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CardName: Llanowar Wastes Cost: Type: Land Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. Pay 1 life, {T}: Add {bg} to your mana pool. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Llanowar Burned Uncommon

Llanowar Wastes

Land

: Add

to your mana pool.
Pay 1 life, {t}

: Add

to your mana pool.

Updated on 02 Oct 2019 by Vitenka

Code: UL01

History: [-]

2016-01-15 11:54:02: Vitenka created the card Llanowar Wastes

2016-01-15 11:55:08: Vitenka edited Llanowar Wastes

2016-01-15 11:56:41: Vitenka edited Llanowar Wastes:

fix background colour; didn't auto select somehow

by Link:

It didn't auto-select because you can't add hybrid mana to your pool.

by Link:

Is this meant to have the same name as Llanowar Wastes, or is that an oversight?

by Alex:

Judging from his comment on Llanowar Reborn, I think this is Vitenka's version of a reprint. The hybrid is nonstandard templating but is actually functionally identical.

Changing from "deals 1 damage" during the effect to "Pay 1 life" during the cost, though, is a significant functional change that alters how the card behaves with regard to loads of things, from Purity to Darien, King of Kjeldor to Angel of Jubilation. Wizards created Mana Confluence rather than errata City of Brass to work that way.

by Vitenka:

No; this was a deliberate reprint - as you saw with Llanowar Reborn they were natural "I have to yoink a card by that name into a set of this name" cards.

Unlike wizards, I have no fear of breaking changes while cleaning up a card :)

by Tahazzar:

The change from dealing damage to life payment change is not trivial. Also, it's just kinda nonsensical. One is a cost and another is an effect.

If you were to reprint Char, would you change it to

> As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 2 life.
> Char deals 4 damage to any target.

I would expect consistency at least on this front. Which to me, seems like it would lead to a bad precedent and be generally messy.

by Vitenka:

Well; yes. It's a functional change to be the correct way round. It's a cost, not a side-effect.

Thematically, this card does certainly need to be in the set. But the cycle probably doens't, the mechanic isn't particularly relevant, and it's weird only having just one uncommon land in set.

So all in all, I should probably drop this, and remake Sylvan Catacombs to be "llanowar-something"

by Deleted:

I'm just wondering, can you pay a life cost if it would kill you?

by dude1818:

Yes, but you die before it resolves

by Froggychum:

Ez bm no gg concede

by Tahazzar:

Side note: You can't pay you don't have. So if you're at 0 or less life with something like Lich, you can't use the second ability here. Similarly, if you have Platinum Emperion out, you can't use the second ability. These are in direct contrast to the current functionality of Llanowar Wastes where you are able to activate the second ability in both of those aforementioned cases.

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