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CardName: Tubes of Kroog Cost: 2 Type: Artifact Creature - Plant Pow/Tgh: 0/3 Rules Text: Defender {2}: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Tubes of Kroog. Flavour Text: Among the first defenses Urza devised were the Tubes of Kroog. Once their place was secured, the tubes telescoped, blotting out every hope of sunlight. Set/Rarity: Mashup: the Gathering Alpha Common |
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Random Generator gave me Amulet of Kroog and Wall of Vines. I know the Amulet is a Mono-artifact, but I figured it would be cute to do something the way it looks, instead of the way it is.
Originally, this card prevented the damage to you (for ) but that kind of bugged me (it was too cheap for common, I think, but would look unsightly. Really, the card needed to be a 3/3 or something to make sense, but one of the base cards is Wall of Vines). Now that the creature prevents damage to itself, though, I moved it back. It doesn't bug me as much. It could be cooler... but it's common, so it's probably fine.
I really wanted to force "Target player gains 1 life." on this card, since Gladhanding Genie would love it... but the Amulet doesn't gain life, and I'd really have to force something to tone down ": Target player gains 1 life." Again... common issues.
Now featuring two over-long smooshed together flavor texts. I tells ya... nothing makes a card feel old more than those paragraphs of long, winding flavor texts unnatached to the rest of the game.
I feel like you could have kept amulet's original text here, bumped it to uncommon and it would have been a very good card there.
I thought about that. Mostly, I chose against it, since it reminded me too much of another old card: Shield of the Ages. Personally, I can't wait until a mash-up comes up that leads directly to a reprint... but Wall of Vines won't let that happen today. In the end, I decided that I wanted this to look like a Wall of Vines with an Amulet of Kroog, instead of a Wall of Vines holding a Shield of Ages... even though I'm probably the only person who would notice the difference...
It's like a funkily worded reverse Dragon Engine It really does feel like a card from that era. Well done :)