I saw the Rohn as the creative impulsive passionate side of red, with the golems inevitably as colourless. That probably means pairing red with artifact creatures, but I think that's ok if unusual.
I wasn't quite sure how to do that, and then I remembered the servant-of-personal-creator aspect, and decided the "need a red creature" worked well. I'm not sure of the exact trade-off, should it maybe let you pay instead, so it's usable but clunky without a red creature? Or just accept it's completely blank?
I envisaged a small number of creatures with this ability, say a 2/2, 5/5 and 2/1 flying (gargoyle rather than golem) at common, and maybe some at higher rarities. I think that's enough, without needing a keyword, or to make it be on ALL artifact creatures. Also see Spitting Gargoyle for a similar take on a red burn spell.
@Alex, thank you, oops, no I just forgot. If I deliberately make a colourless creature, I'll make a big deal of it in the comment :) I considered that for Pale, I liked your description of "coloured mana implies the verdant gorges, and colourless implies the barren surface wastes" (although you probably meant that just for lands, not creatures).
Yeah, the power-level needs to be adjusted. Possibilities:
bigger stats
drawback only on attacking, not blocking
pay R instead of controlling creature (I'm not sure if that's weaker, it's less swingy, but less aggro)
See Challenge # 112.
I saw the Rohn as the creative impulsive passionate side of red, with the golems inevitably as colourless. That probably means pairing red with artifact creatures, but I think that's ok if unusual.
I wasn't quite sure how to do that, and then I remembered the servant-of-personal-creator aspect, and decided the "need a red creature" worked well. I'm not sure of the exact trade-off, should it maybe let you pay
instead, so it's usable but clunky without a red creature? Or just accept it's completely blank?
I envisaged a small number of creatures with this ability, say a 2/2, 5/5 and 2/1 flying (gargoyle rather than golem) at common, and maybe some at higher rarities. I think that's enough, without needing a keyword, or to make it be on ALL artifact creatures. Also see Spitting Gargoyle for a similar take on a red burn spell.
Is this meant to be an artifact creature, rather than just colourless?
It's a strongly flavourful ability that's quite a hefty drawback; I suspect this can be at least 2/3 for 2 if not bigger.
Nice job capturing some of the flavor of the golem servants. It reminds me of Loyal Pegasus/ War Falcon.
Added "artifact"
@Alex, thank you, oops, no I just forgot. If I deliberately make a colourless creature, I'll make a big deal of it in the comment :) I considered that for Pale, I liked your description of "coloured mana implies the verdant gorges, and colourless implies the barren surface wastes" (although you probably meant that just for lands, not creatures).
Yeah, the power-level needs to be adjusted. Possibilities:
Thoughts?