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CardName: Form of the Wurm Cost: 5GGG Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: At the beginning of each combat step, you may exile target permanent. When Form of the Wurm leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to their owner's graveyard. At the beginning of each end step, your life total becomes 9. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None |
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For my own challenge, Challenge # 126.
I played around with other "form of" ideas. Here's a green one. The "swallow a creature every turn" is obviously really strong, but an 8-cost form-of is the time to use that. Maybe it needs to cost more. I also considered giving them back (or giving the most recent one back?) when this dies, but that didn't feel epic enough.
I also considered "target permanent with toughness 8 or less" to drive home the "swallowed" flavour but it was fiddly and the numbers didn't line up.
The whole "return to graveyard" is mostly for flavour, maybe it should be cut, but I wanted to drive the flavour home.
I debated using something instead of "your life total becomes" because that's quite Melvin-y and it would be nice to try a different way of capturing the flavour. But nothing better came to mind.
Ideally the whole thing would be an "enchant player" but that's wordy. I wish auras didn't have to say "Enchant creature" but could enchant anything, but "enchanted creature has..." or whatever only applied if they enchanted the appropriate type.
Hmm. This is playing up the "colour pie break for sufficient flavour justification" of Form of the Dragon, I see? :P
:) I honestly wasn't trying to do that deliberately, but I certainly didn't avoid it when it seemed appropriate. (I guess it's not completely appropriate because "swallow whole" could be in-flavour but out-of-pie for green creatures even if you haven't assumed their form. But i wasn't sure if it was worth having an exception for creatures which could beat a 9/9 in a fight :))