The Saint of New Alores

Author: CPT Current version: Version 2 fixed Last change: 2021-02-17 02:21:12 Stage: Design Download for desktop

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The Saint of New Alores

Jazz and voodoo meets black lotus

STNA Isn't a Typical Draft

When playing Saint limited, every player gets to put one copy of Black Lotus in their deck.

Mechanics:

Possess {Cost} - (You may cast this spell as a sorcery with “Target creature you control becomes a copy of this card until end of turn” for {cost}.)

Harmonize - (Trigger a harmony you control.)

Create a Souvenir (It's an artifact with "Whenever a creature deals damage to an opponent, you may sacrifice this to put a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Create a colorless artifact token named Lotus Petal with “T, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.”

Saint limited is about large, individual turns. Preparing to make your own, and preparing to deal with and recover from your opponent's. This might sound hopelessly swingy, but draft is surprisingly forgiving. This comes from years of playing with fast mana, and many more years of playing limited.

Draft Archetypes:

Draft archetypes aren't strict in STNA, and some of them are still being developed with the set. But here's what we got so far.

'ETB' Tempo

'Spirit or noncreature spell' control

'Curses' Midrange/Aggro

RG] 'Artifact' Aggro

'+1/+1 counters' Stompy

Something slow

'Harmony' Aggro

Walue

'Harmony/Go wide' Aggro

Ramp

Resources

You can find out more about the set or find people to play games of the set on The Custom Magic Discord

You can download the set here

You can look at the data sheet from playtesting for the set here

This is a set about a lot of things. Parades, folk magic, black lotus, but mostly nostalgia. Antonin Lazaire is looking back on his life, trying to convince Jeama the Zoulev Queen to accept him as a kantra, a powerful spirit on Eralou. This is also a reimagining of EAU, an older set that also took place on Eralou, now with all new art, mechanics, and a more refined and evocative world. This is not meant to replace or take EAU away from anyone, I just had to create a different set out of it, a more focused set, to get it out of my head.