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CardName: Exchange Program Cost: 2R Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Phasing When Exchange Program phases out, you may have target opponent gain control of target creature you own. When Exchange Program phases in, gain control of target creature you own controlled by an opponent. If you do, put three +1/+1 counters on that creature and it gains haste until end of turn. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Name That Card Rare

Exchange Program
{2}{r}
 
 R 
Enchantment
Phasing
When Exchange Program phases out, you may have target opponent gain control of target creature you own.
When Exchange Program phases in, gain control of target creature you own controlled by an opponent. If you do, put three +1/+1 counters on that creature and it gains haste until end of turn.
Updated on 12 Aug 2020 by jmgariepy

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2020-08-04 23:59:59: jmgariepy created the card Exchange Program

It took me a while to figure out how to do what I wanted to do (give a creature to your opponent, then get it back stronger than ever) until I stumbled upon phasing. Man, phasing is great for doing something every other turn, or going back and forth between two different things. When are they finally going to create an exiling version of this mechanic?

Anyhow, this enchantment gives Goblins, Walls, and drawback creatures to your opponent, only to pick them back up next turn tougher than ever. Admittedly, if you never give your opponent something valuable, it's rather powerful over a large number of turns. But you don't really gain any value from it until the third round after you cast it, so maybe the cost is okay? Unsure. Let's pretend it is.

Oh, here's another cute thing about this card. Your opponent can't gain control of your creature, then destroy NTC #040. Because by the time you've given your opponent your creature, the enchantment is already phased out. Stifles and hexproof still work, but most of the time, you're going to get back that creature.

But... what is the card's name?

I love this effect a lot... but it looks really hard to make a name for!

Also, this effect would work in most colors, probably. Especially since Haste can be used by any color if the effect itself needs it to function.

Thus, I'm going to suggest a bunch of names for funsies.

As a {w} card, I would call this Betray and Repent, or if you don't mind a long-ass name, Cycle of Betrayal and Repentance. Maybe a cardname based off of getting ripped while incarcerated could also work.

As a {u} card, I would call this Spy Network

As a {b} card, I would call this Demonic Infiltration or Vampiric Infiltration.

As a {r} card, I would call this Mass Hysteria or Berzerker's Plague.

As a {g} card, I would call this Life in Captivity or Free from Captivity.

Edit: Sooo, I guess I underestimated how little ideas I had. lol.

Oops. This is the first time this came up, but Mass Hysteria is disqualified because it's already taken. S'okay, though. You got plenty of alternatives. 😉

Also, I just discovered that my Surface tablet's on screen keyboard has an full emoji suite. 🙄

Oh yeah, that's an interesting parcel of ability, where I've no idea what flavour it naturally has -- so perfect for NTC :) I love Froggy's tour of possible flavours, those are all really good!

I'm not sure I can do better, but let's try Loyalty Strobe

I like the prospect of putting this in a Zedruu deck. Or a deck with Inniaz, the Gale Force, or Switcheroo, or that kind of thing. Anything where you get to choose not to use the "may" ability and still benefit from the second half :)

Interestingly another one of Froggy's names is also taken. Annoyingly so is Cultural Exchange, my second thought for a name here.

As a {r} card, I call this Waves of Loyalty.

Oh right. Spy Network. Oddly looked at too many things to see a reprint, and somehow not enough things. Really should have just said 'all facedown cards in exile and the battlefield'. Maybe then it coulda been in an odd core set.

Ach! Both my best names were duplicates!

Okay, well here's two replacement names:

­{r}: Cathartic Vacation (might be too similar to Cathartic Reunion, which is also a good name for this card!)... vacation's also not a very strong word, lmao. I was tempted to just call this Catharsis, and after looking, no card has used that name! Hurray!

­{u}: Sleeping Agency (probably too similar to Sleeper Agent), so perhaps a new flavor is in order Irrational Telepathy or Paranoid Telepathy? The flavor text/art is a near-omniscient mind-mage (psionic) absolutely OBSESSING over the few things he doesn't know, which are how loyal his subordinates are to him... could be neat, methinks.

Exchange Program, perhaps?

Goblin Nursery

­Rebirth of Heroes

Snuck them in under the wire. ;)

Polling is now open! Vote for your favorite name here!

2020-08-12 00:41:00: jmgariepy edited Exchange Program

Link picks up this one, as Exchange Program squeaks ahead of a five way tie for second.

See you all in (((NTC #041)))!

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