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CardName: Sylvan Rebirth Cost: 2g Type: Enchantment - Aura Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Enchant noncreature permanent Enchanted permanent is a colorless Forest land. (It has "{T}: Add {g} to your mana pool" and loses all other types and abilities.) Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Anydria Storage Uncommon |
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In retrospect this is more of a green shift of Oblivion Ring than a shift of anything blue.
This just saw print in the newest Commander product as Song of the Dryads with the exact same mana cost. The only differences are the rarity and that the "real" one can hit creatures.
Song of the Dryads also specifies that the enchanted permanent becomes colorless, while this instead specifies that it becomes...a card (creating interesting ontological issues if you put this on a token created by something like Prototype Portal).
Yes, I had just come back to comment on that fact. Oops! :)
I like this one better.
Yes, I believe this one doesn't break the color pie.
SadisticMystic's comment on a previous wording reminds me of Pinocchioken. It's probably just as well that that wording no longer applies. :>
Shouldn't this be an Aura? Also, why does Song of the Dryads specify colorless? My assumption is that it has something to do with commanders and color identities but I wouldn't know seeing as I don't play the format. Also, I thought lands were colorless by definition. Just as "target thing becomes a Forest" has the implicit rules "it can now tap for
" I thought it would also be colorless... but even Evil Presence's card rulings fail to mention the affected card's color, changed or otherwise. Help, I'm confused.
Lands are colorless by virtue of the fact that there's nothing about them that defines a color. There's no inherent rule that makes lands colorless. If this didn't specify that the enchanted permanent was colorless, I believe that permanent would retain its colors. In my opinion, Song of the Dryads (and therefore this card) specify that the land becomes colorless in order to alleviate some confusion. That confusion might arise from players such as yourself who assume that lands are inherently colorless. Evil Presence is already enchanting a land, which is already colorless, so it doesn't need to add that specification.
Ah, true enough. Thx for that. And for pointing out that Evil Presence only affects lands which are already colorless. I'm blind. :x
Evil Presence would be very powerful if it affected nonland permanents. :O