Copper Tablet

Enchantment Niches

Glass Casket has me concerned. It feels like, ever since colored artifacts became an every-set thing, there just aren't that many mechanical niches for enchantments anymore. Artifacts get to also be creatures, cost generic mana, have tap abilities... the list goes on. The only thing enchantments can do that artifacts can't is attach to objects other than creatures you control.

Artifacts have had global effects since the game began back in Alpha (Ankh of Mishra, Black Lotus, Copper Tablet, Dingus Egg, Gauntlet of Might, Howling Mine, Kormus Bell, Meekstone, Sunglasses of Urza, and Winter Orb). The change is we’re allowing artifacts to have colored mana costs (and even this we’ve done for over ten years - just not at the current levels). This means the overlap between artifacts and enchantments, which has always been there, is a little more noticeable.The color pie is determined by the mana cost of the card, so if white can do something as an enchantment, it means it can do it as an artifact, The result of this is we have to lean a little more on the flavor to help make them feel different from one another.

Alpha Ankh of Mishra Artifacts Attach Black Black Lotus Color Pie Colorless Colors Copper Tablet Creatures Dingus Egg Egg Enchantments Flavor Gauntlet of Might Glass Casket Howling Mine Kormus Bell Mana Meekstone Orb Sunglasses of Urza Tap / Untap White Winter Orb

Alpha Cards Modern Potential

Following cards from alpha are not modern legal and have no reserve list, color pie, complexity or power level concerns, think you could see if any can get fit into a set?: Dwarven Warriors, Hurloon Minotaur, Copper Tablet, Conservator, Burrowing, Celestial Prism, Castle, Animate Artifact, Ironclaw Orcs, Ironroot Treefolk, Lance, Living Wall, Obsianus Golem, Orcish Oriflamme, Pearled Unicorn, Plague Rats, Phantom Monster, Phantasmal Forces, Scavenging Ghoul

Interestingly, most of those cards we’ve made better versions of them.

Alpha Animate Artifact Artifacts Burrowing Caves Celestial Prism Color Pie Colors Conservator Copper Tablet Dwarven Warriors Golem Hurloon Minotaur Ironclaw Orcs Ironroot Treefolk Living Wall Minotaur Modern Obsianus Golem Orc Orcish Oriflamme Pearled Unicorn Phantasmal Forces Phantom Monster Plague Rats Power Level Prism Rat Rat Scavenging Ghoul Treefolk Unicorn Wall Warrior

Portions of Marodigest are unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Wizards of the Coast Fan Content Policy. The literal and graphical information presented on this site about Magic: The Gathering, including card images and mana symbols, is copyright Wizards of the Coast, LLC. Marodigest is not produced by or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast. All other content © 2024 Webscape Internet Engineers. All rights reserved.