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CardName: Spectral Precursor Cost: 3W Type: Creature - Spirit Pow/Tgh: 2/2 Rules Text: Flying When Spectral Precursor enters the battlefield, reveal the top four cards of your library. Put all Spirit cards revealed this way into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Uncommon |
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Created for Challenge # 072. This is to appear in Apocalypse, as a prelude to Champions of Kamigawa.
The thing about Invasion block was it was primarily about multicolour (it was the first gold block), but it had a number of other subthemes. One of them was creature types - what would later be nicknamed tribal effects. Apocalypse had seven creatures with this kind of effect: Enlistment Officer, Tidal Courier, Grave Defiler, Goblin Ringleader, Sylvan Messenger; but also Kavu Howler and Brass Herald. If the random Kavu Howler had been expanded out into a second cycle, that could have provided a card that looked innocuous in Invasion block, but turned out to be a powerhouse once Kamigawa rolled around.
totally forgot about these. may i borrow this for my set? i'll also make an Elemental version as well.
Hee. Yes, certainly. I was in two minds whether to make this 2WB 3/3 or 3W 2/2, actually; not sure which version you'd prefer for your set. (The Elemental version would be somewhat unwieldly in tri-colour.)
I wish they did make this in Apocalypse. Tidal Courier is such a let down. There was a strange policy back then that fun cards shouldn't be good, because they're already fun... they don't need the help. Man, this game's come a long way.
I don't think the whole cycle were bad. It's just Tidal Courier which was awful. And I think that's because they were trying to avoid blue creatures being too good. That policy came to a head in Onslaught block with its awful blue Wizards and Birds.
Tidal Courier's not awful. I run it perfectly happily in my mostly-Lorwyn merfolk deck!
Good for you. If the card is fun to play with, that's all that truly matters.
Personally, my inner-Johnny just needs a gimmick. I love Brass Herald... but that's because, when I play it, I call 'Golem'. :p
(BTW, there's nothing I like to see more than to drop a Brass Herald, and pick up an Oxidda Golem off the top of the deck. Free 4/3 Haste creature? Don't mind if I do!)
Yeah; I'm remembering my Fallen Empires era merfolk deck fondly, and thinking Tidal Courier would have been a great addition to it.