> commander (the only format where you can play doofy 9 drops)
Commander might, just about, be more popular than "kitchen table", but I doubt it. There are plenty of less popular casual formats - which is, after all, how Commander itself started. And players with low-power collections all over the world are playing their Ancient Brontodons and Horncaller's Chants and feeling happy about it.
The Bringers were a delightful cycle which some casual players built mono-coloured ramp decks for ("Desperate Ritual, Seething Song, turn 6 Bringer!") and others built five-colour decks without a single rare manafixer for.
Please let's not claim that Commander is "the only format" where big spells get cast.
> Also, you're going to have a hard time casting those spells of the Bringer ability if your deck is dedicated to producing colorless like that. Just sayin'.
Also, you're going to have a hard time casting those spells of the Bringer ability if your deck is dedicated to producing colorless like that. Just sayin'.
If I chose that alt-cost, then any colored deck could cast it at the same cmc as a deck that actually manages to produce two . Might as well change the hard cast to .
A green-white deck (or any two-colors) would be able to cast this for less than the colorless mana deck.
The big discount is explicitly supposed to be a reward for managing to produce ALL colors at once. You only get this much of a discount because it is "all or nothing".
I'd just like to take issue with
> commander (the only format where you can play doofy 9 drops)
Commander might, just about, be more popular than "kitchen table", but I doubt it. There are plenty of less popular casual formats - which is, after all, how Commander itself started. And players with low-power collections all over the world are playing their Ancient Brontodons and Horncaller's Chants and feeling happy about it.
The Bringers were a delightful cycle which some casual players built mono-coloured ramp decks for ("Desperate Ritual, Seething Song, turn 6 Bringer!") and others built five-colour decks without a single rare manafixer for.
Please let's not claim that Commander is "the only format" where big spells get cast.
> Also, you're going to have a hard time casting those spells of the Bringer ability if your deck is dedicated to producing colorless like that. Just sayin'.
Let me introduce you to Adarkar Wastes, Mystic Gate, Aether Hub, Crumbling Vestige etc. And that's really only if you care to achieve both mana costs, but why would you?
Two colorless out of your first nine mana sources is far from dedicated unless you rely primarily on basic land types even on your nonbasic lands.
[Inner Johnny intensifies]
In practice, your deck is either designed to play the mana cost xor the alternative cost. You don't build your deck to be able to play both
Besides, in commander (the only format where you can play doofy 9 drops), it can only go in a five color deck anyway
Also, you're going to have a hard time casting those spells of the Bringer ability if your deck is dedicated to producing colorless like that. Just sayin'.
It's part of the Bringer cycle, Vitenka. Why ruin that?
Well, my other suggesiton would be
:)
If I chose that alt-cost, then any colored deck could cast it at the same cmc as a deck that actually manages to produce two
. Might as well change the hard cast to 
.
A green-white deck (or any two-colors) would be able to cast this for less than the colorless mana deck.
The big discount is explicitly supposed to be a reward for managing to produce ALL colors at once. You only get this much of a discount because it is "all or nothing".
Heh. I'm tempted to suggest that the alt-cost should be
. SO I 'll do so. Maybe the alt-cost should be the alt-cost should be 
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Published as mtgnexus Card of the Day 2019-09-19.
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Neat! Fun new take on cumulative upkeep.
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now uses keyword counters
now uses keyword counters
now uses keyword counters
See Sunscape Apprentice etc. and Degavolver etc.
See Stormscape Apprentice etc. and Cetavolver etc.
See Nightscape Apprentice etc. and Necravolver etc.