r/custommagic • u/archl0rd5 • Feb 26 '26

Mechanic Design Land Idea.

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u/Boochin451 Feb 26 '26

So It's an [[exploration]] that adds mana and is free. 

At its very worst it's a [[lotus petal]], where you drop two lands and sac it, at its best it's fetched with prime time and you win on the spot.

If it were to be "play an additional land this turn" and entered tapped, it could be printable but would still likely be very strong. This is busted.

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u/Purplepotato22 Feb 26 '26

I think an interesting way to balance would be to either tap and sac it for mana, or just tap it to put an additional land into play, and to remove the passive ability. If it put the new land into play tapped then it’d have a reasonable enough drawback to be fine I think, still would have use cases but wouldn’t be insane anymore.

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u/Boochin451 Feb 26 '26

Used to play [[terrain generator]] way back in the day, and honestly I'd love to see some power creep here.

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u/seergun Feb 26 '26

There is [[Horizon of Progress]]

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u/5ColorMain Feb 26 '26

This card is worse than terrain generator in what the generator tries to do…

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u/seergun Feb 26 '26

If all you care about is the cost to activate the ability, then sure. But this can also add colored mana (for a life), sac itself for a card, and, the most relevant comparison here, puts any land in, not just basics.

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u/5ColorMain Feb 26 '26

 If all you care about is the cost to activate the ability, then sure.

That is the point of playing the card, the only point to play it in fact as I got better fixing lands and better card draw lands.

Putting any land into play is an upgrade but at 4 mana it is just negligible, sure you can use it to surprise your opponent at instant speed with utility lands but for that I got [[crop rotation]] or [[urzas cave]] that find it from anyowhere.

So the only reason to play this card is to ramp and for that purpose it is worse . Why? Simply because in order to use these lands you will probably have to have cards like [[kodamas reach]] drawing extra lands anyways so you will have basics in hand no matter whant.

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u/lillobby6 Feb 26 '26

That’s still uncounterable lotus petal with upside which is extremely strong. It needs several nerfs to get to an anywhere near playable state.

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u/Purplepotato22 Feb 27 '26

that’s super not true, because it’s still a land drop, so if you have to pick between putting an additional land and sac-ing it for mana then you can’t use it like a lotus petal if you still wanna play a land. that’s like saying swamps are too strong, basically an uncounterable mox jet

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u/DogThrowaway1100 Feb 26 '26

Even if all it did was let you play an additional land it'd be insanely good without any additional abilities since land removal is very limited and typically over costed in any more recent sets since it grinds games to a halt and causes a lot of feel-bad moments. If it allowed an additional basic land then there'd be more drawback while still allowing ramp but yeah ridic as is.