Multiverse: Soradyne Laboratories v1.2: Recent Activity

2012-03-05 23:59:08: SFletcher commented on Coal Road Piper

Look, it's not a literal parallel to the Pied Piper, it's just a dirty old guy who goes and catches rats for whatever use they're needed for. The Hamelin reference helps to frame it, but doesn't outright define it. The cost comes from the rats devouring everything in their path, and serves double duty as a resource for the "land in the graveyard / sac a lot of stuff thing that R/B has going on.

I'm thinking my plan is to up the rats to three, or to stay at two and remove the "sac a rat" clause. I don't even remember why I put that there in the first place.

2012-03-05 23:56:42: M_Houlding commented on Coal Road Piper

Don't worry Sean, no need to finish that sentence, I'm just being a joker.

The important thing was that this dude should probably just make 2 rats. The sacrifice at the end is unneeded.

2012-03-05 23:54:32: SFletcher commented on a card

2012-03-05 23:22:48: dude1818 commented on Coal Road Piper

No, the story goes that the Pied Piper used his magical flute to summon all the rats from the city and drown them in a nearby river. The mayor then refused to pay him, so the Pied Piper used his flute on the children instead and drowned them.

2012-03-05 23:16:32: M_Houlding commented on Coal Road Piper

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (as I recall) led the townsfolk astray using his beguiling skills as a deviant flautist. He wasn't blowing up the countryside hunting for rats for his experiments.

(Note: Wikipedia tells me other versions of the Pied Piper story involve him turning children into rats. I guess the lands are children?)

2012-03-05 22:41:22: SFletcher commented on Triage Medic

I read him as "overworked medic capable of patching up multiple dudes in a high-action scenario".

2012-03-05 22:29:52: Bombshell commented on Coal Road Piper

Have you not heard of the Pied Piper of Hamelin? The callback to that story felt like fun and the flavor text tying it into the Labs worked well, for me.

2012-03-05 22:27:49: Bombshell commented on Triage Medic

Well, while a touch of a stretch, triage originating as a way to help soldiers on the front lines could suggest 'medical help in a hurry', thus my suggestion of Flash.

2012-03-05 22:17:52: M_Houlding commented on Coal Road Piper

Nlewis loves the flavor, but I'm not even sure what the flavor is.

Under every city there's a rat infestation?

Either way, I agree with Bombshell that something seems a bit off in terms of power. It's a Hill Giant that lets you sacrifice lands in order to make chump blockers. That's like a pizza that I left the cheese off of so that you can drip sauce on your clothes more easily.

2012-03-05 22:12:52: M_Houlding commented on Triage Medic

I can't think of a good reason to give this Flash or Feint, as neither ability would allow you to use the ability that defines its medical affiliation.

The only slight shift I can think would be to separate the damage-prevention into two abilities that might reinforce the concept of "triage". Something like:

T: Prevent 1 damage to target creature or player. T: Prevent 2 damage to target defending creature.

But that doesn't do enough in terms of gameplay that I would really ever make that change. Plus, clutters the rules text.

2012-03-05 21:25:37: Bombshell commented on Granite Ridge Anarchists

At rare and given the cost of the trigger, I would let this destroy 2 target lands. If this gets killed, it won't trigger, right? So there's no disincentive to Wrath or just kill it and getting 4 permanents to your graveyard from the Battlefield isn't easy.

2012-03-05 21:12:12: Bombshell commented on Coal Road Piper

I also really like this but: you're asking players to do something they are reluctant to do; Sacrifice lands. The effect is also pretty minimal: I'm essentially sacrificing a land to get a creature and this isn't a great trade off. I recognize there are cards that give you a bonus if you have a land in the graveyard; so long as this theme continues in block then I see it as worthwhile. Without that, I think this should be upped.

There's only one other Rat in the set, so far, so maybe upping the number of rats is a solid idea (and one that would fit in a plane like this.) Any Black tokens made in Soradyne should almost certainly be Rat ones.

But back on topic; maybe this should be X+2 rats, where X is the number of rats you have in play. Or just offer 3 rats per land?

2012-03-05 20:33:16: Bombshell commented on Triage Medic

There's a lot to like here; name is good, ability meshes.

But I still kinda hate it. It feels like it's missing something.

What if it had Flash? Too powerful?

2012-03-05 19:56:00: Vitenka commented on Dispatch Field Reporter

ooh yeah, cmc4 is a bit high. Was expecting to see 3. Two would be pushing it, but.

2012-03-05 19:13:33: Bombshell commented on Dispatch Field Reporter

Given this creature's color and ability, the p/t should probably be boosted by at least 1 on each end or the CMC should come down.

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2012-03-02 00:07:31: Bombshell commented on Aero-Keen Spring Shoes

Agreed on all points.

2012-03-01 23:12:06: SFletcher edited Granite Ridge Anarchists