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CardName: Pyre Adherent Cost: 2RR Type: Creature - Human Shaman Pow/Tgh: 2/2 Rules Text: Whenever you pay Pyre Adherent's Reverence cost, add {R}{R}{R} to your mana pool. Reverence (Whenever you cast a creature spell without reverence, you may pay {2} and tap this untapped permanent. If you do, that creature enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter.) Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Hyksos (Working Title) Mythic |
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I like reverence. I have two questions about it.
1.) Other than for flavor, does it really matter if the creature spell you're casting has reverence?
. That would reduce the complexity of the mechanic's mind space.
2.) Why not have all reverence have the same cost? Perhaps
I think the reminder text could be more succinct, by the way. "Whenever you cast a creature spell [without reverence], you may pay {cost} and tap this. If you do, that creature ETBs with an additional +1/+1 counter." Basically the first sentence can be shortened.
1)Largely for flavor reasons, I suppose. There was a design that only worked with the current wording, but I've since scrapped it. 2)Yeah, I guess there's not much point to having different costs, aside from the reference here. I don't recall why I tried to do it this way. I'll just set it to
like you said, it'll certainly make the Monuments simpler.