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CardName: Displacer Serpent Cost: 5UU Type: Creature - Serpent Pow/Tgh: 8/8 Rules Text: Displacer Serpent can't attack unless your opponent controls an Island. {T}: Exchange control of all lands you control and all lands target player controls. Flavour Text: Legend has it that the Sea of Redemption used to be bigger. But how can that be? Set/Rarity: Mashup: the Gathering Workbench Mythic |
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: Exchange control of all lands you control and all lands target player controls.
Random Generator gave me Tree of Redemption and Sea Serpent. All I want right now is some rare artifacts, a rare mono-blue land, or some commons, either land or artifacts. You'd think I could just turn any mashup into an artifact and call it a day. But things like Sea Serpent keep popping up, and cards like this pop into my head, and what am I supposed to do? Say no to a decent idea?
No bigee... to the workbench with you. But if I don't start filling in artifact and land slots soon, I'm going to have to take a different tactic, I suppose.
That's awesome!
This seems very mythic to me.
Kinda. It's a bit dangerous to build round, and would need a more specific name (mythics tend to be "Just one of" not "A whole class of beings") but I can see those difficulties being overcome.
The idea of the creature so large that it makes the sea bigger could certainly fit mythicness!
It's a fun ability. And the Sea serpent downside has been sadly neglected recently; giving one a built in "Here, have some islands" is great.
And it's really fun to imagine decks which cast it without a decent manabase and can cope with whatever lands they get in exchange. Though the 'sweep' mechanic (from Kamigawa I think?) might make that part of the game a bit too easy. "Here, have all of my lands, one island. I'll have yours."
Yeah, that's an awesome mashup. I wouldn't have thought you could put those two cards together, but this is perfect.
It's backbreaking with any way to sacrifice your own lands, but that may be acceptable at 7 mana.
On the plus side, exchange means you have to give them something, otherwise the trade won't happen. If your opponent can drop a Swamp, they have enough mana for a Doom Blade. It's probably too late anyway, but it would make a pretty amazing comeback.
And yeah, I suppose this is the workbench, so I can just make him mythic. Vitenka's probably right, though. I'll have to give this a more appropriate name later.
I thought exchange only didn't happen with something specific, I assumed no lands counted as all lands though I don't know for certain.
Admittedly you can't attack with THIS unless you give an island.
Morality Shift functions just fine if either of the zones is empty, because the zone always exists even if it represents 0 cards.
Oh. Huh. Well, that's good to know. Thanks.