ec2-3-138-69-45.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com | ToothyWiki | SillyMagicIdeas | RecentChanges | Login | Webcomic So how many types can *you* get on a single permanent? I was initially thinking of supertypes (Legendary, Basic and Word) and types (Artifact, Creature, Enchantment, Instant, Land and Sorcery only); but fun can be had by adding in subtypes (land subtypes such as Plains, creature subtypes such as Rebel, artifact subtypes such as Equipment, and enchantment subtypes such as Shrine) also. I managed one permanent with two supertypes, all permanent types, all creature types and two land types, described below. --AlexChurchill
So here's AlexChurchill's means of creating a Legendary Basic Snow Artifact Creature Enchantment Land - Plains Swamp Abomination Aboroth Advisor Aladdin... (insert [all creature types] here).
Have a snow-covered basic land, say a Snow-Covered Plains: Basic Snow Land - Plains Activate MTG: Genju of the Realm on the Plains -> Legendary Basic Snow Creature Land - Plains Spirit Target it with MTG: Soul Sculptor -> Legendary Basic Snow Enchantment Land - Plains Play MTG: Opalescence -> Legendary Basic Snow Creature Enchantment Land - Plains Target the Plains with MTG: Transmogrifying Licid -> Legendary Basic Snow Artifact Creature Enchantment Land - Plains, enchanted by a Legendary Enchant Land and an Artifact Enchant Creature! You can also give it all creature types if you have out a MTG: Conspiracy set to Sliver, and also a MTG: Mistform Sliver, as well as about a thousand mana. And you can add the type Swamp with MTG: Blanket of Night. Voila!
You can in fact make it a Legendary Basic Snow Artifact Creature Enchantment Land - Plains Island Swamp Mountain Forest Abomination Aboroth Advisor Aladdin... by using 4 copies of MTG: Blanket of Night and 3 copies of MTG: Mind Bend --CH
Wow, you're right. Nice! You can very nearly make it all nonbasic land types as well, by combining this idea with the old "copy of MTG: Quirion Elves uses the chosen colour if it shifts into a copy of MTG: Voice of All" trick. MTG: Shimmer provides the choice of any land type; unfortunately, MTG: Illusionary Terrain overwrites previous types, and MTG: Blanket of Night's text doesn't involve a choice (it just feels like it when you're throwing Mind Bends around). Mmm... fun with silly type-changing effects. --AC
The Plains you use for this should be Snow-covered --Edwin
Oh my goodness, you're right: I forgot an entire supertype! I should indeed use a MTG: Snow-Covered Plains (which, along with the rest of its cycle, are probably the only cards to naturally have two supertypes...) --AC
I don't think you can currently have a permanent with both the supertype Basic and the supertype World. AFAICT, the only way to acquire the supertype World is to be or copy a World Enchantment; the only way to acquire the supertype Basic is to be or copy a Basic Land; and there aren't any copy effects which copy types or supertypes without losing the old ones. But I'd love to be proved wrong.
Musing on the silly local enchanments used in the above concoction, I'm pretty sure that MTG: Genju of the Realm is the only Legendary Enchant Land, and MTG: Transmogrifying Licid is the only "natural" Artifact Enchant Creature. It's pretty easy to get more artifact local enchantments (MTG: Mycosynth Lattice will do the job), but would you say it's impossible to have any other legendary local enchantments? I don't think it is. I can think of two ways, in fact, one more twisted than the other. (Although neither will allow an actual Legendary Enchant Land. I think. Can anyone manage that? Remember that local enchantments are put into a graveyard if they're ever creatures...) --AC
I think I can offer you a Legendary Artifact Enchantment Enchant creature. (Although I'm not sure whether an enchantment that is both global and local has the types specified like that, and I might be making a rules mistake) --Edwin
That's pretty cool. Is that using MTG: Sakashima the Impostor to copy a MTG: Transmogrifying Licid, and then targetting him with a MTG: Soul Sculptor and using his licid ability in response? (And I have no idea how that would be worded. I heard a rumour that it might be getting changed in the next few months anyway...) --AC
Yes, Sakashima then the Licid, use licid ability, then target it with MTG: Copy Artifact --Edwin
Sorry, of course, the Sculptor wouldn't work because "creature" is a targetting restriction. MTG: Copy Artifact is a very handy card to remember for these kind of situations though. Good work. Both a local and a global enchantment... impressive. :) --AC
That's intriguing. Does the rumour say what they might be changing it to? --CH
Yes, yes it does. However, that would count as a major spoiler, and this isn't a spoilers page. I'll leave it at that (apart from casually mentioning that the word might be more familiar to those who've read PiersAnthony's Tarot series and/or watched DotHackSlashSlashSign) unless requested to elaborate further. --AC
Oh, I see. I hadn't expected a large change - I was more thinking of a tweak, in line with the changes to Wall and Legend - perhaph making "Enchant X" become "X Enchantment". I agree that a more wholesale change is a spoiler; I shall ponder whether I wish to be spoiled :) --CH
Ah, all becomes (marginally) clearer with MaRo's article [today]. It's those little throwaway comments of his, isn't it? I can't be bothered to read the sortable spoiler though, so I shall have to wait to Friday. I'm going to stake a claim that it's a subtype. --CH, July 2005
This was, of course, referring to the [introduction of the type Aura]. Interestingly, now as of Planar Chaos, MTG: Life and Limb means that, for the first time, nonland cards can be granted the type "land" without using copy effects. Does this mean we could have a World Land (or a Legendary Snow Basic World Artifact Enchantment Creature Land)? Almost certainly. --AC, Feb 2007 Actually, not quite. We can now have a World Land, which we couldn't do before, using MTG: Opalescence, MTG: Conspiracy and MTG: Life and Limb on a world enchantment like MTG: Concordant Crossroads; but we still can't grant the type Basic to something that didn't start off Basic, and likewise World. --AC, Feb 2007
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