Epic Thawing Glaciers Gate Thing enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add
to your mana pool.
,
,
Return Epic Thawing Glaciers Gate to your hand: Search your library for a Gate card, put it onto
the battlefield, then shuffle your library. If you control ten or more
Gates with different names, you win the game.
I couldn't get the card frame thing to work, but anyways, back to the card. I think it's really good. Back in the day, Thawing Glaciers was a format-defining card, so good that control mirrors everywhere were nearly defined by Glaciers advantage. Sure, back then you had Dust Bowl or Trade Routes to abuse getting free lands every turn, and it was less aggressive *ahem*Wild Zephyr*ahem* but still. Although it appears similar, however, there are differences. First of all, this new card Taps For Mana. That means you can still play it turn one then play Augur of Bolas turn 2. This was actually a problem with Thawing Glaciers back then, and making it tap for mana makes it slightly faster. It's pretty much a strict upgrade there. Where it's not a strict upgrade, however, is the cost to thaw. This really, really matters because you can't start thawing on turn 2 before the opponent does anything now. However, the gate searching is relevant, as dual lands do matter. I think it will find a home in a 2 color control deck that an afford to play 4 gates. Also, Travis Woo will find a way to win with all 10 gates on the battlefield, but that's another story.
Now for some flavor talk!
For those of you who don't read the novels (The new ones have pretty simple plot lines, but they're still decent. Read Test of Metal if you want a good storyline book) the Implicit Maze is a maze made of mana that runs throughout the entire plane. It links all the guildgates, and the Izzet want to find out what power lies at the end. However, the need the help of all 10 guilds to do it. See where this is going? This IS the Implicit Maze, A.K.A the Dragon's Maze. It makes sense. Put in work, follow the maze, have all 10 guilds cooperate, and you unlock a grand power. Pretty sweet, huh?
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