The intention is to reprint Tendo Ice Bridge, but to give it generic flavor. In light of recent Vivid lands (and generally better duals than during the kamigawa era), I feel that Tendo Ice Bridge is a card that could easily be a common. The card also is forced to slot in at common unless I want to add another common land (possible) or a common artifact (not done in core sets).
The reasoning for including this card is that I'm designing this as a core set to use with another block I create. There was a need for a larger pool of dual lands, particularly in non-allied colored decks.
Presumably it's supposed to have reach? (Otherwise it can't block anything at all, like one of Wall of Diffusion's old wordings when they were still trying to sort out the reach mess.)
This card is indeed cryptic. If you know your timing, you can declare the lands you're going to tap as targets, before you have to tap them to pay . It would confuse a lot fewer players (and be more readily apparent as an all-upside ability, as R1s are wont to do) if it just said ": tap X target permanents", or more simply ": tap target permanent" dropping the restriction (if it's for X, why would you need to use it more than once a turn anyway?)
You gain a card and lose a chump blocker. Also, the functionality is significantly unique from holy day.
Though, yes, it probably is more powerful than holy day.
Fixed, but the card doesn't look as nice any more =(
Good catch. Functionality changed at one point and I missed that.
The intention is to reprint Tendo Ice Bridge, but to give it generic flavor. In light of recent Vivid lands (and generally better duals than during the kamigawa era), I feel that Tendo Ice Bridge is a card that could easily be a common. The card also is forced to slot in at common unless I want to add another common land (possible) or a common artifact (not done in core sets).
The reasoning for including this card is that I'm designing this as a core set to use with another block I create. There was a need for a larger pool of dual lands, particularly in non-allied colored decks.
Do we really need another Tendo Ice Bridge? Let alone with the second one being a common?
Presumably it's supposed to have reach? (Otherwise it can't block anything at all, like one of Wall of Diffusion's old wordings when they were still trying to sort out the reach mess.)
I could see this as the basis for a new Sylvan Library that doesn't have nearly as many rules problems.
This card is indeed cryptic. If you know your timing, you can declare the lands you're going to tap as targets, before you have to tap them to pay . It would confuse a lot fewer players (and be more readily apparent as an all-upside ability, as R1s are wont to do) if it just said ": tap X target permanents", or more simply ": tap target permanent" dropping the restriction (if it's for X, why would you need to use it more than once a turn anyway?)
Holy Day seems powerful with a cantrip, even though it requires a creature.