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CardName: Unearthly Fire Cost: 1R Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Sacrifice Unearthly Fire: Unearthly Fire deals 2 damage to target creature or player. Unearth {2}{R} (Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield.) Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Uncommon |
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See Challenge # 116.
I think wizards wouldn't really say "unearthly" in the title, using "un earth" in a different way, but I picked the fist thing I could think of.
Unearth could go on noncreature permanents even though the haste is wasted. I think wizards didn't feel the need, and wanted to avoid the confusion, but it could have happened, so here's a cycle.
I originally wanted auras as they're permanents it would be natural to recur, and replaying them would be interestingly different, but it was wordy.
So we have sac-chantments. I tried to make them so they play a little different the first and second times, even though you'll often play them and pop them immediately.
Like with Unearthly Unbinding, this is probably a bit too cheap, given it's strictly better than Seal of Fire. 4 damage for 3 mana is a rare beast - Flame Javelin does it for
, but after that you have to go to Char with its drawback, or Stoke the Flames which is very popular and powerful. I think 
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would still be plenty good enough; it's possible development might push this up to 
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The discussion page for Char points out another comparison point, Staggershock: that's 3 mana, the same as this, but you have to use the second copy precisely one turn after the first - so you can't kill an X/4 with it, and you can't leave the second (or first) one waiting around being a threat for turns after you first spend the mana.
Great job making this and the blue one play differently between their first and second casting.
I like the idea behind these, but they seem pretty similar to Instants or Sorceries with flashback.
As with L2i0n0k7, I think these are flashback spells. This is literally a better Firebolt or Fires of Undeath, and Unearthly Unbinding is literally a better Silent Departure.
I had forgotten how expensive Wizards likes to make flashback. Even Morbid Hunger was a limited bomb.
OK, I've stopped putting it off and put the price up for U and R to a point where they're hopefully useful but not aggressively costed. I agree these are almost identical to flashback, but I think it's fine, flashback isn't in every set, it's ok to do the same thing a different way occasionally, and they play slightly differently. But certainly, I should take the flashback costs as a guide.