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CardName: Draining Marsh Cost: Type: Land - Node Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Aspect–Light (When this enters the battlefield, if you played it from your hand, choose Aspect–Light or Aspect–Dark. All permanents with that ability transform.) Draining Marsh enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Flavour Text: Back side: CardName: Drained Ring Cost: Type: Land - Node Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Aspect–Dark (At the beginning of your end step, all permanents with Aspect–Light transform.) {T}: Add {U} or {B}. {4}, {T}: Return Drained Ring to its owner’s hand. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: The Fading Aurora Uncommon

Draining Marsh
 
 U 
Land – Node
Aspect–Light (When this enters the battlefield, if you played it from your hand, choose Aspect–Light or Aspect–Dark. All permanents with that ability transform.)

Draining Marsh enters the battlefield tapped.

{t}: Add {u} or {b}.
Drained Ring
 
 U 
Land – Node
Aspect–Dark (At the beginning of your end step, all permanents with Aspect–Light transform.)

{t}: Add {u} or {b}.

{4}, {t}: Return Drained Ring to its owner’s hand.
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Updated on 04 Apr 2018 by Fletch

Code: UL03

History: [-]

2018-03-11 20:30:16: Fletch created the card Draining Marsh
2018-03-11 20:33:10: Fletch edited Draining Marsh
2018-03-13 15:29:49: Fletch edited Draining Marsh
2018-03-15 02:46:16: Fletch edited Draining Marsh
on 21 Mar 2018 by Bombshell:

This taps for U/B on both aspects.

on 21 Mar 2018 by Fletch:

That is correct; the Faeries in Lorwyn/Shadowmoor were the ine group that never shifted colors. Thos card finishes a meta-cycle.

on 21 Mar 2018 by SecretInfiltrator:

Makes it less useful than the others though. And Shadowmoor does have a presence of {w/u} Faeries IIRC.

2018-03-21 04:19:06: Fletch edited Draining Marsh
on 21 Mar 2018 by Fletch:

Hmm. There are two W/U faeries in Shadowmoor. That would technically make a W/U dark side fitting (and perfect for the Esper Aspect shenanigans in the set build)...but the merfolk land already shifts from W/U into U/B.

Maybe I need to do something more like the Treefolk or Elemental lands.

2018-03-21 04:32:54: Fletch edited Draining Marsh
on 21 Mar 2018 by Bombshell:

What I can tell you for sure is if there isn't a complete cycle, it will drive players bonkers.

on 21 Mar 2018 by Bombshell:

Also, by encouraging U/B manafixing unequally, isn't that pushing that color pair? A color pair that was extremely problematic back in the day of Lor/Sha.

on 21 Mar 2018 by Fletch:

Tough to say how that would pan out without testing.

Problematic color pairs show up all the time, so the Blossom/Clique era is no real reason to worry too much about specific colors in a specific setting, I feel. You do your best to push the edges while not making stuff that breaks everything, and after that the rest is out of your hands.

Your question is pretty heady (in a good way). I’m glad someone is pondering it; I don’t know that I could really answer that all on my own.

2018-04-04 15:50:57: Fletch edited Draining Marsh

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