vandertroll wrote: ↑4 years agoDo you think that there's a possibility for adding twists in those mechanics? For example adding the ability to copy nonland permants in the populate deck in order to add more colors and make it more interesting?
Announcing a new keyword! Mega-madness! (/sarcasm)
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I do have to say that I am intrigued by the concepts of these lists. Populate is one of the major themes of my Trostani (sorry for MTGS link, haven't transfered everything over yet) deck, using cards like Séance, God-Pharaoh's Gift, and Mirrorpool (among others), to make token copies of powerful creatures - which I then get to populate. Helm of the Host on Trostani gets absurd quickly. As well as on Oketra.
So the concept is very solid even in two color, but adding blue (Rite of replication, Stolen Identity), or red (Flameshadow Conjuring, Feldon of the third path), would be cool.
Populate itself though is actually a fairly minor find in my deck, since most cards with the ability... aren't great. Here's hoping for a few upgrades.
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My Tibor and Lumia deck also went through a phase of GY matters and flashback, using Secrets of the dead and River Kelpie as powerful draw engines with flashback (Past in flames), retrace (Flame Jab), and Spellweaver Volute.
While I sadly doubt they'll reprint the Volute, that is one of the most fun cards in this style of play, and gets super crazy insane very fast.