Cabal Coffers

Swamps in Pie

"Dakkon Blackblade is definitely a color pie break, right? Right?!?It’s a green ability on a white/blue/black card. : )"
This made me think of a related question. I know counting lands generally is core green, but is counting swamps still in pie for black? (ex: Nightmare, Mutilate, Cabal Coffers)

Yes, it’s still in pie for black.

Black Cabal Coffers Color Pie Dakkon Blackblade Dimir (U/B) Esper (W/U/B) Green Humor Lands Mutilate Nightmare Nightmare

Cabal Coffers Status

Is cabal coffers a bend, break, or neither?

Neither, but something we don’t do often.

Bend / Break Cabal Coffers

Mana Ritual Changes

Since when are effects like Cabal Coffers no longer in Black's colour pie? Why was that decision made?

Black hasn’t been the mana ritual color for a long time.

Black Cabal Coffers Colors Mana

Cabal Coffers Query

If Cabal Coffers/Stronghold effects aren't black anymore... Didn't Modern Horizons 2 putting Cabal Coffers into Modern violate the "don't put existing breaks into formats" rule? Surely that rule doesn't postdate MH2...

It’s more bend than break. It doesn’t undermine a weakness of black.

Bend / Break Black Cabal Coffers Modern Modern Horizons 2 Rules Stronghold

Land Design Rule Inquiry

About the land design rule, if a land could only make mana with certain circumstances or costs (Cabal Coffers, Temple of the False God, Ancient Ziggurat), is that breaking the rule?

The mana production can be conditional.

Ancient Ziggurat Cabal Coffers God Lands Mana Rules Temple of the False God

Strength of Cabal Coffers

In your opinion, is Cabal Coffers too strong to be reprinted in a contemporary Standard environment?

Not a play designer, but my gut is yes, it’s too strong for Standard

Cabal Coffers Power Level Reprints Standard

Cabal Coffers Expansion

Color-piewise, could Cabal Coffers be expanded into a full cycle?

No. I’m not even sure black is supposed to do it.

Black Cabal Coffers

White's Mana Ramp

We all know why white has the worst card advantage (you’ve told us a lot), but why does it also have the worst mana ramp? Green obviously has the best, blue supports artifacts (like mana rocks) and can untap any permanent, black gets to make mana by spending some other resource (cards in graveyard, sacrifing creatures, etc.) and apparently also gets things like Cabal Coffers and Crypt Ghast, and red gets quick mana. Is it because white simply doesn’t have as much use for it?

White is king of the small spells (especially creatures), so it has the least need for ramping.

Artifacts Black Blue Cabal Coffers Creatures Crypt Ghast Green Mana Red Spells Tap / Untap The Graveyard White

Red Land Cycle

hey Mark, is there a reason red didn't get a land like Serra's Sanctum, Gaea's Cradle, Tolarian Academy and Cabal Coffers(I know cabal coffers wasn't part of that same cycle)?

Because it wasn’t actually a cycle.

Cabal Coffers Cycles Gaea's Cradle Lands Red Serra's Sanctum Tolarian Academy

Red Mana Land Skepticism

Will red ever get a land that can tap for a large amount of red mana like Tolarian Academy or Cabal Coffers?

Those lands are very developmentally dangerous so I’m skeptical.

Cabal Coffers Lands Mana Red Tap / Untap Tolarian Academy

Lands Cycle Explanation

Was there originally a red land planned for the Gaea's Cradle- Cabal Coffers- Serra Sanctum- Tolarian Academy "cycle", or was the cycle accidental or never meant to be completed?

Urza’s Saga did have a cycle of lands that each referred to a specific color. The white, blue and green ones are more similar to one another than the black and red one. Here’s the cycle: White - Serra’s Sanctum Blue - Tolarian Academy Black - Phyrexian Tower Red - Shivan Gorge Green - Gaea’s Cradle

Black Blue Cabal Coffers Colors Cycles Gaea's Cradle Green Lands Phyrexian Phyrexian Tower Red Sagas Shivan Gorge Tolarian Academy Urza White

Black Mana Acceleration

Is mana acceleration still in Black's part of the color pie at all? I know we'll never see Dark Ritual reprinted in Standard, but are effects like Cabal Coffers or Lake of the Dead something black can still do?

One shot mana acceleration is, and has been for a while now, in red.

Black Cabal Coffers Card Printing Color Pie Colors Dark Ritual Lake of the Dead Mana Red Reprints Standard