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CardName: Raised by Wolves Cost: 1G Type: Enchantment - Aura Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Enchant Human Creature. Enchanted creature and each other wolf you control gets +2/2. Sacrifice a wolf you control: deal damage equal to its power to target creature. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Rare |
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For Challenge # 033
I wanted another card that references two creatures types, and kept looking until I found a flavour I liked.
I originally wanted something that said "Each X you control gets +1/+1 for each Y you control" but I couldn't find a flavour that fit.
You know, I really like the flavor of this, but I find it kind of funny that a human that was raised by wolves didn't quite realize the power he had over wolves until he was enchanted. It's a bit like Mwogli grew up, walked out of the forest and lived among men as a business professional. Then one day, when his boss is giving him hell, he suddenly realizes "Hold it. I was raised by wolves.", calls for his wolf bretheren and rips Belvue and Stoker Inc. to pieces.
I always thought that about Crib Swap. When I topdecked it I'd say "Haha! That Giant that's been beating me up for three turns: it turns out that it was swapped at birth with a little Changeling! Erm."
That's actually a really interesting question. I've always been ok with magic cards that tell a story, rather than represent a specific current action (like, you discover you have been the chosen one since birth), but I don't know if they should exist -- I agree they don't exactly fit the supposed flavour :)
FWIW, I think Crib Swap could be interpreted as "there's this spell that changelings use to exchange a changeling baby for non-changeling baby, and the planeswalker is warping that to their own purpose by using it to exchange a changeling baby for a Hill Giant that's just run into the middle of a dangerous battle". Which is rather more disturbing when you think about it, but less chronologically paradoxical :)
Heh. In Jack's version, keeping the name Cribswapping, is a bit of a slangy way for a Planeswalker to act like a jerk. You know, instead of calling the card "Curse of Babyism."
This is nicely comparable to the card Wizards were designing about the same time, Raised by Wolves.
At least this one has "Enchant Human creature", so you don't get the ridiculous moments "This Wolf of mine? Turns out it was ALSO RAISED BY WOLVES!"