for Gruul.

Oooh! Very nice! Vitenka was just asking last week for a 2-mana version of Cultivate. This is pretty close. Minus the whole getting to choose factor, of course, but that's a good justification for the low cost :)

What's the intended rarity of this?

Thank you!

"What's the intended rarity of this?"

I have no idea, I completely suck at choosing rarities :) I'd guess strong common or weak uncommon depending on the limited environment?

I don't like it.

More accurately, I love the effect (in fact I created a very similar card for Ankh-Duat), but I hate that it is . There is absolutely nothing red about this card! If I had to make it multicolor, I'd make it (Vigean Intuition, Coiling Oracle) or (Grisly Salvage), but is certainly not a combination that would com to mind.

Compare Borborygmos Enraged, Exploding Borders, Frenzied Tilling, Ground Assault, Vengeful Rebirth...

As for rarity, being a somewhat worse Cultivate, it can certainly be a common, though it'd probably be an uncommon if the block had a graveyard mechanic like Delve

Hm, good point. It was originally more red, but went through a bunch of changes. FWIW, the reasons are a) the random element, although most colours can do that sometimes and b) that it's supposed to be gruul-ish (eg. see white cards getting extort). But I guess it could be GG.

I'm not sure it's 'worse than cultivate'. It puts non-basics on the table and in your hand, and fills your yard. In fact, you can play this card with no basics at all. I'd say it might be more powerful than Cultivate (not counting the cc)... assuming you're playing a two or mono color deck.