[Racial Profile] -- Gnome: Recent Activity

Mechanics

Recent updates to [Racial Profile] -- Gnome: (Generated at 2024-05-07 08:25:19)

2019-01-23 11:28:20: amuseum created and commented on the card Alpine Sleighrider

See Torrent Surfer.
2019-01-23 11:25:19: amuseum created and commented on the card Torrent Surfer

See Gnomix.

Introducing the Hacker creature type. Likes to disrupt, alter, manipulate, copy, misappropriate, trespass.
2019-01-23 11:24:28: amuseum edited a mechanic in [Racial Profile] -- Gnome
2019-01-23 11:23:52: amuseum created a mechanic in [Racial Profile] -- Gnome
2019-01-23 11:13:16: amuseum created and commented on the card Gnomix

Cf GNU/Linux emulates Unix
2019-01-23 10:59:16: amuseum created the card Genome Hacking
2019-01-22 02:56:55: amuseum created the card Frosted Brownie
2019-01-19 05:26:10: SecretInfiltrator commented on Gnoumi's Factory

You waste a lot of text space when you put vigilance and the triggered ability on separate lines rather than integrating them into the activated ability.

More important than wasting space is that you make it harder to parse which abilities are relevant for the animated and inanimate state of the land.

It's unusual to animate land into nonland creatures. Land destruction is toned down enough at this point that it seems appropriate to keep manlands weak to that line of counterplay.

The reminder text for what it means to be frozen shouldn't be on every card with freeze, but only on cards that care about frozen. Other existing examples of keywords defining their state e. g. monstrosity and renown are also keywords that themselves care about that state.

This land clearly tries to do a lot of unrelated stuff at once - you could remove one or two abilities entirely and come up with a simpler but still complete design.
2019-01-19 00:50:29: amuseum edited Gnoumi's Factory
2019-01-18 21:23:15: amuseum created and commented on the card Iceblood Hunter

Cf. Matsu-Tribe Birdstalker
2019-01-18 20:21:32: amuseum created and commented on the card Gnoumi's Factory

See Duyu Gnoumi, Extraordinaire, Mishra's Factory.
2019-01-18 13:52:10: Vitenka commented on Frozen in Time

Wait, what? Tap everything you have, then take another turn except you don't get to untap any of it; but you do get to put a hasty creature directly into play?

Upshot, everything is tapped, you get an extra creature and an extra combat phase?

So why the extra-turn shenanigans? Are you supposed to float mana for a mass-untap or something?
2019-01-18 13:43:50: amuseum created the card Frozen in Time
2019-01-14 11:53:01: Vitenka commented on Coldstep Illusionist

Hmm. Making mana from exerting a land feels more natural to me that this; which feels more like "This costs 3-and-a-bit to scry+draw". It's decenly potent and seems to asically work (although that type-line is a bit crowded) it just doesn't feel quite natural to me.
2019-01-14 11:50:05: amuseum edited Coldstep Illusionist
2019-01-14 11:41:41: amuseum edited Coldstep Illusionist
2019-01-14 11:41:33: amuseum edited Coldstep Illusionist
2019-01-14 11:41:10: amuseum created the card Coldstep Illusionist
2019-01-14 02:48:18: amuseum edited Icehole Forager
2019-01-14 02:33:48: amuseum edited Icehole Forager
2019-01-14 02:15:13: amuseum created the card Icehole Forager
2019-01-13 19:39:00: amuseum created the card Colpass Decoy
2019-01-13 19:34:27: amuseum edited a mechanic in [Racial Profile] -- Gnome
2019-01-13 19:33:30: amuseum created a mechanic in [Racial Profile] -- Gnome
2019-01-13 01:54:16: amuseum created the card Biocryomancer
2019-01-12 06:06:18: amuseum commented on Poof Ouphe

read the front page. ideally the Gnome subtype will include many shorter humanoids, to expand the usage for this subtype for flavor and for tribal synergy.
2019-01-12 06:03:11: amuseum commented on Resourceful Cryomancer

missed Sharktocrab
2019-01-11 14:17:03: Vitenka commented on Insignifcant Urchin

That feels like it's going to activate a heck of a lot.

I mean, sure; some decks that's just "Nope, I'll keep that top card, still" - but other decks which like things in the graveyard it'll be going off many times a turn and disrupting gameplay flow a lot.
2019-01-11 14:11:29: amuseum created the card Insignifcant Urchin
2019-01-11 13:53:56: amuseum edited Ground Police