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CardName: Balmhatch Aven Cost: 1W Type: Creature - Bird Cleric Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Rules Text: Flying Whenever Balmhatch Aven is dealt damage, you gain that much life. Morph {2}{W} Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Uncommon

Balmhatch Aven
{1}{w}
 
 U 
Creature – Bird Cleric
Flying
Whenever Balmhatch Aven is dealt damage, you gain that much life.
Morph {2}{w}
1/1
Created on 13 Jun 2014 by Alex

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2014-06-13 13:10:28: Alex created and commented on the card Balmhatch Aven

Created for Challenge # 023 as part of a cycle around Broodhatch Nantuko.

This is the ability from Wall of Hope and Kami of the Honored Dead. It's a pretty minor effect compared to some of the others in the cycle, but it's very natural, and it's quite hard to find other white effects that make sense when Broodhatch Nantuko has taken the token-making slot, and it'll normally trigger too late for prot-colour or damage-prevention to make sense.

By way of compensation, I let this one have flying (because I was trying to use Onslaught-era tribes for the whole cycle, and so Aven was natural here).

Heh. I know you prefer your cycles to be tight, Alex. But I can't help but be a little sad that this card isn't a 0/2.

Heh... I suppose I do. Or at least, when designing a cycle for a challenge, I like to start by aiming at a tight cycle, even if I end up having to loosen it.

There aren't many viable P/Ts for creatures costing 1C with morph. Especially if Broodhatch Nantuko takes the 1/1, I don't think I could find four different ones. I guess I could go 1/1, 1/1, 0/2, 1/2, 1/2 though. (Actually, I suppose 1/1, 2/1, 1/2, 1/3, 0/3 are all reasonable. Guess I was wrong :) )

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