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CardName: Noisome Query Cost: 4 Type: Artifact - Orders Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {T}: Attach Noisome Query to target creature. At the beginning of the attached creature's controller's upkeep, put an Inquest counter on it. Then, that creature's controller may pay {1} for each Inquest counter or sacrifices that creature and you sacrifice Noisome Query. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Common |
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: Attach Noisome Query to target creature.
for each Inquest counter or sacrifices that creature and you sacrifice Noisome Query.
For Challenge # 049. The abstract names seem to be the hardest to work with. Luckily, I was able to find a concrete concept in a Noisesome Query, by imagining it as a military style inquest into an unpopular officer. For "Artifact - Orders" to work, we'll have to assume that we're on some militaristic world, where sending orders via some sort of artifact (perhaps something similar to Courier's Capsule) is a common enough event, and the set has at least 10 'Orders' in it, and a few cards that affect Orders.
On the ability: I really like Slow Motion, but I think half of why I like it is because it's secretly very powerful. 5 is more than 2U, but it still may be too cheap. Especially considering the Query can change over to a better target when one appears (The Inquest counters don't continue to effect the old creature, but they're still there. I wish there was a way to spell that out on the card, but I guess we'll have to rely on common sense). Probably too powerful, but much too slow against some decks. Maybe that's good enough? Maybe this should sacrifice the Query too?
Nice idea. Flavour-wise, it seems to make sense that if this manages to take out a creature, it should also destroy the Query.
I'm not quite sure what makes this Noisome, though.
I was pondering something like:
Noisome Query -
Sorcery
As an additional cost to play ~, pay any amount of life.
Search your library for a card with CMC less than the amount of life paid, reveal it, and put it into your hand.
Heh. The first thing I did was to look 'noisesome' up in the dictionary... but, as you can see, I was spelling it wrong, and assumed that Link just made the word up. (Hey, it's Magic. We do it all the time.) 'Noisesome' sounds like some group is agitating. For example: It was a very vocal English populace who sent 'Chinese Gordon' to his doom in the Sudan, believing that he had some sort of magical powers that would stop the Mahdist revolutionaries. This card is to represent a noise-full inquiry - an investigation to quell popular dissent.
I noticed my spelling error after I tried linking to it in Challenge 49s page. I didn't think to re-check the dictionary after that point. Whoops. Let's just assume that this particular form of investigation is in bad taste, or odiferous... it gets the same idea across.
Oh, and I edited the card to sac itself and cost one cheaper. It does make more 'common sense' in a couple of ways...