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Congratulations, mystery shopper, for winning this week's Name That Card. It was a split between that and Dude's 'At Any Cost' and I didn't want to choose between the two, so I just told Google to spin the spinner for me and choose one at random. ;P
See you all in a couple of days for (((NTC #065)))!
Voting is up! Click here to choose your favorite entry!
Divide the Loot
Dangerous Greed, maybe?
I wanted to include some words like... outdo, determination, bravado, dedication... "Will to Succeed" isn't quite right... Nope, I've not got anything better than these. I love dude1818's reference to "black will do anything to win", but I can't find a better name.
At mythic, I think we can go for more "high concept" names. At Any Cost
I liked the last card, and this one, but didn't have any suggestions better than the ones people already made. Truth or Dare was a good proposal! :)
Huh. I always have affection for cards like this. It feels odd to see it in magic, though. It's nicely "Nearly symmetrical" but what with differing life totals when you cast it, it's really not. Many players will hate it, as they never know whether they will gain cards, or their opponent will lose life. And whichever happens, it's their fault because a different choice would have resulted in a different outcome. (Although I'd want a FAQ on whether you can cheat horribly as a team by having one of you name a large negative number...)
As for a name... If this were unlimited era, I'd suggest demonic bargain of some kind and call it done. But we shouldn't really do that. So. It's a blind auction, of life for knowledge. "Unseen Promise" maybe? Hmm, not quite. Shrouded Knowledge.
Truth or Dare
In hindsight, even if a card is 'bad', if it's this explosive it must be mythic.
Welcome back to Name That Card! Here's a spicy little number that can reward one player with a lot of cards, but at one heck of a cost. Let's break this down in a few scenarios:
Scenario 1 - 4 player game:
Player W reveals 3
Player X reveals 3
Player Y reveals 2
Player Z reveals 1
Result: Players W and X draw three cards, but lose life equal to the combined chosen numbers (they lose 9 life.)
Scenario 2 - 2-player game
Player X chooses 7
Player Y chooses 9
Player Y draws nine cards, and loses 16 life. Those cards better do a lot of work!
That cost is steep... but maybe what you really want is for your opponent to take the heat and lose all that life to deny you the cards. But what is this card's name?
Magical mysterious mysterio?
It was me. I was the mystery contestant.
I acted as tiebreaker and gave it to Vitenka, but as per usual, any of these names would have been good choices.
See everybody in (((NTC #064)))!
Heh, so we have a red name, a blue name and a green name!
Ooh! A mystery contestant! ;)
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Guerilla Gorilla
"You know what? This is the world's most messed up healer. It rushes in, stabs your enemy with a hypodermic and you feel better. Medicine doesn't work that way! Except, well, now it does."
LMAO
I'm gonna go with something more on-the-nose to show how annoying this card is...
Pestering Sprite
You know what? This is the world's most messed up healer. It rushes in, stabs your enemy with a hypodermic and you feel better. Medicine doesn't work that way! Except, well, now it does. So I want to make this a Goblin Cleric. The first pure-white goblin; which Boros has already told us we're allowed to do.
Annoyingly; Goblin Chirurgeon is already taken. And this is probably too niche to use up a nice reprintable name like "Goblin healer".
So... I think Goblin Physician would be a good name.
Sidenote: This one was tricky to cost effectively and make it look right. I think if you really wanted to balance the card out, you'd probably make it a 1/3 or a 1/4. But then returning the card to your hand would seem like an odd option, because it would survive many fights already.
Originally, I planned to make this a 1/1 for
. But a Fog Cloud that could go on the attack with a cheap reset seemed kind of wrong. It might actually be the correct cost, though, since constantly replaying the card, even for one mana, might prove annoying.
Adding lifelink and increasing by
was my solution. I don't think it's quite there, though. Adding vigilance seems like I'm piling things on a bit thick. I don't know. Honestly, I'd rather just playtest this card and see how it worked, but that's not an option. Ah well.
Welcome back! Today we have a very annoying little card. It gets into fights, deals one damage and retreats to its owner's hand before the counter damage can be done. But what is its creature type, and what's its name?