Original card.

Another 'Islands Matter' card, this time flooding the table with Islands.

Technically, this is blue mana acceleration... and that's something only Green is supposed to do. You could also argue that Path to Exile makes the mechanic require white somehow.

I don't know. I just made a top down card here. Flooding the table with Islands and pushing everything else back just seems like a blue thing to do. I figure that maybe it's okay if it's just one card.

This is blue mana acceleration in the same way Benthic Explorers is. Which, to be fair, isn't really in blue's pie any more either.

I think blue might well be able to get away with "acceleration" if it's in the form of giving everyone Islands. In the same way that Colossal Whale gets away with doing something white (O-Rings) for handwave flavour reasons.

Mm. I'd enforce that everyone gets the Island, but I don't think I can do that. What with 'you may fail to find that many Islands'.

I wish it made sense to have each player go through your library for an Island... but you lose the flavor that way since players aren't forced to return their own stuff. I guess one could cost that spell since you've lost control... but now it is officially an mana accelerate. I don't want that.

Something like "Search your library for X islands where X is the number of players. If you succeed, put one of those islands OTB under each player's control. Each player returns a non-land permanent to their owner's hand. Shuffle your library"?

I suppose I could enforce that you have to have enough Islands, yeah. It seems like a dangerous choice for 6+ player games if you don't know your Island count... but I suppose that's rare, and not a reason to squelch a mechanic.

Also brings the cost of the spell down, since you decrease decision making on your part. I'd say it would be 'fair' to cost that as , but I don't think it's reasonable. and tapped Islands should be fine.

Yeah, that makes sense. I don't really want to punish you if you run out. But making it usually symmetric felt more blue. I'd be happy with any other compromise.

Maybe, "each player may search your library for an island card"? Although that slows the game down while they look at your deck.

Also, today I learned the word "Eagre". I feel I should have known it already (internet says it's especially used of the Severn river, which I grew up by).

Updated version on the way. The text runs a little long, but I don't think there's much I can do about that.