[DGM] – Maze's End (Update March 23)

[TK-421]

A totally separate source has provided confirmation of this card and accurate wording, although not the name. The text is as follows:

Maze's End
Land {M}
Maze's End enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add to your mana pool.
, , Return Maze's End to its owner's 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.

Old post v2:

Our source has provided an update. Apparently the card is more akin to Thawing Glaciers, reading something like this:

: Add to your mana pool.
, : Search your library for a Gate card and put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Return ~ to its owner's hand. At the beginning of your end step, if you control ten or more Gates, you win the game.

I must re-emphasise that this is not completely confirmed. While we feel that this source is essentially reliable, there is always plenty of room for error.

Old post:

The Rumor Mill staff has had an anonymous source contact us about the mythic land. We feel it's fairly confirmed, since the source has proven reliable with a separate spoiler. Here's what we know about the other card!

When you have 10 gates, you win the game. It wasn't specified if this was at upkeep or end of turn.

There's less sure things that can be inferred as well. First, the source wasn't sure if it is or isn't a Gate itself. I'm inclined to believe it isn't. Second, it's likely the mythic mentioned in today's Arcana, since it's an alternate win-con. Third, it's probably true, since every pack is going to either have a Gate or a shock, so drafting a deck around it won't be impossible.

So there's the first spoiled DGM card!

[PlasticineGuy]

Interesting. I wonder if it means 10 different gates, or just 10 gates. I think the latter is much more likely to be honest.
I'll be excited to play this with Expedition Map, Sylvan Scrying and such!

[Tackman]

Aw yeah! My foil Gatecreeper Vine will skyrocket in price!

They have been supporting gates a lot int GTC, so a card like that would make sense.

[urzishra]

This is probably the reason Rogue's Passage wasn't a gate then.

[Taylor]

Still, seems like a really hard win con since there's not a lot of ways to get a gate into play, other than as your land drop. The deck couldn't really win until turn 11, which makes it slower than Door to Nothingness.

Unless they made a few cards in the set around this mechanic, but making a set around one mythic goes against their design principles.

[fnord]

Originally Posted by TK-421

Third, it's probably true, since every pack is going to either have a Gate or a shock, so drafting a deck around it won't be impossible.

It won't be impossible, but I doubt it will work very well. You still need 11 mana to win, and unlike with Worldspine Wurm (which was already extremely difficult to pull off) accelerants like Axebane Guardian or Keyrunes won't count towards that number.

[LouCypher]

I would think that if that was the case, we'd see cards like a Rampant Growth for Gates. That alone would be a rather balanced card as it'd require you to run a suboptimal land (Gates are after all worse then Checklands and Shocks), but it would be an enabler for this kind of deck. Or perhaps something like a terrain generator for Gates as well.

[metalcrafter]

On the plus side though it's an uncounterable and very hard to remove win condition that costs no mana.

[Valarin]

For standard, another useless alt win con.

But for Modern/Legacy, with Prime Time and Explore? Hmmm.

[teddy_bear_x]

OMG!! A new combo for Scapeshift D:

Btw, cool card, and i guess it will be diferent gates

[PiMan]

Originally Posted by teddy_bear_x

OMG!! A new combo for Scapeshift D:

Btw, cool card, and i guess it will be diferent gates

I'll have some crow ready to eat if it's not differently named gates.

[Gideon_Jura]

OmniDoor ThragMazeFire?

Awesome.

[monkeysammich]

This land could also have an eye of ugin style ability of searching for gates...

Or maybe it IS a terrain generator for gates. Nothing says the land ONLY has the win condition on it.

[SolonWave]

Damn this is news!! I think this is going to make for some fun times in dragons maze!!! I hope its all ten different gates!

[Uber Moogle]

The name of this land is probably the titular Dragon's Maze? Niv-Mizzet's using the power of the gates for... profit?