CardName: Sahalan Field Researcher
Cost: 2W
Type: Creature - Human Scout
Pow/Tgh: 2/2
Rules Text: Community -- When Sahalan Field Researcher enters the
battlefield, gain 1 life for each color among permanents you
control.
Flavour Text: "White Grubs: Surprisingly tasty w/ vinegar. The goblin
desire for stink bug, however, is beyond me."
-- Arthenos, Field Notes
Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Common
Sahalan Field Researcher
C
Creature – Human Scout
Community — When Sahalan Field Researcher enters the battlefield, gain 1 life for each color among permanents you control.
"White Grubs: Surprisingly tasty w/ vinegar. The goblin desire for stink bug, however, is beyond me."
— Arthenos, Field Notes
Keywording Sahala was driving me nuts. I really wanted to stick some sort of 'Tradition of Writing' on these guys. Infer, somehow, that knowledge is never lost, but stored somewhere to be accessed. The end results spun me through Incarnations (like Anger), spells that could be cast from the graveyard, creatures that turned into auras, and the ability to move cards from the graveyard back into the library. A big mixture of good and bad ideas... but the good ideas were generally better on not-creatures, which kind of defeated the point of what I was going for.
Eventually, I took a pit stop here in 'the other side of domain from Coalition Victory' land. It seemed legit for a society that was as comfortable in their own cities, as they were in other cultures. And I find it funny that they're more welcome in goblin tribes and necromancers's courts than in Terugan cities, so I played up that.
Keywording Sahala was driving me nuts. I really wanted to stick some sort of 'Tradition of Writing' on these guys. Infer, somehow, that knowledge is never lost, but stored somewhere to be accessed. The end results spun me through Incarnations (like Anger), spells that could be cast from the graveyard, creatures that turned into auras, and the ability to move cards from the graveyard back into the library. A big mixture of good and bad ideas... but the good ideas were generally better on not-creatures, which kind of defeated the point of what I was going for.
Eventually, I took a pit stop here in 'the other side of domain from Coalition Victory' land. It seemed legit for a society that was as comfortable in their own cities, as they were in other cultures. And I find it funny that they're more welcome in goblin tribes and necromancers's courts than in Terugan cities, so I played up that.