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Also, there are two other common
creatures: Insecure Baronet and Baron's Skyguard. Maybe this card needs rethinking as something entirely different.
Of course, this is currently the only active Backstab card; the others are all inactive, and this is the only one in the skeleton. So maybe I just remove the ability word.
...Although there's actually also Vicious Grifting. And that's in a cycle that wants set keyword mechanics, although it currently doesn't actually manage to get them in all cases. What to do...
I guess it's fine for this ability to not do very much. It's still a 2/1 for
, and black gets vanillas with those stats. Not every common has to be great.
Working towards doing a draft soon.
Mechanics that are currently very good: Hierarchy, Pilots / artifact flyers, Deathtrap.
Mechanics that are fine, good enough to keep for the moment: Collaborate, Trolls / defender
Mechanics that may be reexamined or cut if they don't work well in the draft: Backstab, power, connectors
Potential mechanics to introduce if I do cut power or connectors: Charge counters, contraptions
True enough. This is, after all, just a matter of taste. Though, this conversation is making me realize that they could easily be printing Glorious Anthem at common nowadays. Maybe it's above the curve too much... I'm not sure. Glorious Anthem sure ain't no Ajani Goldmane, though.
Collaborate is triggered, so it'd certainly work; I might add an uncommon policeman with double collaborate in set 2. Battle cry as on Accorder Paladin is also triggered (note the "whenever") and would work in multiples, though you're right that flying and first strike are no use in multiples.
As for granting double collaborate to everyone, that'd be even more confusing and fiddly than giving them all single collaborate, I suspect. I'd be wary of saying it's "safe", too: if you have this card out and attack with three tokens and a 1/1 Aerobatic Pilot, the tokens can all target the double striking flyer with their collaborate triggers.
By the by, double collaborate would probably work. The rules team would probably line it up with other cards that work in duplicate such as "Bushido, Bushido", "Flanking, Flanking" and "Bloodthirst, Bloodthirst".
Sorry about the confusion. I was inferring that an interesting choice would be to increase the CC so the creature could give Collaborate, Collaborate to your entire team. I'm not arguing that a new mechanic with a Glorious Anthem like effect isn't rare... it just feels too safe to me. Espescially when it only requires the addition of one word to make some players say "Holy Crap!"
Would double collaborate even work? It feels to me like its an ability you either have or don't have (like First Strike, Flying, Rally Cry, etc) though I may be (and probably am) wrong.
It's basically a Glorious Anthem effect... Those have occasionally been uncommon (Kabira Vindicator, Nagao, Bound by Honor), but they're more normally rare. Plus this is slightly more complex and fiddly than that, because you get N pumps to distribute among N attackers, basically any way you like except all to the same creature...
Are you proposing that a creature which just has double-Collaborate itself should be rare, or one that grants double Collaborate to all your creatures? The former definitely seems uncommon to me.
I think it's fine - white weenie deck drops a 1/1 t1, 2/2 t2, this t3 then the others attack - that's a 2/2 & 3/3 swinging on T3 - kinda strong.
I don't know if this is splashy enough for rare. How about "Collaborate, Collaborate"?
Yeah, I had realised the unfortunately sexist terminology. I don't think the Victoriana feel of the setting is sufficient excuse for that, really, so I should do something to fix it.
"Creature - Human Officer" is a nice option - thanks :) It does have the unfortunate aspect that it can apply to soldiers as well as the police force. Many terms have this problem. "Creature - Human Guard" doesn't, but feels somehow denigrating... a Chief Inspector isn't a mere "Guard". "Creature - Human Cop" could be fun, but it's a bit slangier than the type line usually is (apart from things like Gelectrode...) "Creature - Human Police" feels rather stilted, but may be my best option.
Is it just me or does this (and others like it) feel like the creature subtype should just be Police rather than Policeman ?? because technically, going by the art,this should be a Policewoman and what are the elves going to think when you call them PoliceMEN ??? Just a small quibble (you could always call them Officers as in Officer of the Law). :-)
Heh nice WoW reference - given the inspiration the flavour text could be "Look a spinny thing...but what does it DO?..duh, it SPINS" :-)
It does have the downside that I can imagine the following sequence...
A: I cast Equipment of Awesomeness. (Chromer Battlegear, let's say.)
B: Okay, but I use Samoflange Overloader on it once it resolves.
A: But I want to equip it first! Which of us gets to do that first?
...Do you know? I do, but I suspect many people won't.
Hmm, I really need to sort out handling of token art... I thought I figured out a way to do that...
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1G 2/2 -> G 1/2
This is now a tweak on Ghost Warden / Wyluli Wolf.
Turned into a straight Viridian Shaman/Manic Vandal reprint for now. Might tweak the numbers later, but most of the 4-drops are policemen so I don't think this can leave the 3-mana spot.
2-mana 1/1 -> 3-mana 2/2
I liked this as a 2-mana 1/1, but green is stuffed to bursting with 2-drops and this has less need to stay at 2 mana than most of the rest do.
Something like Safe Passage, something like Haze Frog, something like Divine Light, but not really anything that's existed before AFAICT. Gets a discount for being a sorcery.
This could go up from Gray Ogre to Hill Giant. I like it being a Gray Ogre at the moment, but red does have four 3-drops and two 4-drops.
2R 3/3 -> 3R 3/4
two +1/+1 counters -> one +1/+1 counter