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CardName: Haunted Mansion Cost: Type: Land Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {T}: Add {r}, {w}, or {u} to your mana pool. If you control no Spirits, spend this mana only to cast Spirit spells. {R}{w}{u}: Haunted Mansion becomes a 2/2 colorless Spirit creature with vigilance and intimidate until end of turn. It's still a land. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Rare |
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to your mana pool. If you control no Spirits, spend this mana only to cast Spirit spells.
See Challenge # 124 and Purge the Lost. This might be a little more pushed than I intended. I like the flavor of it animating, but that could easily be cut.
That's actually a really cool restriction hard on tribal. The animation is neat but the intimidate feels weird coming from red in a flavor sense as I always saw reds intimidation as a more aggressive act of it, like some big thing shouting at you, where as a haunted house would have the foreboding/Boo Radley intimidate which feels black. Also, why did you choose colorless for the animation?
It's colorless and has intimidate because, together, those things basically fuse into "can't be blocked," which is blue. It was a lot easier than trying to find other ways to make it all three colors, and colorless is much easier to spell out than red, white, and blue.
The conditionally-tribal mechanic is very interesting, certainly, and the land would probably stand alone without the animation ability if you wanted.
True. And that way it could more easily go in a cycle.