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CMC = 8.
... they appear to have had to invent flyspeck-1 for that one! So yeah, ok, official cards also do this bad thing.
They pretty much did do this kind of structure with Vivien, Monsters' Advocate, who has two static abilities. If they'd used the 4-ability frame like on Jace, the Mind Sculptor etc they they could have fit those on reasonably.
And flyspeck2 is why they didn't try try doing this, methinks. At the full font size; the text box gets as far as "deals 1" before reaching the end of the card.
The first ability just about fits before it goes off the bottom of my screen.
It's an interesting "Here's my entire engine in a card, by the way every single other card in my deck costs
" card, mind you.
PW with Four different types of abilities: static, triggered, plus / minus loyalty.
-mancy are subtypes of enchantment, and are paired with Aura. each mancy type would have different innate abilities.
Injuromancy grants pinging.
@Vitenka: For plus abilities that target, you always want to say "up to one" in case there are no legal targets, but still want to tick up your walker
So artifacts cost half as much, as long as you can pay in red? That's kinda interesting. Not exactly red's traditional wheelhouse for mana ramp, though.
Why "Up to one"? When would you ever activate that and think "Nah, I'll give this to no creatures".
Finally - that ultimate. Big badda boom Detonate variation. Is it an interesting tension that the loyalty abilities want you to play lots of cheap artifacts, while the non-loyalty ability lets you play more expensive ones? Or is it just odd? I'm not sure.
Overall, I think I like this. Though the non-ritual nature of that first ability means it's really stretching red.
Damage prevention is basically nonexistent these days anyway
See Lithus, Pyre Ritualist.
See Lithus, Pyre Ritualist.
I like the +1 and the -2. Reminds me of The Royal Scions but with a powerful burn minus instead of a +1 loot. The current ultimate doesn't seem very ultimate though. Drawing 7 cards for a single turn is not going to let you use most of them. Could it let you play them until the end of your next turn?
Lithus (Cf. litho- root for rock, lit as flame, Hus Werny set) is Pyrfolk planeswalker with these traits:
That's good to know.
This is very well done.
I'd think Salamanders could be a humanoid creature type in red/blue
Also could just be green Lizards, but that's the mythos vs reality thing
Viashino would be very appropriate here. So it seems unecessary to make a Racial Profile for a race that , as Secret said , appeared in only one set, which was a custom one :P
But I'm open to learning more about how this species is different from the others mentioned. I do like the idea of red version of merfolk.
I wanted something easy to pronounce. I wanted something that evokes and oozes red. Mer means sea; pyr means fire. If it works for blue, why not red. Just sounds nice.
As you've noticed, salamanders, thus reptiles, are traditionally associated with fire spirits and fire-breathing. (Notwithstanding earth salamanders are classified as amphibians. However they do resemble lizards.)
If I would use Viashino on card names from here on out, they would be rebranded as Pyrfolk (making Viashino subtype obsolete). As you've pointed out, they would match sand environments more than volcanoes.
Viashino on one plane live on top of land - on another on volcanic mountains - on another in the gutter. I think saying they "live on top of sand" is like making the same statement about Naga after seeing Amonkhet and leaving the Sultai variant puzzled. I'm not certain Pyrfolk being "always that" neats to be a thing, but it might just sound worse to me than intended because they are currently just described from the perspective of a single setting.
Salamander is a term refering both to medieval fire spirits (and "spirit" here in the sense that includes Gnomes and Goblins etc.) and some subset of mundane amphibians (as happens sometimes real animals share their name with mythological beasts).
I happen to think they would make for a neat extension of races and maybe fit here - and have the neat plus of having some conotations that an entirely original race lacks.