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CardName: Spectral Bookcase Cost: {U} Type: Creature - Spirit Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Rules Text: Defender Whenever Spectral Bookcase leaves the battlefield, draw a card. Flavour Text: "The Heralitians look at the Library and see only one thing: fuel for their fires. But there's always one book that survives. It is enough." Anamixand, Heralitian firescout Set/Rarity: LibraryPlane Uncommon

Spectral Bookcase
{u}
 
 U 
Creature – Spirit
Defender
Whenever Spectral Bookcase leaves the battlefield, draw a card.
"The Heralitians look at the Library and see only one thing: fuel for their fires. But there's always one book that survives. It is enough."
Anamixand, Heralitian firescout
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Updated on 23 Aug 2011 by Putnam

Code: UU03

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2011-08-21 18:53:53: Putnam created the card Spectral Bookcase
2011-08-21 18:54:30: Putnam edited Spectral Bookcase

This is me trying to make a very strong wall. The walls I've made so far don't justify the defender theme I'm trying to develop, but this one starts to make it look attractive. I'd say it's on par (or at any rate, not that far from) wall of omens. Maybe that's too strong for Blue, but I'm going to give it a shot anyway.

The intended flavour of the card is this: its caster sticks a bookcase in front of a bunch of attacking goblins. They knock it down immediately, but it slows them down a little. Afterward, the caster gets to read the books that fell out (that is, draw a card).

The flavour is certainly amusing :)

The card is interesting. Note that for one more mana you get Surveilling Sprite: i.e. +1/+0, flying, and no defender. (Of course, this is a heck of a lot better if you're bouncing it.) But still, this could probably be buffed slightly - perhaps be a 0/2. See also Psychic Membrane.

I sure do have a lot of trouble making powerful cards. Surveilling Sprite seems so underwhelming to me, and yet I thought Spectral Bookcase had something.

I'm worried that more toughness might work against the card, given that it makes it harder for you to get the draw. How about giving it 1 power so that there's the potential for card advantage (which may disincentivize certain attacks).

Then again, since I'm trying to make a slow set, my 'powerful' cards may still be weak compared to what Wizards is doing. That said, I promise the next defender I make will be OP.

2011-08-21 21:40:18: Putnam edited Spectral Bookcase
2011-08-23 17:20:16: Putnam edited Spectral Bookcase

Here's another picture. The idea was to arrange the books to form a skull (I figured that'd be a pretty amusing image), but it didn't really come through. Oh well.

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