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CardName: Twin Ballista Cost: 1R Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Replica - When Twin Ballista enters the battlefield, if it's not a token, create a token copy of it. {R}, Sacrifice Twin Ballista: Deal 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Name That Card Common

Twin Ballista
{1}{r}
 
 C 
Enchantment
Replica – When Twin Ballista enters the battlefield, if it's not a token, create a token copy of it.
{r}, Sacrifice Twin Ballista: Deal 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
Updated on 20 Aug 2020 by jmgariepy

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2020-08-14 01:55:21: jmgariepy created the card Twin Ballista

Welcome back to Name That Card!

We were recently talking about how to make enchantments relevant again (though I can't figure out where, so if someone else can link to the convo, that would be great.) Here's part of my take. We have to stop being afraid of printing seals, ala Seal of Strength. I think a lot of people have in their heads that enchantments shouldn't become sorceries/instants because that's what sorceries/instants do. But creatures roughly swallowed up the role of enchantments some time around Legions. It's only fair for enchantments to dig into another card type's space.

Today's card features something that an enchantment can do well: hang around on the battlefield until it's needed later. The result is somewhat similar to flashback, except you get to pay in installments and the card doesn't hide in the graveyard.

But the keyword mechanic needs a name, as well as the card. Whatchu got?

Card name: Spreading Flames

Mechanic name: facsimile (I wish echo wasn't taken)

­Conflagration Field

­Barrage --

Obviously barrage only works if the mechanic gets used on violent-y cards, but that's a possible interpretation, it doesn't have to be an "all enchantments" mechanic the first time it appears.

The ability name is "Twin" and it lets you explicitly say things like "If ~ is a twin..." and "If ~ has a twin".

I don't have a good cardname for that though.

I like Facsimile for the mechanic name, but I think Replica is a slightly better word.

As for the card name, how about something silly like Doppelblaster :)

A second, less silver-bordered suggestion is Twin Ballistas

I think Enhancing Enchantments was the discussion in question that jmgariepy mentioned in the OP, by the way.

Thank you Alex!

2020-08-20 12:00:31: jmgariepy edited Twin Ballista

I tried to give Vitenka some support by supplying the name 'Auburn Twintails' for his 'twin' ability name. But when it came time for me to act as tiebreaker, I couldn't vote for my own entry. So Froggychum's Twin Ballista won this round.

See everybody in (((NTC #042)))!

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