And we find, randomly Centaur Archer. Cool; a flying Centaur is, what, a Pegasaur I guess? Centaurs are typically a bit bigger than bears. I'm gonna guess flying means you have to be slimmer
Colourwise. Purple. Has to be. So, um, .... and we'll use the NICE frame.
Archer in red and blue is clearly just plain old Prodigal Sorcerer / Prodigal Pyromancer; and being on a bigger flying body is kinda nice since it means that there's a reason to attack with it sometimes, and you don't just immediately get into a duel.
Of course, it also means we have to bump up the price. Raritywise; can't be common (NWO, blatant) and no real reason to go rare.
And the type-line writes itself. Why can't flying be a subtype? It's a really natural place for vanilla abilities to go, actually. And allows the much more natural "Destroy all Flying creatures" instead of "Creatures with flying" Ah well, it wasn't to be; until we made it be so. So.
Amusingly, you've ended up with Fledgling Mawcor here, just multicolour-ified. Which would indeed be a fine fit for the Community Set. Given Viashino Fangtail this could perhaps be 3/3; but OTOH I'm cautious of making all the multicolour creatures beefy. Real sets with a hefty gold theme had some surprisingly weedy gold creatures, like Woodwraith Strangler, Vizkopa Confessor and Minotaur Illusionist.
Well, he did mention that bit: " Why can't flying be a subtype? It's a really natural place for vanilla abilities to go, actually." It's an interesting proposal, and one I haven't seen before.
I've actually seen it before, but add a supertype rather than a subtype. I do find it interesting. It makes it harder to make " keyword soup" creatures, though, if you give thxe treatment to any other keywords. Then again, flying is probably the only ability that makes Sense as a supertype.
Probably because 'Flying' is the only deverbal noun keyword left, with an -ing ending. Itimidating or Trampling Creature would work just as well, I suppose.
Can I make a suggestion, though? Since the Centaur Archer dealt damage to flying creatures, could we reverse this and have the Pegasus Archer deal damage to non flying creatures? Probably 2 damage, since it's a little underpowered otherwise (compared to the Mawcor).
Creature – Flying Centaur
: Target non-flying creature takes 2 damage.
See Challenge # 100.
Community Set, wow - been ages since I contributed to that. You had me at "All multicoloured creatures have flying"
So; find a multicoloured creature; and by definition, it now has flying.
Search Gatherer for multicoloured
And we find, randomly Centaur Archer. Cool; a flying Centaur is, what, a Pegasaur I guess? Centaurs are typically a bit bigger than bears. I'm gonna guess flying means you have to be slimmer
Colourwise. Purple. Has to be. So, um,
.... and we'll use the NICE frame.
Archer in red and blue is clearly just plain old Prodigal Sorcerer / Prodigal Pyromancer; and being on a bigger flying body is kinda nice since it means that there's a reason to attack with it sometimes, and you don't just immediately get into a duel.
Of course, it also means we have to bump up the price. Raritywise; can't be common (NWO, blatant) and no real reason to go rare.
And the type-line writes itself. Why can't flying be a subtype? It's a really natural place for vanilla abilities to go, actually. And allows the much more natural "Destroy all Flying creatures" instead of "Creatures with flying" Ah well, it wasn't to be; until we made it be so. So.
Amusingly, you've ended up with Fledgling Mawcor here, just multicolour-ified. Which would indeed be a fine fit for the Community Set. Given Viashino Fangtail this could perhaps be 3/3; but OTOH I'm cautious of making all the multicolour creatures beefy. Real sets with a hefty gold theme had some surprisingly weedy gold creatures, like Woodwraith Strangler, Vizkopa Confessor and Minotaur Illusionist.
"Creature-- Flying Centaur." Oh, Vitenka. You're so silly.
Well, he did mention that bit: " Why can't flying be a subtype? It's a really natural place for vanilla abilities to go, actually." It's an interesting proposal, and one I haven't seen before.
I've actually seen it before, but add a supertype rather than a subtype. I do find it interesting. It makes it harder to make " keyword soup" creatures, though, if you give thxe treatment to any other keywords. Then again, flying is probably the only ability that makes Sense as a supertype.
Probably because 'Flying' is the only deverbal noun keyword left, with an -ing ending. Itimidating or Trampling Creature would work just as well, I suppose.
Can I make a suggestion, though? Since the Centaur Archer dealt damage to flying creatures, could we reverse this and have the Pegasus Archer deal damage to non flying creatures? Probably 2 damage, since it's a little underpowered otherwise (compared to the Mawcor).
sure, why not - it drops rocks.
Very sensible suggestion.