CardName: Ajani's Partisan
Cost: 1R
Type: Creature - Cat Berskerer
Pow/Tgh: 2/1
Rules Text: Trample
Whenever Ajani's Partisan becomes a target of a spell or
ability, you may put a +1/+1 counter on a creature called
Ajani's Protector.
Flavour Text:
Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None
Ajani's Partisan
Creature – Cat Berskerer
Trample
Whenever Ajani's Partisan becomes a target of a spell or ability, you may put a +1/+1 counter on a creature called Ajani's Protector.
The idea is a cycle of six creatures across W, R and G, each referring to the next in the cycle, so they're useful if you can match two or three of them, but they go gigantic if you can ever get all six.
That's clearly a cycle because the abilities tessellate like that. I picked abilities that could go on small simple creatures because creatures is what we have the most of so we can most easily spend a few on this cycle. And I picked Ajani semi-arbitrarily because he seemed the most appropriate for a variety of small creatures.
I wasn't sure if it should be temporary or permanent boost. Or if it should be an attack trigger (so it doesn't go infinite) or a spell trigger (so it's harder to trigger, but chains better).
See Challenge # 161.
The idea is a cycle of six creatures across W, R and G, each referring to the next in the cycle, so they're useful if you can match two or three of them, but they go gigantic if you can ever get all six.
That's clearly a cycle because the abilities tessellate like that. I picked abilities that could go on small simple creatures because creatures is what we have the most of so we can most easily spend a few on this cycle. And I picked Ajani semi-arbitrarily because he seemed the most appropriate for a variety of small creatures.
I wasn't sure if it should be temporary or permanent boost. Or if it should be an attack trigger (so it doesn't go infinite) or a spell trigger (so it's harder to trigger, but chains better).