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CardName: Diabolical Battlestone Cost: 3 Type: Artifact Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {T}: Add {R} to your mana pool. {3}{B}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice Diabolical Battlestone: Search your library for a Swamp and a creature card and put those cards into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Mashup: the Gathering Alpha Uncommon |
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I chose Stormscape Battlestone and random generator gave me Evil Presence and Diabolic Tutor. I had to flip the abilities on the card... in theory, black should come before green, but small effect before big effect seemed more important.
A mana stone that turns into a Tutor from the battlefield. Awesome! It's like Mind Stone, but more useful. I might run it in mono-black.
Still trying to work out some kinks on these Battlestones. I tried to streamline these by turning the ability you didn't want to use into a comes into play ability. On some cards, it looks a little better. on (((Niven's Battlestone))) the card looks just as weird as before. On this card... originally, this card exiled to permanently change a land, which seemed strange and mostly inconsequential. I changed it up with Harrowing a land into a Swamp, which is a better effect, but makes the card too wordy. It's a shame that searching your library takes up numerous sentences for a relatively simple action... by now, you'd almost think they'd come up with a keyword action to explain the process.
Anyhow, in general this feels like an improvement, but not enough to overcome the awkwardness of these cards. I figured I'd try this before starting over from scratch, but I guess I might be starting from scratch. Or lopping off one card from each of these, and shipping the lopped off cards to some other thing...
Chopping one off each of these, and making them have mirrored green/black effects both inspired by the same random card (Diabolic Tutor or whatever), seems the way to go.
It's probably true. I hate doubling back away from a challenge I gave myself, but I bit off more than I can chew. Maybe I can find a way to make a few super-ingots in rare, and shuffle some cards into that one. I'll get back to this shortly.