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CardName: Call of Plunder Cost: XRR Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Put an X/X red Giant creature token onto the battlefield. Flavour Text: The news of the sack of Stonefast spread far and wide amongst the peaks, luring Giants from far and wide with the promise of plunder. Set/Rarity: Dark Omens Common |
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Why as a sorcery+token instead of a "Pludering Giant" creature?
But it's an interesting card. Usually X creatures are rare, and better than this, but this sort of potentially-big but overcosted card is the sort of thing red gets in limited, so this may actually be about right for common!
cleaner and easier to understand at common as a sorcery+token mainly so it was the simplest implementation.
Plus I needed a Sorcery and I originally had this as a "Plundering Giant" style creature that wouldn't fit because of the other creatures I wanted/needed at common so...serendipity.
Plus, thematically it can be said to represent several giants turning up for "their share" of the loot, especially if a lot of mana is dumped into it.
If it wasn't such a terrible casting cost, I would have suggested
to put X 3/3 Giants onto the battlefield, since that sounds more flavor appropriate. Not only is that casting cost ugly, but people don't like to pay 5 for a 3/3, even when it's fair. It's a pity we've yet to get a 'colored X' mana symbol for things like Consume Spirit, and maybe Frozen Shade. While it would still be ill-advised, 
{X=R}
would at least be a competitive casting cost. Hmm... Colored X. I wonder what the symbol would look like?
Probably like Phyrexian mana
: an X in a colored circle.
Ah. Don't make the X colored, make the background colored. Yeah, that would work.
I could drop it to
and no people don't usually like to pay 5 for a 3/3 but 6 for a 4/4, 7 for a 5/5, 8 for a 6/6 is more common
I'm not sure, but I think XRR is probably correct. I think (XR)(XR) is probably too harsh; it will be too good if someone plays a mono-red deck, and probably unplayable otherwise. (X)(XR) or (X)(XR)(R) would be a possibility, but is a bit too funky :)
I like the "X 3/3 giants" but I think that should be uncommon, I think at common it would be better with just two modes.
I'm reminded of my silly card Firesnake Eruption. Which is also too good; it pretty much obsoletes Lightning Elemental and is jolly efficient at other casting spots too.
I think
is best. The flexibility makes up for the inefficiency. 
would be your choice of Gray Ogre, Hill Giant, Fomori Nomad, etc... which might be OK because none of those are powerhouses... hmm.
I figured the utility of this warranted the extra
for just those reasons Alex. :-)
Sir, I third pick Fomori Nomads. Those things are powerhouses.