CardName: Nuisance Engineer
Cost: 3
Type: Artifact Creature - Construct
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Rules Text: When Nuisance Engineer enters the battlefield, create two
0/1 colourless Pest artifact creature tokens.
Flavour Text: Every mechanic soon learns the difference between "call the
vermin bot" and "call the vermin exterminator bot".
Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Common
Nuisance Engineer
C
Artifact Creature – Construct
When Nuisance Engineer enters the battlefield, create two 0/1 colourless Pest artifact creature tokens.
Every mechanic soon learns the difference between "call the vermin bot" and "call the vermin exterminator bot".
See Challenge # 167.
2-1-1-3-5: blueish common artifact, CMC 3, for a combo deck.
Whew. Common combo pieces are a little tricky. I don't know if Dross Scorpion would be common these days. The magic word "whenever", my favourite word in Magic, tends to be red flagged at common.
I think an ETB trigger is probably the way to go. At common you want something that provides an effect once, the kind of effect that doesn't dominate Limited on its own, but is the kind of effect that combo decks would like to loop with the help of some uncommons or rares.
I tried to tread the middle ground here between "interesting enough for a constructed combo deck to potentially want it" and "too good at gumming up the ground in limited". Not sure how well I hit the target...
Only after I hit Create did I realise how close this comes to Sengir Autocrat :) But I think the artifactness makes it interesting for a different set of decks. I know my Sludge Strider deck would love a card or two like this.
ROFL. Yes, I know what you mean, I love the open-endedness of "whenever" :)
Oh yes, this does feel combo-friendly without actually having any abilities, although it does feel verging into uncommon, common token-producers seem to be fairly unpushed.
Another possibility would be some other sort of card that combo wants other than a combo piece, like card filtering, although that might also be hard to make common. There are SOME combo effects that feel common, like "when this enters the battlefield, untap target creature". But people are probably wisely leery of them by now, especially any related to mana :)
See Challenge # 167. 2-1-1-3-5: blueish common artifact, CMC 3, for a combo deck.
Whew. Common combo pieces are a little tricky. I don't know if Dross Scorpion would be common these days. The magic word "whenever", my favourite word in Magic, tends to be red flagged at common.
I think an ETB trigger is probably the way to go. At common you want something that provides an effect once, the kind of effect that doesn't dominate Limited on its own, but is the kind of effect that combo decks would like to loop with the help of some uncommons or rares.
I tried to tread the middle ground here between "interesting enough for a constructed combo deck to potentially want it" and "too good at gumming up the ground in limited". Not sure how well I hit the target...
Only after I hit Create did I realise how close this comes to Sengir Autocrat :) But I think the artifactness makes it interesting for a different set of decks. I know my Sludge Strider deck would love a card or two like this.
ROFL. Yes, I know what you mean, I love the open-endedness of "whenever" :)
Oh yes, this does feel combo-friendly without actually having any abilities, although it does feel verging into uncommon, common token-producers seem to be fairly unpushed.
Another possibility would be some other sort of card that combo wants other than a combo piece, like card filtering, although that might also be hard to make common. There are SOME combo effects that feel common, like "when this enters the battlefield, untap target creature". But people are probably wisely leery of them by now, especially any related to mana :)