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2011-08-21 04:40:50: Putnam commented on Atemporalize

Here's Blue's pseudo-removal. Plus I took the awkward flavour from one of my old creatures and put it here. I think it's a little less awkward this time around, since if you're outside of time, then you're outside of all causal determination (well, there are a few conceptions of causality that aren't essentially temporal, but they're weird), which means indestructible.

Plus, there's some flexibility here: play this on your Swarm of Monads, use atomistic metaphysic to untap it, and you have an indestructible blocker.

As I understand it, Wizards has decided that indestructible shouldn't show up at common (apparently withstand death was a mistake), but oh well, I can't get everything right.

2011-08-21 04:28:21: Putnam created the card Atemporalize

2011-08-21 03:52:49: Putnam commented on Amphiboly

A negated familiar's ruse. The intention is to synergize with all the ETB effects I have going around.

I realize the bounce-your-own-creature effect has moved to White, but I plan on having it show up a lot, so I thought I could fit a little in Blue.

Familiar's ruse is uncommon, but deprive is common, so I think I'm safe.

2011-08-21 03:39:17: Putnam created the card Amphiboly

2011-08-21 03:35:59: Putnam edited Stacks Phantom:

added flying in order to up the number of blue flyers

2011-08-21 03:28:56: Putnam commented on Torrent of Jackdaws

I don't know why I thought I could get away with only one blue flyer at common. It's true that I wanted to limit the amount of evasion in this set so as to make more room for the late game (I'm assuming that too much evasion shortens the late game. Is that right?). But I figure blue needs at least two flyers at common. Incidentally, gatherer says that zendikar has more blue flyers at common than non-flyers!

I suppose I'll make one of my defenders a flyer. That doesn't really help, since it's not evasion, but it's the best I can do. I'll also make a jump variant. But this is one of the flaws that marks this set as the work of a beginner shrug.

2011-08-20 22:21:15: Jack V commented on Torrent of Jackdaws

I love the name. More than one blue flyer is normal, though.

2011-08-20 19:32:02: Putnam edited Torrent of Jackdaws

2011-08-20 19:30:33: Putnam edited the details page Skeleton

2011-08-20 19:23:36: Putnam commented on Torrent of Jackdaws

I only have this one flyer in blue common. I decided to make it pretty aggressive in a heavy-handed attempt to make sure blue has a contribution to limited. So, snapping drake. I didn't envision any drakes in library plane (plus snapping drake is too boring a name [don't all drakes snap? It's what carnivores with giant jaws do]) so I went with a whole hell of a lot of birds instead.

2011-08-20 19:12:03: Putnam created the card Torrent of Jackdaws

2011-08-20 04:37:16: Putnam edited Sophistry

2011-08-20 04:30:27: Putnam commented on the cardset LibraryPlane

Thanks! I was lucky to fall upon the giant library idea, but I'm not sure I've found the right way of coming at it (as it turns out, Magic + philosophy isn't as exciting as I thought!). Also I should have started with a library-oriented mechanic, rather than my set of 'metaphysic' ideas. I'd be interested to see how someone else would develop the idea.

It's a good point about the cantrips and library manipulation. I was planning on hitting those points pretty hard, but I think I lost sight of them along the way.

2011-08-20 04:11:26: Putnam commented on Sophistry

Right you are.

2011-08-20 04:11:01: Putnam edited Sophistry:

fixed along with drugsforrobots suggestion

2011-08-20 04:04:59: Putnam edited Stacks Phantom

2011-08-20 04:04:31: Putnam commented on Stacks Phantom

Finally, I've replaced atemporal near-thing with this variant of pride guardian. Also, I've decided that I'm going to try fateseal in this set. It seems to me that scry is a better mechanic overall, but I'm going to try fateseal first since I like the flavour better.

2011-08-20 04:01:50: Putnam edited Stacks Phantom

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2011-08-20 02:39:45: Putnam commented on Telosian Chimera

This was a 4/4, but I got nervous about the colour pie (bonebreaker giant says that 4/4 is too big for a blue vanilla creature at this mana cost). A blue zombie goliath sounds right (I had it as a 3/5 for a moment, but there's too much toughness in blue common already).

This was called thinkbeast, which seemed liked a good idea at the time. Now it's a chimera, and in the cute sense of it being a chimera like an illusion or absurd idea rather than a Greek sheep-eater. This is confusing, which means I'll probably change it again next month.

And it gets worse: the flavour text is a paraphrasing (it may be a direct quote, but I don't trust my translation) of Hegel's (in)famous upsetting of Aristotelian logic derived from the principle of identity. I admit it's bad flavour text because 1. most people don't know about / care about Hegel, and 2. even those who know about /care about Hegel probably don't like this quote. But I think it's important that this set wear its pretentiousness on its sleeve.

I'm going to store the old flavour text here:

The Telosians are the children of the tiniest fallacy, the barest question-begging of some distant axiom. This needling unreason has festered for innumerable years, incrementally poisoning our history, perverting our laws, inverting our truths.

This is to remind myself that the current flavour text is actually an improvement.

2011-08-20 02:35:12: DrugsForRobots commented on the cardset LibraryPlane

What do you think about having a lot of cantrips? Being a library plane, manipulating the library and drawing cards could help flesh out the flavor a little.

2011-08-20 02:28:37: Putnam edited Telosian Chimera

2011-08-20 02:21:10: DrugsForRobots commented on the cardset LibraryPlane

I like the artwork. Lol. I think the set has potential. I certainly like the idea of a giant library plane.

2011-08-20 02:13:40: DrugsForRobots commented on Sophistry

Shouldn't it have a 'this turn' or 'until end of turn' clause?

2011-08-20 01:00:31: Putnam edited Shrieking Politician:

image added - the speaker looks a lot calmer than I intended, but it's not worth another try

2011-07-01 02:09:19: Putnam commented on Endbringer Hellion

Thanks for clearing that up Alex.

And Jack V, now that's a cool card. I'm happy there's such a clean way to get around Endbringer Hellion's drawback.

(But because I'm unpleasant, I do have this minor complaint: since the sundial is concerned with ending [i.e. limiting, placing boundaries] the turn, shouldn't it be sundial of the finite? Then again, that'd make a stupid name...)

2011-06-30 21:09:43: Jack V commented on Endbringer Hellion

I like the hellion version!

Did you see the magic 2012 http://www.google.com/search?q=sundial+of+the+infinite which would make quite a ridiculous combo with the "at the beginning of your next end step" (although I don't think it's too good, and even if it is, I don't think it's worth changing your set to keep up with newly released cards).

2011-06-30 14:09:59: Alex commented on Endbringer Hellion

The word "hellion" just means a troublemaker or rowdy kid. Hellions as the worms-with-tentacles are a Magic invention - see here.

2011-06-29 22:22:53: Putnam edited Endbringer Hellion