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CardName: Lifeboat Cost: W Type: Creature - Boat Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Rules Text: Seafarer +1/+1 (when you draw the first card each turn, if it's a nonland card, you may reveal it and this gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Common |
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For Challenge # 074
A variant on Swashbuckle from Mainbrace Brawler, inspired by miracles, werewolves and homarids (sorry).
The flavour is more of a favourable or unfavourable winds -- each turn, your navigation cards may or may not turn on.
I'd like a more swashbuckly name than "navigator", but preferably one that ties into the favourable winds/nonland idea, or otherwise justifies a particular card type.
I wasn't sure about the exact revelation: should it be "reveal the card you draw in your draw phase", or "each card you draw in your turn" or "the first card you draw each turn"? Or "at the start of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library", but that could be confusing if you shuffle your library with an instant speed effect between the resolution of two navigator abilities. Does that matter?
This is one of the simplest implementations of the idea, which therefore seems good to me.
Wouldn't a navigator want to find land, though?
You'd also assume that the reward would be better... drawing a land would be a consolation prize. That, and you wouldn't have to reveal important information... just that you drew a land, and this is what it is.
I get the impression that you wanted to avoid comparisons to Landfall, Jack. But I think the audience is going to talk about landfall anyway. What Navigator really wants to reveal is some card type that doesn't exist yet. Unexplored territory, or hidden treasuresd, perhaps. I agree that that's tricky to translate.
Oh, by the way, I like the ability. I should probably mention that, since it seems important.
Oops, I went back and forth on the name. I think I had "navigator" for finding land and "seafarer" for finding nonland, and a couple of other ideas, but none were quite right. Let's use "seafarer" for now.
I also considered "card that shares a colour with it" or "creature card" or "noncreature card", which would also be good, but none had a very good flavour.
Alternatively, if this is "once each turn", maybe landfall instead of "if you draw" would do fine (and even fit the flavour)? Though maybe that means this is still too close to Zendikar?
@all, thank you.
Navigator -> Seafarer