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CardName: Compassion Without End Cost: 1W Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Whenever a player exiles a card, that player searches his or her library for a card named Noble Vestige, reveals it, puts it in their hand, then shuffles their library. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Uncommon |
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For Challenge # 056.
Noble Vestige? Really?
I was aiming for an innocuous common creature that cost between 3 and 4 mana that could, in theory be printed in a core set, and would probably not be be picked high, unless you happened to make a Compassion Without End deck. So, I set up my parameters, and included "Rating of 2.0 or less" on Gatherer, and this seemed the best option... plus it's got a bit of flavor hook up in there as well. It could have been worse. I thought about Keepers of the Faith for a few seconds, but then I figured no one would take me seriously. Aven Flock was also on my radar, but I figured you only needed one Aven Flock to win, and that would be a bit anti-climatic.
How about Plains? I think if you're not in Magic 20XX mode, referencing a random common looks very (very) odd. But white has an occasional history of fetching Plains in wacky ways.
It makes it too good a card. Example of play:
Round 2: Tolarian Winds.
Round 3: Tormod's Crypt (and Spellbook I guess). Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt, target yourself, and congratulations. You just tutored 7 Plains out of your deck.
I mean, you could make the card do that, but it's going to jump to a cost of 6, which puts it well outside the range of "I like to play this with 4 Oblivion Rings and two Flickers."
I suppose I could have asked for an awkward creature type. Griffon would have been fine, for example.