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CardName: The Untouchable Cost: 3BB Type: Planeswalker - Phage Pow/Tgh: /4 Rules Text: [+1] Target creature you control gains deathtouch until the beginning of your next turn. [-6] The next time a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent this turn, that player loses the game. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None |
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For Challenge # 075, based on Phage the Untouchable.
I wondered which legendary creatures were most iconic as specific creatures, not just cards, and phage immediately seemed obvious. I wasn't sure of the best way of representing the abilities. I only had room for two and even that's a squeeze. But the ultimate is a doozy, doing what ultimates normally avoid and giving you an outright win, but with an extra hoop to jump through.
The ultimate is interesting compared to Vraska the Unseen. It has more chance of failing, in particular in response to a Fog effect; most planeswalkers' ultimates are permanent rather than oneoff (though Garruk Wildspeaker's is also foiled by Fog).
Phage has been a planeswalker in the actual story, so I don't think this fits the challenge.
@Alex: oops, I'd completely forgotten Vraska. That is basically the Phage the Untouchable card in planeswalker form. I mostly prefer that version, although I like a few things about mine.
@SM: Yeah, I guess I read too quickly. "That hasn't appeared on a planeswalker card" made so much more sense to me, and both of the examples given were for planeswalkers that had actually been made into cards, I assumed it was just "don't redesign a card which has already been both a legendary creature and a planeswalker", it didn't occur to me we were supposed to be inventing a whole new planeswalker character, not just a new planeswalker card.
I like this. I kind of wish there were more two ability planeswalkers. They make a good change of pace. I would say, though, that putting a token creature into play as the middle ability would make a lot of sense... since the fist and last ability doesn't do anything without creatures.
Oh, yes, this is also a PW you can't +1 if you have no creatures. Wizards have been avoiding that, even if that means fiddly wording like Ajani, Caller of the Pride's.