CardName: Abraham, Emperor of the USA
Cost: {1}{R}{R}
Type: Legendary Creature - Human
Pow/Tgh: 0/1
Rules Text: {T}: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's an
instant or sorcery, you may cast it without paying its
casting cost. Each player may pay {1} per target to grant
themselves, or one of their creatures, protection from that
spell.
Flavour Text:
Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Mythic
Abraham, Emperor of the USA
M
Legendary Creature – Human
: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's an instant or sorcery, you may cast it without paying its casting cost. Each player may pay per target to grant themselves, or one of their creatures, protection from that spell.
Well, M:tG is trying to do "Keep the flavour, and mimic the actual events and personalities, so that people can feel clever when they spot it. Save the actual direct references for the unusual and lesser known."
So - the big swathes of the set would be what people expect. There should be starving pilgrims, gold rush fever, cowboys and Indians, robber barons, capitalism and empire. Cities, states, guns and rallies.
But the minor stuff, that's where the gold lies. I shall use a more-well-known lesser known personality. (Though I was very tempted by a wonderful con-story from the same region, where a jeweller realised that the USA had, basically, no decent appraisers, bought a tonne of low quality gems in Europe, and sold them in the US - and then went further, salting the desert with them to try and sell a gem mine. And got away clean - none of his victims wanting to admit they invested in such daftness to take him to court.)
Only problem is, what should he DO? Well, absolutely any random thing that comes into his head. Ineffectually. But just occasionally, he's foretelling the truth. And then boom.
And nice that his first name matches up with an obvious "president of the..." who is a completely different (non contemporary) person; but this is Magic, he need not be.
: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's an instant or sorcery, you may cast it without paying its casting cost. Each player may pay
See Challenge # 100.
American History. And no guidance at all.
Well, M:tG is trying to do "Keep the flavour, and mimic the actual events and personalities, so that people can feel clever when they spot it. Save the actual direct references for the unusual and lesser known."
So - the big swathes of the set would be what people expect. There should be starving pilgrims, gold rush fever, cowboys and Indians, robber barons, capitalism and empire. Cities, states, guns and rallies.
But the minor stuff, that's where the gold lies. I shall use a more-well-known lesser known personality. (Though I was very tempted by a wonderful con-story from the same region, where a jeweller realised that the USA had, basically, no decent appraisers, bought a tonne of low quality gems in Europe, and sold them in the US - and then went further, salting the desert with them to try and sell a gem mine. And got away clean - none of his victims wanting to admit they invested in such daftness to take him to court.)
Only problem is, what should he DO? Well, absolutely any random thing that comes into his head. Ineffectually. But just occasionally, he's foretelling the truth. And then boom.
And nice that his first name matches up with an obvious "president of the..." who is a completely different (non contemporary) person; but this is Magic, he need not be.