Coalition Relic
Asked by BreadManDan 9 years ago
Was wondering exactly how Coalition Relic worked. The card says...
T Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
T Put a charge counter on Coalition Relic.
At the beginning of your precombat main phase, remove all charge counters from Coalition Relic. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool for each charge counter removed this way.
So my question is if you remove counters at your precombat phase, how do you ever build it up?? If you tap it during your Main Phase 1 then you can't put a counter on it, if you tap it and put a counter on it, you don't get the mana until combat... how does this card rate as a mana rock in a 3 color deck that is worried a bit about land destruction. I want to have mana rock available for when things get blown up.
This isn't really a rules question but yeah, the general use of the relic is
"At the end of your turn, I tap it to add a counter" "Untap, Upkeep, Tap it to add a second counter"
2 mana then 0 then 2 is arguably much better than 1, 1, 1 if you aren't planning to play a bunch of things on their turn. It gives you 1 turn of ramp before becoming a rainbow land. And as nighthawk101 mentioned, anything which untaps things extra times or duplicates activated abilities can make it better. Additionally, cards with proliferate or cards like Coretapper which add charge counters to things can make it do better things for you as well.
January 4, 2015 10:11 a.m.
BreadManDan says... #3
I placed it here because it was a question about how a card worked and was hoping I was placing it in the right area so that nobody had to move it. Either way, thank you for the answers.
nighthawk101 says... Accepted answer #1
You can tap Coalition Relic during your upkeep to add a counter. If you had tapped it previously before your precombat main phase, then you should have two counters, thus netting you two mana.
Cards that untap or interact with activated abilities also help.
January 4, 2015 6:03 a.m.