Vibrance

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Not legal in any format

Vibrance

When this enters, if was spent to cast this, this deals 3 damage to any target (creature, player, planeswalker or battle).

When this enters, if was spent to cast this, search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 2 life.

Evoke (You may cast this spell for the evoke cost. If you do, this is sacrificed when this enters.)

CrimsonWings3689 on What do you want more …

2 days ago

Posting this full well knowing it can get into soapbox territory, but there will be numbers to back it up.

If using Scryfall, using only the is:hybrid and f:commander syntax, we have 518 cards currently: https://scryfall.com/search?q=is%3Ahybrid+f%3Acommander

With that, if we exclude cards like the original 10 Guildmages from Ravnica and their like, that have mana symbols in their textbox/casting cost that would prohibit their use in a mono color deck, or one with fewer than the maximum color identity (ex. Selesnya Guildmage, Repudiate / Replicate, Deathrite Shaman, Seedcradle Witch, Spider Manifestation, Vibrance, Waterlogged Teachings  Flip, Ajani, Sleeper Agent, Moonhold) there are 66 cards of that original 518 cards that the hybrid rules change wouldn't "help" see more play.

That is also assuming that there's an exception made for hybrid mana in the textbox for cards like Elite Headhunter & Fiend Artisan. Without that exception, that would add another 43 cards to the pile of "can't actually be used in a deck that's not the 2 or more colors the card represents."

The greater majority of the commons (178 cards total of the 518) are either trash/chaff or close enough, with only 8 of those breaking the $0.50 mark. https://scryfall.com/search?q=is%3Ahybrid+f%3Acommander+r%3Dcℴ=usd&as=grid&unique=cards

Quite a lot of hybrid cards aren't seeing play because they're not spectacular at what they do. There are corner cases like Waves of Aggression, sure. But that's not enough of a reason to rework the format to include them.