CardName: Frozen Charm Cost: S Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Choose one - Target permanent is a snow permanent until end of turn; or counter target activated ability; or target creature can't be blocked, except by snow creatures. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Common |
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For Challenge # 081. I figured I'd cut someone off at the pass and make a snow charm.
The first ability seems pretty obvious. After that, it's a trick trying to make the card both relevant, and do things that any color thinks is fine to do. Colorless instants are particularly tricky. Show someone a color-pie breaking artifact and they shrug. Show that same person an instant with no color identity doing anything and the immediate response is "That feels [color]. Why wouldn't that be [color]."
Luckily, 'can't be blocked except by things like it' belongs equally to each color. It's also a good flavor match, which is what I was going for with the second ability. Counter target activated ability is technically blue... but it's come up on, like, 6 cards? 9 cards if you count the fact that it used to be in Green? I'm pretty sure blue can share so that snow can get a nice "It don't work 'cause it's frozen" feel.
Oh yes, nice job coming up with three "snow" abilities. I guess this is why there weren't any snow instants or sorceries to start with :)
I considered a snow charm, but couldn't think of anything good for it.
Heh, cool. Glad to see every one of the mana symbols Multiverse supports used for this challenge :>
Mmm.. the other thing snow does (pretty much exclusively) is paying for culmulative upkeep. Presumably mimicking melting. But that'd be kinda overly niche. I like this one.
Well, every type of mana symbol, I think we're still missing:
etc :)
And I guess
doesn't count :)
Is there a list somewhere of which symbols multiverse supports? I think you've mentioned it in a comment when you added a few of the unusual symbols, but I can't remember if there's an up-to-date list. I can't remember if
and {infinity} and
,
etc were added :)
ETA: Added several missing. Removed
.
The completist in me must add



to Jack's list. That and subtract
, since I used that one.
Hmm... does {Z} work? Guess not.
Also, Jack, do not tempt me to make a charm worth
. I'm afraid of what monstrosity that would result in.
Huh, I can't remember if I ever saw the
mana costs on multiverse.
Did you use
? You had a spell with a converted mana cost of zero, but did it actually use the mana symbol
? :) I did hesitate trying to remember if that had gone or not :)
I used
, because you wouldn't be able to cast the spell otherwise. :p
I suppose I could have written "As an alternative cost" instead of "As an additional cost". That's kind of weird wording. An alternative to what, exactly? :D
Oh, sorry! I thought you made (((Temporal Charm))) with suspend, which was 0-CMC-but-not-
, but that wasn't you. Did you make one that I didn't see?
Maybe. Did you see Jolrael's Charm?
Doh, the very first one! I saw it, thought it was good, but then forgot and missed it when I skimmed the comments. Oops :)
Oh, you silly people. You successfully tempted me to make a charm costing
, and Omnipotence Charm is the result.
As always, I'm happy to share for the love of terrible ideas. ;)