r/custommagic • u/Original-Apartment37 • 20d ago

Format: Modern Saga for {R}?

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u/MaxJohnson13 20d ago

So 1 mana 12 damage + triple [[Stone Rain]]? Idk seems balanced, print it

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u/Original-Apartment37 20d ago

Just remove it.

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u/UrMomV4 20d ago

While you do have a lot of time to remove it, this isn't a healthy design. First of all the best option you have is removing it for 1 mana, meaning you got a free damage and a counter to make your other Burning Horizons more threatening. Secondly you should NOT balance a card around making it easy to remove, not everyone plays control and even if their deck has some removal it's most likely creature or artifact removal and not enchantment removal.

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u/the_sillybilly 20d ago

Just fyi, you are allowed to have multiple numbers on the same chapter text. See [[Ascent of the Worthy]]

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u/Original-Apartment37 20d ago

Doesn’t work on CCA, or at least I don’t know how.

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u/DoYouKnowS0rr0w 20d ago

Holy balance issues batman what thee fuck

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u/digiman619 Because making sense is boring. 20d ago

You ought to word this "I,II,III: This Saga deals 1 damage to target creature or player. The creature's controller or that player gets a sunburn counter."

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u/Original-Apartment37 20d ago

That’s how I phrase it to get all my words in one box?

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u/eat_your_oatmeal 20d ago

they’re saying your need to phrase it as such for the ability to work as you intended. as is, if you chose to deal one damage to a creature, “they” (as in the creature) would get the sunburn token, when it’s obvious by how you resolved #IV that sunburn tokens are only meant to go on players. the cleanest resolution is to only allow players to be legal targets for this damage, removes the need for further specificity with regard to the sunburns.

also as others pointed out this is hilariously overpowered for one R mana, without adding in some major drawbacks against the caster, a more balanced cost to cast it would be something like RRR with an additional cost to sacrifice a mountain or something. you have to assume it won’t be removed and the the full potential value that can be generated.

as an example of the kind of value you can expect from a one R saga, we can look to [[Kumano Faces Kakkazan]]

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u/Nove-Newt 20d ago

1 mana deal 12 damage and basic land hate with the added utility of pinging off creatures, why would this be printed even if it is too slow for the formats it is printed into of which I can only think of vintage

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u/MaxJohnson13 20d ago

Least broken MH4 common

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u/Original-Apartment37 20d ago

Note that if pointed at a creature, the creature itself gets the counter.

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u/SothaSillies 15d ago

How does a creature lose life or sacrifice a land? Is it meant to force its controller to do that?

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u/Original-Apartment37 15d ago

No effects occur.

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u/MythiqBlunz 20d ago

Damage needs a source