#1347: High Mana Value Spells, Part 1

Mark Rosewater· Host0:01

I'm not pulling out of my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another Drive to Work at Home Edition. Okay, so I have not done a card-by-card, uh, episode in a while. I like to do these at home so I can read, 'cause it's harder to read them when I'm driving. Um, so what I'm gonna do today, so once before I did a, I did, I once did one which was about, uh, mostly artifacts that cost zero. So today I'm going the opposite end. So today is about cards that cost 11 or more. So these are some of the most expensive. In fact, there are 47 cards currently in the game, uh, that cost more than 10 mana, so 11 or more mana value. Um, we're gonna talk about those today, and we'll go in chronological order. Um, but I'm gonna talk about making the big cards of Magic. So the very... There's only one that pre-exists me, actually. Uh, it came out in Ice Age. It was Polar Kraken. Eight blue, blue, blue, so 11 mana total, three of which is blue. Trample, cumulative upkeep, sacrifice a land, um, and it enters, the creature enters tapped. Um, so real quickly, uh, just remind people what cumulative upkeep is. So cumulative upkeep is, it's a cost, but the cost keeps going up every turn. So on the first turn, uh, you pay it during your upkeep, so you'll pay Polar Kraken. On the next turn, you'll have to sacrifice a land. Then on the turn after that, you'll have to sacrifice two lands, then three lands, then four lands. Um, and the idea is Polar Kraken takes 11