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CardName: Sultai Gildscale Cost: {3}{U}{B} Type: Creature - Naga Shaman Pow/Tgh: 3/4 Rules Text: Bend- {2}{U}{B} (When this creature attacks you may pay its bend cost. If you do the defending player chooses one: you draw a card or the defending player loses 2 life). Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Common |
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See Challenge # 121.
I went modal and created Bend (the name coming from "bend the knee"). I've used card draw and hand size to represent money before (Treasure Cruise is on a similar train of thought). The flavor of the mechanic is submit to the Sultai's tax or get hurt. While all Bend abilities are the same two modal options the costs to activate may vary, but should always be exclusively blue and/or black. I put the ability on a green creature to show the ability comes from the allied-pair aspect of Sultai, but at presumably the Khans of Tarkir timeline where green is present as this felt a great way to have the mechanic "drift" into its natural colors.
EDIT: I just read this is for Dragons of Tarkir. I'm going to change the creature's color and type, but the mechanic isn't changing.
Interesting idea. I agree this effect would probably ask for fairly high costs, especially at common.