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CardName: Coordinated Predators Cost: {1}{W}{W} Type: Fossil Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Create two 2/1 white fossil raptor tokens. *Impact* {W}{W} ({W}{W}: exile Coordinated Predators from your graveyard during your non-fossil turn)- Put a +1/+1 counter on each non-fossil raptor you control. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Gaddgar Common |
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What does "fossil turn" mean? What does sorcery/creature having the "fossil" type signify?
Also, "Raptor" creatures should probably use the upcoming/returning "Dinosaur" type instead...
Plus it seems that "Raptor" actually refers to
> Bird of prey or predatory bird, also known as raptors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor
and I think you want to refer to Velociraptors instead.
> Velociraptor (commonly shortened to "raptor") is one of the dinosaur genera most familiar to the general public due to its prominent role in the Jurassic Park motion picture series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor
I need to do the page for fossil turn which relate to the fossil supertype.
As for creature type, I opted for raptor over dromeasaurid (probably misspelled) since more people would likely be familiar with the word. As velociraptor is a specific dromeasaurid species I'm inclined to choose a more open term.
Dinosaur is too broad as a term for my tastes. It would also want people to do something gross like give a mosasaur the dinosaur type.
If you do a gatherer search by name with "Raptor" you get 9 Birds and 5 Lizard Beasts. "Lizard Beast" seems to be WotC's current go-to type for all raptors, that is until Ixalan rolls over. Kinda weird.
While I understand the desire to be more specific than just "Dinosaur" - where are you gonna draw a line with that? Raptor is a very small subset of the dinosaur kin. Is there going be like five, ten, maybe twenty different dinosaur types? Mosasaur looks like it would be a Lizard so there's no real conflict there if Dinosaur type is used elsewhere.
IMO maybe two or three types could be okay. Like "Imp" and "Demon" are pretty much distinguished by their size alone. Oh, and there's also "Devil" - these three have D&D connotations all over though.
Honestly I'd cut it into six groups: sauropods, theropods (this does get yucky as raptors are theropod, but is likely portray them differently mechanically), raptors, hadrosaurs, ceratops, and try to combine ankylosaurs and stegosaurs into the same type.