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CardName: Realm Traveller Cost: 1G Type: Creature - Human Spirit Pow/Tgh: 2/1 Rules Text: When Realm Traveller enters the battlefield, if you control another Spirit, draw a card. Flavour Text: "From the depths of the underworld to the cloud palaces in heaven, I have seen and known more than the divine kings and greatest demons." Set/Rarity: Xianlu Common |
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Probably going to go with
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Spirits as an archetype. I figure since there are a lot of Spirits into this set, might as well reward people for drafting them. It'll be a secondary archetype at best, so not too much attention will be paid to it.
Also thinking about removing Multicolor uncommon slots until I've got a better feel for what each color wants to play.
"Human Spirit"? That's new. It's a bit like "Human Zombie" which perhaps should be a thing, but currently isn't.
So there are a few types of Spirits, lore-wise, in the set. There are the typical ghosty spirits like those you see in the beginning of Mulan, which are just typical ghosty things like (((Jade Spirit))). There are also astral projections/separated souls like Enflamed Soul or Astral Projection, which are basically people that have projected themselves onto the astral plane. And then there are celestial/divine spirits, which are similar to Kamigawa spirits, like (((Spirit of White Bones))), (((Tanri, Celestial Maiden))), or Stonehorn Lion. This card falls into the 3rd category; basically "Human Spirit" basically means "Celestial Being that looks like a human". It's a common theme in Chinese literature.
Similarly, I'm really tempted to type Jiangshi as "Zombie Vampire", since they function in similar ways to both, but I'm opting for pure zombies at the moment.

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. P/T remains the same so sometimes its a better Elvish Visionary. Depending on how hard Spirits are to draft and how hard I push Spirit Tribal, it may go down to a 1/1.