Secluded Temple

[Moothemighty]

Secluded Temple
Land
During your upkeep, you may choose to skip your draw step this turn.
T: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.  Play this ability only if you skippied your draw step this turn.


I've always liked lands that produce any color of mana, but some of them just have too big drawbacks for me.  I think this one might work, but it might be too easy to abuse for decks that try to make people deck themselves, or decks that penalize drawing.  Is this unbalanced?

[Ephraim]

I think you're underestimating the severity of this drawback. Especially early in the game, skipping one's draw step is some pretty harsh card disadvantage. Generating one mana of any colour isn't so good for one's tempo that this tradeoff is even. What might be an interesting rework of this would be something like this:

: Until end of turn, if you would draw a card, add one mana of any color to your mana pool instead.

I'm pretty sure that this isn't particularly good either, but I think it's a more interesting take on the idea, if nothing else.

[Moothemighty]

Well then, if we want to make this decent, how about making it add 2 colorless instead of 1 of any color, with your new wording?

[Matt]

Isn't this just [card]Meteor Crater[/card], but worse?