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CardName: Inscribed Mail Cost: 1 Type: Artifact - Equipment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: When Inscribed Mail enters the battlefield, draw a card. Equipped creature gets +0/+1. Equip {1} Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Common

Inscribed Mail
{1}
 
 C 
Artifact – Equipment
When Inscribed Mail enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Equipped creature gets +0/+1.
Equip {1}
Updated on 31 Oct 2011 by Jack V

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2011-10-31 21:27:09: Jack V created the card Inscribed Mail
2011-10-31 21:27:38: Jack V edited Inscribed Mail

For Challenge # 020. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to have a cheap common colourless cantrip (especially not in a metalcraft/affinity block), but it sprang to mind as a "what's the simplest possible equipment". +0/+1 is probably the cheapest vanilla P/T boost possible, that you can basically get it for free, and pay {2} to draw a card.

2011-10-31 21:32:23: Jack V edited Inscribed Mail

Oooo. I think I'd feel happier if this was {2} cost {0} equip, because there have been a handful of cantrip artifacts for {2} (Elsewhere Flask, Prophetic Prism, Ichor Wellspring, Tsabo's Web), but never for {1} (though there are death-trigger artifacts like Terrarion and Mishra's Bauble).

But yes, I think it's permissible to get a +0/+1 for basically free. Interesting card.

Thanks. I did consider that. I think it's an interesting question how much people would value the cycling ability at {1} and {2}: I think pure cycling is not as valuable as people sometimes make out, but people definitely play things like gitaxian probe.

But I also thought it was prudent to avoid an equip {0}, just in case. (And I didn't want to clutter up the card by having it replace itself on some other condition.)

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