Is this the strongest spell of all time? Why doesn’t every deck start with 4 of this, 4 wraith, 4 bauble? Do people just hate consistency and would rather run “fun” cards?
>>96787559Your deck would be more consistent at the cost of having significantly less tools to actually do anything with.
>>96787559The trouble with cards that cycle for free is you very quickly hit a saturation point where an opening hand with 2-3 of them is almost impossible to evaluate its quality. A deck doesn't have time to go manamorphose into manamorphose into fizzling.
>the most embarrassing color combinationno discerning player of refinement and taste would be caught dead with such a dreadful card in his collection.
*puts you on a 20 turn clock*
>>96787559It's some mana filtering and a draw.Don't get me wrong it's not a bad card, but it's not the most powerful magic card ever printed. If you're playing modern, and you're in red and green, it's *generally* not terrible to run some.
>>96789532I see what you did there, anon
>>96787559Because filtering and color fixing, while useful, doesn't necessarily fulfill a purpose within a deck on its own. Run a lot of cantrips, as >>96788862mentioned, makes it hard to actually evaluate the quality of your hand. You're trading in "real" cards for "potential" cards. Cantrips are basically deck-thinning mystery boxes where you never know if you'll get what you want. Sometimes it's just better to run redundant options or more versatile tools that actually do something. Effectively 0-cost cantrips are sort of just do-nothings that you hope will draw you into *something* to continue your plays, but they give you very little control. If you're looking to blind draw, cards that go positive on card advantage are more likely to fix your hand into something playable. Hell, there's a reason by cards like Ponder and Brainstorm are so traditionally beloved. Despite going even on card advantage and costing you 1 mana, they give you something incredibly important: card selection and top-deck manipulation. Information is incredibly valuable, so while they aren't pure gas like Manamorphose they're still generally more useful as setup tools.
>>96789565And you HAVE To stop him otherwise he's going to steamroll you.You don't have an option but to deal with him.
>>96787559Well first of all, it costs a gruul, so you'll need a red or green source to use it at all. Second of all, it's quite capable of being counterspelled, leaving you with wasted mana for thinking you're clever. It's a great little filler if you have the space for red or green in your deck and you're playing Modern and you're not against Control, I guess, but that's a far cry from strongest spell of all time.Which, by the by, has always been and continues to remain Black Lotus.
>>96787559>Gets countered. >Lose two manaInfinitely worse than Gitaxian probe
>>96787559Usually the slot would be better filled with more interaction or something that actually generates value. Also requires you to be running green or red.
>>96791559who would ever counter a manamorphose?