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CardName: Elite Squadman Cost: WB Type: Creature - Human Soldier Pow/Tgh: 3/1 Rules Text: *Purity* -- Whenever Elite Squadman attacks, if no non-Soldier creatures are attacking, Elite Squadman gains lifelink until end of turn. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Code Geass archive None |
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This was submitted for the Goblin Artisans design challenge for the Britannian Faction. This is Tommy Occhipinti's Superiority. I renamed it Purity to make the flavour (which I think deliberately has racist overtones) a little clearer.
It also raises the issue of whether I want any gold cards in the set. I hadn't really thought about it until now; I'd been assuming not. But Theros block has heralded in a new pattern where each colour-pair gets a uncommon gold card to encourage drafters in certain directions. I could certainly have
and 
gold, and probably pair any of the colours with blue. Pairing
with
would be a bit stranger, but this is Code Geass; people's loyalties are not set in stone!
Almost all creature cards in this set are going to be Humans. That's unfortunate but inescapable.
If this mechanic were going to be a big mechanic in the set, then I'd probably want to focus on some major tribes, especially in Britannian colours; which will have to be class types since the creatures will all be Human. Soldiers are one natural example, but if every white or black creature is a Soldier, there's no drawback. (Well, at least not in a dedicated Britannian deck.) It'd also be natural for Britannia to include some nobles, with creature type Advisor, Noble, Aristocrat or whatever. Blue will have Artificers and Advisors, as well as a few Ninjas and similar. Red may well have a lot of Rebels, and also the general Black Knights military who could be either type Soldier or Warrior - if this mechanic were to go ahead, I might want to make sure a lot of them aren't Soldiers.
Britannia is racist, institutionally, and many individual Britannian soldiers are racist personally as well. But I'm not 100% sure that a mechanic quite so focused on racism is what I'd want to use to represent Britannia.