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CardName: Semi-Tamed Vorrac Cost: 3G Type: Creature - Beast Pow/Tgh: 5/5 Rules Text: As long as there is exactly one Beast on the battlefield, Semi-Tamed Vorrac has defender. As long as there are two or more Beasts on the battlefield, Semi-Tamed Vorrac must attack, if able. Flavour Text: "No, No, No! Not the Rutabagas!" -Sojfa, Leonin Prioress Set/Rarity: New Mirrodin Uncommon |
Code: UG11 Active?: true History: [-] Add your comments: |
I added Vorrac Battleyoke and figured it would be weird to have a yoke without any vorracs to put it on, so I made a Vorrac. Ornery fellow, them vorracs. Don't domesticate easily.
Also, I find it funny what this card does when you start monkeying with the creature type line. Turn this Vorrac into an Elk? Well, it's a 4/4 Elk that can attack and block normally. Does your opponent have a Wizard and a Vorrac? You can turn his Vorrac into a beast, and force the other one to attack. Good times.
Also, as a last addition, I changed the normal "creatures you control" to "creatures on the battlefield". I figure, attacking is better than not attacking, and most likely you're in a draft, and your opponent just played a Part-Wild Vorrac... it's not the same as feeding off your opponent's goblins with Gempalm Incinerator...
I like the design, but the name isn't very good. What about "Semi-Tamed"?
I went searching for the correct terminology for hard to domesticate animals. There's not good name for it... just "Part-This" and "Semi-That". I'll take the suggestion, though. It doesn't sound better to my ears, but if it does to yours, that's good enough for me.
I just don't like the word "part" when referring to something that's partially done. I also spent at least 10 minutes looking up alternatives, but I couldn't find any.
You'd think the horsey set would have invented such a word - but I can't find it either, if they did. Fresh? Brash? Wilful?
Unfortunately, normal adjectives that express the demeanor of the animal don't get the idea across of "I'm trying to use this animal as a plowbeast, but this is a hard animal to break". That's kind of because humans don't break animals that are hard to break. We'd only do that if there were no domesticatable animals to work with, the way the Mirrans are operating on Glornica.
I suppose one could go with "Willful Beast of Burden" or something or other. By dropping Vorrac, and leaving the vorrac in just the picture, it would work as a normal Magic card. Unfortunately, I don't have artists to work with, so that answer is more theoretical than practical.
Bumped to uncommon, and added +1/+1. I also cheated by adding another uncommon slot to all the uncommons. There are too many cycles in this set, but I don't want to pull any of them.