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opponent -> player. Why not allow it to be used on yourself or a teammate if you feel like it?
(hide colour indicator, beecause it indicated green)
ochlocracy: government by mobs
ichnomancy: divination using footprints
Divination by mobs? (modern "the wisdom of the crowd"?)
Government by footprints... The ministry of silly walks?
Avoiding that second one; ochlomancy. How does mtg do divination? Drawing cards, mainly. Could also reveal things - scry is a biggie. And "Tap target Spirit" because kamigawa kitsune always have to be outliers.
Collective Unconscious seems like what this wants to be. But let's do something a bit more odd. As previously stated, that makes it a kitsune. Which in turn makes it white? The effect is more blue really.
... there exists Nine-Tail White Fox. Which says it is white, but is actually blue. I might have mentioned Kitsune are outliers? So ok, we have some justification for blue foxes. Clearly, since it involves creatures; it needs to be green. Serendib Efreet is my historical justification for being allowed to do this :)
obsequent: flowing in opposite direction to original slope of land (also, and unlisted: yielding, submissive, obsequious) jersey: plain weft-knitted fabric of wool, cotton, nylon or silk (also unlisted: that island)
Because that definition doesn't make much sense - it's basically a switchback in a stream. Say you have a drainage basin that's sloped to the sea to the east. The big river then runs mostly W->E ish. But at some point there's a tributary that runs E->W ish to join it. That's obsequent. And... well, I'm unsure that geography is a useful thing to put into a magic card :)
Still. "It goes the opposite direction you expect" is a wide enough concept that we could use. But "Jersey"? How'm I gonna get that into a card? Well, sheep maybe? Magic has a couple of sheepie cards already.
So a sheep that goes the wrong way. Ah, a sheep that rounds up dogs. ... huh, I fail to find appropriate art. I admit to not trying too hard.
autology: Scientific study of oneself.
abolla: Roman military cloak.
Well, I'm making a card that starts with the letter a. Other than that - a cloak that studies itself? A cloak that helps you gaze at your naval? Hmm, a boaty cloak. That... someone actually invented that. Nifty.
Lets see, what do boats do in mtg? Buff pirates, gain life, keep things alive; have islandhome. ... Well, that's a puzzle piece.
Prooobably need to give it some kind of upside though. Can't just rely on you finding a way to cram it onto opponents creatures.
Protection from rivers? Protection from Marang River Prowler?
Whelp, that's a crappy card. Oh well.
Awwwww :)
You're thinking Ordinary Pony. This one isn't ordinary; it's lovely.
That sounds like a host card
prairillon: small prairie
jardon: callous or swelling on a horse's leg
Those two words seem to actually go together! So we have a tiny horse that is tired out from its tiny prairie.
Neat
curule: of high authority
parabolanus: layman who tends the sick
So the high authority of lay doctors. The Chief Hag.
I like the first ability on this as a stand-alone; but I thnk we'd better give this some kind of damage prevention itself so that it's not just a dead card if you fail to build around it.
It’s so cute!
peristeronic: of, like or pertaining to pigeons
peristeronic: of, like or pertaining to pigeons
Well. That was improbable. Um... Ok, trying several times, I keep getting that. Did I exhaust their word list? Try somewhere else:
secular
Ok; so.. non-religious pigeons? The... non-worship of pigeons?
Oh man; the metaphoircal pigeons from digger (and indeed, Pratchett; but digger did it better). Hmm, can't find a good cropped image of one, sadly (searches lead me more often to the were-rats from Gold-Digger, an entirely different comic. Also "rat" autoexpands to "rate my professor" for some reason). Ah well. Doing it anyway.
For ref; This is the one I was talking about
(Also for future readers - yes, it's intentional that you can use this to permanently grant flying to an opponents creature, since the sacrifice will fail.)
lol
zitella: young girl; maiden
jaculation: the act of throwing or hurling
Well, clearly we have here "Princess throwing"; a fine draconic tradition adopted from the dwarf-tossing contests the goblins are so fond of.
Red.. granting.. flying. Eh; Goblin Balloon Brigade for the precedent. There's no way this can cost
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Also this
vallecula: groove or furrow
jambeau: armour worn on the legs
Huh. Grooved leg armour. ... Groovy trousers. It's time to get funkeh!
There is no way to mash this that ends up anywhere other than fancy pants. So embrace it!
quatch: a word; a sound
tardigrade: slow-paced
Huh? A tardigrade is also an actual creature. I think I need to stop trusting randomword's definitions. And quatch appears to be slang for "embarrassed" or similar to "squat" (fat and short).
So ok, a pudgy tardigrade. And of course I can find kaiju art of a tardigrade.
Pudgy I think means it resists damage. Armour isn't a common ability in magic; but it has been done. It is kinda "You can't mass block me" - but I think in this case I'll make use of it more like hundred-hands did, reminding people that this thing has 8 legs because why wouldn't it have?
Both of these are defensive abilities - so I guess I've made it white. Which is fair enough for what is basically a maggotty thing. I can imagine other colours get other kinds of tardigrade with their own 8's in them.
fistuliform: shaped like a pipe
xenogenesis: generation of offspring entirely unlike the parent
Pipes that make baby pipes of a different shape. That's dumb. So.. mtg has a few pipes (elvish, satyr, minotaur).
There's Izzet steampunk, which leads into Kaladesh? Some kind of pipe that you stuff a thing in one end and something different comes out the other?
A polymorph engine? That's kind of interesting. Adding a restriction that the replacement can't be similar to the original would be added weird; and also very much a thing you could try and build around. (Like, all your cheap creatures share a type, so you'll always pick out one of your big creatures). I kinda like that.
Yeah; the wonkiness is an edge case. I like the red colour identity for "While everything is tapped" but couldn't think of a good red ability to pair it with. The main reasonj this is red is because; well; it's a pink airship, dedicated to pompous declarations of eternal love. It can't not be red :)
Very interesting idea in terms of color pie identity and design space. It works kinda wonky if it has 3 or more damage marked on it and one of your permanents get untapped at that point.
on wording:
> ~ has indestructible as long as all your permanents are tapped.
magniloquent: speaking in a grand or pompous style
xebec: small three-masted pirate ship
... well, that's a fine conundrum. A pompously oratorial pirate shp. Though I shall have to point out that, technically, it is merely a particular kind of ship, used for fast trading. Not solely for raiding.
Well, one has just the ship in mind. And the stats bring themselves into being. But how does one represent grandiose prose in a mechanical text? Trinket text? Or.. grand sweeping gestures?
Sure; the latter. Something like hellbent, only... moreso.
Oops I didn't realize it had flying
my iq is approx. 12
Because it might not be blocked? This is mighty enough that the opponent will want to block it, but not "No flier? you lose" power.
It is indeed pretty much a blue deathtouch. That's intentional.
that's funny, why not make it a 20/5 then, just because you can lol
Technically, this returns Storm Crow to the top of library, since it's a replacement effect, and not a 'when' trigger.
The likelihood of something surviving the 5 damage this deals aren't that high on its own.
juvenescent : becoming youthful
tonitrophobia : fear of thunder
(Retruning a creature to childhood -> putting on top of deck. And big scary thunder dragon. Or, well, rounded kyoot one at least.)
famigerate: to carry news from abroad
latescent: becoming latent
I think I'm fed up of just putting the two words together into the name of the card. So - carrying news from abroad; becoming hidden. A spy, waiting to smuggle out information.
I so want to implement hiding a spy by putting it into your opponents library. But there's really good practical reasons why that's a bad plan. (Still, for posterity: Shuffle ~ into an opponents deck face up. When ~ is revealed from an opponents deck do something really strong, and spylike, like; I dunno; discarding the rest of their deck.)
Here we go. It has to attack once (or find some magical way to get tapped) and then forevermore tells you what is going on.