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CardName: Doran, the Gentle Fist Cost: BGW Type: Planeswalker - Doran Pow/Tgh: /5 Rules Text: [+1] Until your next turn, creatures assign combat damage equal to their toughness. [-1] Put a 0/5 green treefolk creature token onto the battlefield. [-4] Draw cards equal to the greatest toughness amongst creatures you control. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Mythic |
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For Challenge # 075, based on Doran, the Siege Tower
I'm always drawn to the most interesting possibilities for a challenge. Doran is one of the most unique legends, what would he/she look like in planeswalker form?
Doran needs the "assign damage" ability, and a reference to the original 0/5 stats, which also makes the assign damage ability matter more.
I played around with this, for a while having a plan of make several treefolk, then get an emblem. But it worked best to have the third ability be tied to toughness, and any "draw five cards" ability has to be a fairly big negative, and I wanted the token generation to be a minor negative, or it could be too stall-y. So the combat damage ability became the +1.
I reluctantly kept the original mana cost. I'd honestly prefer mono-green, but I felt referencing the original was what wizards would do. There are only five BGW cards at all, four of them legendary creatures.
Nice. All looks sensible to me.