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Easter Eggs, Hidden Jokes, and Treasure Hoards: A Closer Look at a Duskmourn Scheme

Magic: The Gathering has long hidden little jokes tucked inside card text, types, and flavor narratives. Some are cheeky nods to designers’ favorite memes; others are long-running memes that only make sense after you’ve played a few dozen Commander games with a table full of clever rules lawyers. When you pull up My Wealth Will Bury You, a Scheme from Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander, you’re not just drafting a plan to outpace opponents—you’re stepping into a crafted web of in-jokes, design decisions, and flavorful economy metaphors. 🧙‍♂️🔥

At first glance, the card’s mechanics read as a clean, colorless push toward ramp, but the surface texture is where the Easter eggs begin. The Scheme type itself is a wink to a very specific corner of MTG design: schemes (a silver-bordered homage in some Commander subsets) set up grand, cinematic effects that unfold over a turn or two, punctuated by a memorable line like “When you set this scheme in motion.” The card’s flavor text—or, in this case, its ability wording—plays into the humor: the more artifacts and enchantments your opponents control, the more Treasure tokens you generate. It’s a treasure-based payoff with a twist: if your foes aren’t packing enough artifacts and enchantments, the card still squeezes out four Treasure tokens—a gentle reminder that sometimes the joke is on the other players who forgot to lean into artifact synergies. 🧪💎

When you set this scheme in motion, create a number of Treasure tokens equal to the number of artifacts and enchantments your opponents control. If they control fewer than four artifacts and enchantments, create four Treasure tokens instead.

The Treasure tokens themselves are a perfect meta-joke about tempo, value, and color flexibility. Treasures are artifacts that can tap for mana of any color, a design that has shown up repeatedly across sets as a deliciously flexible engine. The text explicitly says these tokens can produce mana of any color, which aligns beautifully with the long-running MTG theme of self-rebalancing ramps—where you don’t need to color-match your curve if you can pay the tax with a token that can become any color you need. In practice, that means you can line up multicolored finishers, fix a color-hungry graveyard-enabler, or simply splash in what you need to cast your next big spell. It’s a playful acknowledgement that in the game’s economy, wealth isn’t just raw mana—it's mana that can slip into whatever color line you’re building towards. ⚔️🎨

The design’s humor extends to the set’s flavor and lore. Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander leans into gothic melodrama, where schemes are the kind of devious plans a mansion full of conspirators would cook up. “My Wealth Will Bury You” reads as a boastful financial coup de grâce, punctuated by the Treasure payoff that lets you buy your way to victory in increasingly decadent ways. The card’s rarity is common, a deliberate counterpoint to the big narrative moment; the joke lands not with a pop of rarity but with a steady drumbeat of synergy that shines in multiplayer games where every opponent’s board presence counts toward your treasure tally. And since cashing out treasures into colorless-to-any-color mana fits into five-color or high-mrick strategies, you’ll often see the scheme accelerate a table-wide treasure economy with a single, satisfying puff of black-border humor. 🧙‍♂️💎

There’s also a micro-nick in the text that design-minded players love to chase: the line “set this scheme in motion” is not just a flavorful instruction. It’s a playful reminder of how many games hinge on the exact moment you decide to commit to a plan, flip the scheme, and watch a cascade of treasures spill forth. The joke lands twice: first, in the anticipation of tokens; second, in the realization that those tokens might be your path to color-perfect combos or impossibly flexible plays. It’s the kind of layered humor MTG designers tuck into a card that’s approachable on the surface but rewarding for long-time players who track the set’s ecosystem. 🧭🎲

Flavor, Artistry, and the Collector’s Eye

Valera Lutfullina’s artwork on this Duskmourn entry contributes to the Easter egg hunt with a visual storytelling approach that rewards close inspection. Look for subtle motifs—glints of gold near a pile of coins, an architectural flourish that hints at a villain’s lair, and the sense that wealth is both a literal and figurative trap. The art invites fans to read the card as a tableau rather than a pure mechanical piece, which is precisely the kind of cross-channel Easter egg that helps cards age gracefully in casual play and in-depth collector communities. And because the card is non-foil and printed in a distinctive border era (2015 frame, black border), it’s a delightful piece for players who enjoy both nostalgia and modern design sensibilities at the same time. 🖼️🧩

If you’re hunting for synergy, you don’t need to lean only into Treasure matters. The card’s colorless mana cost keeps it accessible in a wide range of decks, and the Treasure engine can fuel several archetypes—from artifact-centric thopters to big-storm-esque finishers that require a dash of every color. The hidden joke here is that wealth isn’t just about spawning tokens; it’s about enabling strategic flexibility at a moment when your opponent’s board state demands a carefully colored cast or a last-ditch mana twist. The humor lands most effectively when you witness a carefully timed “treasure flood” that lets you resolve a plan you’d previously thought out but hadn’t yet had the resources to execute. ⚡🧨

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