War's Toll was the inspiration, and I what I used for basis as the wording. From there, I thought what ability would interact well. Having lands locked down a turn really makes the player consider what spell or spells they'll be cl casting that turn. The stress appealed to me.
The problem isn't tapping all the lands. The problem is is the anti-untap clause.
War's Toll was still created in a time of mana burn. While the card still technically works and isn't entirely without use, the tension of mana burn provided was what this type of card really needed to be interesting.
The former is of a similar "We put words on cards, we don't worry about what they mean" era. But the latter is good evidence it's still a thing you can do.
Unsure if this should be white or green. My first instinct was white because it's intention is a combat trick. The original cost was , but I thought that was probably too high for a combat trick. Green is more graveyardy than white though. I could potentially even see this in black.
given the right flavor treatment, I wouldn't mind seeing elves be !
Plenty of fiction has elves as capricious, impulsive being who have difficulty seeing other people's point of view. Or as passionate warriors. Indeed, looking at cards already printed, including multicolour, B and W have more elves than U and R, to my somewhat surprise.
Bats certainly make sense in W, there's nothing actually very B about bats other than "night" and "churchyards". But it's nice for MTG to have a split in what animals appear in each colour.
Yeah, already gets birds, this seems like a perfectly fine bird.
Also, considering the reference cards, this could easily be a 2/2 ( gets better creatures than ), probably also a 3/1 or a 1/3, since that's the same stats just reordered.
I don't think it would break any formats to make this a 3/2 or a 2/3, either, but it could definitely be a bit pushed... But, well, they've been pushing the Hell out of weenies last time I checked!
I do like this flavor, though... but if you're looking for a colony card, why not just reflavor a Plague Rat variant?
Honestly, this card might make more sense as a bird, but I really like the flavor of this card... it's not really rules-problematic to make colorshifted creatures, it just messes with established flavor on most plaes...
Thing is though, I find it silly to insist that on some planes, bats couldn't be ! Hell, given the right flavor treatment, I wouldn't mind seeing elves be !
Mechanically, however, it's difficult to do this with more established tribes, since they more or less have a mechanical identity! Bats are, like, tertiary creature types, though, so this doesn't feel nonbat, except that it's not in the colors we usually see.
For a 1-off card, I don't mind it.
Even if you keep it as a bat, this should at least be 2/2 (if you don't want to duplicate the warden into from , maybe add a stat point?)
Followed SecretInfiltrator's wording
War's Toll was the inspiration, and I what I used for basis as the wording. From there, I thought what ability would interact well. Having lands locked down a turn really makes the player consider what spell or spells they'll be cl casting that turn. The stress appealed to me.
Should be:
> "[...] enchantment spells you cast this turn cost less to cast."
The problem isn't tapping all the lands. The problem is is the anti-untap clause.
War's Toll was still created in a time of mana burn. While the card still technically works and isn't entirely without use, the tension of mana burn provided was what this type of card really needed to be interesting.
The former is of a similar "We put words on cards, we don't worry about what they mean" era. But the latter is good evidence it's still a thing you can do.
So Huh; did not know.
Cf. Mana Web, War's Toll
Ugh. This runs into all the problems of Mana Short and then goes and invents some new ones.
FAQ: What happens if I just tap out without spending the mana immediately?
This is a black effect, isn't it?
Please keep your pet cats indoors. Cats are incredibly dangerous to native wildlife.
Unsure if this should be white or green. My first instinct was white because it's intention is a combat trick. The original cost was , but I thought that was probably too high for a combat trick. Green is more graveyardy than white though. I could potentially even see this in black.
Followed Froggychum's advice and switched p/t from 1/1 to 3/1
given the right flavor treatment, I wouldn't mind seeing elves be !
Plenty of fiction has elves as capricious, impulsive being who have difficulty seeing other people's point of view. Or as passionate warriors. Indeed, looking at cards already printed, including multicolour, B and W have more elves than U and R, to my somewhat surprise.
Bats certainly make sense in W, there's nothing actually very B about bats other than "night" and "churchyards". But it's nice for MTG to have a split in what animals appear in each colour.
Yeah, already gets birds, this seems like a perfectly fine bird.
Also, considering the reference cards, this could easily be a 2/2 ( gets better creatures than ), probably also a 3/1 or a 1/3, since that's the same stats just reordered.
I don't think it would break any formats to make this a 3/2 or a 2/3, either, but it could definitely be a bit pushed... But, well, they've been pushing the Hell out of weenies last time I checked!
I do like this flavor, though... but if you're looking for a colony card, why not just reflavor a Plague Rat variant?
Honestly, this card might make more sense as a bird, but I really like the flavor of this card... it's not really rules-problematic to make colorshifted creatures, it just messes with established flavor on most plaes...
Thing is though, I find it silly to insist that on some planes, bats couldn't be ! Hell, given the right flavor treatment, I wouldn't mind seeing elves be !
Mechanically, however, it's difficult to do this with more established tribes, since they more or less have a mechanical identity! Bats are, like, tertiary creature types, though, so this doesn't feel nonbat, except that it's not in the colors we usually see.
For a 1-off card, I don't mind it.
Even if you keep it as a bat, this should at least be 2/2 (if you don't want to duplicate the warden into from , maybe add a stat point?)