Mulch

Green Tutoring Limits

Hey, Mark, super-quick color pie question, if I may? Can green tutor to the graveyard? Any card type, or just creatures and lands?

Tutor directly to graveyard in mainly a black thing. Green can do things like Mulch where it looks at some number of cards on the top of the library and anything it isn’t looking for (usually land and/or creatures) goes to the graveyard.

Black Card Types Color Pie Colors Creatures Green Lands Mulch The Graveyard The Library Tutoring Tutoring

Golgari's Enablers

I was really excited to see Golgari get a nice new ability but was wondering where the enablers are? The sets self mill cards are almost all in Dimir, leaving me with no easy way to get the creatures into the graveyard. I guess what I'm really asking is where's the "mulch" or "grisly salvage" reprint?

Golgari has lots of creatures it can cast which should die naturally as the game progresses. If that’s not fast enough for you, it has sacrifice enablers.

Card Printing Cast Creatures Dimir (U/B) Golgari (B/G) Grisly Salvage Mill Mulch Reprints Sacrifice The Graveyard

Green Mill Mechanisms

Green also gets mill since golgari works out of the graveyard, like Splinterfright and deadbridge chant.

Green did get milling within dredge. Green will also look at cards from top of library and pick done with the rest going to graveyard (a la Mulch).

Deadbridge Chant Dredge Golgari (B/G) Green Mill Mulch Splinterfright The Graveyard The Library

Art Commission Timing

Being a fan of using the "Rock, Paper, Scissors" cards (whoever made those is a designing genius), I feel there may have been a missed opportunity with the art of M15. We have "Rock" in the form of "Meteorite", "Scissors" in the form of "Ensoul Artifact", but the closest thing I could find to "Paper" is "Wall of Mulch" and I feel that even that is stretching. At what point is art usually commissioned again?

Sign In Blood has paper in its art.

Art Artifacts Blood Ensoul Artifact Sign in Blood Wall Wall of Mulch

Green's Card Draw

You said that green's card draw should involve its creatures somehow, but what about cards like Explore? Green has a long history of being the best land color as well as the best creature color, so shouldn't it also be appropriate for green to use its lands in association with card draw?

Land fetching is separate from card drawing, but yes green can use land fetching to also get card advantage through things like Mulch.

Card Draw Colors Creatures Green Lands Mulch

Complex Commons

In response to the person asking about NWO, here are some commons that are not only in competitive decks right now, but also very complex in most situations and lead to a lot of decisions: Doomed Traveler, Tragic Slip, Delver of Secrets, Faithless Looting, Duress, Fog, Mulch, Young Wolf, Arbor Elf, Smite, Zhur-Taa Druid, Negate, Farseek, Goblin Electromancer, Avacyn's Pilgrim, Pilfered Plans, Cloudfin Raptor, Grisly Salvage, Thought Scour, Centaur Healer, Elvish Visionary, Pillar of Flame, etc.

FYI

Arbor Elf Avacyn's Pilgrim Centaur Centaur Healer Cloudfin Raptor Commons Competitive Play Doomed Traveler Druid Elf Elvish Visionary Faithless Looting Farseek Gates Goblin Goblin Electromancer Grisly Salvage Mulch Negate Pilfered Plans Pillar of Flame Thought Scour Tragic Slip Wolf Young Wolf Zhur-Taa Druid

Grind Mechanic Appreciation

I, personally, like the concept of Grind. And the concept that green could use the mechanic as "tilling" as a pseudo-mulch effect is just beautiful symmetry of design.

Green can use the ability on itself but not on other players.

Appreciation Green Mechanics Mulch

Mana Acceleration Methods

With the departure of efficient land destruction, and the clunkiness of repeated shuffling, why do you not gravitate more towards Fertile Ground type effects, rather than Rampant Growths? They both result in colour fixing and mana acceleration.

We have been doing more to lessen shuffling in land searching. Note more Mulch-like effects.

Colors Fertile Ground Lands Mana Mulch

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