WideSpread Thiestery
Casting Cost: {2} {r}
Card type: Enchantment
Card Text:
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Hideaway 5 (When this Enchantment Enters The Battlefield, Look At The Top Five Cards of Your Library, Exile One Face Down, then Put The Rest On The Bottom in a Random Order.)
- Whenever you cast a multicolored spell, create a treasure token. Then, you May Pay Wubrg. If you do, you may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost.
Artist: Andrew Mar
Analysis:
Strengths:
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Card Advantage: Provides the hideaway mechanic to look at the top 5 cards of your library and store one for later.
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Resource Generation: Generates treasure tokens whenever you cast a multicolored spell, providing additional mana flexibility.
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Mana Explosion: Allows you to play the exiled card for free if you can pay the wubrg cost, potentially leading to huge plays.
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Combo potential: Can be used in multicolored decks that also include cards that can produce or utilize wubrg efficiently.
Weaknesses:
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Restrictive trigger: The Treasure Token Generation and Wubrg Activation only Occur When Casting A Multicolored Spell, Limiting its use in Certain Decks.
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High Cost for Activation: Wubrg is not an easy cost to meet unless your deck is tailored to provide such a various mana base.
Potential Deck Placement:
- Five-Color Decks, Possible Commander Decks Where a Wide Range of Mana is more accessible.
- Multicolored-heavy decks that can reliably trigger the treasure token generation.
- Decks that can Easily produce wubrg mana, perhaps through mana-fixing artifacts or other multicolored mana sources.
Flavour and Art:
WideSpread Thiegy Implies a Grand, Perhaps Organized Act of Stealing or Pilfering. Given the artist, it's likely the art is detailed, showcasing the act of stealing across multiple regions or dimensions.
Overall impression:
WideSpread Thiestery is a fascinating card with a high ceiling but also significant limitations. In The Right Deck, It Could Be A Powerhouse, Generating Extra Resources and Providing Free Plays of Powerful Cards. It needs a particular environment to shine but can be incredible in that setting.