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divisionbyzorro
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Not sure what I think about this unconfirmed mana rock cycle Salvation just posted. They apparently believe it enough to put it in their spoiler.
Guild Mana Rock (3)
{T}: Add one mana in guild colors to your mana pool
Pay guild colors, sacrifice Guid Mana Rock: draw a card
Guild Mana Rock (3)
{T}: Add one mana in guild colors to your mana pool
Pay guild colors, sacrifice Guid Mana Rock: draw a card
One mana too expensive to see any real play, but will make for good fixers in limited.
I feel like this describes so much of their modern design paradigm.
There are a lot of things you have to keep from being competitively costed because they make life miserable if they are.
divisionbyzorro
Member
Oh, I certainly didn't expect or want to see signets reprinted. It's just weird, as ultron pointed out, to have these and keyrunes.
I do like that these don't have to tap to draw the card, which means that they can tap for the mana used to sac themselves. That's kinda cool.
divisionbyzorro
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WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Criminy. And this is where I'm lost. I have no idea what makes a great global enchantment.
Interesting design tidbit from todays spoiler article regarding the fuse cards:
No, unfortunately not only do you have to tap them, but the draw costs both colours.
No, unfortunately not only do you have to tap them, but the draw costs both colours.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
That's got to be a mistake. That's so very clearly an Izzet card.
That champ is...alright. Pretty cool. Nothing too exciting.
That champ is...alright. Pretty cool. Nothing too exciting.
keeblerdrow
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The thing that sucks about submitting an idea to YMTC? I don't know every card out there and I don't know if my idea isn't already printed. It's a pretty blackish idea.
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Me likey. Fits into Naya humans. Throw Rancor on him with a possible double strike pairing and ouch.
divisionbyzorro
Member
No you have to tap them, but the draw costs both colours.
Yeah, the pre-spoiler from MTGSalvation had it wrong. Which is sad; it makes them much worse.
I'd say the fact that they're common rather than uncommon makes them a lot better for limited. For constructed they're not particularly good unless you're playing pauper.
"Players can't draw more than one card per turn." (AKA Chains of Mephistopheles.)
What is it?
That's more a white card than a black card.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
....I'm sorry, wait, what?
whistles - it falls under Black in the "stunted growth" category as well. Could be either under modern pie.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I feel like I want to do something that starts with "Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature you control: EFFECT"
I live in Vegas. Is a gp something you have to qualify for or can you just show up?
divisionbyzorro
Member
I really want to submit something with repeatable discard on it. I've been milling over something like: "If you would draw a card, you may have target opponent discard a card instead."
I just get the feeling that even if I could make that concept work, the community is going to vote for effects where you punish yourself to do something powerful, rather than effects where you punish yourself to hurt your opponent.
I just get the feeling that even if I could make that concept work, the community is going to vote for effects where you punish yourself to do something powerful, rather than effects where you punish yourself to hurt your opponent.
narcosis219
Member
Makes undying MEGA BROKE
Out to ruin everyone's fun!
Wouldn't Innistrad be out of rotation by then? No need to worry about infinite sac engines in Standard.
Totally forgot about Descent. That stinks. I feel having to wait a turn really limits its usefulness.
And Griselbrand is hardly balanced. I really hope he gets banned in Legacy this upcoming rotation.
acheron_xl
Member
I had no idea what I was going to submit, then I thought top-down and it came to me like a flash. I have a feeling there are going to be several similar cards submitted, though. We'll see.
Words of Waste.
Long ago I used to run it with Geth's Grimoire in multiplayer games. May cards were had.
YMTC mechanic submissions are only open to US/Canada citizens?
It's only open to residents, actually, but still... seriously? the rest of the world only gets to vote on boring multiple-choice polls while the US an Canada get to submit the actual designs as well? I have a way to submit this through a relative, but still, it's annoying and downright impossible to do for many, many people...
I seriously don't get why restrictions should be applied to a submission contest where there's no material reward (...or is it?).
I think we should brainstorm and post card texts here to make sure nobody submits things that are too similar to another GAF submission.
acheron_xl
Member
I submitted:
Walking Dead
Whenever a nontoken creature dies, exile it. At the beginning of each player's end step, for each creature exiled with Walking Dead this turn, it's owner puts a 2/2 black zombie creature token onto the battlefield.
It's really simple. It doesn't really break much new ground. I just see it as a hole that hasn't been filled yet.
Walking Dead
Whenever a nontoken creature dies, exile it. At the beginning of each player's end step, for each creature exiled with Walking Dead this turn, it's owner puts a 2/2 black zombie creature token onto the battlefield.
It's really simple. It doesn't really break much new ground. I just see it as a hole that hasn't been filled yet.
divisionbyzorro
Member
So here's what I submitted. It's probably not very good. I haven't put much thought into balancing it - I just like the concept of voluntarily playing with your hand revealed as the additional cost of the enchantment.
I realized after submitting it that it doesn't quite scale correctly for multiplayer, but c'est la vie.
I realized after submitting it that it doesn't quite scale correctly for multiplayer, but c'est la vie.
Okay, now I'm thinking a top down design of a demonic pact that is impossible to pay. So you get extra cards (or some other advantage) for some amount of turns, but at some point you have to sac the enchantment and an opponent gets a big demon token who has come to collect your debt that attacks you each turn (and is maybe indestructible so you can't just Doom Blade it?). I like the idea of racing to win the game until it catches up with you.
ThLunarian
Member
I like this idea. The demon should probably have a clause to immediately make you lose the game when it hits you.
Sort of like a Phyrexian Etchings that leaves behind a creature rather than making you lose life? That'd be interesting. How about giving your opponent a hasty, ball lightning-esque demon every turn that begins as a 1/1 and keeps on growing every turn? Or giving him the creature as soon as the enchantment hits and making it grow every time you get the enchantment's effect? If you want a continous creature, you should probably give the demon Shroud or Hexproof to make sure the black deck can't just Murder it.
ninja edit: Having the demon kill you on hit would probably be cool as well. Might as well give it trample to make sure you can't chump-block it forever.
Here's an idea I've been thinking about, with two variations:
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Exquisite Corpse
Enchantment
When Exquisite Corpse enters the battlefield, put a 0/1 black Spawn creature token onto the battlefield.
Spawn creatures [you control] have all activated abilities of creature cards exiled with Exquisite Corpse.
XBB: Exile target creature card with converted mana cost X from a graveyard. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on target Spawn creature equal to that creature's power.
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Another Exquisite Corpse
Enchantment
When Exquisite Corpse enters the battlefield, put a 0/1 black Spawn creature token onto the battlefield.
As long as a creature card with flying is exiled with Exquisite Corpse, Spawn creatures [you control] have flying. The same is true for fear, first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, landwalk, lifelink, protection, reach, trample, shroud and vigilance.
XBB: Exile target creature card with converted mana cost X from a graveyard. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on target Spawn creature equal to that creature's power.
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While I'd love to fit both abilities in a single card, that'd probably be impossible to do. Given Cairn Wanderer's rules text (adding hexproof to the mix), I think the second card might not even fit by itself. The +1/+1 counters could also be based off of the creature card's CMC, making the final ability "XBB: Exile target creature card with converted mana cost X from a graveyard. Put X +1/+1 counters on target Spawn creature." This'd probably differentiate it from Scavenge while keeping the power level in check (no exiling Phyrexian Dreadnoughts, Death's Shadows or other undercosted high-power creatures).
I submitted:
Millow Fort
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, put a charge counter on ~.
At the beginning of your upkeep, target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the number of charge counters on ~.
Not sure on specifics, but I wanted something like Blood Reckoning + Mill. Doing it with charge counters has the weird side effect of encouraging alpha strikes, which I find really interesting on a pillow fort card.
Millow Fort
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, put a charge counter on ~.
At the beginning of your upkeep, target player puts the top X cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the number of charge counters on ~.
Not sure on specifics, but I wanted something like Blood Reckoning + Mill. Doing it with charge counters has the weird side effect of encouraging alpha strikes, which I find really interesting on a pillow fort card.
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