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CardName: Autonomous Power Suit Cost: 2 Type: Artifact - Equipment Vehicle Pow/Tgh: 3/3 Rules Text: Equip {2} Crew 2 When Autonomous Power Suit or the creature it's attached to attacks, Autonomous Power Suit deals 1 damage to defending player and all creatures and planeswalkers they control. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Name That Card Rare

Autonomous Power Suit
{2}
 
 R 
Artifact – Equipment Vehicle
Equip {2}
Crew 2
When Autonomous Power Suit or the creature it's attached to attacks, Autonomous Power Suit deals 1 damage to defending player and all creatures and planeswalkers they control.
3/3
Updated on 11 Nov 2019 by jmgariepy

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2019-10-14 03:06:44: jmgariepy created and commented on the card Autonomous Power Suit

Welcome back to Name That Card! This week we got an odd vehicle/Equipment combo. Personally, I think there's enough space in this design to call a card like this an uncommon. But with no reminder text for equipment or vehicle, and the fact that some people probably don't understand that a creature can't be attached to another creature... maybe we'll ever only see this combination in rare.

Again, the casting cost was temporarily removed so people wouldn't think about efficiency when naming this card. But the equip card, crew cost, and power/toughness stayed so people could understand this card's role in a deck.

2019-10-14 03:07:38: jmgariepy edited Autonomous Power Suit

Autonomous Power Suit

.... I don't understand how this card functions? It can be equipped for... just the 'ping all' effect? Or does it implicitly do the same thing as a vehicle when equipped, and act as a Giant Growth too? Or you can tap creatures of 2 power and have it be a Giant Growth that pings everything? So the difference is whether you declare now or later, with later always being better?

Well anyway; however it works; it's clearly a +3/+3 with a really nasty effect. I kind of want to bring back the old Rod of Ruin name, but actually; I can find an even better fit in Acorn Catapult. That and the +3/+3 makes this a ridiculous:
Giant Silver Acorn

Melvin's Impossible Gocart

But for a more serious name, I think the autonomous power suit is good concept.

You can equip this artifact for the ping effect. It doesn't grant +3/+3. The power and toughness are there solely for when you crew NTC #003 into an artifact creature. Two possible example scenarios:

  1. You have a 5/5 and a 1/1 on the battlefield, and your opponent doesn't have 5 power worth of creatures after the ping. Crewing this creature is a waste in this scenario, since you want to swing with the 5/5. So, presuming you have the {2} mana, you equip.

  2. You played NTC #003 last turn, and tapped out to play a 2/2 with an etb this turn, and there's an open field. Might as well crew the vehicle and slam in for 3 + 1.

Yeah; forget having this "Only at rare" this is "Don't do that" territory, I fear.

I don't know precisely the words, but I'm thinking one word to describe the ping all, probably Ballistic and then one to represent something that cna move independently or be equipped. I was thinking Turret, but It's not inherent for a turret to be able to be strapped to a person's body... So maybe I slam two words together harder than the scientists at the particle collider?

Ballistic Roving-Turret? Might as well be Ballistic Turret-Rover... but nah, it's not clear enough. It's gotta be able to function on it's own but also be used by someone...

Ballistic Booster? sure, alliteration and the words are ambiguous and work once in each way, so while it's technically not a good way to use wordplay, I'll go with it (of course, I mean a booster in creature form would be able to boost itself or something, and booster in equipment form, means it 'boosts' the creature but of course, now boost means more like Upgrade rather than... i dunno, Launch Off? whatever.)

So, yeah, that's my go to: Ballistic Booster

2019-10-21 08:28:17: jmgariepy edited Autonomous Power Suit

I'm giving it to Link on this pass. He got it on the nose. Actually, a little too on the nose, since his name was more of a description of the card's function. But sometimes a good hit is a good hit.

Moving on to (((Name That Card #004)))!

Have you seen Unicycle, jmgariepy?

I have not! Man, what a weird set this is...

Right?

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