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CardName: Thopter Machinist Cost: 3U Type: Creature - Human Artificer Pow/Tgh: 2/2 Rules Text: [Revolution] When Thopter Machinist enters the battlefield, put a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield. Flavour Text: Back side: CardName: Rebel Engineer Cost: Type: Creature - Human Artificer Pow/Tgh: 3/3 Rules Text: Creatures you control with revolution enter the battlefield transformed. Flying Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Tesla Card Dump Common

Thopter Machinist
{3}{u}
 
 C 
Creature – Human Artificer
[Revolution]
When Thopter Machinist enters the battlefield, put a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield.
2/2
Rebel Engineer
 
 C 
Colour indicator U Creature – Human Artificer
Creatures you control with revolution enter the battlefield transformed.
Flying
3/3
Updated on 31 May 2016 by continuumg

History: [-]

2015-11-05 04:08:39: CasualR created the card Thopter Machinist

That's a really wonky ability. I'm not sure how do to it properly, but that's definitely not it. Transform is a keyword action, not a property of a card. Maybe "when you cast a creature spell with flying, transform it?" That will usually be the same.

2015-11-05 06:39:54: Doombringer edited Thopter Machinist:

Changed "enter the battlefield transformed." text to care about revolution like all other cards of that mechanic.

Dude1818: the Flip-Planeswalkers, and a few other cards show that Transformed can be used with this syntax.

I like that this creates a token that you can use the trigger revolution.

2015-11-05 06:42:17: Doombringer edited Thopter Machinist:

Swapped the order of the abilities to be more consistant.

I really like this now, though it seems quite pushed. A 2/3 with a flier for {3}{u} is already good, but with Revolution it's getting kinda wacky good. I think this would be fair at 2/2 -> 3/3.

2015-11-05 23:20:45: Doombringer edited Thopter Machinist:

Front side 2/3 -> 2/2, Back side 4/3 -> 3/3

This is weird it doesn't ETB with a thopter if the revolution has started.

The exact p/t can be debated. 2/2 is still reasonable. Effectively Grey Ogres with upside are still pretty ok

2015-11-06 00:59:07: Doombringer edited Thopter Machinist:

fixed revolution text

On whole felt really solid. However, missing out on the thopter is a very real thing.

Possible solution: add to the back side

> When ~ ETBs, if it entered the battlefield transformed, put a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield.

But that comes at the expense of making the back side much more wordy, which probably isn't worth it.

Alternatively, we could give it flying on the front side and make a thopter on the back like many of the the Backside "Transform or ETB effects on file". Still, I like (((Giant Laborer))) as is though, so this being less than optimal keeps that card the way it is.

*shrug

Make the backside a 4/3 or 3/4 and it will probably start looking a lot more desirable. I think not making the thopter during the revolution is fine, especially if we flavor this as a worker on consul thopters who realizes how they are being used in the dystopian regime.

I have the feeling that it is a problem, and we're going to want to keep ETB effects out of common.

2016-05-31 15:30:11: continuumg moved the card Thopter Machinist from Tesla Project into Tesla Card Dump

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