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This and Mana Purification serve two similar but different purposes. Mana Purification acts as long term fixing for colorless mana, in addition to being a nice little color screwer. Burst of Steam has a much more grand use. It allows for one really large Steam-Powered cost to be paid late game it also serves to stifle your opponents next turn unless they are casting an artifact or Steam-Powered spell.
The idea is that the opponent has to decide whether they want to give you back the conscription or not. Ideally, you'd play it on one of their tapped creatures not one of their untapped ones...
It was very overpower'd originally. I seem to recall it being an Overrun without the toughness boost (IE. +3/+0 Trample, don't untap) and at
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Starting as a 1/1 makes it kinda underwhelming. Maybe change it to each upkeep?
That would be correct. I intended for him to be planting Phytohydras specifically. Nice to know that came through. :)
Would this be easier to parse for people if it was just split among two abilities (one with discard a card, and one with discard an artifact)? In theory, that would also give you the ability to split the costs differently, if you wanted to.
There's one in red too, so that helps a little. But yes, there is an opinion that says these don't belong.
See, there's a difference between reading complex and playing complex. For instance, as MaRo likes to say, Bestow is a mechanic that reads complex but it's super intuitive. Buckshot, while reading complex, is actually pretty simple in execution.
However, I can agree that these get a little complex. However, I have an idea. I'd rather not do this in these comments though, so come join us back at home base here: http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=378732&page=264
I feel like this ought to be uncommon, since it doesn't work the same as the other Spellslingers. I could see this getting misread quite often.
I love this card. My only complaint is that there aren't more like it in the set. It is an awesome Kindle variant.
Whether they feel like a common might be a matter of opinion. Personally, I don't think any card that says "where X is 1 plus the amount of
spent to cast..." is common. Sure, the power level might feel common, but the complexity doesn't. I'd be afraid of eating up a lot of common complexity on this cycle.
This was, conceptually, one of my favorite cards by far in the set.