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CardName: Border Soldier Cost: W Type: Creature - Soldier Construct Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Rules Text: Mage wrought -- When you cast a spell for the first time in a turn, Border Soldier gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Flavour Text: They don't look like much but those little wooden soldiers protect the kingdom from what lies beyond. Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None |
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See Challenge # 158.
Not sure about the mechanic, I was going for something a bit like landfall, but its also like lots of other things.
You only see construct on artifacts, but that doesn't really fit in sets like this where lots of things are 'made' but don't feel artifact-y.
Interesting this is so flavour based when border guard iirc placed in one if jmg's most boring cards collections :)
The most boring card in all of Magic. I stand by that decision. :)
On my first pass, Mage Wrought seemed more annoying than useful. I more imagined it to be "Gets this ability ever turn, until it does not." But that's what landfall feels like, and that turned out fine.
What I like about Mage wrought, though, is how it makes you question how you should be playing your spells. Unless your opponent is playing board wipes, in a normal game of Magic, you should probably play as many threats as possible, as soon as possible, to overwhelm your opponent. With Mage Wrought, though, you might want to hold back a spell or two to trigger your abilities next turn. But hold onto how many? Will you just draw into a spell you can cast next turn? Are you taking a bigger risk by not casting all your spells?
Yeah, I can see this might have subtleties to the gameplay that aren't immediately obvious.
For the record, the article is: http://www.jmgariepy.com/2013/04/05/the-six-most-boring-magic-cards-according-to-gatherer-part-meh/
I was typing on my phone and couldn't easily look it up to see if I had the details right :)