Created for Challenge # 105. I rolled Gaea's Skyfolk as the problem card. It's a pretty innocuous card on its own... fairly cheap, aggressive creature. Notable for being gold, being flying, and not much else. So an answer probably has to focus on it being gold.
This ended up as pretty much a mirror of Knight of New Alara. Being a creature makes it more removable, but I'm guessing tournament decks won't have very much direct removal, and it inherently makes fight-based removal a little harder.
I considered this without the "multicoloured" clause. At that point it has to be a lot more expensive - probably for a 2/2 - bit the problem with that is that it also answers a heck of a lot of other things, most especially token-makers.
Ooh, rough. I guess how rough this is depends on how many multi-color creatures are in that environment, or if it's just the Gaea's Skyfolk that's wrecking things up. Even if this was printed as an answer to Skyfolk, I could see this taking up the four drop. It does, after all, shut all copies of that card down.
Maybe it just needs more p/t to even this card out.
I... don't quite understand. Is "rough" saying "this card is very harsh on gold creatures" or "this card is a bit bad in normal circumstances"? What does "taking up the four drop" slot mean for a 2-drop? You're saying this is very strong for shutting down all copies of the Skyfolk and friends, but then that this card needs to be bigger?
Yes, yes and yes. Gaddock Teeg catches me, because that card really does shut off a lot of the field for cheap. Leonin Arbiter is harder to call, since it doesn't stop the ability... just makes it much less practical.
Let's put it another way. What if I suggested this card was printed because white weenie was out of control?:
Creature
Mono-White creatures get -2/-2.
2/2
Current number of multicolored creatures in the game: Aprox. 875
Current number of mono-white creatures in the game: Aprox. 1,250
Wow. I had no idea the number of gold creatures was that close to the number of monocolour creatures. That's pretty crazy.
Hmm, fair point. Not sure how one ought to create a hoser for Gaea's Skyfolk then, but I guess this would be making a pain of itself in casual every time a new gold block comes along.
Created for Challenge # 105. I rolled Gaea's Skyfolk as the problem card. It's a pretty innocuous card on its own... fairly cheap, aggressive creature. Notable for being gold, being flying, and not much else. So an answer probably has to focus on it being gold.
This ended up as pretty much a mirror of Knight of New Alara. Being a creature makes it more removable, but I'm guessing tournament
decks won't have very much direct removal, and it inherently makes fight-based removal a little harder.
I considered this without the "multicoloured" clause. At that point it has to be a lot more expensive - probably
for a 2/2 - bit the problem with that is that it also answers a heck of a lot of other things, most especially token-makers.
Ooh, rough. I guess how rough this is depends on how many multi-color creatures are in that environment, or if it's just the Gaea's Skyfolk that's wrecking things up. Even if this was printed as an answer to Skyfolk, I could see this taking up the four drop. It does, after all, shut all copies of that card down.
Maybe it just needs more p/t to even this card out.
I... don't quite understand. Is "rough" saying "this card is very harsh on gold creatures" or "this card is a bit bad in normal circumstances"? What does "taking up the four drop" slot mean for a 2-drop? You're saying this is very strong for shutting down all copies of the Skyfolk and friends, but then that this card needs to be bigger?
I read it as "this is very harsh on gold" and "I'd play it if it cost 4"
But at 4, maybe it ought to be higher P/T to justify the cost.
And maybe I've had too much practice at trying to guess what people are saying :)
Vitenka gets the gold star. I was talking about how this roughly shuts down 15% of Magic history, which is fine by me, but maybe not on round 2.
Is it worse than Engineered Plague, or Illness in the Ranks, or Night of Souls' Betrayal? Worse than Gaddock Teeg or Leonin Arbiter?
Yes, yes and yes. Gaddock Teeg catches me, because that card really does shut off a lot of the field for cheap. Leonin Arbiter is harder to call, since it doesn't stop the ability... just makes it much less practical.
Let's put it another way. What if I suggested this card was printed because white weenie was out of control?:
Creature
Mono-White creatures get -2/-2.
2/2
Current number of multicolored creatures in the game: Aprox. 875
Current number of mono-white creatures in the game: Aprox. 1,250
Wow. I had no idea the number of gold creatures was that close to the number of monocolour creatures. That's pretty crazy.
Hmm, fair point. Not sure how one ought to create a hoser for Gaea's Skyfolk then, but I guess this would be making a pain of itself in casual every time a new gold block comes along.