Sunday, March 22, 2009

[Land Week] Card of the Day - Paradise Isle

In honor of Mana-fixing week over at magicthegathering.com (and in particular Mark Rosewater's latest article) the whole ABW team (i.e. Grell with occasional input from Draco) is pleased to present Land Week. It's like Land Friday, but all week long. How exciting.




I found this interesting artwork which reminded me of Utopia Tree. And I decided to make a five-color land. But it got a little out of hand. See for yourself:







Draco suggested that to celebrate the end of spring break, I should post the most evil card imaginable. Those were pretty vile, but there's worse to come:




WHY WOULD I DO THIS?

Original Art

2 comments:

  1. 1st: Nice. Horribly restrictive for most tournament decks, but that's how it should be.

    2nd: Well, you'd better damn well be done playing lands, otherwise this will EAT YOU.

    3rd: More vulnerable than the 1st, to be honest. With all that in the type line, it's vulnerable to all land hate. Boil's being played a lot lately, and Corrupted Roots just came out.

    4th: Hmmm...too restrictive. There's nonbasic lands that don't even produce mana, like dark depths. This limits decks too much, if they're mana intensive. My 5 color deck wouldn't survive.

    5th: I like this one a lot. Beasts and Dragons and Demons and Angels and all kinds of fatties love this card. Not to mention the Scornful Egotist (lol. Couldn't help mentioning a wizard). This is probably the best build I've seen for this card.

    6th: This one's also pretty nice. More restrictive than the 5th, obviously, but still, one of the better builds.

    7th: OH DEAR GODS, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? YOU'VE UNLEASHED UNIMAGINABLE EVIL ONTO THE LAND! (It's a pun. Laugh.)

    -Nameless One (Has 4 Magi of the Candelabra and 4 Terraformers helping him critique this week)

    ReplyDelete
  2. Here's another suggestion. Make it 5 or more, so that people can use it to play WUBRG spells. It still works as a restricter, I think.

    ReplyDelete

Empty your mind.