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
Whenever you cycle a card, you may pay . If you do, draw a card.
He planned for every contingency, save one: losing.
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 :)
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 :)