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Urabrask the Hidden
A legendary praetor. What even is a praetor? It's a Roman adminstrator (I knew that one) or... yeah, ok, basically the same thing only Phyrexian instead of Roman. Anyway; he grants your stuff haste, and their stuff slow.
+ Washington
A plains that... Heavens to murgatroyd! Swords to landshare; repeatably even! (You are hearing snagglepuss, very snagglepuss...)
So ok, this can go one of two ways. A repeat creature-kill praetor; which would be perfectly fine; or the slow ability on a land. One-sided kismet... is still a bit much for a land. Huh. I actually want to make two different cards out of this. Let's.
Winter Orb
Wow. The classic lock-down card. Well, one of the two (Stasis]) I guess. Also, dat art. The angry polar bear has hocked up a floating evil-sphere.
+ Thanos, Infinite War-Titan
... Just no.
+ Cthulhu
Well. Gosh. The big daddy of the mythos itself. Evil calamari god from the author who strongly believes that A-level maths is the most terrifying thing that is unimaginable. (Oh noes! It's non-euclidean!)
So anyway - one of the more obvious quotes seems appropriate to make this critter into a a lockdown form of evil. Of course; there are plenty of forms of removal other than killing things off. But still, this should cause a groundstall of epic proportions.
Actually; you know what? Instead of just costing this at seven-ish, I'm gonna outright make it a puzzle piece. Cute-thulhu lies dreaming. You can't just cast him. You have to work to wake him up.
I couldn't get this into the card, but squee!
Coastal Hornclaw + Draconic Burial
Wow! A 3/3 for 5 that can fly if you sacrifice a land! How magnificently powerful!
And reanimate a creature; plus one additional creature for each dragon you sacrifice. In a complicated way to enable storm.
So... sacrifice goes into the card. So, um, I could make a creature that loses flying at the end of your turns unless you sacrifice a dragon. The flavour works out, but the power level is impressively terrible.
I think we'll instead make it tap a dragon (so much for two cards with sacrifice ending up in a card with sacrifice) - and sure, there's decent flavour.
Tyrant's Familiar + Obelisk of the Crop
A hasty dragon who is meant to partner with your commander. Who will be the kind of commander that lets you search for a dragon :) Seriously huge, direct damage, haste.
And... huh. The objective for an challenge format. Basically "Your team can take 20 points of damage before they lose" (and there's a mechanical turk opposing you trying to deal that damage, while you try to meet another objective).
So, hmm - a big dangerous dragon that you lose if it takes too much damage. ... Form of the Dragon and done. Or maybe your opponent loses if they take too much damage from it. Um, that would be every creature ever :)
Ok, maybe look at the name? What would a Tyrant's Obelisk be? Obelisks were declarations of religious power; and served their conquerors as a tribute. Certainly a thing a tyrant would have. Mythologically... well, there's one legend where they represent the start of the world, and posisbly of the next world. And another where, well... phallic gods let's stop there. I want to say "They outlived their creators" but, well, survivors bias. Lots didn't. In mtg, most obesliks have been mana rocks.
I think I want this to be something triumphant. Something difficult to bring up. Which means it has to be correspondingly good. "Cannot lose the game". And triumphant? Only play it if you won the game; at least a little bit.
Obviously multiplayer only. I'm imagining this would be paired up with a triumphal arch, and a chariot, and a parade, and that jester who whispers "This too shall pass..."
I like it!
Scrivener + Inquisitor's Mark
2/2 regrow an instant, for 5. And a +1 +menace aura, for 2 with alt-cost of tap a cleric.
From another set, I'm tempted to suggest a horribly overcosted menace-bear, with an alt-cost of regrowing an instant.
Except... that mechanic is just horrid to balance. Go the other way? Kicker to regrow? Or how about a penalty if there is an instant? Sacrifice this if you cast an instant? Or the illusion ability? That last seems to work.
Colour. Huh. Menace is . I kinda want this to be blue for the illusion ability though. Can I stretch this to a gold 3/3? Is illusion a big enough downside? Let's try it.
Probably a bit too fiddly for common; though could be stretched there if I hadn't pushed the P/T. I could wells see this given a name and made a legend. In fact, let's do that. Rared.
It was just really annoying to play against. Plink, plink, plink, double-plink, triple plink, doom-plink. Plink.
Like the Chinese water torture of magic.
..why the heck did I put "opponent" on this card, rather than "player"? White is permitted unconditional lifegain.
Why would you hate extort?
Karma + Oksam, High Legislate
Old-school swamp-hate. And new-school spell hate. (Seriously; I really hate Extort).
So, huh; a creature to extort swamps? I can see that.
Icatian Javelineers + Dunewalker Spellblade
So, huh; immune to combat damage; and equipment is completely invulnerable. I do like immune to combat damage as a concept; and it's a nice implementation of javelins in combat implying range.
Simple but effective mash. And preventing damage is nicely white.
...shame I already did Icatian Javelineers in risen empires.
Almost strictly worse than Stone Quarry. (Technically, this counts as a Plains for... let's say Tek.) But even to get that, it needed to spend two rounds tapped.
I think the least that we could get away with is:
: Gain 1 life. Transform Mountain Layer to a Plains.
(With for activation instead of , we can tap another Mountain to transform this, letting us use the mana right away. We can still tap the Mountain Layer for mana, and use that mana to transform.)
You could probably get more value than just gaining 1 life if you wanted. But you don't want people to transform these for the benefit, and not for the mana... so it may be tricky figuring out what that minor benefit might be...
lol
I thought that said Mountain Lawyer
Mountain + Jungle Lair
... huh. So I guess I should make ... yup; Volcano Lair was indeed the obvious name Jack plumped for.
Ok; so; not doing that. How else can we mountainise a forest that you can sacrifice to grow two more forests?
Well, forests grow new forests; that's fine. Mountains; what; wear down and become plains?
Now that's an interesting cycle. And the auto-colour background made an interesting decision; I approve of it. Could use DFC tech for it. Ugh.
(Full cycle would be; what - ->->->->->. Wears down, floods, grows back up and; um; petrifies because that's totally where mountains come from? Works for me!)
....The name wants me to create some kind of giant bird which has mountains where the eggs should be.
I actually know both those cards, and hell, i MADE one of them!
This is pretty cool, also the reminder text is funny. Updoot.
Leaping Potion + Amaranthine Wall
Indestructible artifact wall; and, well, a potion to send people skywards.
A potion to turn people into walls? A wall that sends people flying?
Oh; that's an interesting one. It's really cheap and effective groundstalling - but only once.
Mono-blue haste, huh. Looks inspired by Arcanis the Omnipotent more than anything (maybe Mahamoti Djinn). Maybe that was subconscious given he and Kamahl both appeared on 10th edition?
Kamahl, Pit Fighter + Application Error GRRRRR + Demonic Lore
6/1 haste triple-ping. Nice. And then draw 3 cards; lose 3+ life.
... I want to write "Natural selection on a hastestick". This would be crazy.
Is that a problem at cost 6? As a one-off it's not; but it's near the top of what you can do for that cost. But repeatable, that's pushing it.
But eh; it's only pushing it - let's make it 7 mana and it's fine. Ridiculous; but fine.
lol
Smokespew Invoker + Seat of Law
dual. And a invoker. A terrible one.
Hmm; do daul-colour invokers exist? Nope. Let's make one. ... no sorceries at 8... at 7 is... Emergency Powers. Invoke Wheel of time? Madness. Totally going there.
I like it; looks more like a construct than golem though.
Green Mana Battery + Island
Uh... I accidentally Blue Mana Battery?
Kinda surprised this is the first time I've hit an obvious recolour cycle. But ok, let's see what else we can do. How about a storage land; wait, that's Sand Silos. This space was pretty well mined out long long ago.
Fine. How about an artifact that literally builds up lands? That feels interesting. Make sure it taps to do it, so that there's that nice element of risk.
Obviously, a card like this would need to be in a landfall set; so lets make it so that you can add the lands a few at a time if you like rather than all at once as you normally would.
Add asdflavourtext and an appropriate image, and we're done. One robot sheep for your land exploratoray pleasures. Oh. Mana cost and rarity. Um; can this be a one-drop? I guess since it needs to tap to work, that would give you your first possible extra land on turn 3. So sure. Might become a 2-drop, but 1 seems fine at rare. An ucommon version of this would probably attach the land on ETB and/or sac to use instead of continually grabbing more - the deck-stripping potency of this is part of its appeal though. And also suggest a wondeful idea of gifting the opponent a couple, then blowing them up and their land-in-play to leave them manascrewed forever. But mainly the obvious flavour text.
Rampant Growth + Barkdance Phantasm
Basic landsearch; and breaking up protection into its component pieces. In this case; unblockable by treefolk.
Huh; landfallwalk. I can make that a thing. Though not without burning too too many words.
This alsmot fits into my Llanowar-burned set.
... I also want to make a "Data, the logicing" card with the name. Rampant AI is the best AI.
Surprisingly, the image hit for "Invisible tree"...
Mmm; yeah. It ought to have "You may pay blah blah if you do blah blah then blah blah blah" added to it. I'll be honest; I giggled at my flavourtext idea and phoned the rest of it in. Couldn't even find a stern-looking angel figure.
Even if there weren't ways to target infinitely, it's still beyond the pale with a single Leonin Scimitar.
That goes infinite pretty trivially. Lots of ways to repeatably target something for free
Master Chubb’s Apprentice + Serra Angel Avatar
2/2 deathgraft; and gain life on every spell you cast.
Well; that's my flavour text sorted.
Can't think of a particularly good effect though; swap out explicit haunting for just 'target a creature'.
Outwit + Thonjaran Emissary
Hard-counter, cheap - but only for direct player targetting. And a land-fetch creature, cost 4, slightly bigger than a bear, but it can go and get a funny-land.
So two cards that both do routine and useful things for their colour - one too cheap to be a useful version, and one too expensive.
Time for a bonkers high-tide variant. Mana lumpiness for everyone.
Skygames + Urgal Beastsmasher
Firstest-strike-firebreathing; and push flying onto things via a land.
Sure; we can turn a land into firebreathing. Captive Flame variant.
Flavour leads to "Flight of dragons" leads to more flavour. A virtuous circle of dragons.