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CardName: Phoenix Urn Cost: 1 Type: Artifact Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {4}, Return Phoenix Urn from your graveyard to your hand: Create a 3/3 red Phoenix creature token with flying. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Name That Card Rare |
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, Return Phoenix Urn from your graveyard to your hand: Create a 3/3 red Phoenix creature token with flying. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
This week in Name That Card, we have a card that does nothing on the battlefield, and returns to your hand when you activate it from your graveyard. It's either terrible or broken. Have at it!
I want to phone this in - it's obviously a madness enabler. I therefore declare that its name is Baggy Trousers
True. I tried to keep the cost tight because I didn't want it to look useless. But
was just too cheap. I normally don't alter anything on a card after posted, but I want to keep this card looking reasonable. So I upped the activation to 
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If you think the card is still broken, presume the card has yet to be tested, and the costs will be played with, but this is bizarro R&D where we decide names first.
Dragon's teeth. Colourless skeleton warrior token. Straight out of mythology, bury the teeth, get skeletal warriors :)
I don't think they want to print a rare that doesn't do anything, but making it do something normal 'overcosted' isn't good either. I'll leave that to r&d :)
Basilisk egg. Green Basilisk token.
Folklore talks about egg being incubated by a toad or cockerel, but I think there's other stories about it being buried.
Discarded poppet. Colourless scarecrow artifact creature token called "vengeful tatterhead".
Vial of dreams. Blue illusion creature token.
I overdid this one :) If I was treating it like a real competition I'd force myself to choose the most appropriate suggestion even if it wasn't the one I loved the most.
But I wanted to get in one relating to memories
The card is Phoenix Urn, and it creates a 4/4 red Phoenix with flying.
Yeah, Alex is right.
Name: Lover's Automaton
Token type: red artifact construct creature with menace.
Oh yeah, Phoenix Urn is spot on :)
Sometimes the winner is chosen via vote around here. It makes my job easier when that happens. Instead of picking apart why this one urn makes multiple Phoenixes, I shrug and just say 'people like it, so it must be the true.' ;)
Congratulations Alex! For the tenuous sake of balance, I dropped the phoenixes to 3/3s, since flying adds a lot. But that's where most phoenix's power and toughness tends to settle anyways. Also reduced the cost of the urn to
because why not. I figure it isn't worth penalizing a player for going the sacrifice route over the discard route.
(((NTC #019))) in a few days!