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CardName: Samus Aran Cost: {W}{U}{R} Type: Legendary Creature - Human Warrior Pow/Tgh: 2/1 Rules Text: First Strike, Haste *Landfall, MetalCraft* - When a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may reveal the top four cards of your library and put all equipment cards revealed this way into your hand. If you control three or more artifacts, you may instead put those cards onto the battlefield. Put the other cards on the bottom of your library in any order. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Metroid Mythic

Samus Aran
{w}{u}{r}
 
 M 
Legendary Creature – Human Warrior
First Strike, Haste
Landfall, MetalCraft – When a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may reveal the top four cards of your library and put all equipment cards revealed this way into your hand. If you control three or more artifacts, you may instead put those cards onto the battlefield. Put the other cards on the bottom of your library in any order.
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Updated on 18 Jan 2015 by Angle

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2014-02-21 04:50:15: Angle created the card Samus Aran

Five-color Samus? Interesting. I'm not sure that's how I would interpret her. I'd have to spend some time thinking about it, though. The "Landfall, Metalcraft" ability is quite interesting.

Indeed. I really like that Landfall, MetalCraft. Makes me wonder how many other abilities can be stacked like that. 'Threshold Kicker {2}{g}' anyone?

Has: "Landfall Haste" been written yet? That would seem like a really simple and nice common-suitable pairing.

There's at least one example of combined ability words on a real card.
EDIT: I'm wrong, I think. I was thinking of Modular-- Sunburst on Arcbound Wanderer.

The Arcbound Wanderer is actually what I was thinking of when I edited the abilities together. I made her five color so that you could use all of her equipment with her in a commander deck. I'm not sure how well they fit her identity, though.

2014-02-22 00:48:38: Angle edited Samus Aran

Now that I think about, perhaps we should make Samus only a few colors, and have all her equipment be colorless. What do you think?

2014-02-22 02:08:26: Angle edited Samus Aran

I went ahead and made her equipment colorless, and had her only be a few colors. I chose white because she works for the galactic federation, red because she usually works alone and blue because she is usually fairly subtle, studies her enemies, and uses sophisticated tactics.

Red has nothing to do with working alone.

Metalcraft in every other context means "This ability is totally useless unless you control three or more artifacts." which isn't the case here.

The landfall isn't useless, but the metalcraft part doesn't kick in unless you meet the three artifact requirement.

As for red, red is the color of impulse, emotion, freedom, and chaos. Samus is very independent, usually works alone, and does what she believes is right, not what she is ordered to do.

I agree that Samus ia blue, because she makes use of a great deal of technology to achieve her goals. In the Metroid Prime series, at least, she does a great deal of research on her enemies, which helps her attain her goals. I could see her as blue, definitely.
She's probably white, as well, since she acts out of a desire to do good for a community, and she obviously respects laws and authority. She's certainly not black or green.
Is she red, though? She's certainly got a bundle of emotions tied up in her, if we consider Metroid : Other M. She lets those emotions affect her actions, too, which, I suppose, makes her red. If I were to represent her mechanically, I suppose I would include red in her cost, but I don't know if her character is actually that red.
At any rate, she's certainly not black or green.

Also, do you think I should remove her tap ability? the type on her is pretty squished.

I've given her my own spin as Samus Aran, the Hunter.

I don't think it really adds to the design, so I would say yes, remove it. You don't want your Voltron general tapping itself down all the time.

2014-02-22 06:41:43: Angle edited Samus Aran

done.

2014-02-22 06:53:51: Angle edited Samus Aran
2014-02-23 00:12:40: Angle edited Samus Aran
2014-03-27 07:23:05: Angle edited Samus Aran

Landfall metalcraft — When a land...

Including the italics.

2015-01-18 18:00:33: Angle edited Samus Aran

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