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I experimented a bit with this:
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Flying
Whenever Eye of the Watcher deals combat damage to a player, surveil 1.
Menace
Whenever Limb of the Watcher deals combat damage to a player, create a tapped Treasure token.
Hunter Head must be blocked if able.
Hunter Head must be blocked if able.
The design space seems limited.
I wonder how these interact with convoke, vigilance, haste, Barter in Blood, About Face etc.
The shared toughness is an interesting further development of the mechanic, though with only rares/mythics that always have a 1/1 half the concept is barely explored.
You run into some color pie issues e. g. Lyra Silvertongue // Pan, Voice of Reason's right half uses the green/white mechanical space while the whole thing is cast for blue/red mana. Being hybrid the right half should respect that the whole card can be played for red.
Maybe a cost of
with a blue/red half and a green/white half?
See Mrs. Coulter // The Golden Monkey.
See:
Lyra Belacqua can't be blocked if another attacking creature is unblocked.
Whenever Lyra Belacqua attacks, draw a card, then discard a card, then draw a card.
Pantalaimon, Unsettled can't be blocked except by Spirits.
I actually think these would better suited to an adventure frame variant, with the Daemon on the lower right.
See Lyra Belacqua // Pantalaimon, Unsettled.
Tried to address concerns about design cohesion.
Yeah, I didn't really make this particular card with much inspiration beyond using the split frame. And it's not like I wrote this out, but the idea is that:
• The toughness is shared, as is the mana cost, which leads to...
• There would probably be a unique frame treatment, like Fuse
• If one becomes tapped, they both do
• They must be blocked separately
• They change zones together
And no, SI. The Golden Monkey isn't a monkey. Yes, it is intentionally colorless.
Yeah, that was the plan. Nice catch!
You could totally have a fuse-like frame that has appropriate reminder text.
Having two toughnesses is worse, having two powers is good.
The monkey is not a Monkey. The monkey could afford a color indicator. Is it intentionally colorless.
Mechanically there is not much interesting about the card. Th first strike and the evasion ability obviously work with each other, but are far less interesting on a card where you have the option to just block the 1/1 instead (assuming they have to be declared as attackers together).
I think it would be more interesting if the Hman side had an afflict-like ability (rather than the activated ability, maybe?):
That wold create an interesting choice for blocking decision.
They probably need a daemon mechanic to set the rules of having them both in play, which would wrap in the "if one half changes zones, the whole card does" and could possibly have the attacking restriction too
Neat. Gonna have a Lyra Silvertongue too?
See Mrs. Coulter // The Golden Monkey.
Funnily enough, Marisa can separate, iirc... 🤔
But the mechanic here is meant to represent that they can't be alive without each other, not that they can't apart. Of course, with the way I think it would have to work, the two would need to be declared as attackers simultaneously, so the flavor isn't perfect.
How would you handle people who can separate, like the witches or Lyra after the trip to the land of the dead?
(I'm reading the sequel trilogy, and separating also seems more common, if still reviled, in the wider world)
Designed to played when you've been milled rather than self-mill strategies (not that one couldn't play it there)
White Ward template
Yeah, both protections hit this. Might need the gross White Ward template
Both untapping and proliferating an artifact feels like too much
The protection from colorless removes this. The name is very nice, though!
Black can't do anything by paying life. While black has instances where it could recur other card types, the ones I've seen were permanents where that permanent type was more prominent than normal, such as two that could recur artifacts in Kaladesh block Brother's War, and one that could recur planeswalkers in War of the Spark. Still, both of those are permanents and closer to overlapping white and green.
Like SecretInfiltrator, I worry about instant and sorcery recursion, which is in blue and red's slices (green could formerly do that, but has since been narrowed to just permanent cards).
Black can kinda do anything as long as it pays life right? If you are recurring X cost spells then I just see that as good deckbuilding.
The two modes are interesting, but I wonder whether they have the same chance of being used. If one mode is used far more often than the other, a modal effect is not the right way to go IMO.
Best used with kicker? IDK.
Black is not supposed to get just any type of card from the graveyard, so I would put this down as
. But even better would be a restriction of card types.
I worry most about this returning instant/sorcery cards, as those are the kings of repetitive game play if recurred. And a spell costing e. g.
won't cost all that much life with the second mode either.
This is the kind of card that greatly benefits from triggering at the beginning of the precombat main phase.