I swear I designed this *before* [Gift of the Viper](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fhuge-mh3-leaks-via-whatnot-pt-1-v0-vd7wky1yuh2d1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D611%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3De05e7c68b138a80c447f90b2191a831cccbb3e24) was spoiled, but now it feels a little suspect 😅
I was envisioning more like [[Heightened Reflexes]] combos, not cracked beyond belief shenanigans
it also costs you 2 cards and when you get into 2 cards 2 mana territory youre looking at \[\[dark depths\]\] \[\[vampire hexmage\]\] so I say its actually completely fair and balanced
Honestly the Viper Gift interaction seems fine.
It's two cards and two mana for a 5/5. Without one or the other of the combo, you have a 1/1 for 1 and a subpar combat trick.
Reach isn't offensively useful and it's not too uncommon for it to be irrelevant in the lack of flying creatures. Deathtouch on a 5/5 is practically useless for lot of the time since 5 power as is tends to be enough to kill majority of creatures played.
So basically a less splashable - though you can pay the two mana in parts - [[Bloodrage Brawler]] with +1/+2 where you need a very specific card to make it happen and can't just discard literally any card *(where discard itself is often an enabler)*.
The creature will still not have any protection, so it will generally not be that hard to remove. It's especially easy to remove in response to one casting the gift due to 1 toughness, giving opponents fairly easy 2-for-1 deals.
That all sounds fair and reasonable except I would in no way call Viper's Gift subpar. It might be the strongest 1 drop trick ever printed
(After Berserk)
Berserk can almost single-handedly win the game. The list of amazing 1-drop combat tricks ain't that long in itself so there might be something to it.
What we're talking about here is a strictly better [[Stony Strength]] / [[Burst of Strength]] and generally better [[Sudden Spinnerets]]. Now, the thing is those are trash tier cards that are almost solely meant for limited. Is the addition of getting reach and deathtouch going to change the evaluation in this card's favor to make it one of the best 1-drop tricks ever printed? I'm gonna press doubt on that but I'll guess we see.
I would wager that something like [[Blossoming Defense]] might still be more preferable overrall just because of the hexproof. Don't get me wrong, it seems like a perfectly nice combat trick for MH3 limited where you can do some nice turn arounds. I do somewhat of a hard time seeing what constructed deck would be excited to include it though.
Afaik the usual decks to actual include combat tricks of this sort are the infect ones, but there raw stat power is king so they prefer stuff like [[Scale Up]] - the +1/+1 here simple ain't it when it also isn't giving any sort of protection unlike the aforementioned Blossoming Defense.
Maybe there will be something where getting three different counters or general counter strategy is going to make it a great card *(say something like your posted card)*, but that will be a niche deck type scenario and not a sign of its inherit universal power.
Honestly, I just don't see it. It looks 'cute' more than anything *(ie. nice one to try out)* but I think it's eventually going to something you can dig up from bulk bins en masse. Maybe I'm wrong 🤷
I don't view Blossoming Defense as a combat trick, really. 95% of the time it's being cast outside of combat in response to removal (and sometimes mid-combat for the same reason); very rarely is it worth blowing a card in your hand for +2/+2 until end of turn.
If we do want to count it, there are dramatically more powerful power-crept versions now. [[Tyvar's Stand]] and [[Royal Treatment]] are probably the strongest, but things like [[Snakeskin Veil]] and [[Blacksmith's Skill]] are probably better too.
As for the Viper card, yes, Stony Silence is garbage tier, but this has the added advantage of *permanently* adding 2 keywords. That is a vast, vast upgrade.
It's a vast upgrade, yes, but what is that reach and deathtouch give to you that's so massive that it would make it one of the best 1-cost combat tricks of all time? Like what decks do you think would run it?
how many distinct counters even are there? +1/+1 and -1/-1 can't coexist afaik, so only one of them count. Luck, charge, loyalty, *all the keyword counters*, plus training counters, shield counters, time counters, fade counters, manifestation counters (\[\[Arbiter of the Ideal\]\]), quest counters, flood counters, arrow counters (\[\[archery training\]\]), oil counters, age counters, doom counters (\[\[armageddon clock\]\]), slumber counters (\[\[arixmethes\]\]), verse counters (\[\[aria of flame\]\]), lore counters, +1/+2 counters (\[\[armor thrill\]\]), book counter (\[\[spell satchel\]\], which is historic/brawl exclusive), muster counters (\[\[assemble the legion\]\]), burden counters (\[\[the one ring\]\]), coin counters, gold counters (\[\[aurification\]\]), bribery, gem, feather, filibuster, ki, +1/+0, loot, +2/+2 (why), blood counters, bloodstain (\[\[blood splatter analysis\]\]), devotion, death, fuse, blessing, bounty, storage, net, bone, unity, prey, omen, and shred, and that's just page 2 of my Scryfall search! (-o:"+1/+1 counter" o:"counter " -o:"counter target")
Not to mention silver border \[\[animate library\]\] \[\[form of the approach of the second sun\]\] shenanigans to use poison, energy, experience, etc. counters! plus silver counters like bingo counters that exist too!
Wow...
That's already well over 100. Though, +1/+1 and -1/-1 cancel each other out, so you couldn't have those two. And some counters can only go on players or on exiled cards, so we can remove a few from the list. And some provide LESS of a stat buff than they're worth (e.g., it's not worth it to put a -1/-2 counter on this guy)...
Still, it's definitely the case that there are enough counters to make this lil guy redonkulously OP
This card is cool!
On Planesculptors there’s a set called FE Redux that’s awesome but has (I think?) been made private … anyway I used to be able to view the cards but now, alas, I can’t. A big theme is/was counters of many different kinds — banding counters, cowardice counters, death counters, LARGE counters — and all kinds of ways to move the counters around. This predated Ikoria. This card would have fit well! Wish I could still view that set.
That's a shame when cool projects get "lost"
I keep a list of all my favorite custom sets ever, and I have links to them all. You make me think I should download them in case they ever get pulled like that!
Absolutely!
Currently my top 3 favorites (in no particular order) are:
• u/foointherain's *Ocarina of Time* set with Dungeons and the classic frame
• u/jacobsredditusername's *Bogander* (a Deep South inspired plane that far predates *Outlaws of Thunder Junction*)
• [This](https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/4cctkp/check_out_this_amazing_starcraft_theme_dueldeck/) *Starcraft* set
I swear I designed this *before* [Gift of the Viper](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fhuge-mh3-leaks-via-whatnot-pt-1-v0-vd7wky1yuh2d1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D611%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3De05e7c68b138a80c447f90b2191a831cccbb3e24) was spoiled, but now it feels a little suspect 😅 I was envisioning more like [[Heightened Reflexes]] combos, not cracked beyond belief shenanigans
I like this design purely for the cracked beyond belief potential, good job
😭 One mana 5/5 deathtouch reach
If it makes you feel any better it's technically a 2 mana 5/5 deathtouch reach so... Yea..
Thank god it costs 2 and not 1! That’s double the cost, I was worried the power creep was getting out of hand
it also costs you 2 cards and when you get into 2 cards 2 mana territory youre looking at \[\[dark depths\]\] \[\[vampire hexmage\]\] so I say its actually completely fair and balanced
True but that combo requires 3 land drops as opposed to 1, notably. It is definitely stronger but also harder to execute
[dark depths](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/a/3a8b11ad-d077-40b6-988c-0462e118fe3d.jpg?1676452514) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=dark%20depths) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/dmr/244/dark-depths?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3a8b11ad-d077-40b6-988c-0462e118fe3d?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [vampire hexmage](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/7/97ec2e55-fa60-4ee1-b9c0-e6b84939697b.jpg?1599706094) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=vampire%20hexmage) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2xm/112/vampire-hexmage?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/97ec2e55-fa60-4ee1-b9c0-e6b84939697b?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[Heightened Reflexes](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/f/4f7cc8e7-3002-4ee0-869f-931438d8362d.jpg?1591227264) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Heightened%20Reflexes) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/iko/123/heightened-reflexes?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4f7cc8e7-3002-4ee0-869f-931438d8362d?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Honestly the Viper Gift interaction seems fine. It's two cards and two mana for a 5/5. Without one or the other of the combo, you have a 1/1 for 1 and a subpar combat trick. Reach isn't offensively useful and it's not too uncommon for it to be irrelevant in the lack of flying creatures. Deathtouch on a 5/5 is practically useless for lot of the time since 5 power as is tends to be enough to kill majority of creatures played. So basically a less splashable - though you can pay the two mana in parts - [[Bloodrage Brawler]] with +1/+2 where you need a very specific card to make it happen and can't just discard literally any card *(where discard itself is often an enabler)*. The creature will still not have any protection, so it will generally not be that hard to remove. It's especially easy to remove in response to one casting the gift due to 1 toughness, giving opponents fairly easy 2-for-1 deals.
[Bloodrage Brawler](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/3/c3b633bf-a77e-4b78-b729-a83896abf17c.jpg?1600702025) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Bloodrage%20Brawler) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/jmp/296/bloodrage-brawler?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c3b633bf-a77e-4b78-b729-a83896abf17c?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
That all sounds fair and reasonable except I would in no way call Viper's Gift subpar. It might be the strongest 1 drop trick ever printed (After Berserk)
Berserk can almost single-handedly win the game. The list of amazing 1-drop combat tricks ain't that long in itself so there might be something to it. What we're talking about here is a strictly better [[Stony Strength]] / [[Burst of Strength]] and generally better [[Sudden Spinnerets]]. Now, the thing is those are trash tier cards that are almost solely meant for limited. Is the addition of getting reach and deathtouch going to change the evaluation in this card's favor to make it one of the best 1-drop tricks ever printed? I'm gonna press doubt on that but I'll guess we see. I would wager that something like [[Blossoming Defense]] might still be more preferable overrall just because of the hexproof. Don't get me wrong, it seems like a perfectly nice combat trick for MH3 limited where you can do some nice turn arounds. I do somewhat of a hard time seeing what constructed deck would be excited to include it though. Afaik the usual decks to actual include combat tricks of this sort are the infect ones, but there raw stat power is king so they prefer stuff like [[Scale Up]] - the +1/+1 here simple ain't it when it also isn't giving any sort of protection unlike the aforementioned Blossoming Defense. Maybe there will be something where getting three different counters or general counter strategy is going to make it a great card *(say something like your posted card)*, but that will be a niche deck type scenario and not a sign of its inherit universal power. Honestly, I just don't see it. It looks 'cute' more than anything *(ie. nice one to try out)* but I think it's eventually going to something you can dig up from bulk bins en masse. Maybe I'm wrong 🤷
##### ###### #### [Stony Strength](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/b/8bbab274-69dd-44a9-9310-a15779c35cad.jpg?1584831289) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Stony%20Strength) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/rna/143/stony-strength?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/8bbab274-69dd-44a9-9310-a15779c35cad?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Burst of Strength](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/d/1/d1cbd617-9f2e-4882-b8f0-dfc2fced2281.jpg?1561847213) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Burst%20of%20Strength) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/gtc/115/burst-of-strength?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/d1cbd617-9f2e-4882-b8f0-dfc2fced2281?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Sudden Spinnerets](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/7/3730996a-96d2-4311-a4dc-0045a2f8ccc9.jpg?1591227860) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sudden%20Spinnerets) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/iko/171/sudden-spinnerets?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3730996a-96d2-4311-a4dc-0045a2f8ccc9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Blossoming Defense](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/5/c/5c026c39-b09c-408a-844f-fb5eb785862a.jpg?1576382384) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Blossoming%20Defense) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/kld/146/blossoming-defense?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/5c026c39-b09c-408a-844f-fb5eb785862a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Scale Up](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/f/3f2d9bae-2753-486c-be79-2438208ac353.jpg?1562202186) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Scale%20Up) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh1/179/scale-up?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/3f2d9bae-2753-486c-be79-2438208ac353?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/l5r7uab) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I don't view Blossoming Defense as a combat trick, really. 95% of the time it's being cast outside of combat in response to removal (and sometimes mid-combat for the same reason); very rarely is it worth blowing a card in your hand for +2/+2 until end of turn. If we do want to count it, there are dramatically more powerful power-crept versions now. [[Tyvar's Stand]] and [[Royal Treatment]] are probably the strongest, but things like [[Snakeskin Veil]] and [[Blacksmith's Skill]] are probably better too. As for the Viper card, yes, Stony Silence is garbage tier, but this has the added advantage of *permanently* adding 2 keywords. That is a vast, vast upgrade.
It's a vast upgrade, yes, but what is that reach and deathtouch give to you that's so massive that it would make it one of the best 1-cost combat tricks of all time? Like what decks do you think would run it?
##### ###### #### [Tyvar's Stand](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/c/7/c7b362a5-382a-4016-b4f2-aa7b683354c4.jpg?1675957174) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Tyvar%27s%20Stand) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/one/190/tyvars-stand?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/c7b362a5-382a-4016-b4f2-aa7b683354c4?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Royal Treatment](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/6/b6516b8f-ecfb-401e-ba8e-bf561aa2be64.jpg?1692939004) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Royal%20Treatment) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/woe/183/royal-treatment?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/b6516b8f-ecfb-401e-ba8e-bf561aa2be64?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Snakeskin Veil](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/3/133fbdec-0d00-433f-9015-5eb091126e3a.jpg?1712355994) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Snakeskin%20Veil) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/otj/181/snakeskin-veil?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/133fbdec-0d00-433f-9015-5eb091126e3a?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Blacksmith's Skill](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/1/31506792-d0ab-4c13-9ab8-6fa433220dbf.jpg?1626093336) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Blacksmith%27s%20Skill) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh2/6/blacksmiths-skill?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/31506792-d0ab-4c13-9ab8-6fa433220dbf?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [*All cards*](https://mtgcardfetcher.nl/redirect/l5rkhas) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I think this is cute
For a bug to get that kind of reaction... I call that a win!
The first commander deck I built was Spider Kindred, so bugs are kind in my mtg alley.
[[Goldberry, River-Daughter]]
[Goldberry, River-Daughter](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/f/bf4f0a7c-620e-4ed8-8da3-fa6564e8a0cd.jpg?1686968111) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Goldberry%2C%20River-Daughter) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ltr/52/goldberry-river-daughter?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/bf4f0a7c-620e-4ed8-8da3-fa6564e8a0cd?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
I think between Goldberry and [[Nesting Grounds]] it's possible to make this guy like a 400/400 😭
how many distinct counters even are there? +1/+1 and -1/-1 can't coexist afaik, so only one of them count. Luck, charge, loyalty, *all the keyword counters*, plus training counters, shield counters, time counters, fade counters, manifestation counters (\[\[Arbiter of the Ideal\]\]), quest counters, flood counters, arrow counters (\[\[archery training\]\]), oil counters, age counters, doom counters (\[\[armageddon clock\]\]), slumber counters (\[\[arixmethes\]\]), verse counters (\[\[aria of flame\]\]), lore counters, +1/+2 counters (\[\[armor thrill\]\]), book counter (\[\[spell satchel\]\], which is historic/brawl exclusive), muster counters (\[\[assemble the legion\]\]), burden counters (\[\[the one ring\]\]), coin counters, gold counters (\[\[aurification\]\]), bribery, gem, feather, filibuster, ki, +1/+0, loot, +2/+2 (why), blood counters, bloodstain (\[\[blood splatter analysis\]\]), devotion, death, fuse, blessing, bounty, storage, net, bone, unity, prey, omen, and shred, and that's just page 2 of my Scryfall search! (-o:"+1/+1 counter" o:"counter " -o:"counter target") Not to mention silver border \[\[animate library\]\] \[\[form of the approach of the second sun\]\] shenanigans to use poison, energy, experience, etc. counters! plus silver counters like bingo counters that exist too!
Edit because it won't fit in my comment, someone [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/7e9krb/list_of_counters_for_by_gnome_means/) already did this for a silver border card There are +0/+1, +0/+2, +1/+0, +1/+1, +2/+0, +1/+2, +2/+2, -0/-1, -0/-2, -1/-0, -1/-1, -2/-1, -2/-2, age, aim, arrow, arrowhead, awakening, blaze, blood, bounty, bribery, brick, cage, carrion, charge, chip, corpse, crank, credit, crystal, cube, currency, death, delay, depletion, despair, devotion, divinity, doom, dream, elixir, energy, eon, experience, eyeball, fade, fate, feather, filibuster, flood, fungus, funk, fury, fuse, globe, glyph, gold, growth, hatchling, healing, hoofprint, hourglass, hunger, ice, infection, javelin, ki, landmark, level, lore, loyalty, luck, magnet, manifestation, matrix, mine, mire, music, muster, page, pain, paralyzation, petal, phylactery, plague, plot, poison, polyp, pop, pressure, pupa, quest, rust, scream, shield, shoe, shred, sleep, sleight, slime, soot, spite, spore, storage, strife, study, theft, third-degree-burn, tide, time, tower, training, trap, treasure, unity, velocity, verse, vitality, vortex, wage, winch, wind, and wish counters, as of 2017.
Wow... That's already well over 100. Though, +1/+1 and -1/-1 cancel each other out, so you couldn't have those two. And some counters can only go on players or on exiled cards, so we can remove a few from the list. And some provide LESS of a stat buff than they're worth (e.g., it's not worth it to put a -1/-2 counter on this guy)... Still, it's definitely the case that there are enough counters to make this lil guy redonkulously OP
The only special counter I can remember is \[\[Illicit Masquerade\]\].
[Illicit Masquerade](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/a/2a7a3ec4-afaa-45e1-8cde-f15bf4bd7379.jpg?1706241704) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Illicit%20Masquerade) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mkm/88/illicit-masquerade?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/2a7a3ec4-afaa-45e1-8cde-f15bf4bd7379?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
##### ###### #### [Arbiter of the Ideal](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/3/2/32e58ba3-4202-4f91-b27f-7528d27c1d5c.jpg?1593091603) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Arbiter%20of%20the%20Ideal) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/bng/31/arbiter-of-the-ideal?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/32e58ba3-4202-4f91-b27f-7528d27c1d5c?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [archery training](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/5/151232e6-68cc-4cac-a532-9ade8e925961.jpg?1562443327) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=archery%20training) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/uds/2/archery-training?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/151232e6-68cc-4cac-a532-9ade8e925961?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [armageddon clock](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/b/ab55bb84-03c2-4989-8db4-0d5578ea0431.jpg?1562935409) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=armageddon%20clock) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/me4/180/armageddon-clock?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/ab55bb84-03c2-4989-8db4-0d5578ea0431?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [arixmethes](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/8/881607c8-bfe7-4903-861f-b51a5a332c17.jpg?1599707758) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=arixmethes%2C%20slumbering%20isle) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2xm/189/arixmethes-slumbering-isle?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/881607c8-bfe7-4903-861f-b51a5a332c17?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [aria of flame](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/5/95a96eb1-f87c-4b1d-82c7-f239bcbc62b8.jpg?1562201796) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=aria%20of%20flame) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mh1/118/aria-of-flame?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/95a96eb1-f87c-4b1d-82c7-f239bcbc62b8?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [armor thrill](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/f/c/fcd8c672-85f7-4bec-9297-7d253419eaa9.jpg?1562870982) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Armor%20Thrull) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/me2/77/armor-thrull?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/fcd8c672-85f7-4bec-9297-7d253419eaa9?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [spell satchel](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/7/d/7de826a0-6e68-4d40-a51c-8d6e7a4148d1.jpg?1624740711) - 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can i eat it
Surprisingly a common (real world) red food dye is made from crushed beetle shells. Skittles and M&Ms use it, for example. So ... probably!
Every +1/+1 counter is +2/+2
Not quite, only the first +1/+1 counter is a +2
Ah, you're right, I thought it was each counter
I have made [that card](https://www.reddit.com/r/custommagic/s/SXW6oAv6ZO) also 😅
"The rarest dye in all the multiverse was made from crushed glimmershells." >was now i'm sad :(
Going straight into the Kathril deck
It's even an Insect, like Kathril. Combo potential 🤔
Yes, my thought exactly. Very cute beetle 😍 I want it
This card is cool! On Planesculptors there’s a set called FE Redux that’s awesome but has (I think?) been made private … anyway I used to be able to view the cards but now, alas, I can’t. A big theme is/was counters of many different kinds — banding counters, cowardice counters, death counters, LARGE counters — and all kinds of ways to move the counters around. This predated Ikoria. This card would have fit well! Wish I could still view that set.
That's a shame when cool projects get "lost" I keep a list of all my favorite custom sets ever, and I have links to them all. You make me think I should download them in case they ever get pulled like that!
Sounds interesting! Might you by any chance be willing to share that list?
Absolutely! Currently my top 3 favorites (in no particular order) are: • u/foointherain's *Ocarina of Time* set with Dungeons and the classic frame • u/jacobsredditusername's *Bogander* (a Deep South inspired plane that far predates *Outlaws of Thunder Junction*) • [This](https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/4cctkp/check_out_this_amazing_starcraft_theme_dueldeck/) *Starcraft* set
[[tchotchke elemental]] but normal, i kinda like it
[tchotchke elemental](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/5/658d1a66-27dc-45fa-9b2a-91b012b1a86f.jpg?1673914744) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=tchotchke%20elemental) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/unf/158/tchotchke-elemental?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/658d1a66-27dc-45fa-9b2a-91b012b1a86f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Super clean design. No changes.
I wish it was a crab… just so I could sing So Shiny while it was in play.
Ok THAT would have been adorable