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Yeah, my hope is to get away with simple abilities: Token creation, life gain, card draw, scry, looting etc. More Jace, Ingenious Mind-Mage than Jace, Architect of Thought.
The flavor is that you employ a team of planeswalkers and each member can contribute their own abilities; they are strongly loyal to each other, but with limited loyalty to you.
So if one of them likes working with you (using plus abilities) and the other doesn't (using minus abilties, getting damaged) they might compromise working for you until their overall loyalty is used up and then their loyalty to each other means they both take off in search for greener pastures together.
It really doesn't have to be a tight flavor - after all there is limited thematic consistency in Chandra being more loyal to a player that wants her to make small fires than to a player who allows her to unleash an inferno... :)
Only with a very small text size. The text box is about twice as large as fits without getting shrunk down.
A custom card frame (that can spread the 'you get to use each half' text across both sides) probably would let this work. You won't be able to make any really complex abilities; but lots of interesting pairs of abilities should make up for that.
I'm not really sure on the flavour here though. One planeswalker is powering up the other one? In either direction?
Not according to my test right here. The four ability version would work on a split card as demonstrated right here.
With an adequate custom frame a five-ability version seems feasible, though there would be restrictions on the text. I'd keep to four abilities on most cards.
It feels like you need much larger cards for this to work.
This is a cool concept.
The original concept for this tried hard on potential card advantage, but with most of that removed or more niche (enchantment removal) the cost can come down a bit.
The text space would be a lot less of an issue, but the static/reminder text on this frame takes extra much space...
Should I eshew reminder text?
mana cost:
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replaced "~" with "This"
added: "You gain 2 life."
also: removed ultimate: "Chandra & Nissa [-X]: Create a X/X red and green Elemental creature token with double strike, trample and haste."
old reminder text: "(You may activate up to one Chandra ability and up to one Nissa ability each turn.)"
Nissa side +1 was land animation.
Ultimate token used to be vanilla, but it dealt damage equal to its power to each opponent as part of the effect of the ability creating it.
see below
Testing text space for idea.
The correct template would have one continuous line for name and mana cost and only one typeline. (The cardname was supposed to be Chandra & Nissa, Fire & Earth, but the lines are separated, so it looks weird now. Alternatively: Chandra & Nissa, Elemental Duo)
The text box has two columns with Chandra abilities left and Nissa abilities right. If an ultimate exists, it appears in a full-width text box below those, similar to fuse and its reminder text.
Rules: You get o activate not one loyalty ability per turn for this permanent, but one loyalty ability per column/planeswalker type.
The different abilities still share a loyalty pool.
Oh! You meant it's making a cycle of cards that care-about shuffling! That makes much more sense.
My bad for misunderstanderating.
It's not supposed to be an interaction. It's supposed to be a variant. In both cases you have a better than arbitrary control over the order of your library after playing an effect that attempts to shuffle and some additional information.
The correct numbers are a question. I imagine even as little as scry 1 or scry 2 may be enough on an efficient enough body.
Mmm, a soercery scry 4 for
seems sensible. Reason for example exists, but has a second casting mode, so you could do a bit more.
One further scry AND a 1/2? Seems over the top.
There's no interaction with Guide, but this is a powerful effect on its own. Scry 4 is a lot
So, uh, if you really don't want to scry4 you don't have to?
Feels like a bit of a bombo.
See Guide to the Eternities.
Inspired by Mourner’s Procession.
See Shadowborn Apostle.
During conception of the idea, I thought about revealing four cards. Then, once I decided on reusing Shadowborn Apostle, I went up to six as a neat reference.
But making the call on the correct number is a lot about determining risk and reward. And I want players to be able to scry Shadowborn Apostle cards to the top of the library without hurting themselves if they find another one among the mix.
In the end I let the player make the call how many cards to reveal to allow them to make clever plays and add some gambling excitement to the effect.
I decided to make choosing a number a separate clause to unambiguously make it clear that you choose the number before revealing and cannot decide to stop short of six cards once you find your first Shadowborn Apostle.
Variants:
Simpler french vanilla creature.
Needs flavortext to do the name justice.
See Last Breath and source of inspiration.
Seems like that covers all the bases, then. Nifty. Especially with the tech to ensure that the token in the pack is the right one.
Which is why I don't propose this as a keyword ability. I would want to have other cards interactwith the tokens differently.
Put them next to the energy counters that you get for playing Glimmer of Genius without way to spend the energy and the creature enchanted with Pacifism when no deck has enchantment removal or other ways to resolve the situation... it happens.
But this is certainly meant for an environment with some artifact sacrifice outlets that wouldn't mind pairing up with this card even if the death trigger was removed etc.
More interestingly is using this to move some other piece of equipment. So that's a nice gimmick to have.
I 'unno. Modular was a massive pain in the ass; where basically everything was interchangable forever and it was all a huge amorphious blob of "I have X power on the board, and X is monotonically increasing" unless you could wrath it.
Similarly - in limited amounts; this is a very cool card. Lots of similar things would, however, be most un-fun to face.
Downside - this could leave the battlefield littered with equipment tokens that have no in-built way of attaching to anything but which you can't just tidy up because they count for metalcraft and could be equipped by a lion and...
See Arcbound Worker. Not strictly better, obviously since counters and artifact tokens synergize with different cards.
See The Fall of House Vess.
An alternative option is to scrap the last ability and instead start with something like "Create four 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens." That would be Kytheon's Irregulars. The ability would be at odds with one another, but narratively it would hammer home the tragedy.
See Elise the Trailblazer.
See Elise Starseeker, Elise the Trailblazer and Elise Starseeker
I actually think a more expensive version that just puts a whole booster pack into your hand might be fun, too. Following the lead of Summon the Pack. With the amount of potentially off-color cards what cost would you even put on a card that gives you a whole booster pack to add to your hand?