Silmarillion: The War of the Jewels
Silmarillion: The War of the Jewels by Tahazzar
198 cards in Multiverse
63 commons, 68 uncommons,
45 rares, 9 mythics, 6 basics, 7 tokens
2 token green, 3 token black, 1 token white, 1 token colourless, 42 white, 34 blue,
33 black, 33 red, 33 green, 1 multicolour, 3 artifact, 12 land
637 comments total
A fan set based on the book "The Silmarillion" by J.R.R. Tolkien, which sets up the world for "The Lord of the Rings" novel. First set of a 3-part block.
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On Dismal Devices (reply):
This is kind of out of left field here perhaps and my purpose isn't to rub it in here but c'mon guys. Crushing Disappointment (somewhat appropriately named maybe?) has since debuted on 2021, four years later) Mood: When you have future sight but people tell you "not to break too many rules". In general I have noticed that there ended up being a crap ton of stuff in this set that kinda predicted the future in one way or another; wording updates for mana adding, mill terminology, shuffling shortcuts, basic lands with flavor text, proclaim as a mechanic is somewhat similar to foretell though they have different goals clearly... Personally, I prefer the ways I addressed these issues rather than how WotC did, but that I suppose is somewhat given these are choices indeed made by me. Still waiting for my tapping enchantments though 😈😉 |
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On Silmarillion: The War of the Jewels (reply):
I'm going to declare this to now be the version 1.0. It's considered 'finished' (development is halted) until otherwise stated. Some minor fixes might still get done, but I'm not expecting major overhauls. @Mal: If you're still interested and have enough spare time, I updated the google drive gallery: > https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5yb_ZX6AzYManY2LVFCZFJaelk |
On Sound of Silence (reply):
Yeah, uh, uhm. This set is trying out some alternative/updated wordings and such that I really don't where I would stick them as to make them clearly apparent. The idea is that I'm not introducing all of these here, but that they would have already been introduced before so I don't really dwell on them or pronounce their presence here.
Some of these were (briefly) mentioned in the "Introducing new Wording" thread here. |
common with this ability since a somewhat troublesome slot opened up for that again)Recently active cards: (all recent activity)
: Produce 
. (Unused mana is lost.) (Pay and continue play with this revealed from hand. Proclaim this card only as a sorcery and once only.)
When you proclaim Prepare the Feast, creatures attack next turn if able.
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to players or planeswalkers this turn.
I think that relates more directly to having tapping Auras and Equipment which is messy, as in attachable permanents, as people tend to tap those alongside the creatures they are attached to (which is what makes Second Wind a bad idea); but nobody's complaining about artifacts there or maybe they did nobody cares (for example, think bunch of Equipment + Improvise). Regardless, because of that, I was wary about giving any Auras to the Chant colors in this set and generally strayed away from them. There was even this white Aura that itself in this set had chant which was really messy and I scrapped it quickly.
Obviously, having tappable enchantments in a set means it's the type of special concern a set has (like having to constantly fluff through graveyards with sets that have flashback) and not something to do as an evergreen thing.
As opposed to the instant vs. sorcery thing that I don't get and never did, taping enchantments are an explicitely stated rules, that not only exists, but has been broken as a test and then reinforced, because it was actually srewing with gameplay (players apparently actually like having not to care about tapping certain cards).
This is kind of out of left field here perhaps and my purpose isn't to rub it in here but c'mon guys.
Crushing Disappointment (somewhat appropriately named maybe?) has since debuted on 2021, four years later)
Mood: When you have future sight but people tell you "not to break too many rules".
In general I have noticed that there ended up being a crap ton of stuff in this set that kinda predicted the future in one way or another; wording updates for mana adding, mill terminology, shuffling shortcuts, basic lands with flavor text, proclaim as a mechanic is somewhat similar to foretell though they have different goals clearly... Personally, I prefer the ways I addressed these issues rather than how WotC did, but that I suppose is somewhat given these are choices indeed made by me.
Still waiting for my tapping enchantments though 😈😉
This is great! Thx.
I made this nonsense deck out of my first test draft: http://www.cubetutor.com/cubedeck/905362
My first pick was Silmarils, Jewels of Fëanor, which is fitting :P
Updated and done.
Direct link to draft the set here.
Cool, I'll get this uploaded sometime this week.
I'm going to declare this to now be the version 1.0. It's considered 'finished' (development is halted) until otherwise stated. Some minor fixes might still get done, but I'm not expecting major overhauls.
@Mal:
If you're still interested and have enough spare time, I updated the google drive gallery:
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5yb_ZX6AzYManY2LVFCZFJaelk
Well, since you are changing the text already for clarity, that seems like a good place to do so as well. What does it mean?
This particular card doesn't care about that timing at all since the effect is mandatory and it hardly matters whether you happened to draw the card before you put the counter on - no harm done in the majority of cases. Aulë's Craft is actually the card where the issue lies in this environment - this just happened to be the card where the discussion related to the whole upkeep thing got going.
There seems to be only four cards with upkeep triggers in the set so in truth it doesn't matter that much here. I could just red flag Aulë's Craft and be on my merry way.
I've considered going with "at the beginning of your precombat main phase" but it does feel even more like a hack. It's quite verbose and potential confusion with words like "precombat". The wording was last used on Bounty of the Luxa because that card adds mana and the timing wouldn't work with upkeep, which is another problem with upkeep as it is.
I agree that this likely needs its own discussion space.
The full quote is:
> For in the making of all things in that land he had the chief part, and he wrought there many beautiful and shapely works both openly and in secret. Of him comes the lore and knowledge of the Earth and of an things that it contains: whether the lore of those that make not, but seek only for the understanding of what is, or the lore of an craftsmen: the weaver, the shaper of wood, and the worker in metals; and the tiller and husbandman also, though these last and all that deal with things that grow and bear fruit must look also to the spouse of Aulë, Yavanna Kementári.
I can find one edition where that has been modified to "all things" so maybe though most keep it as "an things". Huh...