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CardName: Radiant, Recreated Cost: 5WWW Type: Legendary Creature - Angel Pow/Tgh: 5/5 Rules Text: Flying When Radiant, Recreated attacks, for each attacking creature you control, put that many 1/1 white flying Spirit tokens onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, put a 1/1 white flying Spirit creature token onto the battlefield. Flavour Text: "Leave." Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Mythic
Radiant, Recreated
  Flying
When Radiant, Recreated attacks, for each attacking creature you control, put that many 1/1 white flying Spirit tokens onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, put a 1/1 white flying Spirit creature token onto the battlefield. "Leave."
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For Challenge # 093, for Timmy. Oh look, the font size decreased. Oh, Timmy, you so crazy.
But, yeah, continuing the 'attacking matters theme' and going far, far over the top at the same time. I figured Timmy wouldn't like to go all out with his creatures, so I built in a way to give Timmy a defensive army of spirits, if necessary.
Hahaha. Yep, that's a Timmy mythic.
I always feel lots of words detracts from the "wow" factor. Is there any way of templating this a bit more streamlinedly, so "double the number of creatures you control whenever anything happens" comes through more clearly? :)
Hmm. You could 'double the number of Spirit tokens' when Radiant deals combat damage. It makes Radiant weaker (in a way that some Timmys might complain about), but it does cut text and make the first impression better, true. But I'm not sure doubling tokens is a thing... Doubling Season seems to use the same amount of words to say the same thing as the current ability. I got to think about this.
Yeah, I don't think it helps to say "double", but if there's some way of avoiding having two separate abilities (either only one triggers but has a bigger effect, or it's "when either") it would be shorter.
I'm sorry for criticising without having a solution in mind, I'm not sure what wording would be best :)
Hmm... I tried
When ~ attacks, put a 1/1 white flying Spirit tokens onto the battlefield tapped and attacking for each attacking creature you control. Those Spirit tokens have "When this creature deals combat damage to an opponent, put a copy of this token onto the battlefield under your control."
But I think I just end up trading length for complexity, and don't really solve the problem in the end.
"put a number of...for each"? Does that mean I get to choose the number, such as 700 billion new tokens for each attacker?
Interestingly as far as the choice of token type, there are only three Spirits in all of Urza block, which have all been updated to be Angels as well after the GCTU.
You know, I didn't like that wording, but I was thinking about a lot of things when working on this card. Thanks for setting me straight, Mystic.
As for the creature type... huh. I did not realize that. Well, I don't want to put 1/1 Angels into play, and 1/1 Birds don't really solve the problem. Let's just say Radiant's been living with a lot of Spirits ever since her Serra's original realm imploded.