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CardName: Mentoth, of the Tainted Ridge Cost: 1BBRR Type: Planeswalker - Mentoth Pow/Tgh: /5 Rules Text: [+1]Untap target Basic land. It becomes a 5/3 black and red Elemental creature with Intimidate until end of turn. It's still a land. [-2] Add X mana in any combination of {B} and {R} to you mana pool where X is the number of basic lands you control. [-7] Until end of turn lands you control have Deathtouch and "{T}: This land deals 1 damage to target creature or player.'" Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Misc Design for future sets. Mythic
Mentoth, of the Tainted Ridge
   +1Untap target Basic land. It becomes a 5/3 black and red Elemental creature with Intimidate until end of turn. It's still a land.
-2 Add X mana in any combination of and to you mana pool where X is the number of basic lands you control.
-7 Until end of turn lands you control have Deathtouch and "  : This land deals 1 damage to target creature or player.'"5
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I'm not a fan of non-evergreen keywords appearing on Planeswalkers.
Also, does it strike you as odd that the middle ability is the only ability that refers to lands that aren't mountains?
Fixed the land issue. And the only reason Infect is not evergreen is that it's only been in one block, Which was the case with Doublestrike until they chose to use it again.
Um. I think that's somewhat mixing up cause and effect. Double strike was introduced with the deliberate intent of making it an evergreen mechanic. Same with equipment, and keywording deathtouch and reach. I can't think of any mechanic that was introduced as a block mechanic (as infect was) and eventually progressed to evergreen status. Cycling might get there eventually, but isn't quite there yet.
Scry is getting there, too. Kicker might some day.
Alex isn't wrong about Double Strike... it was only used on one creature in Legions when it first appeared. That's not exactly a block mechanic. There are plenty of block mechanics that do become common parlance--cantrips from Ice Age, for example--but no keywords that I can think of.
I'm pretty sure some of the block mechanics are bound to cross over into evergreen status some day. Honestly, I think Bushido would have if Wizards wasn't so short sighted on the name.
I'm not as sure that Infect will, though. It's a solid mechanic... it's just that it either needs a lot of other infect cards in the same environment to be relevant, or the infect cards need to be so good that Wizards no longer make environments full of infect cards without upsetting the balance of the game. Either way, it sounds like a mistake. Maybe I'm wrong, though. I really loved Swamp Mosquito in Ice Age, even if I could never quite get it to win me a game.
Vonmarcus, do you know what evergreen means? Infect can never be evergreen because it utilizes -1/-1 counters.
First Double Strike was on three cards in that block, two in Legions and one in Scourge.
Second Infect While it may never be ever green is spot on for a PW in an Poison counter setting to use. It's better than sucking up text space to spell out how poison works on the card given that people know how it works. (granted new player may not but that what putting it in this kind of setting where there will be rules tip cards in the boosters is for)
It's not like I'm trying to pass this walker in a core set or anything.