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CardName: Evolving Island Cost: Type: Land Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {t}, Sacrifice Evolving Island, Add {c} to your mana pool: Search your library for an Island card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: kauefr's cards Uncommon

Evolving Island
 
 U 
Land
{t}, Sacrifice Evolving Island, Add {c} to your mana pool: Search your library for an Island card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.
Updated on 18 Oct 2017 by kauefr

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2017-10-17 21:55:25: kauefr created and commented on the card Evolving Island

Wonky cost because I don't want it to be a mana ability.

You can't add mana as a cost either. If you don't want the fetch to be a mana ability (which is shouldn't), you should separate the two effects. Have "T, Sac: add C" as a mana ability, and "When this dies, fetch" so it's not a mana ability. But 99% of the time that will play the same.

Dude's example can be seen on cards like Terrarion.

This is also an odd example of a card that is almost completely weaker than the basic land. Not quite completely, since it does reduce your deck by 1 card; and I guess is useful for landfall - but nearly.

I wonder if, assuming this is desired for the {c} !== {1} thing; it should have a second {t}:{u} mode, so that you can preserve it for when you want it?

@Vitenka it can fix via duals too, since it doesn't specify basic island.

This is an interesting halfway house between Island and Flood Plain. Island gives you {u} the turn you play it, but can't fetch anything; this gives you {c} the turn you play it, and fetches any part-U dual; Flood Plain gives you nothing the turn you play it, and fetches any part-U or part-W dual. So I think this is spot on.

Also reminds me of Crumbling Vestige, and the various inversions of it that pre-date it on Multiverse: Butcher District, Mirror Spire, Rickety Theater, District Slums and probably others.

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