| Risen Empires: Cardlist | Visual spoiler | Export | Booster | Comments | Search | Recent activity |
|
CardName: Elvish Farmer Cost: {1}{G} Type: Creature - Elf Pow/Tgh: 0/2 Rules Text: In your upkeep, you may put a +1/+1 counter on Elvish Farmer. Remove two +1/+1 counters: Put a 1/1 green Saproling creature into play under your control. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Risen Empires Rare |
Code: History: [-] Add your comments: |
Elvish Farmer
Spore counters.
I really need to work out how to deal with those.
Let's try... +1/+1 counters.
Or maybe make this a saproling lord?
No, let's just make this actually efficient saprolings.
Dropping the lifegain bit; that can move to another card.
Um. This is a terrifying Chlorophant now. Nobody would ever pull counters off to make saprolings.
You need a consistent fungus mechanic for all your Thallids and friends in this set. I suggested some options over on Thallid. Getting a +1/+1 counter each turn for free is completely not reasonable at common (probably not even at uncommon) and nobody would ever make Saprolings with them because they're too busy steamrolling with gigantic elves and fungi.
Once you have your consistent fungus mechanic, make Elvish Farmer use that and also sac saprolings for life. That's the point in Elvish Farmer, why he's a rare: he's a Thallid who can also sac saprolings for life. That's the one thing he does over the common Thallids - you can't just drop that.
I guess you're right. The fungus mechanic needs to be a LOT better - but +1/+1 might be too much.
You say that, but it's been brought back in two limited formats: Time Spiral block and Modern Masters. And the Gatherer rating on the cards suggests people still like it: Sporoloth Ancient and Sporesower Thallid make all Fungi faster, but even Pallid Mycoderm, Thallid Germinator and basic Thallid rate 3.5 stars or over. Bizarrely even Thallid Shell-Dweller rates 4 stars.