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.
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.