Floodplains Chase

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Posted on March 15, 2019, 3:52 p.m. by ticked-off-squirrel

hello everyone. this is just a random i had last night and thus the title may be a bit...uncreative. Floodplains Chase can be done in casual or EDH. but the main idea is the longer the game goes the more lands you lose due to flooding. how it works is during your upkeep you roll a flood die (D20) and if you roll less than the number of lands you have then one of your lands gets flooded and turns into a Floodplains which loses all prior abilities and provides 1 colorless mana. If you only have Floodplains when you roll the flood die then one of your Floodplains is submerged and is sacrificed.

Edit: tweaked it around so that blue decks don't have an advantage.

Flooremoji says... #2

Seems like blue players have a great advantage, but I guess it's an interesting concept. :)

March 15, 2019 3:57 p.m.

seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #3

Interesting idea. I see a little flaw:

In casual, this would benefit strategies that don't need much mana, thus aggro, or dork decks like elves, which would result in an aggro "format". This would basically make the flooding obsolete as games might not go long enough for it to actually matter. How about putting the starting life total up to 30 or 40 to make it work a little better?

March 16, 2019 2:43 a.m.

ticked-off-squirrel says... #4

seshiro_of_the_orochi well in EDH you start with 40 life so removes the flaw there. as for casual, having a higher life total would be an idea to counter it. but it would not make it different from EDH aside from shorter decks.

March 16, 2019 3:20 a.m.

seshiro_of_the_orochi says... #5

With the one difference being that 60-card constructed decks still usually are more efficient, so 40 life instead of 20 still don't make it exactly edh.

March 16, 2019 3:41 a.m.

ThoAlmighty says... #6

It seems like the solution to longer games isn't to cut people off of casting stuff. It seems like in most games this will be totally irrelevant or a mild annoyance, in the games where it does matter it's just unfun.

March 16, 2019 3:19 p.m.

ticked-off-squirrel says... #7

ThoAlmighty it is not suppose to be a hindrance or anything. it just like classic Planes Chase. it there to have fun.

March 16, 2019 3:39 p.m.

ThoAlmighty says... #8

Restricting mana is inherently hindering, though. When I play planechase it's because I want to have a unique, fun game. I would not enjoy playing this because it hurts people's ability to play magic.

March 16, 2019 4:02 p.m.