Soulwalk is intended to be sorcery-speed, yes, otherwise combat math just gets too awful. I may have forgotten to add that rider to some of the reminder text, though.
Enlist is the mechanic that's given me the most creative trouble and I still don't like it. It's hard to come up with a new RW army-type mechanic. At this point I'm thinking of just reusing Battalion.
Artillery Squad
Sorcery [C]
~ deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Enlist -- 2 (If you cast this spell for , also create two 1/1 white soldier creature tokens.)
Actually, after thinking about it a bit more, I think Renown would work well with the strategy and flavor of the RW deck - it encourages quick attacking and fits with the notion of honor and glory.
I think the Awaken + token mechanic is a great idea and with a couple changes it could replace Defer for the WB faction. The idea of Defer was to allow larger creatures to use smaller creatures to buff themselves. If the W cards create tokens and the high-cost B and WB cards can sac, that would create a similar effect. In that case I think I'd change the mechanic name to Conscript. The WB Abzan are an expansionist empire and the idea of them pressing into service their conquered peoples fits well.
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Soulwalk would need to be a sorcery-speed mechanic, but could possibly work.
Enlist's description reminds me of Leadership and Lodestar, but I've found it difficult to figure out such a mechanic in general.
(this is haldaraumo)
Soulwalk is intended to be sorcery-speed, yes, otherwise combat math just gets too awful. I may have forgotten to add that rider to some of the reminder text, though.
Enlist is the mechanic that's given me the most creative trouble and I still don't like it. It's hard to come up with a new RW army-type mechanic. At this point I'm thinking of just reusing Battalion.
Awaken + tokens seems just what you want:
Artillery Squad
-- 2 (If you cast this spell for 
, also create two 1/1 white soldier creature tokens.)
Sorcery [C]
~ deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Enlist
(this is haldaraumo)
Actually, after thinking about it a bit more, I think Renown would work well with the strategy and flavor of the RW deck - it encourages quick attacking and fits with the notion of honor and glory.
I think the Awaken + token mechanic is a great idea and with a couple changes it could replace Defer for the WB faction. The idea of Defer was to allow larger creatures to use smaller creatures to buff themselves. If the W cards create tokens and the high-cost B and WB cards can sac, that would create a similar effect. In that case I think I'd change the mechanic name to Conscript. The WB Abzan are an expansionist empire and the idea of them pressing into service their conquered peoples fits well.
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