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CardName: Crystal Gale Cost: Type: Land Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {1}, {T}: Add {U}{U} to your mana pool. {T}: Target permanent becomes blue until end of turn. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Uncommon

Crystal Gale
 
 U 
Land
{1}, {t}: Add {u}{u} to your mana pool.
{t}: Target permanent becomes blue until end of turn.
Created on 02 May 2012 by jmgariepy

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2012-05-02 05:34:01: jmgariepy created the card Crystal Gale

Just turned this up when searching for the simplest form of the "{1}, {t}: Add {u}{u}" land. It's curiously untraceable - doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere else on the site.

I think this was created for Challenge # 037, but jmg didn't end up using it.

Are we going to have a cycle of lands that do this in the Community Set? It would be a good fit. The best fit might be the Graven Cairns cycle, to benefit both monocolor and multicolor, though.

Yes! They can finally be reprinted with only four glyphs!

What's a glyph?

Character, Symbol.

Specifically, I'd want full-card art, with just the one line of text at the bottom:

­{r/b}{t}:{r/b}{r/b}

(I guess the punctuation raises it to 5 though)

Not having the option to tap for {1} pretty much removes the worst abuses of not ETBing tapped.

Oh. Unfortunately, hybrid mana can only be used as a cost. It's not something you can add to your mana pool.
Removing the option to tap for {1} also makes them disturbingly weak lands. What abuses are you talking about?

Being better than a normal land :)

Anyway, I'm told it works - you just have to resolve it as either {r} or {b} when you add it, which is natural anyway.

I think that ruling only exists so that Elemental Resonance will work. I really don't think hybrid symbols are meant to represent something you can add to your pool.

Link: We've got the Sea Crest cycle, which probably means we don't want quite the same thing on a land cycle as well.

I groaned when I saw the name. Then I noticed that I created this card a year ago and forgot about it. Yeah... looks like a card that didn't end up in Boney Control, indeed.

I should do another one of those. Was quite a bit of work, though. And it would have to be a very different type of 'broken deck'. Hmm.

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