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A mana stone that turns into a Tutor from the battlefield. Awesome! It's like Mind Stone, but more useful. I might run it in mono-black.
I chose Stormscape Battlestone and Random Generator gave me Celestial Kirin and Architects of Will. I wanted to add "Draw a card" at the end of the blue ability, but it put me in the next font size... plus, that may have proven a bit too useful for this cycle... don't know.
I chose Stormscape Battlestone and random generator gave me Evil Presence and Diabolic Tutor. I had to flip the abilities on the card... in theory, black should come before green, but small effect before big effect seemed more important.
I chose Stormscape Battlestone Random Generator gave me Teleport and Smokebraider. Playable, but I don't think these are going to sit right on me. I think I might be better off using the original battlemage abilities and calling it a day for the battlestones. It may just require getting used to, though, so I'm giving it a chance.
Originally the Battlestone required you to pay mana like kicker to get the two bonus abilities. The problem with that was:
It was kicker, but it didn't admit it. Kicker is much too ubiquitous to pretend it doesn't exist, and:
This sort of thing might have been fine as a one shot. But mana stones scream "I'm part of a cycle!", and this was gearing up to be one awkward cycle.
So, I stopped putting my head under the pounding sledge for not being creative enough to surprise even myself. The capsule 'cycle' from Alara is a much more fun idea to play with, even if it isn't terribly creative. Which is the point, after all, right?
Time to roll up some random cards and see what the rest of the cycle looks like...
You know, I never would have figured it out like that. That's an interesting way to think about it. Mostly I didn't use his name because I don't use MY name.
You know, Link, it's funny, but I had figured that out. Something about referring to your boyfriend a number of times, but not calling him out by name. Girls have a tendency to do the opposite. They say "Jake" likes so-and-so, and don't bother to tell you that Jake is their boyfriend... you're just supposed to figure it out over time through context. I don't think many other people would have picked up on that, though... I'm straight, but I was dance major in college, which put me in contact with enough people in the community to notice what is not being said.
I'm a boy. For the record. :)
Whoops. Accidently added the card to Alpha instead of workbench. Oh well, it's just as well. The set will probably need a blue creature removal, anyhow.
Multiverse randomly generated Anachrophobia by dude1818 from the cardset "The Oncoming Storm", and Goblin Mob by Camruth, from the cardset Snap. It's very awkward not using his, her or his or her when referring to cardsets. I assume that most of the designers on this site are male, since most Magic players are male, but I certainly wouldn't want to be reffering to individuals by the wrong gender, and saying "his or her" just seems worse. And I can't be going around asking everyone what their gender is just to solve some oddness left over in the English language. The internet can be strange like this...
Anyhow, I like what happened... the card feels like it can be dropped in a core set. Cool beans. I regret not being able to tag on the line "Enchanted creature cannot attack alone", but that would be one too many sentences in an already complicated common. (Especially for new players. I assume a number of them will assume that they can declare the enchanted creature an attacker after the creature that untapped it attacked...)
Hee. About 10 years ago, I enjoyed a green/white deck with 24 0-mana creatures (Ornithopter, Phyrexian Walker, Shield Sphere and 12 Kobolds), Recycle, March of Souls and Coat of Arms. Dump about 12 free creatures, turn them (and all the opponents' guys) into 1/1 flyers, turn them all into 22/22 flyers, swing FTW. Crazy, but it did win some games.
I remember putting one into a white deck in a tourney-ish event where players had to declare their decks colours up front so people could sideboard against them in the first round, for the obvious purpose.
I'm planning on Kobolds in all colors, strongest in Red, secondary in Green and Black. Maybe I'll even end up with a Kobold Artifact Creature. Guess I haven't seen a tribal artifact creature mashup, yet, or I probably would have immediately attacked it.
After all, you could have technically played Legends Kobolds with any color... or no colors of mana whatsoever. I'm sure someone out there must have been putting their Kobolds in their White/Blue Decks, if only to laugh at how bad they were.