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CardName: Barbedtail Spineling Cost: 1B Type: Creature - Drake Skeleton Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Rules Text: Flying Sacrifice Barbedtail Spineling: Return target creature from your graveyard to your hand, unless an opponent pays {1}. Flavour Text: "To fight a master, I study for years. Thankfully, I'm facing you." -Tojira, swamp queen Set/Rarity: Mashup: the Gathering Alpha Common

Barbedtail Spineling
{1}{b}
 
 C 
Creature – Drake Skeleton
Flying
Sacrifice Barbedtail Spineling: Return target creature from your graveyard to your hand, unless an opponent pays {1}.
"To fight a master, I study for years. Thankfully, I'm facing you."
-Tojira, swamp queen
1/1
Updated on 07 Aug 2013 by jmgariepy

Code: CB03

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2013-03-20 02:48:03: jmgariepy created the card Barbedtail Spineling

New Mirrodin needs to be tested before I move forward. I don't know what the color's dominant strategies officially are, so I can't support them in the uncommon slot until I play a few games. In the meantime, I'm switching back to Mashup: Alpha... which is rather close to complete itself. I guess it's a bit of a race, since this set only needs to look stable.

Anyhow, I need some black commons, and the prerequisites look filled, so I hit the random button until I got a black card (Raise Dead), and hit it one more time to get Spiketail Hatchling. Then I did the obvious thing. Maybe I should have thought about what would happen if I got two rares. Luckily, I got two commons.

Sure, it's nothing special, but I have to admit it makes me smile. I really like the 'sleep with one mana open' effect that this card enforces. Made a skeleton because the set has a bunch of skeletons... though, I wonder if a skeleton without regeneration is confusing? Some creature types... they seem to want to do one thing only...

Looks nice.

I wonder how it'll play. I wonder if it'll function like a 2 mana Stone Rain? It'll be interesting to see in-game.

That's actually quite interesting. At first I wasn't sure how much the {1} mattered, but that probably makes it interesting. I imagine that early on if the graveyard only has other one and two drops, the right thing to do may be ignore it, but as soon as something exciting gets into the graveyard, the opponent may well need to leave the mana open (assuming the drake survives that long).

2013-08-07 01:45:03: jmgariepy edited Barbedtail Spineling

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