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Seeing a geass as removal is odd mechanically, because once you kill the creature with the geass, what's the point of the geass mechanic?
I'm saying some kind of "Ok, you - DIE" needs to be one of the common geass, yes.
Suggest using something like "Controller of target creature sacrifices it at the end of their next turn" or some similar slow death for it.
I don't know if you saw over on the main Geass page, where I was saying there'd be at least ten common Geasses?
There need to be lots of Geasses at common for the interaction I proposed on the Geass page to work, absolutely. But I don't think I want them to be as efficient removal spells as this one will be. Black will have two or three common Geasses, as will every other colour; but this particular card might not be one of them.
Or are you saying this needs to be common because Lelouch does it so often in the series?
To quote maro - if your theme isn't common, it's not your theme.
This is the most obvious basic common geass. It needs to be common.
Kiku's Shadow and Repentance were uncommon, though Wrack with Madness was common. As an efficient removal spell this probably wants to not be common, though the limited format in this set is looking like it'll have enough differences from a normal set that I don't know whether the arguments for common removal being Flesh to Dust's price rather than Murder's price will hold.
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"of" for Auras, "to" for insts/sorcs
If I'm going to do that, then I'll want at least 10 common Geasses and 5 uncommon/rare ones, all at least somewhat Limited playable, and a good mix of positive and negative effects.
But the negative effects, for the most part, want to not actually kill the creature. There can be a couple of exceptions, but killing the creature (or bouncing it etc) makes the "protection from other Geasses" effect rather irrelevant.
Flavour-wise, there's a little bit of a problem that Lelouch doesn't tend to use his Geass power on his own side - he uses his immense charisma and manipulation skills to get them to do what he wants. It's a slight break from flavour in that Lelouch using his Geass on someone doesn't prevent other Geass users using a different Geass user using their own, different Geass on them... but Magic's always had a problem with the flavour of "these Faction X spells are in my deck, working together with Faction Y spells in my deck, against other Faction X spells in your deck".
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One possibility: "Oppression", a mechanic that has drawback and advantage elements, something like "This creature can't be blocked by creatures with toughness 1. Whenever this creature attacks, put a 1/1 red Rebel creature token OTB under defending player's control." Creatures with this would be pretty aggressively costed. I guess it's the ability from Varchild's War-Riders :)
Example: Kewell Soresi.
Another possibility is one of the Dominance mechanics from the Goblin Artisans set, such as "Dominance - As long as you control a creature with power greater than any other, [benefit]".
Mechanically, the Britannian faction wants to have one or two keywords / ability words called something like:
Now to figure out what those should be... If anyone has any suggestions for a mechanic fitting one of those names or something similar, ideas are very welcome!
The flavour of the group is that they're the decadent oppressors, the world-spanning civilised empire who believe they naturally have a right to live well. They're keen on culture like art, theatre and dance, and they have a very well-organised military - though it does perhaps suffer from excessive internal politics, entitlement, arrogance, and racism, especially towards the natives of the nations they conquer.
Possible names for a mechanic for the Black Knights:
If anyone has ideas for mechanics with those names (whether or not you know anything about Code Geass), any suggestions would be very welcome!
The flavour of the group is that they're the rebel insurgency. They used to be terrorists trying to express anger with the Britannian Faction, but as the series progresses they become a fully-fledged resistance movement, a rebel army, trying to kick out the oppressors and reclaim their homeland for themselves.
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I think should have said "undesirable" not "impossible", obviously you can make a custom set ignoring the colour pie :) I think you'd basically already decided on the best course of action, but I sometimes find it helpful to explicitly lay out the options and say "this isn't perfect and I'm not claiming it is perfect, but it's definitely better than cancelling the whole thing so I'm going with it for now".
Well, 6 is certainly possible, and indeed a quite plausible outcome of this whole project, but not due to any difficulties with the Black Knights so much as the general issue that finishing a custom set is rather hard :)
But yes, I'm inclined to just accept it as one of the quirks of this set. There probably won't be many places in card text where I need to mention them anyway, so I guess I can do elements of 1 and 2b both.
Hm, Code Geass Wiki appears to call this organisation "Camelot". The DVDs I have call it the "A.S.E.E.C." or "Advanced Special Envoy Engineering Corps", so are they the same? Hmm... no, http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Lloyd_Asplund mentions both things, but isn't at all clear on the division between them.
Oh well, "Camelot" is a lot catchier than "A.S.E.E.C." so I guess I'll use that name :)
There's a big question in any kind of set built around a bunch of named characters. Do you make all the creature cards that correspond to a named character legendary?
With the new Legend rule it matters a bit less, because either way it'll be possible to have, say, Kallen Kouzuki on both sides of the battlefield. Would it be stranger to be permitted to have two or three of her on the same side of the battlefield? Yeah, probably.
But there's another issue. Several characters in the series have multiple identities, most obviously Lelouch's alter ego Zero. Should I have different cards for "Lelouch vi Britannia" and "Zero"? (And perhaps even a third one for "Lelouch Lamperouge"?) That'd allow similar in-game strangeness, but of the kind that's already possible if you have Balthor the Stout and Balthor the Defiled both in play, or Kamahl, Pit Fighter and Kamahl, Fist of Krosa (or Venser, Shaper Savant and Venser, the Sojourner, which is actually a great combo).
I think for the sake of gameplay (and tidier type lines), I should leave the type "Legendary" off all the named characters in this set (there'll be a lot).
Still not decided on the issue of whether alter egos get multiple cards in the set though.