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CardName: Kurl Upstart Cost: 2R Type: Creature - Orc Warrior Pow/Tgh: 3/3 Rules Text: Whenever you break a law, Kurl Upstart deals 1 damage to each opponent. Flavour Text: "Better death in freedom than life in servitude." Set/Rarity: Trivium Uncommon

Kurl Upstart
{2}{r}
 
 U 
Creature – Orc Warrior
Whenever you break a law, Kurl Upstart deals 1 damage to each opponent.
"Better death in freedom than life in servitude."
3/3
Updated on 19 Jul 2017 by Mal

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2017-07-06 03:12:29: Mal created and commented on the card Kurl Upstart

Trinket text that gives bonuses against {w}{u} decks. Hopefully not too much.

That's awesome trinket text that I was looking around to make sure you had included it somewhere.

Also, this can be used injunction with your own law making cards which is rather.... interesting?

Have you thought about little crazier cards like "Each opponent/player breaks all the laws" that would trigger all those effects? Maybe flavored as planting evidence or whatever. Or how about some corrupt/hypocrite politician with "Whenever you break your own law, effect".

The latter is something I definitely thought about - however, given how each of the law cards are structured, I am hesitant to include it (it'd probably be Black, White/Black, or Blue/Black) in a slot that already has a lot of competition due to the reduced card count. It also feels like an "evolution" of the mechanic - if I ever complete this set and decide to make a 2nd set in the block, it would be perfect to showcase the degradation of honesty in politics in the late Roman Republic.

As for the "breaks all laws" effect, are you talking about a card that simply says something along the lines of "Target opponent breaks all current laws." or something? It seems a bit confusing and definitely another evolution of the mechanic. I am not sure I would include it in the second set because I am not sure how grokkable forcing people to commit crimes that they did not do would read, within the context of the mechanic. I imagine something along the lines of this interaction: "Cast Framed Assassination. Sac a creature, you break all three laws that are on the battlefield." "Wait. These laws say I can't cast instants. I didn't do that." "Yes you did." "No I didn't. Judge!"

...actually, that sounds pretty fun. I'll consider it.

Didn't even think about you breaking your own laws. I'll keep it, its flavorful. This upstart is friends with all the politicians so he can break as many laws as he wants.

Ah, if you have considered about turning this into a block (extending it) then certainly those are clear examples of evolving the mechanic. Still, basically I would try to map out the full potential of the mechanic before settling on the commonly used patterns of the said mechanic - so that's why I was kinda throwing crazy ideas around.

Yes on the rest of your points/questions.

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