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I remember reading Rosewater's article a little while back, where he mentions that he's not a fan of
. My guess is that that's the reason why they haven't done it yet... they aren't fond of using 
on common unless they've got a perfect effect for a set. It's hard to imagine a set where this card would be perfect for... it's kind of standard issue.
Odd. As an instant it's slightly better than the red one though - since it still has a useful effect if you don't have enough mana to get the kill.
As a sorcery it's probably fair, comparing with Drain Life
I'm not sure about that. If there's a simple common that hasn't been printed yet, it's worth considering it. There might be a reason why it hasn't been printed, or it might just be that the time hasn't quite been right yet. As a natural variation on Heat Ray, I don't see any reason why this couldn't be printed.
Yay, it's Hydrogen Blimp!
And the Weeping Angels already have two cards on Multiverse: one in each of the two Doctor Who sets.
Hahaha! That is indeed a question that raised itself in my mind, and a fantastic answer :)
(Also, my congratulations for avoiding a misuse of the phrase "begs the question".)
Hee. Now it's a Llanowar Sentinel from the graveyard rather than the library. (Alternatively, a Demigod of Revenge that you have to pay for.) Very nice idea.
Heh. 7 cards in, and we've got some hellbent enabling, but no hellbent yet. I suppose it happens.
I honestly don't know how good this is. It was one of the last changes I did, because the original card was just too strong. Originally, this was a 3/2 for
that could be put into play from your graveyard by discarding a card and paying 
. Gravebane Zombie didn't seem broke, and it cost a full 
less. But it turns out that a 3/2 is better than over half the cards in many drafters deck (2/5ths, of course, being uneeded lands). That, combined with the ability to flash this into play... or the threat of flashing it into play. Gah. I decided it was better to come up with a different recursive card instead.
Wisdom is White. Black and Red are Hellbent. If all the cards were designed in a vacuum, and their power level was equal after that point, Black and Red would be the strongest two color combination. That's not healthy.
In order to encourage players to break from this obvious pattern, I put a smattering of tribal matters in White/Black and in Red/White. W/B got Gorgons persecuting Thrulls (I'd like to go on record that I wasn't the person who came up with Gorgons persecuting X in the community set. Just a weird accident.) R/W got a Soldiers subtheme. I also tossed U/G a bone in the uncommon slot, by adding a bunch of tribal Snake effects.
I admit, this isn't one of my more inspired moments. I think I thought of the ability, said to myself "Why the heck doesn't this exist yet?" and put the card in the file. Later, one of the contestants submitted this card (an instant) as one of his entrants. I'm thinking it was a poor choice. All 3 of the judges have probably designed that card already, and it just never hit a set... it happens. You're not going to impress many judges by inventing things that they tossed in their garage.
Yup. I like the card, but there isn't much to say about it. Except for the fact that, for the artwork, I stole a spooky pic of an angel statue grasping out at the viewer. Many people came back to me on the image, because I had evidently yoinked a pic from Dr. Who. I admit it. I'm a nerd, and I don't watch Dr. Who. You can now torch my house.
I wanted to sneak a Circle of Protection into the set, and eventually settled on this one. This and another common protective global enchantment have made me a dash frustrated. They seem not very good... until the are. Then they don't seem very fun anymore. I'm waiting for someone to draft a deck that contains 3 of both those cards and drags games out, but no one has yet. I'm honest not sure if they just aren't strong enough to make an archetype, or if no one wants to play that archetype.
Oh, and yes, there's a better (uncommon) version of this in Planar Chaos, which isn't quite the same thing, but definitely gives off the same vibe. I think I might have suffered from parallel design... Planar Chaos came out after I designed it, but before we drafted 20XX. I've got a thing about core sets having at small number of common global enchantments, so I kept this one.
Bone Harvest is a Mirage reprint, so you know. It also raises the question: "Why not just reprint Footbottom Feast?" It turns out that slowtrips (cards that cause you to draw a card next turn) are really good with Wisdom (because you draw a card) and Hellbent (because you don't draw it now... your hand can be empty if you want). I admit, it's a bit awkward, but it makes me smile, so I'll go with that. I didn't design any new slowtrips myself, but I did reprint every useful non-coldsnap black and red one.
Monday's come around again. That means 7 new/old cards from Magic 20XX. Last week I put up 8 cards from white which has a heavy 'wisdom' focus. I figured I'd pinwheel over to black today, to show off what one of the 'hellbent' colors was up to.
Since this set is very invested in the number of cards that are in player's hands, lots of cards that make players discard cards seems natural. Unfortunately, lots of cards that make players discard cards can also be very unfun. I tried to balance this by making a lot of the discard cards work on a 1-for-1 basis... No Mind Rot in this pseudo core set, and no cards that make you discard more than one card in common. No one seemed to complain, and I got a few positives from the discard selection in this set, so, go me.
The quote, by the way, is from the Monty Python sketch: Blackmail. I'm loathe to quote Monty Python, but, this one lined up so well, that I had to keep it.
Hmm... I do like to support multiplayer. It's tough to figure out when adding "target player" is worth it. You make the card a little more complicated for a little bit of interaction. Here, the card is already a touch complicated, so I think I'll add it. If it was just a simple card that said "Gain X life", though, it would probably be an annoyance, I suppose.
Mm. True. Luckily, none of this effects the draft environment, which is all I really care about. Common Wish is a fun card to play when you don't have to worry about real world concerns. Outside of its intended universe, though, I assume its a gigantic headache.
Hehehe. I seemed to be poking a touchy subject with this one. I do get the "this isn't part of white's strategy" argument, but I would think that a color's strategy is found by comparing all the cards in a set together, more than looking at an odd card. There are a lot of odd cards out there...
I will have to think on another name. I always thought it was a good one, but you're right... it does sound rather green.
Well, yes. But this isn't even a colour pie thing. I'm saying white gets to do this thing weakly, and well - but not middlingly ok-ish. Which is just.. a really strange intuition.
Yeah... I think we have discovered in the past that your sensibilities for what the colours do are basically circa 4th Edition, haven't we? :)
Fair enough. It still feels wrong to me. I'm still thinking "White gets to do puny rubbish stuff, then has a gap, and then goes BOOM and wipes the whole board, destroying all lands, all creatures... and only one artifact and enchantment but it's protected form everything and invulnerable! Boom! And then back to the tiny fliers and the healing salve."
Meh. It's a sensible card, it just doesn't feel like it.
It does indeed seem like a better white boon than Healing Salve. That's a reason for it, not against it :)
The name isn't right though. This feels like a green name.
On the inbetween-rangestrike options, there's Ballista Squad, Harpoon Sniper, Archery Training, Coordinated Barrage and Armed Response (and the similar-but-different Unified Strike). So I'd say this is okay.