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Recent updates to Otaria Forever (Ideas): (Generated at 2024-10-31 23:52:37)
Thanks for the tip, went with the second option. Arguably reads worse but probably the version that will cause less calls to a judge.
Yeah you're right, this doesn't fully get the idea across. Will work on making it more evocative, thanks.
The idea is that the Cephalids are starting to experiment with their extraction technology on their own people. Being a BU race, I've kind of envisioned them as being ruthlessly scientific and egotistical ("Greatness, at any cost" and all that), to the point where they lack empathy for their peers and so they can perform these actions without guilt.
I agree that shifting them into black feels a bit weird at first, but I think it makes a lot of sense. And when you consider that there's very few Cephalid cards out there I think there's a lot of scope for reimagination.
Have I missed something? Don't think it's possible to turn on Synthesis without mana short of Symbiosis at the moment, but it's easy to lose track of things.
Have changed the card a little to balance it a bit more. Hymn to Tourach at 3 is still excellent, so hopefully this is worse enough to not break anything.
Yeah you're right about the names and for some cards I do that but I just got in the headspace of needing a name for the Queen and when that happens you gotta solve the puzzle sometimes. Even if your solution is pretty average.
Hoping to have a small Swampwalk draft theme for Black, needs some enabling. Represents the small forays that the Cephalids make onto Otarian shores in order to process some land creatures. Hopefully flavor text can bear that out.
It seems we need to clear up the wording again here :)
My best guess is you want it to only trigger from your stuff so you could go with either "Whenever a creature card is put into your graveyard from your hand or the battlefield, ..." which would also trigger if one of your creatures that's currently controlled by an opponent dies, or you could go with "Whenever a creature card is put into a graveyard from your hand or a creature you control dies, ..." which obv only triggers from stuff you have.
So much landwalk at common! This, (((Bog Serpent))) and Experiment Subject already and that's just in black. Do you plan on making a theme out of this or was it coincidence? Also, 3/2 for 2B is already quite ok at common.
I guess swampwalk and regeneration do a bad job at demonstrating cruelty but I think some details pages or other info on flavor will do better there. Also I struggle with imagining mono-black Cephalids bug again more input will help here.
This also oddly seems strictly better than Drudge Skeletons. Not that those were the best card ever but just sayin ;)
Hmm since your entire set is basically built around counters, this might even be a bit too good in that environment. I mean with blinking effects on permanents you mostly don't have to spend additional mana to get Synthesis online.
I'd like this a lot more if the Synthesis bonus was upside for you not downside for them.
Also it's great fun to give funny playtest names to cards you don't have actual card names for yet. Odds are cards are going to change a lot over time so naming a card with a certain flavor doesn't seem like an idea that will last. I know MaRo calls cards like this Mind Fuck for lack of a better name ;)