Is Barry back? DOMAIN.
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Posted on Nov. 25, 2014, 3:59 p.m. by TheAnnihilator
So, for those of you who don't know, here's the article I'm basing this speculation off of:
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Anyways, with some of the talk surrounding a potential colorless basic land, what about Domain? Domain is an ability created by Barry Reich (the opponent of Richard Garfield in the first game of magic ever played) that never got an official name, since it was created before reminder text formatting. Domain is the ability that "boost[s] a card's strength based on how many different basic lands you [have] in play," as quoted from the article (the brackets are my edits). The end of the article says that Domain, which is most popular in multicolored blocks, will eventually make a reappearance.
Well, Khans Block happens to be just that: a multicolored block. Will we be seeing any domain cards here? Especially with fetchlands to boost the potential power of cards with Domain, what do you think?
Named_Tawyny says... #3
To to be clear, that article is nearly 6 years old.
November 25, 2014 5:01 p.m.
shinobigarth says... #4
domain is awful, and since if you are running several colors, you probably won't have hardly any basic lands (or not enough to make it worthwhile), and we don't have the dual lands with subtypes in standard anymore so it would suck if they brought it back. there's better things they could bring back.
November 25, 2014 8:42 p.m.
Maybe Nylea's Presence was a hint from Thetis block?
DarkHero says... #2
I was never a fan of Domain. Something that only reaches its potential in a functioning 5 color deck is a bit janky, I mean Might of Alara, sure, but the most colors we get in decks usually is 3, so what, Giant Growth, with fears of being worse? If they bring back Sunburst and other stuff like that for a 5 color block at some point, that would make sense, but I don;t imagine it making n appearance in Khans. At least I hope not cause that would be kind of stupid.
November 25, 2014 4:14 p.m.