CardName: Table of Plenty
Cost: 4
Type: Artifact
Pow/Tgh: /
Rules Text: {2}, {T}: Draw a card, then flip three coins. If you lose
all three flips, return a card at random from your graveyard
and lose 6 life.
Flavour Text:
Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Rare
Table of Plenty
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Artifact
, : Draw a card, then flip three coins. If you lose all three flips, return a card at random from your graveyard and lose 6 life.
For Challenge # 060. Tricky little piece of art to build around. I chose it because it had a good The Dark thru Visions look to it. The sort of artwork Wizards would buy at an artshow, then try to fit a card around it later (see Stasis or Maro). As such, it suggests being paired with a B/G enchantment... but it's so open ended that you could match it with any general enchantment, and it wouldn't feel 'wrong'.
Since we've already seen Still Death I didn't want to go down that road a second time. I decided to take this artwork at face value. This is a artifact table. It belongs to a wizard. Most times, it gives the wizard a piece of fruit, which is represented by drawing a card. Rarely, the wizard draws a skull and loses 6 life.
Using fruit to represent drawn cards isn't a very common theme... I just felt the contrast of drawing cards and losing life looked better than "Target creature gets two +1/+1 counters". The counters are real... you know what you're getting. Card drawing is always a risk.
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: Draw a card, then flip three coins. If you lose all three flips, return a card at random from your graveyard and lose 6 life.
For Challenge # 060. Tricky little piece of art to build around. I chose it because it had a good The Dark thru Visions look to it. The sort of artwork Wizards would buy at an artshow, then try to fit a card around it later (see Stasis or Maro). As such, it suggests being paired with a B/G enchantment... but it's so open ended that you could match it with any general enchantment, and it wouldn't feel 'wrong'.
Since we've already seen Still Death I didn't want to go down that road a second time. I decided to take this artwork at face value. This is a artifact table. It belongs to a wizard. Most times, it gives the wizard a piece of fruit, which is represented by drawing a card. Rarely, the wizard draws a skull and loses 6 life.
Using fruit to represent drawn cards isn't a very common theme... I just felt the contrast of drawing cards and losing life looked better than "Target creature gets two +1/+1 counters". The counters are real... you know what you're getting. Card drawing is always a risk.