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CardName: Sungeyser Cost: 6GGG Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Gain 30 life. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Name That Card Mythic

Sungeyser
{6}{g}{g}{g}
 
 M 
Sorcery
Gain 30 life.
Updated on 18 May 2020 by jmgariepy

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2020-05-12 00:17:47: jmgariepy created the card Sungeyser

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

2020-05-17 09:31:15: jmgariepy edited Sungeyser

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?"

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