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CardName: Challenge # 089 Cost: Type: Challenge Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Boulderfall + free 5/5 Dragon = Bogarden Hellkite. Pick a bad instant or sorcery and add on a relevant free creature to make it rare/mythic. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None |
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Example: Lifestealer Demon - Pull Under + 5/5 Demon
Archangel of Light)
The modern-legal sorcery with the least community rating is Psychic Spear which makes sense -- it's a narrow hoser for a theme most people didn't like. But 7th least is Archangel's Light... I think it is better than it used to be though, even the worst sorceries I can imagine playing sometimes.
Bad instant and sorcery searches: <1, <1.5, <2
Created Wrecking Crew.
Apocalypse Dragon based on Ember Shot.
Wow, some of those <1 rating cards are still pretty bad even with a free dragon. Cantrip direct damage, yes, I'd expect that to be expensive, but at 7 mana it's really too late. I guess nowadays red doesn't normally get card draw directly at all, but still.
ETA: Also Striking Vampire based on Assassin's Strike.
Added The Nothing and Teleporting Mynx. Also, I tried to use Aether Tide and make it an X/X creature... but that wasn't good enough for mythic. I toyed with it for a while... but making the initial card less terrible seemed to be a no-no for the challenge, and adding more and more stuff to mitigate the terrible cost of playing this creature just chunked up the card in a way that shouldn't happen on Mythics. I'm sure it's possible to get Aether Tide fully formed, plus an X/X creature, plus something else... but I couldn't see my way through the problem in a reasonable amount of time.
Though, now that I think of it, maybe I should have made the base creature a 1/2? Still rough, though. It's hard to imagine this card being a Mythic:
Creature
As an additional cost to cast ~, discard a creature card.
When ~ enters the battlefield, return target creature to its owner's hand.
2/3
Sure, you could expect to get a decent 3/4 and 4/5 version out of this card... but eventually, you're going to hit an upper cap to the amount of creatures you can discard. And none of those creatures sound appetizing...
So I'm not the only one who went for Asassin's Strike? Mine was Wielder of Melancholy, but now it's a Sip of Hemlock version :p
Grave Exchange became Grave Usurer.