Multiverse: Strike The Earth: Recent Activity

2011-12-15 19:31:54: Vitenka commented on Garden of Statues

I was mainly thinking of its interactions with fear and naturalise. Was actually based on Quickchange, being the one I knew of.

2011-12-15 19:27:17: Alex commented on Garden of Statues

Intriguing. I like it. Argent Mutation plus Prismatic Lace plus nonbasic land equals... something that definitely goes in every deck playing Illusion // Reality ;)

Also, good DF-setting name.

2011-12-15 19:25:34: Alex commented on Tangling Woods

Wow. Fog on a ETBT Forest. Strong, but proobably not unprintably so.

Fog is one of those weird effects: on its own, it's virtually unplayable in serious Constructed, but the slightest tweak on it and it starts being a strong contender (e.g. Moment's Peace, Dawnstrider, Constant Mists, and the way they've had to kill cantrip-Fog every time it's been submitted for a set). I wonder if putting it on a nonbasic land would make it too good. Possibly not.

2011-12-15 19:23:33: Alex commented on Arching Caverns

Hah! Doesn't really need to be at the pseudobasic rarity, given how, erm, single-use it is...

2011-12-15 19:20:07: Alex edited Calm Plains:

fix frame

2011-12-15 18:45:32: Vitenka created the card Arching Caverns

2011-12-15 18:29:25: Vitenka created the card Garden of Statues

2011-12-15 18:18:41: Vitenka edited Calm Plains:

flavour, referendcing source instant

2011-12-15 18:18:18: Vitenka created the card Calm Plains

2011-12-15 18:11:35: Vitenka created the card Tangling Woods

2011-12-15 08:40:54: Vitenka commented on Interrupting Crab

Well, you got one of my more interesting cards; if not one of my set specific ones, at least :)

2011-12-15 05:30:40: jmgariepy commented on Interrupting Crab

Moooo! Mashup: the Gathering randomly selected this card on Multiverse, and now it's one half the inspiration for the card Alaborn Drill Sergeant!

2011-12-08 11:26:11: Vitenka commented on Smelting Chamber

You're probably right.

Functionally, it's better (targeted) and less good (because they can wait until you don't have the mana up to use it, rather than having to get the artifact out of hand ASAP in case you use it next time you have mana spare. So that's probably still balanced. But the blast version is saner; and thus should probably be in this set, with the random one left in my silly set.

2011-12-08 10:11:44: Alex commented on Smelting Chamber

@V: Ah, OK - fair enough. Yes, it's certainly fair for a set to have one random card. And the randomness is indeed actually pretty minimal in this case.

I still think it should just be " {r} , {t} , Sac ~: Counter target artifact spell" though.

2011-12-07 23:12:44: Jack V commented on Smelting Chamber

I think if this does do discard, it's reasonable to make it random, as it usually won't matter, and it'll be interesting if it does. But I don't know if it should do that, or just do "counter target artifact spell" or something else, you're right that holding it until you're sure the opponent has a target is annoying, but OTOH, abilities on lands can be really weak and still useful.

2011-12-07 17:17:19: Vitenka commented on Smelting Chamber

Well, I fall back on three arguments:

This is the only random card in the set, and surely the set can support one
In set, they're not really likely to have more than one artifact in hand.
I like random, and this is my set :)

2011-12-07 16:52:38: Alex commented on Smelting Chamber

"Red" has a heck of a lot more fans than "random" does. "Random" irritates most players. They deliberately did it in Innistrad to emphasise the feeling of lack of control to try to get the horror vibe going. (Yes, really. I didn't make that up.) But players generally don't like being out-of-control of their cards.

2011-12-07 16:04:42: Vitenka commented on Smelting Chamber

Well, the players who like red would, I think :)

2011-12-07 15:52:20: Alex commented on Smelting Chamber

Really? Why? Would the players be?

2011-12-07 15:21:49: Vitenka commented on Smelting Chamber

I was really happy about the random element, too, though.

2011-12-07 15:19:35: Alex commented on Smelting Chamber

If you want it to counter an artifact spell, just make it " {r} , {t} , Sacrifice ~: Counter target artifact spell."

2011-12-07 14:46:07: Vitenka commented on Smelting Chamber

Oh. Um, that was sorta the whole damn point of the card. Shoulda waited longer for comments on the source. Damnit. Without the blasting ability this is just kinda unpickably weak. Maybe it should only sac if it actually hits? But then it's "Reveal your hand" repeatably in red. Yick.

2011-12-07 14:42:40: Alex commented on Smelting Chamber

As in, to counter an artifact spell like Artifact Blast? Nope. (It couldn't with the other wording, either.) During a spell's casting, only that spell's controller gets to play mana abilities, and the second ability here isn't a mana ability anyway. Even if it was, it wouldn't help. The available moments to activate this are (a) before they start trying to cast the spell, i.e. before you know it's in their hand, or (b) after it's on the stack and no longer in their hand.

2011-12-07 14:37:53: Vitenka commented on Smelting Chamber

Ok, so, this CAN still work as an artifact-blast, right?

2011-12-07 14:34:39: Vitenka edited Smelting Chamber:

tap!

2011-12-07 14:34:02: Vitenka edited Smelting Chamber:

frame

2011-12-07 14:33:27: Vitenka commented on Smelting Chamber

Stolen from http://multiverse.heroku.com/cards/11719 (Sudden Shatter)

2011-12-07 14:32:25: Vitenka edited Mammoth's Graveyard:

make code basic again

2011-12-07 14:32:07: Vitenka edited Redmine:

make code basic again

2011-12-07 14:31:55: Vitenka edited Tunnels of Mayapore:

make code basic again