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Sorry for my recent inactivity; I got a new computer and forgot my password. Just managed to get it back today. Also, it seems this website doesn't have a password recovery feature... Spooky!
Anyway, I actually remember in one of my cruddy cardsets (Xalai), I actually had Kor be a tribe...
As for my suggestion, I like the idea of this being some sort of nonhumanoid, since it has such a high devotion to white, it sort of makes sense it would be an almost incarnate version of that element...
in fact, magic already has Incarnations... that makes my job of explaining what I mean easier.
So, NAME is Panconcordicon (not to be confused with panharmonicon) and it's a legendary Incarnation.
Okay that went a bit off the rails on me, let's dial it back to not be a legendary... Also, I think this other idea of mine would fit really well as an archon.
So, let's call this Archon of Unity or Paragon of Solidarity, and it's creature type is archon.
PS my only gripe making it an archon is it should probably have flying, but oh well...
PPS this post is getting very long
PPPS, if we were to make this card a mythic (as was previously mentioned, though not suggested) and gave it flying... it could be called Panconcordicon, Paragon Prince of Solidarity, or PPPS for short. ha ha ha. unfortunately, that sounds like the name if a yugioh card that doesn't care about the typeline whatsoever, so feel free to not vote for it.
As for my own entry:
Scion of Loftfield
Creature - Kor Noble
This is intended to be not Zendikar, but some rather different setting where Kor are a major race. This time they have nobility, and Loftfield is a high plateau city and capital of its region. This is one of the princes or princesses.
Not sure if either Kor or Noble qualify for "potential less explored tribal deck" since neither of them have any printed cards that care about that type. I guess you can name either of them for Vanquisher's Banner and Door of Destinies and suchlike. (Oh... there is Armament Master, I guess.)
@Jack: Rhox and friends have creature type Rhino - did you mean that?
Essence of Community
Creature — Elemental
I like this but have difficulty thinking of any evocative names.
Righteous Vanguard
Creature - Rhox Flagbearer
Dee. Fault.
If that's a bad name; Margaret, Heavenly Nostrils is my alternative.
Given the description; I guess in a real set we'd know what the tribe was from the set.
But ok; underused white tribal. We can cross humans and spirits off the list immediately... How about Unicorns? They are iconically white, and are a barely supported tribe. So we can imagine this set is making them a proper tribe. (Maybe the set is... steampunk vs the wyld hunt. Damn, I want that set to be a thing now. Kaladesh invades Lorwyn.)
So we have much more militant unicorns here - to quote "It's a bloody great horse with a sharp pointy spike on one end". Hmm, sadly the head of a herd doesn't seem to have a particularly interesting name. (Alpha stallion). How about the leader of a charge(r) for the pun? Also doesn't seem to have a special name. Hoom. Famous charges? They've got 'light' right in there. Parfait, but we want to be a bit subtle... Which leads us to "Ronald". If this was mythic, I could use an individual name? But I doubt I could use Ronald.
Maybe I should just go generic. Unicorn Cavalry It fits the mechanic, and while it's a bit on the nose it makes this clear it's supporting everything, not just a(nother) unicorn lord.
Welcome back to Name That Card! And yes, before you comment, this is Benalish Marshal. Development asked us to reprint this card because it was appropriate in the set we're building, but this set doesn't take place in Dominaria, so the name 'Benalish Knight' isn't appropriate. Also, they don't want the card to be just another Knight. In fact, they'd prefer if this card could help a potential less explored tribal deck.
So you're in charge of naming this functional reprint. What's its name and what is its creature type?
True, there are probably simpler variants, but there's a few interesting possibilities here. "This has hexproof the turn it enters" is probably the most straightforward, but there could also be: * This has hexproof unless it took damage this turn * When this ETB or attacks, it gains protection from spells and abilities UEOT * Creatures you control have hexproof if THIS ETB this turn * ETB with a hexproof counter. Remove a counter from it whenever it deals damage to an opponent. Which might be useful in different sets.
Ah, "hexproof if just entered" combined with haste is quite nice combination and it immediately clears up what you were going for with the design. One of those "cards that apparently don't exist" ideas. Prolly could even be a common with that.
It is wasteful. In hindsight, it occurred to me that much of that could have just been conveyed by saying "This creature has hexproof if it entered the battlefield this turn." Much, much cleaner. You don't get to dodge Spontaneous Combustions, etc. But the card doesn't need to do that, either.
This happens in Name That Card on occasion. Sometimes something sounds really good in my head, I put it out there, and then realize my mistake three hours later. By that point, though, it's too late to change things because that's unfair to the contestants. Hindsight can be a B-.
Fairly effective body:cost ratio with a bad, temporarily Grand Abolisher from the looks of it. How often are those ETBs really gonna be relevant? I would imagine that just most of the time you would cast/activate that stuff you wanted as a response to this which might not even affect you that much. In design terms, spending 6 lines - vast majority of that text for an effect that seems to have relatively little impact or potential feels "wasteful" to me.
I got the gist of your idea, but obviously wiffed on the literalness of this being a whole new creature type. Treefolk is now the race, while Shroudling is the class. ;)
Um, I thought my intent was clear with "new creature type" - I meant it to be a "Shroudling". Ah well.
Vitenka wins this week. Since Vitenka didn't give me a creature type, I made this a Treefolk Shapeshifter, so the shroudling can turn into a shrubbery on occasion.
See you all with (((NTC #066))).
Haha, oops.
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Unfortunately, I had to disqualify Link's choice, since Reality Anchor is already a card name. I wish I caught that earlier. In deference I think I might make whatever name is chosen into a Treefolk Psion.
Huh. This is an interesting answer to "dies to removal". But I also kind of want to see a full cycle with the ability. Because depending on what kind of creature you put it on; it can be a downside as much as an upside.
So I think I want to see this as a whole creature type. This is a Crashing Shroudling. The other colours get to see what "Oh, yeah, no abilities at all on my turn, that's a downside; but hey, I get a big thing for cheap" feels (sans haste). And blue gets to swap in flash for haste; so that it can avoid the downside if it prefers to.
@Link. It does. I do think that a large Grand Abolisher with haste is interesting in its own right. But I think if I redid this card, it would have Grand Abolisher's text and this card's stats.
Too late now, though. I don't like to functionally change cards after they've been written if I don't have to. Plus, admittedly, too many Grand Abolishers in Magic might be problematic. Or maybe there's no such thing as 'too many answers to Cancel'?
Reality Anchor Creature — Treefolk Psion
Reality Shaker
Creature - Beast
Grand Abolisher seems better.
Lol, mystery shopper.
Just added "on your turn" because it occured to me that if you could consistently blink this card during your opponent's upkeep, then there'd be quite the problem. :S
Welcome back to Name That Card! For NTC #065, we have a creature that hits the ground and gets in at least one good swing before your opponent can properly respond with a Doom Blade.
Simple enough. The wording might need a spruce, but it gets the job done. More importantly, this card needs a name, and a creature type. What are they?