Silmarillion: The War of the Jewels: Cardlist | Visual spoiler | Export | Booster | Comments | Search | Recent activity
Mechanics | Skeleton | Archetypes | Flavor | 1st Playtest | 2nd Playtest | 3rd Playtest

CardName: Secret Fire Cost: R Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Produce {C} and one mana of any color. (Unused mana is lost.) Flavour Text: "Therefore I say: Eä! Let these things Be! And I will send forth into the Void the Flame Imperishable, and it shall be at the heart of the World, and the World shall Be." —Eru Ilúvatar Set/Rarity: Silmarillion: The War of the Jewels Common

Secret Fire
{r}
 
 C 
Instant
Produce {c} and one mana of any color. (Unused mana is lost.)
"Therefore I say: Eä! Let these things Be! And I will send forth into the Void the Flame Imperishable, and it shall be at the heart of the World, and the World shall Be."
—Eru Ilúvatar
Illus. Alina Valebnay
Updated on 23 Feb 2018 by Tahazzar

Code: CR09

Active?: true

History: [-]

2017-03-12 12:13:47: Tahazzar created the card Secret Fire
2017-04-19 19:08:33: Tahazzar edited Secret Fire:

Testing out the new "get mana" format.

2017-05-19 09:34:35: Tahazzar edited Secret Fire
2017-05-19 09:34:47: Tahazzar edited Secret Fire:

"you get" -> "it produces"

2017-05-19 09:35:21: Tahazzar edited Secret Fire
2017-07-02 19:35:35: Tahazzar edited Secret Fire:

Now produces any two mana instead of {r}{r}.

2017-07-31 11:43:20: Tahazzar edited Secret Fire:

"This produces" -> "produce"

I see you've been pushing mana generation to be a big part of Red's color pie.

One thing I noticed is that there aren't any good mana sinks in Red. Sure, you can cast your Child of Melkor or Incite Rebellion, but where are you gonna spend all that mana when you're topdecking because you draft four copies of this?

One other thing I wanted to mention is that you have four different types of mana generation in Red alone - this, Uprise cards, Ñoldorian Jewel-Wright, and (((Descendant of Aulë))). It definitely might help to convert another card to a payoff or mana sink card so you're not reliant on Child of Melkor to beat face.

Those are some of the issues I've been thinking about. {r/g} has a nice ramp archetype set up, but even there the actual payoffs cards are few and far between. Child of Melkor is a newcomer in set, but has indeed big shoes to fill and is doing a lot of work.

The second set is likely going to have at least a minor Dwarf tribal thing going on so I might as well move Descendant of Aulë there. Maybe another payoff card could fill the slot it leaves behind...

on 30 Nov 2017 by SoulofZendikar:

This is strictly better than Pyretic Ritual on two counts. You should restrict it back to producing only RR.

2018-02-23 06:20:43: Tahazzar edited Secret Fire:

"two mana in any combination" -> "{c} and one mana of any"

2018-02-23 06:26:01: Tahazzar edited Secret Fire
2018-02-23 06:33:27: Tahazzar edited Secret Fire:

Shortened the flavor text.

Add your comments:


(formatting help)
Enter mana symbols like this: {2}{U}{U/R}{PR}, {T} becomes {2}{u}{u/r}{pr}, {t}
You can use Markdown such as _italic_, **bold**, ## headings ##
Link to [[[Official Magic card]]] or (((Card in Multiverse)))
Include [[image of official card]] or ((image or mockup of card in Multiverse))
Make hyperlinks like this: [text to show](destination url)
How much damage does this card deal? Lava Axe
(Signed-in users don't get captchas and can edit their comments)