Challenge #083

Testing a new format for keywords, in the form Keyword <set1; set2>.

Homebound <card type; abilities>

Homebound means "This object has these abilities as long as you control this card type."

Congrats, you just invented ability words. Those do basically the same thing without the weird format.

abilities have no rules significance, this does. second if expanding rules means ability words, all keywords are ability words. whats weird to you looks much cleaner to me.

Normally this is something like "Homebound Mountain — <keyword>". This is what they normally do when a keyword (e.g. suspend) has two variable. Personally, I'd use the non-mana cost format and reword the keyword so it's a single word, resulting in e.g. "Mountainhaven — <abilities>".

The closest thing we have for reference, I believe, is forecast.

I can understand the desire for cards to be written like this, but it reminds me of computer code and mathematics, which turns me off. I wish it didn't, since it seems logical enough, but I can't control my first reaction.

Though, I do agree that "Mountainbound {Vigilance, first strike}" is a lot less offensive to my sensibilities. I'm not sure why one would make a lot of red creatures with Mountainbound... but I could understand why someone would make a lot of Green and Black creatures with Mountainbound, or make creatures with 'enchantmentbound' or Dwarves with 'Dragonbound'. Sure.

hmmm i wonder how kird ape would look like using this format....