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CardName: Laserbeam Engineer Cost: 1rr Type: Creature - Human Artificer Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Rules Text: When Laserbeam Engineer enters the battlefield, put a colorless 1/1 Thopter artifact creature onto the battlefield. Thopter creatures you control have “{R} : This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn”. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Archester Revival Common |
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Rather than the traditional
Firebreathing, what do you guys think about 
instead? It'd increase interaction between the 
and 
archetypes and would take the focus of the card off 
and put it on colorless instead.
Here is a case where I think the card is better off a little more committed to red than not. There are not many cards in the set that push away from colorless-ness, and this is one of the more natural ones. It gives players options during a draft, as if they cannot build a proper steam mana base, they can fall back on this. And a two mana activation plays so differently than a one mana one that the card may need to be reevaluated at that point.
Don't get me wrong, I think that card is great as it is. I'm just throwing it out as a possibility.
As an aside, the card doesn't need to grant the thopters the ability. It could just read:
"
: Target Thopter gets +1/+0 until end of turn."
Is this just a placeholder name?
Most of our cards have placeholder names. We could not really print a card named Twitch.tv
Starting to fill out the skeleton. Proposing this as the CR05 slot in the skeleton. The base creature could be upgraded to a 1/2 or 1/3
maybe open this up a bit? A Captive Flame in creature form except for artifact creatures only?
Yes. I think we were agreed that there would be no thopter-specific tribal, and that instead the thopter generals would buff all artifact creatures you control. A Captive flame would be the best template here.