Any cards like Gaea's Cradle?
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Posted on Dec. 12, 2014, 9:58 p.m. by Kutdra1
This card seems like something magic would have a lot of! So I hope there's something not 150-200 dollars!
Just to add more (just realized how much this post lacked) this is for a green mostly deck, but it is hydra so devotion won't well.
December 12, 2014 10:05 p.m.
The only lands that do something similar are the three mentioned and Tolarian Academy from my knowledge. Cabal Coffers I guess..
There are some elves that have "add 
for the amount of elves you control" or something similar. I can't recall specific card names, I apologize.
December 12, 2014 10:08 p.m.
aeonstoremyliver says... #6
Welcome to Legacy, where the cards are just as broken as they are expensive!
December 12, 2014 10:19 p.m.
Haha well legacy seems like "fun". Thank you all for the suggestions!
December 12, 2014 10:22 p.m.
fluffybunnypants says... #8
There was a cycle of three lands in the Urza block. Gaea's Cradle, Tolarian Academy, Serra's Sanctum.
December 12, 2014 10:47 p.m.
metalevolence says... #9
Citanul Hierophants and Earthcraft are what you're looking for.
December 12, 2014 10:58 p.m.
Ohthenoises says... #11
fluffybunnypants can you imagine what a B and R one of those would look like?
December 12, 2014 11:46 p.m.
JexInfinite says... #12
There was a cycle of five legendary lands, except the red and black ones had a different effect. The cycle is; Serra's Sanctum, Tolarian Academy, Phyrexian Tower, Shivan Gorge and Gaea's Cradle.
Unfortunately, there aren't too many cards which have a similar effect, but the ones that do are either bad, or broken. Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary is probably the closest you will get to Gaea's Cradle without spending $150, but he's banned in EDH.
December 12, 2014 11:59 p.m.
For cards like Gaea's Cradle in the other two colours, I assume they would have gone for something like "creatures in your graveyard" for black, or possibly just straight up "Swamps you control" without Cabal Coffers' activation cost, and for red they could maybe have done "instants and sorceries in your graveyard" or "number of creatures you attacked with this turn"
That they never made a TRUE 5-colour cycle of those lands is one of the things about Magic's design history that has always bugged me.
December 13, 2014 12:05 a.m.
Cabal Coffers? Crypt of Agadeem? Those are the closest that I can think of. For red...um...Braid of Fire?
December 13, 2014 3:39 a.m.
Hjaltrohir says... #15
Gaea's Cradle was too broken so wizards never made the same mistake again - unfortunately...
December 13, 2014 8:09 a.m.
Named_Tawyny says... #16
Braid of Fire, that's... questionable? Was it designed pre- or post- manaburn?
December 13, 2014 9:27 a.m.
GlistenerAgent says... #18
It is much more powerful than anything else, and can be easily abused to do things that people shouldn't be able to do.
For example, Black Lotus is broken. Stoneforge Mystic is broken. Jace, the Mind Sculptor is broken.
December 13, 2014 2:12 p.m.
During the manaburn era. Nowadays, it's a great card for instant burn decks. Ish.
GlistenerAgent says... #2
Nope. Believe it or not, that card is broken as all hell.
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx does something similar. Serra's Sanctum is cool if you want to play Leylines.
December 12, 2014 10:01 p.m.