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Recent updates to Ulaqat: (Generated at 2024-05-19 14:19:39)
Gives snow elementals +2/+0 instead of +1/+0
Equip cost reduced to zero.
Unless that's accidentally racist, like the rabbit people of Kamigawa. Gotta check these things
While my knowledge of Inuit and Yupik culture is admittedly limited, I'm pretty sure you could get a lot of value out of making an entire race of 'Polar Bear People'.
I recently realized I don't know much of fantasy creature unique to Inuit or Yupik folklore. There's a museum tour I plan to go on in the future that will hopefully help me in learning more about the cultures that can translate into fantasy so that I can build Ulaqat further. If I'm lucky I can even find more creatures from those people's folklore that would make sense having the hibernate mechanic.
Well, if players routinely draw before they untap; maybe?
This seems ok to accidentally miss. Maybe you'd have preferred to get a +1/+1 counter; but hey, you've got an untapped decent creature instead. Upside either way.
I would imagine this would play similarly to Outlast. This might suffer from the issue where players easily draw a card at the start of their turn, often missing upkeep triggers and such.
I would consider using the Brushwagg type for some of these.
@Sorrow: Well, you could also design your own creatures that have torpor/hibernate. Also, mixing and matching works. "Creature - Spider Bear", "Creature - Rat Wolf", and "Creature - Bat Goat" are all open. Go nuts.
You are both wrong. Ixalan just happens to be inhabited by a bunch of Dinosaurs that independently from the evolutionary truths of Earth evolved into several species, some of which are homomorph to terrestrial Pterosaurs and Plesiosaurs by virtue of convergent evolution of species occupying the same ecological niche.
This is evidenced by the fact that these new Ixalan species of the Ixalan clade Dinosaur have their own distinct names e. g. Aerosaur, Heliopterus etc.
Clearly the fact that one of these species is called by the name Pterodon (which is a homonym to a terrestrial mammal/plant) is of no consequence either. ;)
I'd like to hear how hibernate/torpor plays mechanically. I hope there is at least one creature with that mechanic that ETBs tapped. :)
Don't forget the plesiosaur was also made a dinosaur.
I mean, I personally wouldn't mind using Torpor over hibernate. That doesn't change that I'm limited to like rodents, bears, and bats for creatures.
Good news. The correct scientific term for what most mammals do during the winter is called 'Torpor'.
Whether or not people would be happy with that term is another story. Ixalan, for example, has pterodactyls with the creature type 'dinosaur' (this, after years of calling dinosaurs 'lizard'.) Sometimes, you can't win.
So it turns out not that many species of animal that would fit in this setting hibernate.
Yeah, I had intended the activated ability to be a once per turn kind of thing.
Maybe "At the beginning of your upkeep you pay . If you do, return up to two target creatures with a total power less than ~ to their owner's hand."
I could skip out on the p/t boosting part.
Should the activated ability say "total power"? It doesn't seem like a restriction worth mentioning that each individual creature needs power less than 10.
Actually... I feel that the two abilities really just go too much into the same direction of tempo play. I personally like the power-related mechanical execution really much, while I have seen something like the triggered ability more often, so I would go for the more unique effect.
Either way two mana to Unsummon twice with a restriction that you can meet often seems insane. If you just untap after casting this you can bounce ten creatures and attack with a 20/20!
I'm unsure if the ability is too strong on a red bear.
Going for 10 tentacles squid theme. Giant squid have 2 feeding tentacles, while the other 8 help guide the food to the squid's beak. I tried to capture that here. Blue doesn't do permanent exile or destroy, so I utilized bounce as a way to represent the squid eating.
While the colossal squid is native to waters in the Southern hemisphere around Antarctica, I took the artistic liberty to include a creature based off it in Ulaqat, despite Ulaqat being based on the Arctic. The snow mana for it's activated ability is a reference to the colossal squids' range.
Fun fact: All squid have an additional creature type in Magic.
Tonight I learned that aside from Urgoros, the Empty One, every specter has specter in its name.
Now a 1/3.