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CardName: Circular Slide Cost: 1U Type: Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Whenever you cycle a card, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card. Flavour Text: He planned for every contingency, save one: losing. Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None

Circular Slide
{1}{u}
 
 
Whenever you cycle a card, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.
He planned for every contingency, save one: losing.
Updated on 12 Sep 2017 by jmgariepy

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2017-09-12 02:54:06: jmgariepy created and commented on the card Circular Slide

For Challenge # 160. This is a total cheat. The challenge says "Design a card for a set containing goblin tribal or zombie tribal." I thought to myself, "What kind of environment would contain both Goblin and Zombie tribal?" A likely answer, to me, would be a return to Otaria, the world of Onslaught.

And what would some likely choices for this set? Probably a tight enchantment cycle based around 'When you cycle a card'. Astral Slide and Lightning Rift are very popular. Many players find it a shame that 'the cycle wasn't complete'. But it was. Invigorating Boon, Withering Hex and Fleeting Aven fill out that cycle. But one's an aura, and one's a creature, and neither are particularly good, so people tend to forget about them.

That, and the slide and rift resist reprinting. That's because they trigger whenever any player cycles a card... and Wizards would prefer nowadays to only trigger things when you do something, rather than accidentally hose an opponent. Circular Slide, in theory, could be reprinted in any set with a lot of cycling. Astral Slide... maybe not.

So, yes, a card from a set with Zombies and Goblins that has nothing to do with Zombies or Goblins. :) I'm a stinker. I'll probably come back later with a card that doesn't abuse the premise of the challenge so fiercely later.

LOL. Awesome. I deliberately phrased it like that so people could design things that would fit with tribal or those creatures while not necessarily being tribal themselves, but I hadn't realised anyone would be able to peg a completely different mechanic from that :)

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