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CardName: Halina, Dwarven Trader Cost: 1RR Type: Legendary Creature - Dwarf Pow/Tgh: 2/4 Rules Text: {T}: Put target land card in your graveyard onto the battlefield, tapped and under an opponent’s control. If you do, draw a card. Flavour Text: “You gonna gawk at the merchandise all day? Or you gonna buy something?” Set/Rarity: Homelands Restored Rare |
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: Put target land card in your graveyard onto the battlefield, tapped and under an opponent’s control. If you do, draw a card.
Same as Murat, whose name is invoked 6 times in flavor text. Halina is mentioned on five cards. She should get her own card.
I like this ability on Halina, but I'm not sure if you can call it red. Blue makes more sense. What with Dwarf Traders being red, though... hmmm...
I did think of this always triggering during upkeep... but it's too easy to ignore by choosing something that can't be traded. That, and many new players wouldn't understand that's an option...
Originally, this card exchanged control of permanents, with you always getting something of 1cc greater value. That's cute, but I was thinking of how I wanted these Legendary Creatures to work in this set, and decided that names with roles (i.e., Halina is a Dwarven Trader) should find a way to evolve the base card they come from.
So Halina gets double value out of the land you discard. I'm also going to cite Goblin Guide as a kind-of-sort-of precedent for this ability in red. But really, this mechanic is all about giving your opponent resources for answers now, which is very red.
Not happy about making 2/4s that tap to use their ability, but I didn't want to tack on yet another mana ability considering the Dwarven Trader.
Originally, the card didn't include a 'if you do' clause. Because if you didn't, then the ability was probably countered for lack of targets. But I didn't want players who didn't quite understand targeting to try to take advantage of something that they can't do by, let's say, exiling the land in response.
Oh, and also, I found my new favorite way to Donate a Sorrow's Path to an opponent.
I like this ability a lot. I'm not 100% sure it's red, but I do like it.
It might be green. Maybe the best casting cost is
? Not sure. It probably doesn't fit any color perfectly. I feel they ship this sort of problem to artifacts.
This is very cool and very random.
Templating: They'd say "target land card from your graveyard onto the battlefield tapped under an opponent's control". Your comma and "and" I'm fine with, but the "in" is really confusing when you're reading the rules text for the first time. "Whoa, she blows up opponents' lands and draws cards too?! But... only if they're tapped?"
Ty. Fixing now.