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I don't know why the creature side is stuck in the planeswalker format.
I wanted the wording to be "For each opponent, you may put one of the revealed cards into..."
But I don't think that is clear enough that in a 4 player game, you get to discard 3 cards out of the revealed cards, regardless of who owns them.
Tried a rewording. No more card draw but now you can discard each opponent equally or make some opponents discard more.
Yeah this works far better. Now, it comes down and can 'hide' it's planeswalker self by becoming a creature, or even defending with first strike.
Then on subsequent turns the Vanos play pattern begins. Can you get in with a vanilla 3/3? Great, Vanos gets 3 loyalty. Can you get in with menace or first strike? Vanos gets 2 loyalty. Do you require flying to get in? Well you only net 1 loyalty counter in the exchange.
Flipped the planeswalker to the day side so it functions much better.
Now based off of Contamination's wording.
You could use the Contamination template
I have no idea if I wrote that correctly the the concept is "Blood Moon for artifacts that add colored mana."
I forgot about Force Spike. I was going for type-reversed Spell Pierce, and thought that present Magic feels a bit more favoring to creatures. That thought made me think if such a card existed, it'd be a lower cost for the controller of the target creature spell than Spell Piece and that it'd have some type of additional draw back.
Uh yeah - this is two significant drawbacks on top of a Force Spike. Did you perhaps misread it as sticking around?
This would be interetsing costing
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How is this Essence Scatter with upside? It's rather more narrow Force Spike/Mana Tithe.
I agree that the restriction to creature-less decks (or decks that only use that one finisher creature nce they stailized so don't care enough about the cost/circumvent casting cost for it) is problematic as a balance tool here.
But is it even needed? Is type-reversed Spell Pierce so good that even reducing the tax you need a drawback like this?
If this made all your spells cost 1 more, I'd be on board. But right now this is Essence Scatter with big upside for creatureless decks. Would definitely see sideboard play, if not mainboard and make control decks quite dominant.
Costs
less. While I may have not used the correct word formatting, I believe the omission of any variation of the word “addition” makes the intent quite clear.
It's an intervening if trigger so if they swing with a 2 powered creature, the ability has already failed to trigger. Bringing it up to 5 power won't stop it. Similarly, casting it before attacks just means they can't attack with that creature, lest no damage be done. SO, giant's growth is more like a 1 turn Pacifism.
This card could probably do with making it symmetrical. So if you accidentally made your creatures too strong, you now can't attack either.
Everything should have a counter - the harder the counter, generally speaking; the more limited it should be or the easier it should be to itself be dealt with.
This is... sitting in an interesting place. It's a hard counter to "I have giant creatures". But is not very much use against a token swarm, or even someone with a mix of creatures. It does, amusingly, also let you use a giant griwth as a fog.
And it has the classic "Dies to removal" solution. So yeah, it's probably a relatively safe hoser. Costing only 3 is perhaps a little cheap for the effest, but legenrdaries tend to be stupidly cheap.
A one off "Destroy all creatures of power 4 or more" would be a safer hoser; but this is probably safe enough.
I don't recall any such statement from anyone. There was a big discussion pointing out that color hosers are a problematic design when fear/intimidate finally got turned into menace and protection got downgraded to deciduous.
Maybe that's what's meant? Certainly wouldn't apply here though.
I don't like to think of them as hosers. To me they're enablers of slower strategies.
Are board wipes hosers for creature decks? Or tools for control decks to compete in an aggressive meta?
try to clarify the text, by adding "as a result of the dice roll"
are these conditional hosers supposedly bad for the game ? that's what all "great" designers say , yet there is no end to official and custom designed hoser cards .
costs additional
to cast if opponent cast 2+ spells ?