Toils of Night and Day
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1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Pauper Legal
Pauper Duel Commander Legal
Pauper EDH Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Toils of Night and Day

Instant — Arcane

You may tap or untap target permanent, then you may tap or untap another target permanent.

legendofa on Why is Untapping Lands a …

4 months ago

In blue, the Urza's Block hugely skew land untapping, and that block is widely considered to be an overpowered mistake, especially for blue. Urza's Saga and Urza's Legacy alone have ten cards that allow land-specific untapping, more than half of all the blue cards that allow untapping lands without untapping all permanents. They'll be included for the sake of completion, but I wouldn't take them as any sort of precedent. Pioneer legality is just five cards, with one of them being Standard-legal. Blue is the undisputed king of untapping permanents in general, but doesn't have any special focus on lands.

Ye Olde Bordere, "untap" + "land": Twiddle, Reset, Infuse, Jolt, Twitch, Mind Over Matter, Great Whale, Peregrine Drake, Rewind, Time Spiral, Turnabout, Cloud of Faeries, Frantic Search, Palinchron, Snap, Treachery, Trickster Mage. total 16

Modern Border, "untap" + "land": Oboro Breezecaller. total 1

2015 Border, "untap" + "land": Pore Over the Pages, Unwind, Finale of Revelation, Kelpie Guide. total 3

Ye Olde Bordere, "untap" + "permanent": Telekinetic Bonds. total 1

Modern Border, "untap" + "permanent": Dream's Grip, Psychic Puppetry, Toils of Night and Day, Tidewater Minion, Rimewind Taskmage, Coral Trickster, Merrow Reejerey, Pestermite, Fatestitcher, Merfolk Skyscout, Reality Spasm, Deceiver Exarch, Captain of the Mists, Ghostly Touch, Hidden Strings, Curse of Inertia, Tidal Force. total 17

2015 Border, "untap" + "permanent": Teferi, Temporal Archmage, Vizier of Tumbling Sands, Clever Conjurer, Nimbleclaw Adept, Ioreth of the Healing House, Forensic Researcher. total 6

Ye Olde Bordere, "untap" + "Island": none.

Modern Border, "untap" + "Island": none.

2015 Border, "untap" + "Island": none.

There's 44 mono-blue cards that can untap lands in some capacity, with 20 of them being more specific than untapping permanents in general. If Urza's Block is taken out, then there are 34 blue cards that untap lands, with just nine of them having any sort of restriction.

So in final summary, I see green land untapping increasing in recent years, and blue permanent untapping actually falling off slightly. There were 18 blue untap cards in the 12 years of the modern border, and nine cards so far in the nine years of the 2015 border. Discounting Urza's Block, there are slightly more green cards that can untap lands than blue cards, and many more green cards that untap lands than blue cards printed in the last ten years.

If I missed anything in this breakdown, please let me know. But I think the cards are there to support my initial position. Both green and blue are primary in untapping lands, if lands are counted as permanents, and blue is secondary in untapping lands specifically. Mark Rosewater's answer is is at best incomplete and missing nuance, and at worst totally wrong.

Keeping the above because it took me a long time write and I don't want to undo the effort.

In response to wallisface, percentage of cards with a given effect doesn't matter to primacy of color.

  • Primary – This is the color (or colors) the ability is seen in most. That means it shows up in the highest volume and usually at the lowest rarity that the type of effects get used at. The primary color will almost always get this effect in a set if it's an ability we do every set. It also tends to be the color that most often pushes the power level, if it's an effect we push the power level on. There's a wide range on what primary means, because different types of effects exist at different levels. A card secondary in flying can show up way more than a card primary in taking extra turns, for instance, because we have so many more flying cards than extra-turn cards.

  • I want to stress one more time that primary, secondary, and tertiary are relative to how often an effect is used. Things that are secondary in a color, for example, may be far more prevalent in that color than things that are primary if the items in question occur at a higher frequency.

Source: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/mechanical-color-pie-2021

For example, MaRoo has repeatedly stated that red is primary in extra combat cards, with white as a contender for secondary.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/mechanical-color-pie-2021

https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/760377485190938624/can-any-color-aside-from-red-get-extra-combat

There are only 36 cards that grant an additional comabt. If primacy was considered as a proportion of cards that grant additional combats was considered only as a proportion of total cards of that color, I don't think any color would be considered primary.

So while there might be fewer cards that untap lands in green as a proportion of total green cards in recent years, that's not a relevant measure to color primacy. The relevant measure is how often cards that untap lands show up in green compared to other colors, which I think is demonstrated by the above lists that green has more land untap effects than any other color, with blue being nearly equivalent. That, according to MaRo's definition, means that land untapping is primary in green.

zachz on Tap 'em Out!

2 years ago

Really enjoy the concept of the deck. I think you have, if you pardon the terrible pun, an untapped potential that can be added to your deck.

Untap mechanics can accelerate your own card tap abilities, and give you the rare opportunity to tap an opponent creature multiple times per turn. There's several that I found worth suggesting:

KongMing on $10 Controlled Burn, Arcane Edition! [UltraBudget]

5 years ago

Eh, the increased cost really is a reason to dismiss it for this deck, though. And it's still Turn 3 or 4 before I can swing or block with the elementals, which are only 1/1s. Not really that 'fast' compared to other modern human or elf decks, even budget ones. I don't benefit from ETB, death or attack triggers either, so spawning more creatures doesn't do much for me.

Guttersnipe's damage happens the moment I cast the spell, whether that spell gets countered or not. It also hits all opponents for 2 damage, which is a huge difference in a 4-player game.

I don't want to dismiss this too quickly, and I also want to see the damage potential, so let's set up two similar situations. I hit 'Playtest' for the deck, and am using a sample hand it has generated. Thermo-Alchemist, Guttersnipe, Gelectrode, Toils of Night and Day, Mystic Monastery, Plains x2.

Okay, not bad. Let's play a second hand side by side, replacing the Guttersnipe with Young Pyromancer. I'll denote them as [GS] and [YP].

[GS] Turn 1 :: Draw Blessed Breath, play Mystic Monastery, pass.

[YP] Turn 1 :: Draw Blessed Breath, play Mystic Monastery, pass.

[GS] Turn 2 :: Draw Toils of Night and Day (oh boy), play Plains, cast Thermo-Alchemist, pass.

[YP] Turn 2 :: Draw Toils of Night and Day, play Plains, cast Thermo-Alchemist, pass.

[GS] Turn 3 :: Draw Mountain, play Mountain, cast Gelectrode, pass. (Ping opponent with TA on their end step.)

[YP] Turn 3 :: Draw Mountain, play Mountain, cast Young Pyromancer, pass. (Ping opponent with TA on their end step.)

Pausing here to asses board states. The nice thing about YP here is the extra W mana I have leftover right now, so I can cast Blessed Breath to protect my creatures, and get an elemental out of the deal. With the GS board, I'm playing Gelectrode first to get it unsick, and so I can play GS next turn and be able to Blessed Breath like I am with YP this turn.

[GS] Turn 4 :: Draw Reach Through Mists, play Plains, cast Guttersnipe, pass. (Either Blessed Breath or Reach Through Mists as needed, generating a total of 6 damage to a single opponent or 14 damage to 3 opponents.)

[YP] Turn 4 :: Draw Reach Through Mists, play Plains, pass. (Use Toils of Night and Day to tap down attacker and get an extra untap out of TA, splice on protection for a blocker if needed. If not, just Reach Through Mists, splice as needed. Can also use Toils to untap Mystic Monastery to give an extra blue mana to cast Reach. If we cast one spell, we generate a 1/1 elemental and a total of 2 damage against a single opponent or a total of 6 damage to 3 opponents. Two spells gives us 2 elementals, 3 damage or 9 damage.)

Let's pretend we had to use Blessed Breath to protect our creatures in both cases. So YP will in effect cast Toils with BB spliced, untapping Mystic Monastery, and then casting Reach at end step to draw an Island.

[GS] Turn 5 :: Draw Island, play Island, cast Reach Through Mists drawing Peer Through Depths, generate 6 damage to a single opponent, 14 to three. Cast Toils of Night and Day on Mystic Monastery and Island, generate 4 damage to a single opponent, 10 to three. Cast Peer Through Depths, revealing Island, GS, Mountain, Peer Through Depths, and Reach Through Mists, selecting Reach Through Mists and generating 4 damage to a single opponent, 10 to three. (A single opponent with no lifegain will now be dead.) Cast Reach Through Mists, generating 4 damage to a single opponent, 7 to two, drawing Evolving Wilds. Pass.

[YP] Turn 5 :: Draw Peer Through Depths, play Island, etc...

From here, you can see that as a Burn deck, there's no way Young Pyromancer can outdamage Guttersnipe in the early game. Even if you're going cantrips, Guttersnipe can still rack up more damage. The tap triggers and the protection in the deck help deal with oncoming aggro, so the tokens aren't as necessary as blockers as they might initially seem.

Maybe I'll make a $15 deck that features some of the cards people have been suggesting, because those would all synergize well together, lol.

Gattison on TappedOut

6 years ago

I think -2 Toils of Night and Day, -1 Spreading Seas (or something like that) and at least +3 Psychic Venom could help.

Opt could be another cheap option for more draw (beyond the obvious crap like Preordain).

Oh and maybe Echoing Truth for the sideboard against weenies. And something to combat aura hexproof and protection and stuff like that.

I like the idea too, so I hope some of that helps. Let me know how it performs. =)

Snap157 on Buntabuntabuntabuntabuntabuntabuntabuntabuntabunta

7 years ago

Should go for Toils of Night and Day! Also Fallowsage for great draw. I would also check out the Inspired abilty . +1

RogueDeck on Legacy HIGH TIDE

8 years ago

I was on MTG Salvation and saw your posts about High Tide which brought me here.

You could try Time Reversal until you get the Time Spiral.

It's one less mana, won't untap you're lands, but with a base from Spring Tide (Cloud of Faeries + Snap), a single Turnabout and a Echoing Truth for the Faeries it worked for me just fine.

Of course, It won't be as strong as Time Spiral, but with Cloud+Snap you could even go off earlier like turn two or with only two Islands (not recommended, but I made it couple of times).

That's what I have done with my list and won a small Legacy event with it, finishing the games with Blue Sun's Zenith for over 60 cards around turn four or five through Counters when the opponent had them.

The list I used on the Legacy Event:

4 Brainstorm

4 Ponder

3 Preordain

4 Merchant Scroll

4 Time Reversal

4 High Tide

4 Dispel

2 Counterbalance

4 Cloud of Faeries

4 Snap

1 Turnabout

1 Brain Freeze

1 Blue Sun's Zenith

18 Island

I used Dispel because since one of the main reasons I would want to counter something would probably be because my opponent is trying to Counter High Tide or something during the combo turn and I didn't have access to Force of Will, Flusterstorm or Pact of Negation, It would make sense to have a Counter for Instants only that costs a single mana.

If you want to check out my old list it's here:

Reversal Tide

I made a Arcane version of the Instant High Tide too.

Arcane List:

4 Brainstorm

4 Opt

4 Impulse

4 High Tide

4 Reach Through Mists

4 Peer Through Depths

4 Psychic Puppetry

4 Split Decision

4 Toils of Night and Day

2 Flash of Insight

1 Three Wishes

1 Turnabout

1 Brain Freeze

1 Blue Sun's Zenith

18 Island

and the previous version of it can be found here:

Splice onto Tide

So I have done several test with other cards and even made it work with Temporal Cascade and Diminishing Returns, but so far Time Reversal has been by far the best alternative for Time Spiral in Legacy to me.

I've tested Peregrine Drake too, but there are many times where I got myself needing to untap my Islands and had only one land untapped for it which, with only one High Tide cast, I would only be able to generate two mana, so I think Cloud of Faeries + Snap is the way to go.

I hope it helps

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