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CardName: Troglolanche Cost: 3RG Type: Creatre - Elemental Beast Pow/Tgh: 6/3 Rules Text: When Troglolanche enters the battlefield, put an ion counter on it. Haste, hexproof As long as Troglolanche has a red counter on it, it must be blocked, if able. As long as Troglolanche has a green counter on it, it has trample. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: New Mirrodin Rare |
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Odd that 'Elemental Beast' has appeared in the creature type box of 7 separate creatures. But Ball Lighting or Provoking on a large creature kind of asks for that combination, new or not.
It's a pity the text here is so tiny. I assume this card wouldn't be in the hands of many new players, and that when it does, the eight power prompts them to read their card anyway. If any of these cards want to not add the counters to themselves, it's possibly this one, since it's going to go away at end of turn anyway, and I can imagine games where neither the red counter or the green counter would do much. Not many games, mind you...
Text was too tiny. I switch the Ball Lightning nature for hexproof, and dropped the p/t to make sense.
Card doesn't make immediate sense to me, did you remove some things and not edit the others?
Hmm... I think what's missing is that these cards should read "...enters the battlefield, put an ion counter of the color of your choice on it." Somewhere in the process of designing this set, I forgot how weird and non-intuitive those colored ion counters could be.
Would that clear things up for you, keflexxx? Or is there another problem that I'm missing?
Also says token instead of counter in the last two sentences, but yeah that does clear it up. Cool idea.
Ah, so it does. Guess, I got to do a editing pass on these cards. Thank you, btw.
I think the card's current rules text (with the token->counter fix) reads intuitively enough: the third and fourth sentences suggest pretty clearly that the ion counter added by the first one must be of any colour you like.
Don't know, really. Maybe I should shop this card around to a few friends and see what their initial reaction is.