Reliquary Tower

Necrodominance vs. No Maximum Hand Size

Necrodominance sets handsize to five so that it overwrites "no maximum hand size" cards like Reliquary Tower. Merely reducing handsize does not do that.

True.

Necrodominance Reliquary Tower Your Hand

Errata Subtypes

If a non-creature subtype gets introduced, how likely would it be to errata old cards to get that subtype? For example Reliquary Tower and Command Tower becoming Towers with a capital T? I notice it happens a lot with new creature subtypes, so I'm wondering if that's different for noncreatures, too

We don’t currently do it for subtypes other than creature subtypes.

Command Tower Errata Non-creatures Reliquary Tower Subtype

Wastes and Lands

With the addition of Waste, are lands still allowed to be better than basics? Can things like Reliquary Tower still be printed in Standard, or would a new one have to be made so it comes into play tapped?

Lands are allowed to be strictly better than Wastes.

Basics Card Printing Lands Power Level Reliquary Tower Standard

Infinite Hand Size Debate

Arguments against infinite hand size: 1) Makes Spellbook and Reliquary Tower do nothing 2) Makes Gnat Miser and Jin-Gitaxias need functional errata to work 3) Makes Energy Field the turtle king 4) Makes card draw marginally stronger, and it's already really good 5) Stalls board states as players stockpile answers in hand 6) Players with a fistful of cards play slower with more options in hand to consider 7) Gives me a good reason to stop this list at 7 items rather than rambling on and on.

More defense of the hand size limit.

Card Draw Energy Field Errata Functional Errata Gnat Miser Reliquary Tower Spellbook Turtle Your Hand

Hand Size Rules Discussion

While I can see how the maximum hand size rule may not be completely pulling its weight in all formats, in multiplayer formats like Commander and other formats that have access to semi-degenerate card draw, it seems like it could be very necessary to keep players from pulling way ahead until they've found a spellbook, venser's journal or reliquary tower.

Let me stress that I’ve merely said removing maximum hand size is a topic we’ve talked about. We are not currently doing it.

Card Draw Commander Commander Reliquary Tower Rules Spellbook Venser's Journal Your Hand

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