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2013-04-11 00:50:55: Link commented on Leviathan of the Seven Seas

This reminds me of some weird fusion of Stormtide Leviathan and Lorthos, the Tidemaker.

2013-04-10 21:37:01: Alex commented on Leviathan of the Seven Seas

Oh, of course they do! Ha, that's delightful. And it's probably worth comparing this to Stormtide Leviathan, which was a Moat as well as an unblockable 8/8 (and not even mythic).

2013-04-10 16:29:38: Vitenka commented on Leviathan of the Seven Seas

Well, they have the blue - all lands are islands now. But even then, it's a 7/7 unblockable on top of whatever creatures smacked you unblockably last turn.

I guess it's only a conditional win (Muahaha. Fog) but it's 7 not 8...

2013-04-10 16:11:32: Alex commented on Leviathan of the Seven Seas

This doesn't have haste, so opponent only scoops if Naya Charm / Cryptic Command would make them scoop. Next turn they could, um, leave 7 blue up. Should they happen to have 7 blue. OK, next turn they scoop. (Well, take 7 unblockable damage, anyway.)

2013-04-10 07:54:59: jmgariepy commented on Leviathan of the Seven Seas

Well, Mythic. That said, I love all that blue in the cost that someone has to pay. That's very cute.

2013-04-10 06:03:14: Vitenka commented on Leviathan of the Seven Seas

Pay 7 mana, opponent scoops. (Who the heck keeps 7 mana up?) Doesn't seem very fun to me. But, well, mythic.

2013-04-10 03:15:54: ttt3142 edited Leviathan of the Seven Seas

2013-04-10 03:13:39: ttt3142 created the card Leviathan of the Seven Seas

2013-04-03 05:44:37: ttt3142 edited Death Valley:

3 ---> 4

2013-04-03 05:43:04: ttt3142 edited Sargasso Sea:

-2 ---> -3

2013-04-03 05:41:28: ttt3142 edited Yellowstone National Park

2013-04-03 05:36:45: ttt3142 created the card Yellowstone National Park

2013-04-03 05:30:42: ttt3142 edited Serengeti Fields:

Moving original ability; changing this one

2013-03-29 07:36:44: Vitenka commented on Ross Ice Shelf

I really dislike lands lurking as semi-hidden "I win" buttons like this.

2013-03-29 06:40:04: ttt3142 created the card Ross Ice Shelf

2013-03-26 13:16:53: jmgariepy commented on Serengeti Fields

I really wish there was a term for "Dry forest that has seasonal wildfires". Yellowstone National Park seems like a perfect {r/g} land... but it's just a forest. A geothermal forest with a volcano underneath it... but just a forest, ultimately.

2013-03-26 09:38:09: Vitenka commented on Serengeti Fields

{w/u} -> Salt flats? Dead sea? (Though that's named dead, sadly) Flooded deltas?

The classic {r/g} is of course Taiga. But how about Valles Caldera? (An isolated jungle in the top of a volcano. In actual physical earthly reality, not just Hollywood. Though there's better, still more isolated ones, I can't think of the names.)

2013-03-26 05:53:15: ttt3142 commented on Serengeti Fields

I was trying to cost more on the safe side.
On a side note, does anyone have any good ideas for the WU and RG dual lands in this cycle? I'm not asking for card designs, but places on Earth that fit into those colour pairs.

2013-03-26 05:51:00: ttt3142 edited Serengeti Fields

2013-03-07 16:14:53: Alex commented on Serengeti Fields

The cost markup for repeatable vs oneoff is incredibly varied, based on a number of factors. Most of them I don't understand, but potential for card advantage is one.

(+2/+2 and trample for {g} {w} sounds familiar: Selesnya Charm :) )

2013-03-07 14:22:46: Vitenka commented on Serengeti Fields

{3} {u} {w} for an Air Elemental you can cast at instant speed, every turn? Probably not quite that much, no. But the "Use this every turn" is pretty nice and important part of the cost.

2013-03-07 14:15:41: jmgariepy commented on Serengeti Fields

I wonder if you can determine power level by looking at the man lands, versus a sorcery that would have a similar effect. For example, what would you pay for a sorcery that put a 4/4 flying creature with haste that sacrificed at end of turn? I don't think anyone would pay {3} {w} {u} for that, like on Celestial Colonnade, but would {1} {w} {u} be a fair cost? Likewise, +2/+2 and trample seems fair (if not underpowered) at {g} {w} . Does that mean that {2} {g} {w} for a repeatable activation is also fair? Or is Celestial Colonnade by its very nature an unfair card? Or can one even derive proper information from this analogy? I'm not really sure on any of those counts.

2013-03-07 11:08:33: Alex commented on Serengeti Fields

What?! dude, are you serious? These are spell effects - good spell effects - coming for free on a dual land! Sargasso Sea looks absurdly expensive for a creature removal effect, but I rather suspect it's priced correctly, because it's creature removal that doesn't take up a deck slot, and doesn't even deprive you of coloured mana like Quicksand did.

The costs are indeed expensive, and development might tweak a couple of them down, but overall they look pretty sensible to me.

2013-03-07 07:29:48: dude1818 commented on Serengeti Fields

Does the ability really need to sacrifice the land? It's quite expensive and not that oppressive. This goes for the entire cycle, really.

2013-03-07 05:51:13: ttt3142 edited Serengeti Fields:

Activation cost reduced by 1.

2013-03-03 07:12:14: ttt3142 created the card Serengeti Fields

2013-03-03 07:05:54: ttt3142 edited Sargasso Sea

2013-03-03 07:04:41: ttt3142 edited Death Valley

2013-03-03 07:02:13: ttt3142 edited Blue Rinse Missile

2013-03-03 07:01:26: ttt3142 edited Victory Missile