CardName: Challenge # 126
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Type: Challenge
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Rules Text: Create a card in the tradition of "Form of the Dragon" and
"Form of the Squirrel"
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Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None
Challenge # 126
Challenge
Create a card in the tradition of "Form of the Dragon" and "Form of the Squirrel"
I love the design of form of the dragon! Although I've rarely played with it. I agree with Maro it's a quintessentially "capture the flavour with mechanics" card.
I think it looks easy to design a card like that, but it can be quite difficult, as evinced by wizards not making another one yet! Ideally it would be similar to Form of the Dragon, but sufficiently different to be clearly worth a separate card.
And it's not clear who Form of the Dragon is for: in many ways it's for a Vorthos/Melvin hybrid :) And it looks like it's Tammy/Timmy, but maybe it's actually most useful for Jenny/Johnny... I'm not sure.
At any rate, the card should capture mechanically the flavour of a player shapeshifting into a creature, in a way similar to Form of the Dragon (or something else if you can think of something better!)
Thinking about my original comment more, I think part of what's odd about Form of the Dragon is that it looks Vorthos -- it's all about the flavour of "become a dragon!" But it's actually really Melvin: the whole "your life total becomes 5" isn't representing a generic fantasy dragon, it's specifically imitating how dragon creatures work in Magic. It would be even more Vorthos if it captured the flavour without the "at end of turn your life total becomes 5" trick, but that trick is one of the iconic things about the card.
Create a card in the tradition of Form of the Dragon and Form of the Squirrel.
There were a few previously designed on multiverse.
I love the design of form of the dragon! Although I've rarely played with it. I agree with Maro it's a quintessentially "capture the flavour with mechanics" card.
I think it looks easy to design a card like that, but it can be quite difficult, as evinced by wizards not making another one yet! Ideally it would be similar to Form of the Dragon, but sufficiently different to be clearly worth a separate card.
And it's not clear who Form of the Dragon is for: in many ways it's for a Vorthos/Melvin hybrid :) And it looks like it's Tammy/Timmy, but maybe it's actually most useful for Jenny/Johnny... I'm not sure.
At any rate, the card should capture mechanically the flavour of a player shapeshifting into a creature, in a way similar to Form of the Dragon (or something else if you can think of something better!)
Form of the Wurm
Because I'm a compelte crazy, I made Form of the Planeswalker.
Circeus's idea is utterly awesome (in a demented way). I couldn't help but copy it, taking a rather different slant on it: Form of the Planeswalker.
Another approach leads me to Form of the Sliver.
I made Form of the Sphinx.
I yolo'd it up Form of the God
obligatory Form of the Head
I made an alternate Godform.
Thinking about my original comment more, I think part of what's odd about Form of the Dragon is that it looks Vorthos -- it's all about the flavour of "become a dragon!" But it's actually really Melvin: the whole "your life total becomes 5" isn't representing a generic fantasy dragon, it's specifically imitating how dragon creatures work in Magic. It would be even more Vorthos if it captured the flavour without the "at end of turn your life total becomes 5" trick, but that trick is one of the iconic things about the card.
Why has nobody tried Form of the Eldrazi yet?
Three months later, I realize I missed my shot at beating SadisticMystic to Form of the Head. Ah well. Here's And I'll Form of the Head! anyway, with companion card Blazing Sword of Power.