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CardName: Fortification Wish Cost: 1B Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: You may choose a Fortification card you own from outside the game, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Exile Fortification Wish. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Community Set Common |
Code: UB03 Active?: true History: [-] |
Black needs fortification tutors if we're to move forward with the plan. This is a fortification tutor, meant to invoke Demonic Tutor and Burning Wish. Funny thing is, made a sorcery like this, it doesn't look common... but the simplest execution of this is a plain common, so if this works, it will works like this.
For want of a better place, I'll complain here that fortifications all seem heavily coloured; but each a different colour.
This card then contributes heavily to black having no theme.
Really, that bugs me too. Had this been a wish that wished for artifacts and was blue, I probably wouldn't have blinked. Funny that.
I did try to line some of the fortifications up with a 'needs black to be efficient' slant, but one got shifted to uncommon, and the other removed sacrificing the black creature type to be more universally useful. It's probably safe to assume, though, that of the 10 fortifications that 2 should lean heavier on black for one reason or another.
Like I pointed out in Black Commons Submissions, the "Black Having No Theme" problem was planned obsolescence. Black was designed to have no clear theme to see what worked, then ramp up that. After we ramp that up, we'll have to take a look at the fortification tutoring sub-theme and see if we need to make it blacker. I do think that we should align those two fortifications up front, though.
I'm pushing to have this card, and the other fortification wish, moved to Uncommon. Discussions about Black's identity with fortifications aside, I think we got a lot of information about this card in testing through people's reluctance to play it. It's obviously good, but this is too much to think about at common. In theory, it's no more confusing than Mystical Teachings (which might be too confusing for common itself... but let's not go there), but Mystical Teachings didn't ask players to evaluate 10 cards of a completely new sub-type when it tutored. It should be easy to figure out if you want a Shock or a Mana Leak. Figuring out if you want one out of ten new fortifications, or just keep playing with what you got, will bring the game to a halt.
We still need to decide what to do about black, but I agree that uncommon is almost certainly a better place for this. I think we were right to put it at common when we were evaluating everything together, but I don't think there's any reason to keep it there.