CardName: School of Merfolk
Cost: UR
Type: Creature - Merfolk Scholar
Pow/Tgh: 1/1
Rules Text: {U}{R},{T}: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand.
You may cast the exiled card this turn.
Flavour Text: "Passionately devoted to their studies, they are only
dangerous if you disturb them at their studies."
Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None
School of Merfolk
Creature – Merfolk Scholar
,: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand. You may cast the exiled card this turn.
"Passionately devoted to their studies, they are only dangerous if you disturb them at their studies."
And a two-colour card with the opposite philosophy to the corresponding ravnica guild. Instead of Izzet's impulsive and experimental scholars, I envisaged passionate and dedicated scholars. Instead of tinkerers, I imagined idealistic dreamers, building towards philospher-paradise.
For the mechanic, I tweaked red's temporary-draw to make something half-way between filtering and drawing.
: Draw a card, then exile a card from your hand. You may cast the exiled card this turn.
For Challenge # 073, fulfilling Challenge # 061 and Challenge # 066.
A pun on a animal group noun, check.
And a two-colour card with the opposite philosophy to the corresponding ravnica guild. Instead of Izzet's impulsive and experimental scholars, I envisaged passionate and dedicated scholars. Instead of tinkerers, I imagined idealistic dreamers, building towards philospher-paradise.
For the mechanic, I tweaked red's temporary-draw to make something half-way between filtering and drawing.
Nicely done!