Clockwork Wings: Recent Activity

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2011-07-19 16:05:58: Alex commented on Midnight Scavenging

Swapped slot with UB07 Striechfiss Infiltration. This effect is perfectly suitable for common (even though this card is bad).
2011-07-19 15:59:25: Alex edited Midnight Scavenging
2011-07-19 15:59:15: Alex edited Striechfiss Infiltration:
promote to uncommon as discussed
2011-07-19 15:59:11: Alex edited Midnight Scavenging:
down to common
2011-07-19 15:57:54: Alex commented on Striechfiss Infiltration

Tough. It's a bit too good for common, and black common needs to be reined in a bit, and there are already two commons with deathtrap 2, which both feel "more common" than this. Exchange with the bad card CB10 Midnight Scavenging, previously UB07.
2011-07-19 11:37:29: Alex deleted a comment on Subharmonic Stabiliser
2011-07-18 15:57:38: Alex commented on a card
2011-07-18 15:56:19: Alex commented on Subharmonic Stabiliser

I might change this to ": Regenerate connected artifact." There aren't any other connectors with abilities, but several care about whether they can successfully become tapped, which is close enough.

Playtest it first and see whether people bother using it.
2011-07-18 10:35:35: Alex edited Sightbending Scramblebike:
turn into an artifact creature, fit into slot UA09 and activate
2011-07-18 10:34:12: Alex commented on Rodent-Run Automaton

Increased the size of a few uncommon artifact creatures.
2011-07-18 10:34:00: Alex edited Rodent-Run Automaton:
3-mana 1/3 -> 4-mana 2/4
2011-07-18 10:33:34: Alex edited Extensible Automaton:
3-mana 2/2 -> 5-mana 3/3
2011-07-18 10:31:07: Alex moved the card Alloy-Forge Golem from Clockwork Wings into Clockwork3
2011-07-18 10:30:15: Alex moved the card Polymath's Ritual from Clockwork Wings into Clockwork2
2011-07-18 10:26:33: Alex moved the card Sinister Machinations from Clockwork Wings into Clockwork2
2011-07-16 23:32:36: Alex commented on Temporal Stutterer

In the list of details pages above, there's one called "Proxies for printing". I update that page each time I want to do a new playtest, with the decks I want to try, then print them out using the "Printable" link at top-right. They come out 9 to an A4 sheet; I cut them up and slide them inside card sleeves of an already-sleeved deck. Currently all 5 of my sleeved decks are being used as Clockwork Wings proxy decks rather than whatever they were actually assembled as :)

Then I get friends over to my house and recruit them to playtest the decks against each other.

Sometime this summer we're going to have a draft. I think the way I'll do that is print out 3-4 of each common, 2 of each uncommon and 1 of each rare and mythic, then jumble them up into boosters, just of paper. Once people are done drafting they can slide the paper drafted cards into a 40-card deck that's in cardsleeves.

I've also used PyDraft before. Multiverse's plain text spoiler export is deliberately designed to be easy to import into PyDraft.
2011-07-16 23:30:07: Alex commented on Arrogant Courtesan

Hm. It wasn't intended that way. I think it used to vary, and then I noticed in most cases 2 seemed to be the right number, and decided it'd be easier for players to understand if it was standardised like that. In the same way as the Deathtrap numbers are all either 2 or 5.

I certainly could see creating a card with Hierarchy 3 or 5 or something.
2011-07-16 23:27:17: Alex commented on Mindpoison Marquise

(Oops, thanks - links fixed.)

I'm not sure I'd say it's ironic, but it's very much meant to suggest that the nobles need lesser beings around in order to be any use. It's the same flavour as Insecure Baronet.
2011-07-16 18:20:28: Link commented on Temporal Stutterer

So, what methods do you use to playtest your cards?
2011-07-16 18:17:11: Link commented on Arrogant Courtesan

So, all Hierarchy cards are Hierarchy 2? Is the only point of the number so that it can be changed in later sets?
2011-07-16 18:15:31: Link commented on Mindpoison Marquise

I think you formatted your links as though they were real magic cards instead of cards in your set. Also, is the flavor of Hierarchy purposefully ironic? It's like the creatures need the confidence inspired by weaker creatures to function. I like it.
2011-07-16 10:59:48: Alex commented on Mindpoison Marquise

Hmm. No, generally the Nobles with Hierarchy don't do anything with those creatures. Lord of the Demesne does, but the basic implementations like Nouveau Riche and Self-Important Courtesan don't. I think the play is still interesting just needing someone around to feel superior to (and I think the common cards are best kept simple like that), but I'd certainly be up for considering possibilities. What kind of thing did you have in mind?
2011-07-15 18:43:26: jmgariepy commented on Mindpoison Marquise

Oh. I like Hierarchy. For all of Wizard's talk of needing to support expensive splashy spells, sometimes they forget to love their little dudes as well. I haven't really looked through your set, Alex, but please tell me that creatures with Hierarchy commonly do something with those smaller creatures. While the mechanic looks interesting, it feels like your passing on flavor if Nobles and Peasants aren't interacting...
2011-07-15 13:18:53: Alex edited Mindpoison Marquise:
add art, and update gender of the name appropriately
2011-07-15 13:02:20: Alex edited the details page Front Page
2011-07-15 13:01:44: Alex commented on Roaring Leosimile

Found this awesome piece of art that I think suits this card. But now I need a name suitable for it. Any suggestions?
2011-07-15 13:01:07: Alex edited Roaring Leosimile:
give it art, remove name
2011-07-15 12:58:49: Alex edited Vanishing Gantry
2011-07-15 12:56:58: Alex edited Vanishing Gantry:
add art
2011-07-15 12:55:28: Alex edited Expansion:
add art