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Race Class.
Is it a camel that works as a unicorn, or a unicorn that works as a camel?
From the picture; it's a camel that is part-timing as a unicorn.
Also Unicorn Camel just reads more naturally to me, Unicorn sounds like it could be an adjective - similarly to Happy Camel.
Though saying that, cases can be camel case. Hmmm. I guess a camelicorn would be a camel unicorn?
I'd say Unicorn Camel. That's because 'unicorn' appears to be more of a state with a creature like this (it has a central horn on its head) than a hybrid of the two animals together (or, at least, that's how I would imagine any artits to draw this animal. I doubt they would take to the assignment and make a camel-ish looking unicorn so much as a unicorn-ish looking camel.)
If that's the case, then we should probably mimic the way zombie creature types are written out, since zombification is more of a state too. Nantuko Husk is a 'zombie insect'. Know what I mean, Vern?
Question for the philosophers: should it be a Camel Unicorn or Unicorn Camel?
grammar
now a multiplayer friendly disentomb (was reanimation)
BTW, if anybody would like to contribute, feel free to just add a card to one of the empty slots in the skeleton so that we can discuss it.
+1/+1, +1 cost
I wish I could say it was all carefully calculated but honestly I just eyeballed it.
Hm. 7 life on a 2-mana gold card was Heroes' Reunion, a famously popular card. But 6 life on a
card was Nourish, which was unremarkable. This being a sorcery rather than an instant probably means going up to 7 is fine. Funny how that works.
changed from +3/+0 to double strike, now costs 4R
Traitorous Instinct wasn't good enough?
This is supposed to be based on the myth of Hathor and Sekhmet, if anybody has a suggestion for naming or flavor text.
Yeah, agreed.
I see. I've changed this to be a reprint of Jackal Familiar. I believe that since it can't attack on turn 2, it's fine at common, like Loyal Pegasus.
now a reprint of Jackal Familiar
Lacerator is from before the recent policy, I think. Loyal Pegasus is an interesting case, but I guess it's unlikely to be attacking on turn 2.
Sam Stoddard said this week:
> On the other end of the spectrum, we tend to put our most efficient one- and two-drop simple creatures at uncommon to help aggressive decks work in Limited, but to keep them from being too numerous and powerful. A good example of this kind of card is Elite Vanguard in many core sets, or something like Tormented Hero from Theros block. What is keeping these from being common is not how complicated, or necessarily how powerful they are by themselves, but instead by how powerful they are as a class of creature and just how swingy Limited decks can be with a large number of them.
I guess it's fair that it's not completely forbidden. Just that it's the strong default for them to be uncommon or higher: Gnarled Scarhide is uncommon as Tormented Hero was, and all the other 2-power 1-drops in Standard are actually rare - Satyr Firedrinker, Soldier of the Pantheon and Bloodsoaked Champion.
As Sam mentions, the same applies to 3-power 2-drops: there'll still be a common one occasionally like Oreskos Swiftclaw, but they're generally uncommon or higher - Call of the Conclave, Sightless Brawler, Spirit of the Labyrinth, Fleecemane Lion.
Vampire Lacerator is old. Compare to Bloodsoaked Champion. White also gets better small creatures than red.