Multiverse: Rich Vein

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CardName: Rich Vein Cost: Type: Land - Locus Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. Tap two untapped Locuses you control: Add {3} to your mana pool. "Leave it to a Mirran to put down leylines in a land so rich with mana..." -- Atticus, Vedalken Genius Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: New Mirrodin Common

Rich Vein

Land – Locus

: Add

to your mana pool.
Tap two untapped Locuses you control: Add {3}

to your mana pool.
"Leave it to a Mirran to put down leylines in a land so rich with mana..."
— Atticus, Vedalken Genius

Updated on 24 Jul 2014 by jmgariepy

Code: CL06

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2014-07-22 04:57:17: jmgariepy created the card Rich Vein

by jmgariepy:

For Challenge # 107. I'm probably just going to end up stealing this for New Mirrodin, actually...

by Jack V:

Yeah, I kept designing dual lands with restrictions too. They are very similar. (You could even say of ETB lands, "don't spend this mana the turn the land came into play" although you wouldn't.)

2014-07-23 23:28:39: jmgariepy moved the card Rich Vein from Multiverse Design Challenge into New Mirrodin

2014-07-23 23:31:49: jmgariepy edited Rich Vein

by jmgariepy:

Added to New Mirrodin because... well... Locuses.

2014-07-23 23:36:15: jmgariepy edited Rich Vein

by keflexxx:

this feels a fair bit worse than cloudpost, but when you're designing locus 9 through 12 you have to be careful.

does make glimmerpost better, so maybe this is sitting somewhere in the middle? either way i think it's a cool take on locuses so well done

by Alex:

Is this meant to say "two untapped Locuses you control", or not? It does technically work without that, but it's a bit odd. You can "steal" mana from your opponent's Loci whenever you have priority; and two players with one of these each are in a constant game of chicken about who's going to get the mana (and is it going to be at a useful time).

2014-07-24 06:09:27: jmgariepy edited Rich Vein

by jmgariepy:

Heh, yes, good eye Alex. "You control" it is. Edited

You also bring up the problem of plural, which I admit, I crossed my fingers and hoped that 'locus' had a Greek root, leading to the word 'locuses', and not a Latin root, leading to the word 'loci'. I just looked it up and, unfortunately, it's got a Latin root. But I think I'm stuck with my incorrect spelling, because I'm quite sure people would otherwise ask "What's a loci?"

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