Casual Magic the Gathering is dedicated to the casual play of Magic the Gathering. Magic the Gathering Cards Store Home Articles Magic Library Magic Shop Custom Cards Contact Us Links Submissions Newsletter |
A Complete Review of Torment (land)2, T: Add B to your mana pool for each swamp you control. ==> FUN: 5 With one of these, you can play Hypnox with only eight lands in play if the rest of your lands are Swamps. In an all-black deck with only Swamps and Cabal Coffers, you'll need at least four lands in play before Cabal Coffers becomes useful and five lands before it becomes better than a normal Swamp. As such, I doubt it'll be a great card for tournaments, but in casual decks it will make even the Big Furry Monster castable. Cabal Coffers has a very Tolarian Academy feel to it, but I don't think it'll be nearly as abusable. You need too many Swamps in play to make it work and splashing other colors will be necessary to untap the Cabal Coffers a few times until you have enough mana available for the win. Green for Krosan Restorer and Far Wanderings might help a deck like this, but I don't see it winning even in casual games. Thankfully, Cabal Coffers is uncommon, so it won't be too expensive to get three or four for a black control deck. Use Duress for early disruption, Mutilate to clear the table, a bit of land destruction and Chainer's Edict for annoying creatures. Finish with a big Soul Burn, fueled by Cabal Coffers. -- Tainted Field U, Land T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. T: Add W or B to your mana pool. Play this ability only if you control a swamp. ==> FUN: 4 A nice variation on the normal dual lands. I prefer these to painlands, although they're a lot narrower. As long as you're playing plenty of Swamps and you don't need the white mana on your first turn, you should be fine. Thankfully, they aren't rare like the painlands. -- Tainted Isle U, Land T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. T: Add U or B to your mana pool. Play this ability only if you control a swamp. ==> FUN: 4 Ditto. -- Tainted Peak U, Land T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. T: Add B or R to your mana pool. Play this ability only if you control a swamp. ==> FUN: 4 Ditto. -- Tainted Wood U, Land T: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. T: Add B or G to your mana pool. Play this ability only if you control a swamp. ==> FUN: 4 And again ditto. I wish they had easier names to remember, though. What's wrong with Tainted Forest and Tainted Mountain? Then we'd only have to remember the tainted part.
|
Other Links |