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If none of my choices win, I second Divergent Timeline, it's quite appropriate.
Ok, I second "Shahrazad, oh wait" as the card name.
Picture can be a startled tiger.
Hmm, I mean, most of these type of names are taken, I was going to say Desperate Decision but it's pretty similar.
I'm going to go with something a little weird, that invokes heavy yugioh vibes namewise, but is definitely appropriate for the MTG story it references:
Urza Activates the Golgothian Sylex
[kind of sounds like a conspiracy card :)]
If that's too weird for ya, maybe: "Reckless Devastation" is better. It's still pretty similar to existing ones but if the art had Urza and the sylex, players might make the connection. Flavor text could just be ripped from the Brother's War, but i've not read it so I can't be sure if it has an appropriate quote.
Edit: Also, I have an idea for a name that screams 'killing everyone else and nearly yourself' but i cant find a way to describe that elegantly.
Edit #2: Ooooh, Pyrrhic Victory is perfect, though it's not really a victory to 'reset the game' for a tie, but anything else with the first word would flow funny, probably, since it's only ever used in that combination. I mean, Pyrrhic Survival is probably more appropriate, but would need flavor text and possibly even art to have it resonate like just the name of the former does (since it's a common-ish phrase)
Last-Ditch Effort is also taken... so's Do or Die... Desperate Gambit... Last Gasp...
Frantic Reset?
I wanted Second Chance :)
I also had a bunch of cultural references that weren't really black border material: Again for the people at the back; Reset button; Do-over; I can do this all day :)
Divergent timeline
Shahrazad, oh wait
Annoying. Panic is perfect, but already taken.
Welcome back to Name That Card! Today's card is a big reset button for the game. But you'll need to win that next game without taking any damage (or by gaining life faster than you're taking damage.) Rough... well... unless your opponent is playing combo or some sort of extreme control deck with zero early creatures. But maybe that serves them right?
Originally, I just had this spell counter any future copies of NTC #031 when they came up in the second game. But I figured there was enough stuff out there that made red soceries 'uncounterable' so I went with Karn Liberated's wording in the end. There are also ways of getting cards back from exile, but it requires so much stretching that if your opponent wants to make that goofy deck, then more power to them.
Ah. That may be why I kept saying to myself, "But doesn't the name Sungeyser infer it is an X spell?"
I forgot to say (or maybe thought it wasn't super important) but Sungeyser is by far my favorite. I don't know why, but I really like this name.
I was also a fan of Seed of Rejuvenation as a far second, tho.
This is a neat nod to Braingeyser
Jack gets this one this week. It's admittedly tough to make lifegain sound titanic. I think of the lot, Sungeyser may be the best candidate.
(((NTC #31))) in a couple of days.
Thirty Is the New Twenty
Blessing of Gaea
Archgrowth
Seed of Rejuvenation
Also compare Ajani, Mentor of Heroes. Although I suspect that straight lifegain might be unbalanceable this high, that either it's unplayable or it just leads to stalls. I agree 30 is probably about right for something that's really significant but didn't make the game pointless. Suggesting:
Garruk's Endurance
Sungeyser
Eternal life
Springbloom
Welcome back to installment #30 of Name That Card! For our anniversary we have a whopper of a life gain sorcery. Simple enough. The toughest part was determining a fair casting cost.
Blessed Wind... is old. Granny's Payback can't be counted, since it's silver bordered... but it does go a long way to explain how out of control life gain can get at higher casting costs. Planewide Celebration helps more. It only costs 7 mana, but can gain you 16 life... presuming you have no interest in firing off the other modes. So maybe a non-modal card that costs 7 mana would net... 20 life? Maybe more? That's quite a step up from Heroes Remembered, which cost a flat 9 (though, it could be suspended on round 1. So maybe the cc of HR is more of a minimum cost.)
Sure then. If I have to guess, I'm using HR's casting cost (in Green.) Maybe 5-6 extra life is added to that spell for removing suspend, and another 4-5 life added because the needle has shifted up since then.
As a rule of thumb, I try to avoid 'Elemental' answers for naming conventions, since just about anything could be an abstract elemental. But I got to admit, this looks like a lot like a living cyclone. I took the 'Crazed' part from Froggychum to help explain Delirium, but went back and stole 'Cyclone' from Alex, since a hurricane seems too big for a 3/3.
This was a rather interesting challenge in that it started slow, but moved in a lot of interesting an different directions once people started to dig in. As per usual, my biggest regret is that I can only choose one name.
On a separate side note, Sorrow mentioned that an evolutionary niche of fliers that hunt fliers creatures to be a wild idea. It is wild. And I know there's an owl that does just that, specialized in eating other birds, and especially other birds of prey (which are rather vulnerable birds when you think about it, if you sneak up on their blind spot.) For the life of me, though, I can't remember what that owl is. And there are far too many owls for me to Google this info. Ah well. I guess the takeaway is that nature be crazy.
See you good people in (((NTC #030)))!
Dirge Bat is from Ikoria, world of kaijuu. I was basing my thinking off of actual bats, where the largest still aren't intimidating. That being said, the pterosaurs that ate insects were probably smaller like bats.
"Bats wouldn't be a 3/3, and wouldn't be dealing 4 damage" - I have a feeling Dirge Bat might contradict both halves of that statement... :)
I watched a few videos about prehistoric life recently. Animals develop niches, and boom. Flight has only evolved three times in vertebrates, isn't that wild? So a creature that can give flying, but also can damage fliers if you have delirium. In my mind, the graveyard links to the past, a representation of evolution, species adapting and changing, and finding their niche in the present. So something that can fly, but also hunt fliers. What a niche. Bats aren't a great choice- they're too small. Bats wouldn't be a 3/3, and wouldn't be dealing 4 damage (though some bats eat flying insects). Pterosaurs and Birds (archosaurs!) then. Green has me feeling more Pterosauria (I still have beef with Magic calling their pterosaurs dinosaurs) feels more right here, though I can't make any actual arguments in favor of pterosaur ver bird.
Type: Dinosaur.
I still lament Magic's call here.
Well, we've got the type down. Now we can go back to the name. Like I said, we're looking at a creature that can fly and has adapted to hunting other flying creatures. Conveying evolution to this niche will be the key. Not an aerial predator, skies. Wingmucher. We're getting there now. Feather Feeder. I do too much alliteration with card names and it bothers me. Wings convey flight best, so let's focus on wings. Flier Feeder- this one is almost, almost good. Flight Feaster. Hmm, that's kind of close. Eats Fliers. I should note that there seems to be no evidence pterosaurs ate each other, nor birds. Some species of pterosaurs are believed to have eaten flying insects though, so we're on track for eating a group of flying creatures at least. Specialist? Hunter of the Skies- does not convey the evolutionary niche. Okay, maybe a little literation can be good. Unfortunately, we need to take artistic liberty here and pretend this pterosaur eats birds.
Name Bane of Birds
Creature type: Dinosaur
I also know that giving creatures flying to kill them doesn't mesh with being a pterosaur.
"Plummet and friends are exactly how green is allowed to deal with flying these days (along with reach and fight)"
I agree.
Hmm elemental flavor would be really awesome, and something I hadn't considered. Honestly, imo would be way more fitting than an elf.
Here's one:
Crazed Hurricane
Creature - Elemental
If this one gets chosen, I give my NTC award to Alex , since he inspired me heavily.
"It's a grandfathered in exception which Maro objects to and says shouldn't be taken as permission - but he doesn't always get his way" - I don't think that's right. Plummet and friends are exactly how green is allowed to deal with flying these days (along with reach and fight). What's grandfathered-in and Maro doesn't like is a) green flyers such as Birds of Paradise and Gilded Goose, and b) "can't be blocked except by flyers" which is a weird ability that's occasionally seen in green like Spire Tracer and Orchard Spirit.
The elf flavour makes the most sense to me. But I wonder if there's something in the area of this being an elemental itself? Like...
Gustcliff Cyclone
Creature -- Elemental
Art is a twister right against some cliffs, lifting a hapless adventurer up.
Actually, yeah, you know what, the flavour of Cyclone is where to go with this, isn't it?
Wasteland Tornado
Creature - Elemental
A twister in a rocky wasteland, lifting some desert creature up and battering it with rocks and debris.
If
can't flicker, maybe a green twist on Venom would work? Nah, probably not... the typeline 'Deathtouch against Flying creatures' most likely doesn't function with the rules text. So you'd have to write, "Any amount of damage this creature deals to a creature with Flying is enough to kill it"? That's neat, though strictly worse than deathtouch, which green has (for some reason)
I am willing to share this victory with Jack, if it wins.
Okay i finally got one, after all day:
Simic Slinger
Human Wizard
the picture is a simic biomancer dude shooting a hideous mutated abomination. the flavor text is 'oops back to the labs' but maybe grimdark and with effort put into it.
i dunno, like "After his third mutation came out misshapen, the Simic Biomancer decided to become a Monster Hunter instead" idk that's mediocre, but ye
I like making it a kelpie. I don't understand why Shadowmoor kelpies were Like That
Catapult Spider!
Art shows a giant web having been just used to launch a creature over the treetops.
I thought that as soon as I read Froggy's first comment, but Froggy gets credit for suggesting catapult first.
Fwiw I assumed flickering flyers was green, just that it had never come up. But maybe not :)
It's a grandfathered in exception which Maro objects to and says shouldn't be taken as permission - but he doesn't always get his way :) This card, mind you, is almost certainly stretching way past what is allowed.