See Challenge # 163.

OK, I did the number :)

Except "Add " isn't right any more, it needs to be "Add " How else do you write that? "Add forty-two colorless mana to your mana pool"?

To get the full Hitchhiker's Guide 6x8=42 reference, I wasn't sure if the costs should be 7W or 8W or something else.

You could go a bit more meta.

­: Add that much colourless mana to your mana pool.

(How much? That's the question. What's the question? We don't know, but we know the answer...)

Woo. Lots of stuff.

I love how destroying 42 creatures sounds bonkers until you realize that the time when it's applicable will probably mean it's also useless.

Yeah :) I wasn't sure how much effort to put into balancing the effects. It did occur to me that the red ability made the black ability more usable :)

"I Scry 42."

Oh. Um. Okay. If you don't mind, I'm just going to lie down and contemplate the meaning of life, the universe, and everything while you do that.

"Add 42 mana of any one colour". Or "in any combination of colours".

The red and black are a bit annoyingly similar, but I can't think of many sensible options. Perhaps red makes mana and green makes 42 tokens? No, that might be a bit too close to winning the game.

Thank you. Wait, I screwed that up. It was supposed to be black, destroy creatures, red, create tokens, and I changed it and they ended up duplicated.

I can't remember if I avoided that because the tokens were too strong, or if it didn't fit.

ETA: Edited, although I'd really hoped to keep more of the abilities short enough to fit on one line.

I'm not sure when to spell out numbers. I think magic uses numerals for damage and a couple of other situations, and otherwises spells out numbers (including for "add forty two mana" and "create forty two creature tokens") but I'm not sure.