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CardName: Cannonfodder Cost: x2 Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: For each {w} spent to cast Cannonfodder, put a 1/1 white US Soldier creature token onto the battlefield. Similarly put creature tokens onto the battlefield that are 1/1 blue Fascist Soldiers for each {u} spent, 1/1 black Nazi Soldiers for each {b} spent, 1/1 red Soviet Soldiers for each {r} spent, and 1/1 green FFF Soldiers for each {g} spent. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: WWII Mythic

Cannonfodder

Sorcery

For each

spent to cast Cannonfodder, put a 1/1 white US Soldier creature token onto the battlefield. Similarly put creature tokens onto the battlefield that are 1/1 blue Fascist Soldiers for each {u}

spent, 1/1 black Nazi Soldiers for each {b}

spent, 1/1 red Soviet Soldiers for each {r}

spent, and 1/1 green FFF Soldiers for each {g}

spent.

Updated on 15 Nov 2012 by Neuromancer

Code: MZ48

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2012-11-04 18:32:34: Neuromancer created the card Cannonfodder

by Vitenka:

How about: MultiKicker {1} : A 1/1 soldier token of the colour of mana spent on this ability ETBs.

by Alex:

Vitenka, please be careful when giving silly templating advice...

This will be tricky to template. Sarpadian Empires, Vol. VII sidestepped the issue. I'd probably most recommend going for a Last Stand-style template where it looks at the lands you have rather than the mana you spent:

> Put a 1/1 white US Soldier creature token onto the battlefield for each Plains you control. > Put a 1/1 blue Fascist Soldier creature token onto the battlefield for each Island you control. > Put a 1/1 black Nazi Soldier creature token onto the battlefield for each Swamp you control. > Put a 1/1 red Soviet Soldier creature token onto the battlefield for each Mountain you control. > Put a 1/1 green FFF Soldier creature token onto the battlefield for each Forest you control.

If you do want it to care about the mana you spent, I guess you'll have to go with something like:

> For each {w} spent to cast ~, put a 1/1 white US Soldier creature token onto the battlefield. For each {u} spent to cast ~, put a 1/1 blue Fascist Soldier creature token onto the battlefield. For each {b} spent to cast ~, put a 1/1 black Nazi Soldier creature token onto the battlefield. For each {r} spent to cast ~, put a 1/1 red Soviet Soldier creature token onto the battlefield. For each {g} spent to cast ~, put a 1/1 green FFF Soldier creature token onto the battlefield.

That's horrendously wordy, so possibly you could go with:

> For each {w} spent to cast ~, put a 1/1 white US Soldier creature token onto the battlefield. Similarly put creature tokens onto the battlefield that are 1/1 blue Fascist Soldiers for each {u} spent, 1/1 black Nazi Soldiers for each {b} spent, 1/1 red Soviet Soldiers for each {r} spent, and 1/1 green FFF Soldiers for each {g} spent.

2012-11-12 13:26:51: Neuromancer edited Cannonfodder:

Horrible, horrible wording, BUT can we work on this?

by Vitenka:

How about going with it having them as abilities? There's no way to avoid having five lines of text; but I think you can limit it to that.

Cannonfoddertest

I know it's somewhat nonstandard; but it HAS been done before, in extremis - and this seems a pretty extremis situation.

by Vitenka:

The other sensible suggestion would be to split this into three cards, each covering two colours (or two cards, covering three each, might make even more sense).

2012-11-15 07:53:33: Neuromancer edited Cannonfodder:

Actually that looks better than I expected

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