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CardName: Sahala Talegatherer Cost: 3U Type: Creature - Leonin Advisor Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Rules Text: When Sahala Talegatherer enters the battlefield, draw two cards. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Common

Sahala Talegatherer
{3}{u}
 
 C 
Creature – Leonin Advisor
When Sahala Talegatherer enters the battlefield, draw two cards.
1/1
Updated on 03 Oct 2014 by Jack V

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2014-10-02 19:54:03: Jack V created and commented on the card Sahala Talegatherer

See Challenge # 112.

I saw the Sahala as mostly white, but their libraries and exploration mean some of them are blue. Oops, now I have a blue leonin :)

I hadn't done any card-drawing yet, so I thought of ways to represent that as scholarship, and looked for a combination of card draw which hadn't been done yet. I couldn't think of any, and then imagined a Sahala scholar on a journey gathering stories and lore from other cultures to preserve back home. Originally that was going to be a "card draw plus flicker effect", which would be interestingly novel, but I realised I could do the same thing more simply with a creature.

Mechanically, this is like a lesser mulldrifter. I almost tried to nerf the ability to flicker this, but decided it was a nice reward if you can manage it, some commons are powerful! :)

­Mulldrifter is a very popular card, and powerful top boot. This lacks a lot of that flexibility, but two cards is still powerful if you can flicker it.

Yeah, this is comparable to Flight of Fancy. Being much less useful as a creature vs Mulldrifter I think justifies the 4 mana price even at common.

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