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CardName: Woodland Stronghold Cost: Type: Land Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. At the beginning of your end step, if you spent {G} and {W} to cast spells this turn, put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Link's Unplaced Cards Uncommon

Woodland Stronghold
 
 U 
Land
{t}: Add {1} to your mana pool.
At the beginning of your end step, if you spent {g} and {w} to cast spells this turn, put a 1/1 white Soldier creature token onto the battlefield.
Created on 18 Mar 2012 by Link

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2012-03-18 20:47:45: Link created the card Woodland Stronghold

I have a few questions about this.
1. Is this the proper wording?
2. How powerful is this? It needs constant fuel, and will need two spells a turn unless you have multicolor cards. Should it also trigger on abilities?
3. Should this produce colored mana?

It's funny that Multiverse gives this a colored frame automatically, because it should just be "land" colored.

I assume the intent is, if you cast a green and a white spell this turn and it doesn't count if you spend GW to pay {2}?

I'm not sure about strength. Token-making abilities and abilities on lands are almost always stronger than they look, but assuming it does require two spells of different colours (or a GW deck), that's probably a fairly difficult hurdle to pass regularly, so it may actually be about right, but I'm really not positive either way. I think it's probably fine for usual decks, so the question is, is there anything it combos with too well, and I don't think so.

I think generic mana is probably right, but "ETB tapped. {t}: {g} or {w}," would probably also be fine. I'm not sure which is preferable on colour-matters lands.

Looking back, it should probably say "If you cast a green spell and a white spell this turn, [thing]."

Yeah, you should override this to the "Land (colourless)" frame. The land-frame-guessing code is fairly smart, but it'll never be able to cope with all the wacky ideas people come up with ;)

As currently worded I'd expect it would trigger every time you spend {g} and {w} on a spell, even if that spell is a Dimir Signet or a Myr Retriever. So it turns Change of Heart into a Lab Rats++. Not that that's exactly broken.

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