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CardName: Face of the Oracle Cost: 2U Type: Unit - Mutant Advisor Pow/Tgh: 1/3 Rules Text: Defender. Whenever another unit comes under your command, you may scry 1. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None

Face of the Oracle
{2}{u}
 
Unit – Mutant Advisor
Defender.
Whenever another unit comes under your command, you may scry 1.
1/3
Created on 30 Jul 2014 by Jack V

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2014-07-30 09:44:59: Jack V created and commented on the card Face of the Oracle

See Challenge # 108.

OK, finally we have a card where "advisor" is actually appropriate. Although in fantasy, I think the oracles are usually druids or wizards or shamans, not advisors.

I don't know why I thought "oracle", I just saw a giant face and thought "that can't do much other than talk". And "scry" was the simplest way of saying "creatures ask it questions".

It was originally going to be a non-unit device, but I wasn't sure how to cost it, so I decided to power it up as a creature.

I want to translate "scry" into space the convergence-ese, but I'm not sure what's best. Something about predicting the future with computers. Forecast, but that means something else in normal magic. Psychohistory, but that's not verbable. Other suggestions?

ETA: For the record, I think the normal magic text would be "Creature - Human Advisor" and "Defender. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may scry 1."

Oops, I should translate "defender" too, even though that could be spacey. Is there an accepted translation of "defender"?

Psychohistory. Nice. But, yeah, doesn't verbiate. Another funny choice that doesn't quite work is 'Game Theory'.

Perhaps 'Algorithm'?

­Space: the Convergence Terms says the StC community reckoned "Scan" for scry. Defender gets the uninspiring "Defence".

Oh thank you, it's really handy to have a dictionary!

Not sure about scan. It makes sense, in a "scan the situation before plunging into it" way, but it could mean anything. I still quite like "forecast", even though it would be confusing with "forecast" in regular magic, which would presumably be something else in S:TC

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