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CardName: Dame Mikitna Cost: {1}{w} Type: Creature - Mouse Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Rules Text: Bushido 1 (Dame Mikitna has +1/+1 for each creature she is in combat with) Attacking creatures have no activated abilities. Flavour Text: If I lived here, I’d be home already. Set/Rarity: Community Mashup Set Rare

Dame Mikitna
{1}{w}
 
 R 
Creature – Mouse
Bushido 1 (Dame Mikitna has +1/+1 for each creature she is in combat with)
Attacking creatures have no activated abilities.
If I lived here, I’d be home already.
Illus. aimage
1/1
Created on 16 May 2024 by Vitenka

History:

2024-05-16 19:04:54: Vitenka created and commented on the card Dame Mikitna

­Mukotai Banneret + Liliana's Mastery

Let's see, black rat ninja accelerator, and black zombie lord (but not the actual zombie lord)

So we plug that in to generate some image ideas - and the first output it spits out can be summarised as "Jedi Mouse". Which is very cool. (I think the ponytails resulted from them sometimes being called "rat-tails") (And on later inspection, the pose is because I forgot to clear out a bunch of prior context)

So I'm now making a white mouse, somehow. So if I'm flipping that, let's flip the whole thing - an anti-lord decelerator. Could target zombies directly - but I think instead we'll target ninjitsu. Only that's WAYYY too parasitic. So let's try to enforce somewhat honourable combat.

Ugh, and there's really no simple way of doing that. Mixing the names together, I got... mikitna That sounds nicely mousey. TIL I learned Danger-Mouse's official real-name. And thus Mikitna has become a dame.

Next, I search for "Dame mouse quotes"... and find Minnie Mouse quotes. We'll pick one that could be taken to be sort of "trying to sound profound" an I think that's a wrap. Oh no, power, cost and rarity. I want smol power, bushido sort of makes up for it (even if it only works when defending, here) - this is basically a utility critter, so 1. Can't even slightly be common. Could argue uncommon but only if I try very hard. No, his has to be rare. Probably not sensible to go legendary-mythic, so rare it is. Cost... guildmaster is 2 but you have to pay to use it. On the flip side, it's also asymmetric due to this. Ah - Linvala, Keeper of Silence, ok, that's only 4 for large flyer AND completely asymmetric! That suggests this could be as low as 1! Assuming that's just the age old "Oh, mythic means we don't need to worry about balance" curse, I think we just need to worry about "How horrible is it if this drops to the field too early". And it's not really too bad? It really just stops you trying to use combat as tricks, you have to up-front your choices. But 1 is silly, so make it 2.

2024-05-16 19:05:34: Vitenka edited Dame Mikitna:

it -> she Don't care if that's not how mtg does it, this mousey is a dame and clearly she

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