CardName: Borrowed Menagerie
Cost: 3GU
Type: Enchantment
Pow/Tgh: /
Rules Text: Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield, each of
that creature's controller's opponents puts a token onto the
battlefield that's a copy of that creature.
Flavour Text:
Set/Rarity: EDH - URG Rare
Borrowed Menagerie
R
Enchantment
Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield, each of that creature's controller's opponents puts a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of that creature.
Vitenka: Wait, a creature can have multiple controllers? Why did I never mess with that before!
Disregarding that - every creature everyone gets is doubled? Sorta Dual Nature? Liking it.
Alex: The "controller" grammar here is correct! "Each of [that creature's controller]'s opponents". "Each of X's opponents" where X is "that creature's controller".
Anyway. This is hilarious: any creature gets mirrored all around the table! Since it's pretty symmetrical I think it could perhaps even be 4 mana.
It's very cool though. The symmetry is plenty breakable - heavy colour-focused abilities that only you can activate, or just play token-making - but it should make for some amusing board positions.
UncleIstvan: Yeah the wording here is disappointingly obtuse despite the relative simplicity of the effect. I may cost it down, but I would imagine it gets a bit out of hand in multiplayer games.
Reposting the discussion around this card:
Vitenka: Wait, a creature can have multiple controllers? Why did I never mess with that before! Disregarding that - every creature everyone gets is doubled? Sorta Dual Nature? Liking it.
Alex: The "controller" grammar here is correct! "Each of [that creature's controller]'s opponents". "Each of X's opponents" where X is "that creature's controller". Anyway. This is hilarious: any creature gets mirrored all around the table! Since it's pretty symmetrical I think it could perhaps even be 4 mana. It's very cool though. The symmetry is plenty breakable - heavy colour-focused abilities that only you can activate, or just play token-making - but it should make for some amusing board positions.
UncleIstvan: Yeah the wording here is disappointingly obtuse despite the relative simplicity of the effect. I may cost it down, but I would imagine it gets a bit out of hand in multiplayer games.