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Recent updates to Strike The Earth: (Generated at 2025-11-25 21:53:57)

• 2011-11-16 12:02:24: Alex commented on Redmine

  Because I'd wanted to link that card in a comment somewhere else, and I forget its name, so I looked up its code then to enter in a link of the form (((-CL05))). Then I misremembered the code now.

• 2011-11-16 11:39:51: Vitenka commented on Redmine

  They've flipped form being common to basic and back far too many times for me to keep track of. Will fix. But how on earth did you know the 05 part without knowing the other bit?

• 2011-11-16 11:38:30: Alex commented on Redmine

  Bah. Your basic lands don't have basic land codes. (CL05).

• 2011-11-16 11:37:44: Alex commented on Aurora Boots

  Buuhh. Pretty odd flavour. The dwarf is imbuing himself into the hunting net?

• 2011-11-16 11:37:32: Vitenka commented on Redmine

  Um, what's bl05 meant to be?

  Yeah, it was good - but not overpoweredly scarily so. Hoorah!

• 2011-11-16 11:34:45: Alex commented on Redmine

  I drafted this fairly highly, because I wanted to play it. I had 2 of this, 3 Deepest Delvings, and a (CL05), in a red-black deck - which meant I only had 6 mountains, and often ran out pretty quickly. At which point this becomes useless (and fodder for saccing to Dwarven Miner or (CL05) to get back my Tunnel Skeleton).

  So far this seems as I'd suspected: this is good, perfectly playable, but nowhere near overpowered. It's certainly no Thawing Glaciers. It might be a bit good in formats with Steam Vents and Taiga, admittedly.

• 2011-11-16 11:30:03: Vitenka commented on Aurora Boots

  Actually; maybe this should be where scary mask gets its comeuppance.

  Equipped creature is an Artifact creature with +1/+0 and reach?

• 2011-11-16 11:27:29: Alex commented on Appropriate Harm

  Hmmm. Ish. It means they need to 2-for-1 trade with a creature plus this or Soul Channel. Or I need to time things right with one of these plus a first striker.

• 2011-11-16 11:26:40: Vitenka commented on Cinnabar Strike

  Quite some time ago; the last time you pointed out craft was really really weak.

  Hah! at least I'm not the only one who doesn't read the cards I'm drafting :)

• 2011-11-16 11:26:15: Alex commented on Lavaball Evoker

  Hmm, you could make it an Earthquake-alike: "~ deals X damage to each creature". Flavour text "I just let a little bit of lava out..."

• 2011-11-16 11:25:44: Vitenka edited Deepest Delvings
• 2011-11-16 11:25:22: Vitenka commented on Porcelain Cat

  Will reword more sensibly later. Maybe.

• 2011-11-16 11:25:20: Alex commented on Magma Chamber

  Doesn't really scratch the itch. I have quite a strong feeling that X spell = sorcery (even despite Heat Ray as the exception, perhaps proving the rule).

• 2011-11-16 11:25:07: Vitenka edited Porcelain Cat
• 2011-11-16 11:24:40: Alex commented on Aurora Boots

  Wanting some reach = good. Making a card that does nothing except give reach = bad.

  Actually, given DF's emphasis on crafting masterwork weapons and armour made from the best metals you can forge, there's definitely room for some more in-universe-flavoured equipment.

• 2011-11-16 11:23:15: Alex commented on Deepest Delvings

  Yes, I'd say so.

  BTW, conventionally there's a comma between those symbols in activation costs. See e.g. Imperious Perfect or Graven Cairns.

• 2011-11-16 11:22:29: Alex commented on Cinnabar Strike

  ...Wait, craft draws you a card? When did that happen?!

• 2011-11-16 11:21:19: Alex commented on Cinnabar Strike

  I have 3 cards in hand: a land, a mineral, and a 1/1. By the time I've crafted haste onto the 1/1, I've given up both the other cards.

  People are more likely to try playing them, and discover the interesting upsides and downsides to the mechanic, if they're erring on the more-powerful side. As it is, people leave them in sideboards so we don't know if they're good or not.

• 2011-11-16 11:20:21: Alex commented on Porcelain Cat

  Ha! That's a nice approach.

• 2011-11-16 11:13:43: Vitenka edited Rakrum, Lord of Ruin:

  name, with pun. Flavour text.

• 2011-11-16 11:05:12: Vitenka edited Tunnel Skeleton:

  clarify 'from anywhere'

• 2011-11-16 11:00:40: Vitenka edited Cenote Mechanism:

  clarified as anywhere

• 2011-11-16 10:58:09: Alex commented on the cardset Strike The Earth

  A few overall notes:

  • Most of the creatures are power 1, or occasionally power 2, especially at common. This actually works fine: it makes it feel like a set full of, well, dwarves.
  • Red has too much first strike at common.
  • Red's and black's common removal spells are both pretty reasonable. White needs one though.
  • Black has way too much in its costs at common.
  • The minerals are utterly unplayable. I think drastic action is needed. In a normal set, I'd say the fix is to change "sacrifice a land" to "bounce a land" (and up the cost to 1C or 2C) or "discard a land". But the problem is, you want them to be a way to get lands into graveyards. One fix to that is to make them tap for two mana, so they're occupying a slot similar to a land (sac 1 land, get 2). Problem with that is you'd never want to give that up to give some junky 1/X creature haste or deathtouch. So perhaps make them tap for 2 mana and make craft also return a land from graveyard to the battlefield?
• 2011-11-16 10:58:08: Vitenka commented on Appropriate Harm

  Mmmm... that makes the 5/5 stompies a little too close to utterly unkillable though.

• 2011-11-16 10:57:37: Vitenka commented on Lavaball Evoker

  Guhhh.. I was thinking about limiting it! (Making it "Discard, or sacrifice, a land") Also: the majority of this cycle is semi symmetric. I guess red gets to do its own thing though.

• 2011-11-16 10:57:11: Vitenka commented on Magma Chamber

  Yeah, it needs some limitation. The set's getting quite light on instants though. Maybe require at least one land sac?

• 2011-11-16 10:54:44: Alex commented on Magma Chamber

  This is good. I enjoyed playing with it. The restriction to creatures-only is very sensible.

  As a variation of Blaze, though, it should probably be a sorcery. It felt wrong to be able to cast this at instant speed.

• 2011-11-16 10:53:56: Alex commented on Lavaball Evoker

  This is exceedingly strong, but some mythics are meant to be. If Wizards were going to print something like this, they'd probably give it flying or haste as well. (But don't.)

• 2011-11-16 10:53:09: Alex commented on Appropriate Harm

  I like the mechanic of this. The extra wackiness won't usually apply, but it does against e.g. Reader of Entrails.

  But 5 damage is too much for common and too much for 3 mana. Take it down to 4 and keep the cost the same.

• 2011-11-16 10:51:54: Alex commented on Tunnel Skeleton

  This was an interesting tweak on Reassembling Skeleton. I like it. It's not overpowered.