Card of the Week Contest #384: Real Estate

Nobody liked playing against the Leyline/Thran combo, and this is that all in one card, in one color, at one mana cheaper!  The only comparable things I could find are Taniwha and Realm Razer, each with their own inherent drawbacks to balance them out.

So...your entire argument, if I may summarize it, is that playing a rare card at the right time could swing a game. And yes, you're right. No duh. And if someone played Acid Rain against a mono-green deck, they'd get much the same result. Or they could play a card that does it with a drawback, like Armageddon, while already be in a favourable board state. It's called playing the game well.

"Strong if the opponent doesn't have an answer" is just as bad an argument as "dies to removal" is. Anything is strong if the opponent doesn't have an answer. A 1/1 with no abilities can kill a player if they somehow don't draw into an answer. You're claiming that there aren't many cards that can remove the enchantment, but that only holds water if the player never gets to have lands again, which isn't the case. They can still play new lands after it comes out, which greatly expands the pool of what can deal with it. Besides which, what about other game-swinging effects at a comparable cost?

How about taking an extra turn? Something which, if played when the opponent's board state is unfavourable (and when else would you play it) can just make them lose outright. Capture of Jingzhou, Temporal Manipulation, and Time Warp are all the exact same mana cost as my card. There are cards with a drawback that can pull it off at MV3 or lower.

Adrix and Nev can be used to set up board flood where the opponent just physically can't block everything that you swing with, and actually make themselves die less to removal, at MV4. You could say that requires other cards to work with to be effective, but the same is true of removing lands. The same is true of almost any card. If you don't have cards to follow up with, it doesn't accomplish anything.

Æther Snap can shut down certain decks completely. Call to the Kindred can get out a turn 5 Emrakul (Which one? Doesn't matter.) The list goes on and on.

At just one mana more, a Commander player could make their Commander Sun Quan, Lord of Wu, which basically nobody runs a counter to. Or outside just Commander, there are other cards to just give your entire board an evasion ability. Like Archetype of Imagination at the same cost as Sun Quan, which not only gives your entire board evasion, but disables ~90% of all counters to that evasion even if the opponent is running them.

MV5 with a double-color component is within the bounds for a swingy card.

The fact that you're comparing "remove target player's ability to play spells" to "remove all counters and tokens" says everything you need to about your ability to gage the power level of cards. Everyone, nothing is to be gained by arguing with Kefke here. They are not in a headspace where they're willing to accept any feedback.

Let's take a breather and cool off here before things get too heated. Spirited discussion on card design is fine, putting words in someone's mouth is not.

@sdfkjgh: Sorry, but there is no such loophole:

Aarhg: I'd suggest changing that ending to "this combat" to avoid potential memory issues with multiple combats. It seems like the kind of issue such a deck would run into given it wants its commander attacking as much as possible.

Fun fact: I drew this on the backside of a proxy I don't need anymore.
Also the wording works that way because this.

Land Glue
Artifact - Fortification
Enchant two lands or land cards in the same zone
If one fortified land would move to another zone, both lands move to that zone instead. If that zone isn’t a library, Land Glue stays attached to them and they both stay revealed.
TEST CARD - Not for constructed play

Is there a test card frame for download somewhere?