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CardName: Seasonal Cycle Cost: 4 Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Periodic (This enters with a period counter on 0th period. During your untap step, move the counter to the next period, or restart from the 0th period if it was at the final period.) [0] {2/g}{2/g}: Return target permanent card in your graveyard to your hand. [1] {2/r}{2/r}: Target creature gets +2/+0 and haste until end of turn. [2] {2/u}{2/u}: Draw two cards, then discard two cards. [3] {2/b}{2/b}: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Shenafu's Card Creator Rare

Seasonal Cycle

Enchantment

Periodic (This enters with a period counter on 0th period. During your untap step, move the counter to the next period, or restart from the 0th period if it was at the final period.)

0 {2/g}

: Return target permanent card in your graveyard to your hand.

[1] {2/r}

: Target creature gets +2/+0 and haste until end of turn.

[2] {2/u}

: Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

[3] {2/b}

: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

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Updated on 15 Jul 2020 by amuseum

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2018-12-01 08:04:21: amuseum created the card Seasonal Cycle

by SecretInfiltrator:

I feel it would be better to not use a "counter" but use new terminology. Counters are best used when it's actually only the number of a certain type matters (hence "counters") and the interactions rely on that.

Fore example you could avoid naming a playing piece and just say that the period starts at 0 and increases.

If you want to call out the playing piece and want to make its position matter, I would go for a new type of playing piece e. g. a marker.

Lastly, since you are already using numbers, if you really insist on using counters, make their count matter rather than their position and use wording/frames akin to Sagas and levelers. Especially with regards to Sagas this is treading very similar ground after all.

You didn't really manage to make a legible card - that's an issue for a showcase.

by dude1818:

Congrats, you reinvented sagas. Wizards already tried this version and it didn't work out

by amuseum:

none of criticisms make any sense.

what is difference between counter and marker? either dictionary sense or game sense.

this is the leveler frame. so how is it less legible when it's the exact same layout?

2020-07-15 15:30:01: amuseum edited Seasonal Cycle

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