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Welcome back to installment #30 of Name That Card! For our anniversary we have a whopper of a life gain sorcery. Simple enough. The toughest part was determining a fair casting cost.
Blessed Wind... is old. Granny's Payback can't be counted, since it's silver bordered... but it does go a long way to explain how out of control life gain can get at higher casting costs. Planewide Celebration helps more. It only costs 7 mana, but can gain you 16 life... presuming you have no interest in firing off the other modes. So maybe a non-modal card that costs 7 mana would net... 20 life? Maybe more? That's quite a step up from Heroes Remembered, which cost a flat 9 (though, it could be suspended on round 1. So maybe the cc of HR is more of a minimum cost.)
Sure then. If I have to guess, I'm using HR's casting cost (in Green.) Maybe 5-6 extra life is added to that spell for removing suspend, and another 4-5 life added because the needle has shifted up since then.
Also compare Ajani, Mentor of Heroes. Although I suspect that straight lifegain might be unbalanceable this high, that either it's unplayable or it just leads to stalls. I agree 30 is probably about right for something that's really significant but didn't make the game pointless. Suggesting:
Garruk's Endurance
Sungeyser
Eternal life
Springbloom
Blessing of Gaea
Archgrowth
Seed of Rejuvenation
Thirty Is the New Twenty
Jack gets this one this week. It's admittedly tough to make lifegain sound titanic. I think of the lot, Sungeyser may be the best candidate.
(((NTC #31))) in a couple of days.
I forgot to say (or maybe thought it wasn't super important) but Sungeyser is by far my favorite. I don't know why, but I really like this name.
I was also a fan of Seed of Rejuvenation as a far second, tho.
This is a neat nod to Braingeyser
Ah. That may be why I kept saying to myself, "But doesn't the name Sungeyser infer it is an X spell?"