Alternative thought: There's quite an element of randomness in this card. I could see some players arguing that a player could win or lose a game based on a 'coin flip': whether or not land is on top of your library when you cast this on turn one. Players, especially Spikes, don't like it when they lose games due to factors that aren't in their control.
This card feels like Timmy would like it more than Spike. I'd probably cost it appropriately.
Would you think a 1-drop Elf or Bird, or Wild Growth is fair? Because I could see someone making the argument that casting this wastes an opportunity for a 'guaranteed' 3 mana on round 2. If you don't think those cards are fair, though, then I don't think I'd consider this fair either.
It feels like 'the Stone Rain problem' to me. Wizards doesn't want to print land destruction at less than 4 mana, but they still act as if Stone Rain could theoretically exist, and price all 4 mana land destruction spells accordingly. If 1-cost Elf/Bird isn't fair, then no mana accel for one is fair, and it's probably best to just make 2-cost accel with some sort of bonus.
spell effect: "Counter target spell that shares a converted mana cost with an artifact you control." >> "Counter target spell if it shares a converted mana cost with an artifact you control."
The new wording avoids some possibilities of running into corner cases of the rules concerning targets.
I'm not fond of color hosing in general and not make such blanket use of abilities not in a color's core to get there. Green shouldn't get to destroy a Grave Titan just because it is black, so it shouldn't counter it either.
The reason I avoid Spell Rupture is that in the original thread I have put rhystic counterspells secondarily into white as "taxing" effect (extension of Mana Tithe).
I suppose I could go for "Counter target spell if its converted mana cost is equal to or less than the greatest power among creatures you control."
Preferable would probably be a counterspell based on large creatures rather than many creatures to pay tribute between the difference between green and white.
Alternative thought: There's quite an element of randomness in this card. I could see some players arguing that a player could win or lose a game based on a 'coin flip': whether or not land is on top of your library when you cast this on turn one. Players, especially Spikes, don't like it when they lose games due to factors that aren't in their control.
This card feels like Timmy would like it more than Spike. I'd probably cost it appropriately.
Would you think a 1-drop Elf or Bird, or Wild Growth is fair? Because I could see someone making the argument that casting this wastes an opportunity for a 'guaranteed' 3 mana on round 2. If you don't think those cards are fair, though, then I don't think I'd consider this fair either.
It feels like 'the Stone Rain problem' to me. Wizards doesn't want to print land destruction at less than 4 mana, but they still act as if Stone Rain could theoretically exist, and price all 4 mana land destruction spells accordingly. If 1-cost Elf/Bird isn't fair, then no mana accel for one is fair, and it's probably best to just make 2-cost accel with some sort of bonus.
It's probably underpriced for its best possible result. Draw a card, and you may put a land into play.
But it does have that random element to it, and so can't be relied upon to trigger landfall.
Still; it's a 1-cost cantrip. Stick 4 in your deck, and you've kinda-sorta got a 56-card deck; assuming you have spare mana sometimes.
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Apparently a lot of people don't think this is borderline insane.
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"Each opponent"?
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The switch from shroud to hexproof pushes this past the (probablx) intended rarity of common.
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The new wording avoids some possibilities of running into corner cases of the rules concerning targets.
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I'm not fond of color hosing in general and not make such blanket use of abilities not in a color's core to get there. Green shouldn't get to destroy a Grave Titan just because it is black, so it shouldn't counter it either.
The reason I avoid Spell Rupture is that in the original thread I have put rhystic counterspells secondarily into white as "taxing" effect (extension of Mana Tithe).
I suppose I could go for "Counter target spell if its converted mana cost is equal to or less than the greatest power among creatures you control."
Currently a colorshift of Unified Will.
Your alternative idea sounds similar to Spell Rupture and Stubborn Denial.
This is a pretty hard sale to make.
Maybe something like
> Heartbeat
> Instant
> Counter target artifact or black spell.
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Preferable would probably be a counterspell based on large creatures rather than many creatures to pay tribute between the difference between green and white.
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What a coincidence, just created Not Today.
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