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CardName: Doublechuck Cost: 2WW Type: Creature - Groundhog Pow/Tgh: 3/3 Rules Text: Torpor (You may put a +1/+1 on this creature instead of untapping it.) Remove a +1/+1 counter from Doublechuck: Doublechuck gains doublestrike until end of turn. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Ulaqat Rare

Doublechuck
{2}{w}{w}
 
 R 
Creature – Groundhog
Torpor (You may put a +1/+1 on this creature instead of untapping it.)

Remove a +1/+1 counter from Doublechuck: Doublechuck gains doublestrike until end of turn.
3/3
Updated on 04 May 2018 by Sorrow

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2018-05-01 22:41:40: Sorrow created and commented on the card Doublechuck

So it turns out not that many species of animal that would fit in this setting hibernate.

Good news. The correct scientific term for what most mammals do during the winter is called 'Torpor'.

Whether or not people would be happy with that term is another story. Ixalan, for example, has pterodactyls with the creature type 'dinosaur' (this, after years of calling dinosaurs 'lizard'.) Sometimes, you can't win.

Don't forget the plesiosaur was also made a dinosaur.

I mean, I personally wouldn't mind using Torpor over hibernate. That doesn't change that I'm limited to like rodents, bears, and bats for creatures.

You are both wrong. Ixalan just happens to be inhabited by a bunch of Dinosaurs that independently from the evolutionary truths of Earth evolved into several species, some of which are homomorph to terrestrial Pterosaurs and Plesiosaurs by virtue of convergent evolution of species occupying the same ecological niche.

This is evidenced by the fact that these new Ixalan species of the Ixalan clade Dinosaur have their own distinct names e. g. Aerosaur, Heliopterus etc.

Clearly the fact that one of these species is called by the name Pterodon (which is a homonym to a terrestrial mammal/plant) is of no consequence either. ;)


I'd like to hear how hibernate/torpor plays mechanically. I hope there is at least one creature with that mechanic that ETBs tapped. :)

@Sorrow: Well, you could also design your own creatures that have torpor/hibernate. Also, mixing and matching works. "Creature - Spider Bear", "Creature - Rat Wolf", and "Creature - Bat Goat" are all open. Go nuts.

I would imagine this would play similarly to Outlast. This might suffer from the issue where players easily draw a card at the start of their turn, often missing upkeep triggers and such.

I would consider using the Brushwagg type for some of these.

Well, if players routinely draw before they untap; maybe?

This seems ok to accidentally miss. Maybe you'd have preferred to get a +1/+1 counter; but hey, you've got an untapped decent creature instead. Upside either way.

I recently realized I don't know much of fantasy creature unique to Inuit or Yupik folklore. There's a museum tour I plan to go on in the future that will hopefully help me in learning more about the cultures that can translate into fantasy so that I can build Ulaqat further. If I'm lucky I can even find more creatures from those people's folklore that would make sense having the hibernate mechanic.

While my knowledge of Inuit and Yupik culture is admittedly limited, I'm pretty sure you could get a lot of value out of making an entire race of 'Polar Bear People'.

Unless that's accidentally racist, like the rabbit people of Kamigawa. Gotta check these things

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