CardName: Grateful Farmer
Cost: 1W
Type: Creature - Human Peasant
Pow/Tgh: 1/3
Rules Text: Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1
life.
Flavour Text:
Set/Rarity: [Assorted] Card Repository Common
Grateful Farmer
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Creature – Human Peasant
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.
This seems super black mechanically and not surprisingly, basically all of the cards with the text "Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies," are black.
Why doesn't it have a race tribe?
The flavor confuses me quite a bit as well - is this meant to be like a quest giver NPC from a game? Ie. "Go kill those goblins pillaging our village for 50 EXP"? Why is it giving life? That pushed even harder the black narrative of like soul sucking or something. Ie. Soul Net
> Tahazzar: "The flavor confuses me quite a bit as well - is this meant to be like a quest giver NPC from a game? Ie. "Go kill those goblins pillaging our village for 50 EXP"? Why is it giving life?"
Exactly. If your first guess is correct, the flavor cannot be that confusing, can it?
It gives life, because they have not much as a reward to share but a bit of their farmed food. I could make it a Food token to drive home the point that you don't get Treasure or Gold instead.
"Destroy our enemies indiscriminately and I will grant you life everlasting."
—Grateful Farmer
> I could make it a Food token to drive home the point that you don't get Treasure or Gold instead.
Oh, so now it's baking those slaughtered enemies into food? Damn. Jk, well kinda. (Bake into a Pie)
One way to make the flavor transparent would be putting some kind of a bounty counter on a creature. Basically Dead Man's Chest does this in flavor terms, again notably in black since that's really where the thing seems to make sense.
"Thanks for protecting our carrot farm from the ravenous kezzerdrix swarm. Here have a carrot."
Can you please point out the contradiction? It's like saying white doesn't get lifelink because they get Dromad Purebred. While indeed lifelink is in both white and black.
White is the color of life gain ever since it got stuck with Healing Salve, while black only gets life gain as a result of drain/sacrifice/death/harm i. e. representing parasitism. Black gets first dibs on that niche, but white can pick it up.
This is Ashes of the Abhorrent's triggered ability, but restricted for flavor. Would you complain about the ability on a hybrid card?
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This seems super black mechanically and not surprisingly, basically all of the cards with the text "Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies," are black.
Why doesn't it have a race tribe?
The flavor confuses me quite a bit as well - is this meant to be like a quest giver NPC from a game? Ie. "Go kill those goblins pillaging our village for 50 EXP"? Why is it giving life? That pushed even harder the black narrative of like soul sucking or something. Ie. Soul Net
Yeah; typically white gets "when a creature arrives" gain life, and black gets "when a creature dies"; and they mirror one another.
and that's given me a thought. Guardian of Avernum
t: added Human
> Tahazzar: "The flavor confuses me quite a bit as well - is this meant to be like a quest giver NPC from a game? Ie. "Go kill those goblins pillaging our village for 50 EXP"? Why is it giving life?"
Exactly. If your first guess is correct, the flavor cannot be that confusing, can it?
It gives life, because they have not much as a reward to share but a bit of their farmed food. I could make it a Food token to drive home the point that you don't get Treasure or Gold instead.
It gives very contradicting vibes.
"Destroy our enemies indiscriminately and I will grant you life everlasting." —Grateful Farmer
> I could make it a Food token to drive home the point that you don't get Treasure or Gold instead.
Oh, so now it's baking those slaughtered enemies into food? Damn. Jk, well kinda. (Bake into a Pie)
One way to make the flavor transparent would be putting some kind of a bounty counter on a creature. Basically Dead Man's Chest does this in flavor terms, again notably in black since that's really where the thing seems to make sense.
It's a farmer, not a cook.
"Thanks for protecting our carrot farm from the ravenous kezzerdrix swarm. Here have a carrot."
Can you please point out the contradiction? It's like saying white doesn't get lifelink because they get Dromad Purebred. While indeed lifelink is in both white and black.
White is the color of life gain ever since it got stuck with Healing Salve, while black only gets life gain as a result of drain/sacrifice/death/harm i. e. representing parasitism. Black gets first dibs on that niche, but white can pick it up.
This is Ashes of the Abhorrent's triggered ability, but restricted for flavor. Would you complain about the ability on a hybrid card?
Published as mtgnexus Card of the Day 2021-05-06.