Great card, one of my favorites in the set. Would have preferred this as creature type Noggle instead of Human though.
Trygon_Predator
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(5 votes)
"King Midas has donkey's ears! King Midas has donkey's ears!"
Theros is a flavor home run.
MasterOfParadox
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(14 votes)
So much flavor! Great cost for a 2/3 Gild on legs. However, it would be a lot more flavorful if they removed the "may" clause on his ability; Midas's story was tragic because he everything he touched HAD to turn into gold, not turned into gold if he WANTED it to. 4/5
Daxos_of_Meletis
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@MasterOfParadox True, but don't forget this isn't just Macar, this is Macar summoned by a planeswalker. We can probably influence weather or not he gilds things.
TheWallinator74
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(7 votes)
Easily one of the coolest cards from a flavor standpoint, up there with Bearer of the Heavens. It also helps that he's kind of useful, especially with a Springleaf Drum.
Ritokure
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(19 votes)
This card really should cost {2}{W}{B}. Not for balance nor flavor purposes, but so it could be a gold card.
drpvfx
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This King really needs an Aura of Domion to show off how nasty he can be. Pay 1, tap and untap King Macarena, sac the gold token for mana, rinse, repeat. Aurum of Dominion!
SeriouslyFacetious
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(7 votes)
Repeatable exile that is only stopped by Hexproof, Protection, and Shroud?
Come, King Macar, your curse must weigh heavily upon you... Once you are Freed From the Real, I am certain you will feel much better...
Goatllama
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Unfortunate shmelting accident, indeed.
Continue
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
MasterOfParadox perfectly encapsulated what I was going to say; this would make a little more sense if the ability were mandatory. Still, cool card!
Hmm...this seems like the type of curse Phenax would gleefully inflict. Oh hey those auras are blue and the king here is black. Welcome to the command tower
RAV0004
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
why the BLANK does this not have death TOUCH? DEATH TOUCH! it caused DEATH! UPON! TOUCHING!
Mode
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(12 votes)
Flavor fix:
"Inspired — Whenever King Macar, the Gold-Cursed becomes untapped, exile target artifact, creature or planeswalker. If you do, put a colorless artifact token named Gold onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."
• No "may"-clause: It's a CURSE, for crying out loud. Where on earth is the downside if you MAY turn people into gold? Midas would have been the happiest person if he could have kept drinking from his goblet and embrace his daughter.
• Don't restrict the target to creatures: It should affect anything physical. Midas couldn't turn whole landscapes into gold, but non-living objects (e.g. stones or food as in the original myth) should be affected as well. Planeswalkers should be affected by the touch just as any other being. Enchantment creatures are also affected this way.
Melvin bonus (as suggested by Ritokure): Make him multicolored, so he can be a gold card.
syrazemyla
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(7 votes)
The reason it's a "may" ability is because he doesn't have to reach out and touch something.
Also, that gold toga must be horribly uncomfortable.
steev
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
This guy is a demon in Limited. If he EVER untaps, your opponent no longer has a board. Most dreaded card at the prerelease at my local store.
Tribor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
His curse becomes even more tragic when you learn that in Nyx, gold is plentiful and worthless (That's why the Returned wear gold masks and use clay as currency.)
LordRandomness
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
"Hey bro, could you give me a little help untapping here? I just need you to...aw, not again"
SarpNasty
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
It's a may clause because he doesn't have to touch anything. If they took away the may cause, this would need to be a 4/3 or be unblockable or something that would make this card too powerful. It's balanced well and the flavor works.
In other words, I would make this thing my commander and give it Whispersilk Cloak. Wish it were 2BW or 1WBB just to make it gold and give it more options in edh.
El_Pared
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Intruder Alarm: Need a security system to protect those riches after all
Mr.Freshness-Timmy
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Slap both mantles (paradise mantle & umbral mantle) on him, pay 1 mana and boom, anything you want off the field is gone, and you get a left over gold pony so you never have to pay the 1 mana to start it up again.
Also I want an altered art of this guy with skittles everywhere :)
kwjohnstone
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Ritocure... You are flavor fixing a card, that you're misinterpreting..
Midas TOUCHED things, they turned to gold... This card untaps (no combat, no touching)... so, I see no issue with the flavor... if it says dealt damage, combat, attacking or blocking, etc, sure, but it doesnt...
As to your, make him a gold card so he can be gold, haha makes sense...
StoicChampion
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
This actually works perfectly as an "Inspire" ability. According to Myth, Midas was offered a reward for bringing Silenus back to Dionysus, and he asked that whatever he might touch should change into gold. After he was given this gift, he rushed home to put the ability to the test, choosing items outside and inside his house to be turned into gold. He didn't go into combat and strike a random foe, thus turning them to gold. He looked around the house for inspiration, and chose what would turn to gold.
As far as the may portion of the clause, it would have had to be either that, or it would have had to be "exile another target creature". Really, it should have been another permanent, or non-land permanent. He technically turned the river sands of the Pactolus to gold, when he relinquished his powers by cleansing himself in the waters.
infernox10
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I'm not sure I can trust the Midas (oops, Macar) touch.
RetroGamer3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Don't rate this guy so high. If you look at what he dose it's crap. Put him into play...he dose nothing. One round later you attack with him (if he lives) still dose nothing! Now on your THIRD turn (if he's still here) untap him and kill one creature. Wow what a deal!
Ferlord
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Macar is one of the best cards in Journey for draft.
Removal in limited is always valuable. Gild itself is quite valuable, since it can get rid of a creature pretty efficiently. A creature that has the capability to remove a creature each turnfor free (essentially) is extremely valuable.
Once Macar is active, it's hard to stop it without removal. I guess that's a cop-out argument (similar to "dies to Doom Blade"), but as I said, removal is scarce and valuable in limited.
kiseki
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Use Orb of Dreams with Amulet of Vigor and the new inspired creatures to cause them to trigger immediately, and anytime you flicker them.
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Theros is a flavor home run.
4/5
Pay 1, tap and untap King Macarena, sac the gold token for mana, rinse, repeat.
Aurum of Dominion!
Come, King Macar, your curse must weigh heavily upon you... Once you are Freed From the Real, I am certain you will feel much better...
Besides that, nice job Wizards!
Hmm...this seems like the type of curse Phenax would gleefully inflict. Oh hey those auras are blue and the king here is black. Welcome to the command tower
"Inspired — Whenever King Macar, the Gold-Cursed becomes untapped, exile target artifact, creature or planeswalker.
If you do, put a colorless artifact token named Gold onto the battlefield. It has "Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."
• No "may"-clause:
It's a CURSE, for crying out loud. Where on earth is the downside if you MAY turn people into gold?
Midas would have been the happiest person if he could have kept drinking from his goblet and embrace his daughter.
• Don't restrict the target to creatures:
It should affect anything physical. Midas couldn't turn whole landscapes into gold, but non-living objects (e.g. stones or food as in the original myth) should be affected as well. Planeswalkers should be affected by the touch just as any other being. Enchantment creatures are also affected this way.
Melvin bonus (as suggested by Ritokure):
Make him multicolored, so he can be a gold card.
Also, that gold toga must be horribly uncomfortable.
In other words, I would make this thing my commander and give it Whispersilk Cloak. Wish it were 2BW or 1WBB just to make it gold and give it more options in edh.
Also I want an altered art of this guy with skittles everywhere :)
Midas TOUCHED things, they turned to gold... This card untaps (no combat, no touching)... so, I see no issue with the flavor... if it says dealt damage, combat, attacking or blocking, etc, sure, but it doesnt...
As to your, make him a gold card so he can be gold, haha makes sense...
As far as the may portion of the clause, it would have had to be either that, or it would have had to be "exile another target creature". Really, it should have been another permanent, or non-land permanent. He technically turned the river sands of the Pactolus to gold, when he relinquished his powers by cleansing himself in the waters.
Put him into play...he dose nothing. One round later you attack with him (if he lives) still dose nothing!
Now on your THIRD turn (if he's still here) untap him and kill one creature. Wow what a deal!
Removal in limited is always valuable. Gild itself is quite valuable, since it can get rid of a creature pretty efficiently. A creature that has the capability to remove a creature each turn for free (essentially) is extremely valuable.
Macar just needs either one free attack step or a conduit of tapping. Weirdly, I think Theros has quite a few ways to tap your own creatures.
Once Macar is active, it's hard to stop it without removal. I guess that's a cop-out argument (similar to "dies to Doom Blade"), but as I said, removal is scarce and valuable in limited.
Blue and Black have any good choices which do not require additional mana:
Arbiter of the Ideal
Daring Thief
Disciple of Deceit
King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
Servant of Tymaret
Siren of the Silent Song
Sphinx's Disciple
Then use Conjurer's Closet to get some bonus uses out of them.
Use Mimic Vat to trigger them on demand.
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