Hole filling in green, I came across the Giant Growth slot. I wasn't really happy with anything I was coming up with (and thought about making a functional reprint of Gaea's Might here, but I don't like the idea of using a functional reprint just because I'm being unoriginal).

I'm not sure how much I like this, but I eventually decided that it wasn't a terrible way to remind people that the Mirrans are still Mirrans. Only on Mirrodin would a card like this seem natural, so they carried it with them.

Originally, I had this at , making it a pretty spicy tamale. But I didn't want people to draft this card too often if they didn't have artifacts, so I upped it to the still reasonable .

WOW, that is one awesome alternative cost if you are running artifacts.
Just let me play this to make my creature stronger, oh wait, I have this really handy artifact that I've already used this turn, I think I'll UNTAP it to pay for my spell instead of using the mana....
May be better to have it tap an untapped artifact as the alternate cost.
This could be wildly abused in the right deck as it is currently.

Hmm... but it does tap an untapped artifact you control. I can see, flavor-wise, why you'd be confused, though. I didn't even think of doing the opposite, which sounds kind of cool, but there aren't enough artifacts in the set that untap themselves naturally, anyway.

I'd be more worried about the huge range of artifacts that don't tap for their effect and don't care about their tappedness; making this effectively '+4/+4 for free'

"Tap a mono artifact you control..." :)

Hah; went to make a joke about "The top card of your deck is..." only to find out that somehow they've resisted the temptation to make a card named Strength.

On a separate side note: I designed this card before Invigorate got banned in online pauper. Granted, they banned the card there because Invigorate gave poison creatures +4/+4 with no drawback for ... but still. I gotta watch this card.

Urk; kinda forgot about poison. Two of these for a turn 3 win would be not good.

This is indeed free if you have any equipment or suchlike around. But nonetheless, it's 4 mana if you don't, so yeah, it might be fine.

I might go with +3/+3 rather than +4/+4 though. So it's just a Giant Growth you're getting for free.

Getting Giant growth for free is boring. Though I may have to go with that option anyway. I'm thinking I need to print these cards and play with them soon. I'm having a hard time filling the last holes because I'm not sure which colors have what strategy. I can't support what I don't know exists...

Getting Giant growth for free is boring. Though I may have to go with that option anyway. I'm thinking I need to print these cards and play with them soon. I'm having a hard time filling the last holes because I'm not sure which colors have what strategy. I can't support what I don't know exists...