I don't know how I feel about this:
Modern forum
Posted on March 25, 2016, 1:05 p.m. by TMBRLZ
Can we discuss this card for a minute:
Does anybody else feel some potential abuse coming on?
Ohthenoises says... #3
It's a poor man's Earthcraft in older formats.
Maybe something for elves but I'm not seeing too much on the modern front.
March 25, 2016 1:27 p.m.
I feel like we'll see some retarded combo deck come about. It just seems far too breakable.
March 25, 2016 1:37 p.m.
Enables 5 color shenanigans far better. Chromanticore in modern? Wouldn't actually be that good haha.
March 25, 2016 2:06 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #8
Cryptolith Rite doesn't avoid summoning sickness in the same way that Earthcraft does, so it's harder to do some crazy chain combo, but it's still a very good card. Under many circumstances it'll be on the Seething Song level of explosive mana production when you first play it.
March 25, 2016 2:11 p.m.
lemmingllama says... #10
I'm thinking some weird Jeskai Ascendancy variant. Use this with some token generators to generate mana and wincons.
Or maybe a Mass Hysteria + Cloudstone Curio loop? Loop some Dwynen's Elite for infinite elves?
March 25, 2016 2:16 p.m.
TheAnnihilator says... #11
Yeah, I'm not really much of a brewer, but this card is too powerful not to be played. xD
Beck Elves and Ascendancy Combo both seem like the perfect fits for it Especially with Ascendancy -- all of your creatures become mana dorks to chain the combo together that much easier. Imagine this with Young Pyromancer -- play out the Ascendancy and Rite, then Pyro, make a bunch of tokens and attack next turn, or hell -- just loot into an Emrakul and play it next turn off of all of the tokens.
March 25, 2016 3:01 p.m.
I agree with TheAnnihilator This curved into Ascendacy is just nuts. Granted, you have to play 4 colors but full play sets of Mana Confluence, City of Brass and Gemstone Mine make that easily doable.
March 25, 2016 3:10 p.m.
Well I suggest we all grab our four of now before something stupid happens and it shows up next on the banlist six months down the road.
March 25, 2016 3:42 p.m.
I will try to jam it into my ghave and prossh eds decks for sure...prossh will be getting anger in it, and ghave will be getting crossroads so having haste with it will be another combo win.
March 25, 2016 3:43 p.m.
It's another combo piece for Blistercoil Weird, giving you 4 more Paradise Mantles.
That's the first thing that came to my mind.
March 26, 2016 11:55 p.m.
It's already priced out at 6 bucks I hope it doesn't go any higher with wanting to aquire a foil.
flluid says... #2
Going to be so serious abuse in my token EDH Deck... in constructed I could see someone breaking this with scions or small creatures of the like
March 25, 2016 1:10 p.m.