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CardName: Sea Titan Cost: 3UUU Type: Creature - Serpent Pow/Tgh: 7/7 Rules Text: Sea Titan can’t attack unless defending player controls an Island. Flavour Text: “Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge. It makes the depths churn like a boiling cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.” —Job 41:30, 31 Set/Rarity: Homelands Restored Uncommon

Sea Titan
{3}{u}{u}{u}
 
 U 
Creature – Serpent
Sea Titan can’t attack unless defending player controls an Island.
“Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge. It makes the depths churn like a boiling cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.”
—Job 41:30, 31
7/7
Updated on 22 Apr 2016 by jmgariepy

Code: UU09

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2016-04-15 03:52:40: jmgariepy created and commented on the card Sea Titan

Original card.

Looking at blue, I think the uncommon slot would be best served by strengthening the 'Islands matter' theme. My first thought was to make yet another twist on Sea Serpent/Sea Monster. But it occurred to me that we've seen so many twists on that card, that the original mechanic can kind of seem like a breath of fresh air.

Originally, I was going to print an 8/8 for {6}{u}. But then it occurred to me that creature power creep would let me outclass Sea Monster in the same way that card outclassed Sea Serpent. Made the cost 3UUU to 'follow the pattern'. Honestly, I think I could have made the creature bigger... but maybe that job should be left for a future 8/8 serpent that costs 2UUUU.

On the quote: Segovian Leviathan's flavor text still sticks with me today. I don't know why. There's just something lyrical about it. So I looked up Job and saw what else I could learn about Leviathan.

Real world quotes used to be a thing. But they fell out of favor just as Homelands became a set. And a quote from the Bible is even more intrusive than, say, something from Shelby. Maybe I'll change it. I kind of like it, though.

i really enjoy the real-world quotes too, but it's clear why they went away: magic started to obtain its own mythos and it's hard to immerse a player in it when you're using quotes that wouldn't exist in that world

i don't think they're bad, they're just not what wizards wants to be doing with magic. if you want them for your set then go for it

personally i always found these type of cards annoying (that's why i built the solution into ((C60255))), but there hasn't been a set yet that gave them enough enablers in draft.

Lorwyn did enough, as far as I'm concerned. There could have been more, though. I'm not a fan of them either, to be honest. But considering where the design went, I'm just following through and hoping its interesting enough when coming out the other end.

I suppose I could always scale back down if I don't think it works... but I also think one of the reasons why it doesn't work is that there's never a good enough incentive. And there's never a good enough incentive because Wizards is afraid of promoting the mechanic because people don't like it. What a weird limbo to be in.

The island restriction was removed becuase the variance was so large over something that you can't control - in some matchups you have a beater and in some matchups they're just huge walls. (which is why fear/intimidate is being replaced by menace).

If you're looking for a slightly more forgiving design, I've always liked "doesn't untap during your untap step unless defending player controls an island". Can attack once if you really want.

The set already includes Dark Maze, so that would be redundant (though a good idea). I don't think the theme is going to be such a bad problem. I plan to include cards like keflexx was suggesting that both have the restriction, but also enable the restriction to work. I just think it's cool to have one card do it the old fashioned way.

If you're going to do a leviathan flavour text, shouldn't it be a leviathan creature, not a serpent?

Probably. But I'm probably just going to end up changing the flavor anyway. I like it, but it isn't really appropriate.

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