Hm. This ended up rather similar to my last GW card even though I started thinking from another direction. The logic is supposed to be that Selesnya is more about hive mind and crushing with big creatures, whereas this is more about punishment for transgressing the natural rules.
But honestly, again, it could perfectly well be Selesnya...
It seems like the only way to win this challenge is to find a way to do the exact opposite of what the Rav guild wants, yet remain in that guild's colors. Gamekeeper just runs parallel to Selesneya, it doesn't get in its way. That makes it 'printable' in Ravnica.
It certainly doesn't help the theme of Selesnya, though. If this could be a common ability (I know it can't. But if it were), I'd say this card would be guaranteed to be cut from the line-up, since it would get in the way of drafters. Maybe that's all you need to complete the challenge?
Yeah, I'm not sure what the key components of non-guild-ness are. I'd say some combination of:
Opposing flavour (eg. GW cards that don't feel all druidy)
Anti-synergism with the typical guild strategy or keyword
Hosing the traditional guild strategy or keyword
You can't always get all of them. If you do have all of them, it's reasonably clearly non-guild, although even then, it's quite hard to convince yourself that any RB card is non-Rakdos.
But if you have #2 and #3, it often looks a bit over the top, like "ok, yes, if your card explicitly says 'do bad things to boros' it's fairly anti-boros, but can you succeed without just writing the answer on the card."
And I'm not sure. If it differs philosophically and isn't drafted highly with other Selesnya cards, I think that's about as well as you can do, although hopefully some more examples of "oh well, yes, that's OBVIOUSLY not <guild>" will come along...
: Gamekeeper fights target creature that dealt damage to you this turn.
For Challenge # 066
Hm. This ended up rather similar to my last GW card even though I started thinking from another direction. The logic is supposed to be that Selesnya is more about hive mind and crushing with big creatures, whereas this is more about punishment for transgressing the natural rules.
But honestly, again, it could perfectly well be Selesnya...
It seems like the only way to win this challenge is to find a way to do the exact opposite of what the Rav guild wants, yet remain in that guild's colors. Gamekeeper just runs parallel to Selesneya, it doesn't get in its way. That makes it 'printable' in Ravnica.
It certainly doesn't help the theme of Selesnya, though. If this could be a common ability (I know it can't. But if it were), I'd say this card would be guaranteed to be cut from the line-up, since it would get in the way of drafters. Maybe that's all you need to complete the challenge?
Yeah, I'm not sure what the key components of non-guild-ness are. I'd say some combination of:
You can't always get all of them. If you do have all of them, it's reasonably clearly non-guild, although even then, it's quite hard to convince yourself that any RB card is non-Rakdos.
But if you have #2 and #3, it often looks a bit over the top, like "ok, yes, if your card explicitly says 'do bad things to boros' it's fairly anti-boros, but can you succeed without just writing the answer on the card."
And I'm not sure. If it differs philosophically and isn't drafted highly with other Selesnya cards, I think that's about as well as you can do, although hopefully some more examples of "oh well, yes, that's OBVIOUSLY not <guild>" will come along...