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Recent updates to Community Set: Xikera: (Generated at 2024-05-10 06:37:55)
Made it cheaper but since 3 would be too good on a repeatable ability, I made the colors harder. Will have to make the landbase pretty strong but not too good.
I guess you're right, the idea was to combo with loresearch but not rig draw easily, but that could be cheaper.
Nifty!
I think if you're putting the card fourth from top, though, then 5 mana is very expensive for the ability. Compare Long-Term Plans, which puts any card third from the top. Obviously it's a oneoff so not directly comparable, but still.
That's a holdover from the previous mechanic, which cared about number of cards in hand. But since Samuel is letting us edit the card set, I should be able to clean that up.
Where does the argument come in on this keyword?
That's not really a black ability. Black can pay life to draw cards, but that's worse than blue card draw. I get that this is part of a cycle, so maybe "Reveal the top card of your library. Each player loses life equal to its CMC, then put it into your hand." That way it's really black.
Edited to work with the new manipulate keyword.
Edited to work with the new loresearch keyword.
Also, everyone is welcome to contribute card ideas too. I made this a community set because I don't have time to finish a whole set.
@dude1818, thanks, I really like the ideas for manipulate and loresearch.
Inspired isn't the right flavor, no. I'm not sure what a good manipulative mechanic would be. Maybe something like "Whenever this creature becomes tapped or untapped, do the same to target creature"? That's fine reminder text and the comp rules can say it's two triggered abilities, namely "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, tap target creature." and "Whenever this creature becomes untapped, untap target creature." It'll mostly be used to tap defending creatures and get bonus uses out of creatures with tap abilities, but also lets you put a card or two with a negative tap/untap drawback that's normally worth it but not when played against manipulative creatures.
As for loresearch, nesting scry inside it is a bad idea. It also seems pretty good. Maybe just "Whenever an artifact etbs under your control, look at the top N cards of your library and put them back in any order." That's better balanced and opens up room for cards that also have "Whenever an artifact etbs under your control, you may shuffle your library." (if you don't like what see; uncommon) and "Whenever an artifact etbs under your control, draw a card." (good on it's own, better because of loresearch; rare).
You might want to make a mechanics page to collect all of the most refined mechanics. It will also let you link cards to reminder text, so you don't have to write on out every time.
Etori keyword: Loresearch N (Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, look at the top N cards of your library, then you may put them back in any order.)
@dude1818, yes, revolt will vary from card to card, and it will always be a P/T boost or evergreen keyword. I don't know about taking inspired. The flavor of Inspired doesn't really fit the manipulative flavor I want. Any other ideas? I'm open to suggestions.
Mrani Keyword: Savagery: Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under an opponent's control, you may have ~ fight that creature and deal damage to you equal to its power.
Ooh, I like the version of swarm with a cost. Knobs are good. For revolt, is the boost going to vary from card to card? If so, it has to be an ability word. As for exploit, an inspired/wisdom/hexproof mechanic seems too narrow for a keyword (hexproof especially). Why not just go with inspired?
Silum keyword: Manipulate (Whenever ~ becomes tapped or untapped, you may do the same to target creature.)