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Recent updates to Gentlemen Magicians: (Generated at 2024-05-05 22:46:32)
Has generally been entertaining. There was a suggestion that if you play it in your turn it should have haste instead of flash so the ETB ability doesn't feel wasted, but I think at that point it should start costing more.
Ah, I see! Then yes, I mostly agree. I need to rationalise the costs and abilities of the loyalty lands, they were mostly guesses, and I'm honestly pleased they weren't more degenerate, but I still don't know for sure what balanced costs and abilities are. (And thank you again for playtesting :))
Ah, when I was commenting on this card last night, I thought the mana ability was +1 loyalty (Stuart was playing this card, whilst the three similar lands that I had in my deck all increased loyalty when giving mana). It's a lot more reasonable than I thought, and my suggestion of making the starting loyalty 1 makes no sense! It still might be slightly good given that it's an uncounterable way to (effectively) draw 2 cards for 2 mana. I'm not sure if the drawback of being attackable/burnable makes up for that, though.
Thank you. Yes, intent was the same as other outside the game cards, will change wording to "you own" to match them.
No restriction that I have to own it? I can just tell the store owner that I'm bringing that Bazaar of Baghdad out from under the glass and into the game, and he's powerless to stop me?
Yep; also an "Artifact?" checkbox, and a "Pinline colours" drop-down (for things like Black and White and Red All Over). It's lower priority than most other enhancements though.
Yeah. It's not vital for this set, as I've still been doing the mockups in MtgGenerator (which isn't quite right for making land planeswalker frames either, I want to tweak the code). But I assume eventually you can add a "plansewalker/non-planeswalker/auto" checkbox?
You're right, "land blue" is plainly the right choices. I've put off deciding on the right frames until I'm sure how they should work.
Yeah, I was aware when I was writing my mockup code that it wouldn't let these lands get the loyalty frame very easily. If more people want to create non-Planeswalker cards with loyalty abilities (which seems like quite a nifty idea with a range of applications) then I'll provide some other way to specify in the card edit form that the card should use the loyalty frame.
BTW, do you really want the blue frame? Wouldn't the "Land (blue)" frame be more apt?
I used Planeswalker in order to make the mockup correct, but I decided that in general these lands should use the same rules, but not have plansewalker type, even though that would be convenient for the rules, because in flavour they're special, but not really "planeswalker". I decided to assume the rules would make loyalty abilities and rules work for permanents with printed loyalty values, and not necessary need a new type.
Lacking "Planeswalker" type.
Does this want "Activate this ability at most once each combat phase"?
For the record, an obvious reference to http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=throat+wolf, that has "firstest strike". I like the way the ability mimics firstest strike without saying so, but I'm not sure if I should avoid using the name.
This is a neat idea. And it does what you have always wanted,the ability to attack a land.
Changed to unkeyword flanking as it's clear and shorter without (since it's on an activated ability only).
Probably need to restrict this to once per turn!
Will test as adding colored mana, and increase P/T. I can't believe that doesn't break something, but AC is perfectly right that it's existed before, eg. Thermopod, Ashnod's Altar.