CardName: Titanomachia
Cost: 15
Type: Sorcery
Pow/Tgh: /
Rules Text: Search your library for any number of legendary eldrazi
cards and put them onto the battlefield. Shuffle your
library.
Flavour Text:
Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None
Titanomachia
Sorcery
Search your library for any number of legendary eldrazi cards and put them onto the battlefield. Shuffle your library.
I though eldrazi AND phyrexians represented some sort of world-ending showdown, so I wondered what greek stories had an apocalypse in. And I don't know about a future apocalypse, but given the name "eldrazi titans" the name titanomachia (war of the titans) fit so well I had to do it.
I considered a few implementations, trying to capture the "wow" factor without being explicitly "win the game". One cost XXXXXXXXXX and searched up X cards :) I wasn't sure what a fair cost for that was; is 10 fair if you give up the "cast" trigger?
Another was "any number of cards with total cmc x"
I also considered some that depended on already having eldrazi out (eg. each deals damage equal to power to target cr or pl).
I wasn't sure what the cost should be. The version limited by number could probably just be "any creature card", and you put the most powerful. The "any number" version probably wants some limit so it actually focuses on the titans, and not just a crowd of small-mid colored-mana-cost eldrazi.
But then, should it say "legendary eldrazi"? or "colorless creatures with cmc 10 or more" so it's more modular?
Hm. I've almost talked myself back into going to the "XXXXXXXXXX Sorcery. Search X creature cards OTB" version.
See Challenge # 155 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanomachy
I though eldrazi AND phyrexians represented some sort of world-ending showdown, so I wondered what greek stories had an apocalypse in. And I don't know about a future apocalypse, but given the name "eldrazi titans" the name titanomachia (war of the titans) fit so well I had to do it.
I considered a few implementations, trying to capture the "wow" factor without being explicitly "win the game". One cost XXXXXXXXXX and searched up X cards :) I wasn't sure what a fair cost for that was; is 10 fair if you give up the "cast" trigger?
Another was "any number of cards with total cmc x"
I also considered some that depended on already having eldrazi out (eg. each deals damage equal to power to target cr or pl).
I wasn't sure what the cost should be. The version limited by number could probably just be "any creature card", and you put the most powerful. The "any number" version probably wants some limit so it actually focuses on the titans, and not just a crowd of small-mid colored-mana-cost eldrazi.
But then, should it say "legendary eldrazi"? or "colorless creatures with cmc 10 or more" so it's more modular?
Hm. I've almost talked myself back into going to the "XXXXXXXXXX Sorcery. Search X creature cards OTB" version.