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CardName: Ritual Elemental Cost: 1r Type: Creature - Elemental Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Rules Text: When Ritual Elemental enters the battlefield, add {R}{R}{R} to your mana pool. revive {R} ({R}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a token that's a copy of it onto the battlefield. Revive only as a sorcery.) Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Comic Book Set Common

Ritual Elemental

Creature – Elemental

When Ritual Elemental enters the battlefield, add {r}

to your mana pool.
revive {r}

(, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a token that's a copy of it onto the battlefield. Revive only as a sorcery.)

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Created on 23 Apr 2014 by MOON-E

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2014-04-23 23:49:52: MOON-E created the card Ritual Elemental

by MOON-E:

This seems kind of busted. I think the revive has to cost at least {1} {r}

by 5colors:

My goal for this was to have a red dark ritual that you have to jump through a few hoop for. I understand if thats too powerful.

by MOON-E:

My worry is for storm in modern. With Faithless Looting this is too easy to turn on IMO.

by .Rai:

I'm okay with it, but it really should only add {r} {r} to the mana pool. That way, it's not broke with Storm (reviving from the graveyard doesn't add to the storm count after all).

by MOON-E:

If it doesn't net mana until the second time, what's the point?

by .Rai:

It's a free 1/1 that has "Draw a Pyretic Ritual" attached to it. What isn't the point? Free creatures are perfectly valid; one only has to look to Burning-Tree Emissary for that.

by MOON-E:

Not really a Pyretic ritual if it makes two mana...

Burning-Tree Emissary is a good comparison: it was hybrid which allowed it to go into more decks, made two colors of mana so it assisted in fixing, and was a 2/2 which meant its body was actually relevant. This is none of those things. (And it's not like Burning-Tree was that great in limited either).

I mean we can just have it be a bad card, that's fine, but I don't know if I want it to be that bad. A 1/1 body is pretty irrelevant, but at least curving it into a three drop on the same turn might be worth it.

by 5colors:

How about moving it to uncommon then?

by .Rai:

A Pyretic Ritual provided it makes {r} {r} rather than {r} {r} {r} . Curving into a three-drop's fine, but it's really the revive that's ridiculous. Does the Revive even have to net mana? {2} {r} Revive and it basically rituals first time round, and filters the second. Or just stick it at {1} {r} which still might just be silly.

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