See Challenge # 165.

As you can see, I had to put some effort in to turn "Magic 2010" into a card :) No idea how to balance it :)

I have a few ideas:

Definitely would specify the God creature doesn't have Changeling, because that means on turn two, play Universal Automaton and then this.

I'd probably make this cost 3 mana just so you can't get a turn 2 combo with it some other way... this means you'll likely have to wait until turn 3-5... which at that point opponents hopefully have answers or a better board state than this would cause.

I assume the land is so you can cast god spells? Otherwise im not sure how the two abilities fit together.

No, that's dumb. The whole point of changeling is to cheese creature type requirements. And both abilities are references to 2001: A Space Odyssey

Yeah, that changeling clause idea is pretty horrible, Froggy. It might need to cost more, but it definitely doesn't need that.

'Kay my bad :)

Thank you, all.

They're a reference to 2010 specifically :) Mana cost/P/T as 1/4/9. The "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" quote. The... whatever happened at the end of 2001. Turning Jupiter into a sun. I'd hoped to reference turning Europa into another earth but didn't fit it in.

I'm not really happy with the reference to Magic, but I'm not sure I can do better.

Froggy's right that it's probably not ok as is, but not sure what it SHOULD be. I did consider other ways of adding a hidden cost but didn't think of anything good. I think it's probably a joke that won't quite make it into a real card.

Oh wow, I really need to watch this 2001 movie, I've yet to see most of these classics.

This card IS a cool idea, like you said, just not super balanced... since it's halfway between a joke and a real card I'll stop backseat-developing, because it's a cool design/concept and if thats all that matters, that's cool.

I don't have any ideas for hidden costs or anything, I suppose you could add a CMC 4 or greater, but it feels kind of redundant since it's referring to Gods, which are almost always expensive mythics... Actually, maybe I'm just assuming that...

Anyway, It would also look nice to italicize the Ability word at the beginning of the text-box.

It's been a while, I don't really remember which events occur during which book in the series. Really enjoyed what happened in the Jupiter system

He did keep changing it so some of the books were consistent with earlier movies, not the earlier books, so I got quite confused.

2001 is really impressive, but also really confusing, so... that. I've still actually only seen parts of the film.

The first ability could actually be quite different: there needs to be SOME reason why a 1-cmc 4/9 is ok, so I picked "control a god" as a possible cost. But it could be something else entirely having some relationship to 2001/2010.