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CardName: Smoldering Grudges Cost: 6R Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.) You may cast sorceries exiled by Smoldering Grudges until the end of turn. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Name That Card Rare

Smoldering Grudges
{6}{r}
 
 R 
Sorcery
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for 1.)
You may cast sorceries exiled by Smoldering Grudges until the end of turn.
Updated on 17 Dec 2020 by jmgariepy

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2020-11-30 04:14:06: jmgariepy created the card Smoldering Grudges

Welcome back to name that card! When I designed NTC #052, I thought it was curious that there may not have been another card out there that had the Delve card look at what was exiled. But Soulflayer exists, so the idea was on R&D's radar. And Ethereal Forager was added more recently.

There's still plenty of space for this sort of thing. But first we need to give this card a name.

2020-11-30 04:18:50: jmgariepy edited Smoldering Grudges

Heh. So it's something like Past in Flames, potentially cheaper, but limited to 6 at a time; somewhere between Recoup and Past in Flames I guess. Can be a cheaper double/triple Recoup if you have other spare cards in your graveyard.

The word "delve" to me always has an association with actual digging, excavation, or at least exploring the depths, even if the Sultai didn't use it that way. So I'm going to say this is a Spelunker's Ritual.

Oooh, this is very cool :)

How about, Unspoken Rhythms (mostly because it sounds cool, but also because {r} likes music, or really any passion, and the Exile zone is a very abstract space, so it could easily be the place where stillborn events 'exist')

However, a better name is probably Repeated Rhythms since it as alliteration, and it also is more accurate to what the card actually does. You can't really get cards in your GY without casting them (or discarding them, I s'pose).

I like the flavor of Unspoken Rhythms more, but Repeated Rhythms is probably more appropriate for this specific card. It also fits 'delve' a bit better, probably.

­Smoldering Grudges

I wanted something with a flavour of "an explosion fuelled by long repressed past" and this is the best that came to mind.

2020-12-17 04:54:01: jmgariepy edited Smoldering Grudges

Jack wins with Smoldering Grudges. Grats, Jack!

I've been delaying NTC due to the site going down for a number of days. I figured it would take a couple of weeks before everyone started filtering back in. But I should see you all with (((NTC #053))) in a couple of days!

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