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See Challenge # 128.
"Canamb has one of the most powerful Great Spirits of Earth in all of Orbisan. As a result, the Isle's gravity is nearly twice the magnitude of most other Isles. Its inhabitants are, necessarily, a strong, sturdy folk, who build their homes low to the ground and take every step with great care."
This is supposed to be big and splashy, but I'm not sure of the exact boost it should give?
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"powerful Spirit of Fire whose strength lies more in Light than in heat. Aseh's Great Spirit of Fire rotates around Aseh's horizon rather than vertically around the Isle, leaving it blanched by eternal day."
Trying to capture a spirit whose profile is "constant fire, but not that much".
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"Water constantly flows over the rim of Ezan in places where the land isn't high enough to contain it."
Love it!
Civic Order, a wrath variant
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"the Pure readily exile any of their number who they deem to be "Impure," which can mean any number of things. Uncontrolled displays of emotion, illogical thinking, and the breaking of laws all contribute to an individual's potential impurity."
We've seen this on a few cards, but not often just by itself. I don't know if this works, it may be too abusable in a weenie deck, but I liked the idea of a wrath which dealt with most problematic creatures, but had a bonus if you were behind and had the right sort of deck.
Bridge Collapse, a thematic white direct damage spell.
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I wasn't sure if this should be "attacking" or "attacking or blocking", but either way it seemed like a promising use of "remove from combat" that was hopefully less confusing than it often is.
Colonise
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"adding new Isles to Shimmeranth's collection."
Oooh. Very flavorful.
Ongoing Betrayal
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"It is a war-torn, feudal nation, a place that people from other Isls don't tend to visit."
How to capture conflicted loyalties of an endless civil war?
Also, how come this effect hasn't been printed more? Is it because "must attack" is usually better? Or because it's too good for R to be able to permanently remove a big blocker?
Unfathomable Chasm
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"The depths of Ezan's seas contain enormous sea creatures that, luckily for Ezan's inhabitants, don't generally rise to the surface."
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A variant on the mechanic on Eshadol Conscript. In some ways this is like kicker, it may be too boring that the two modes are so similar. And that in a red deck this is nearly always lightning-bolt. But I liked the trade-off that you can play this in a mono deck or a multicolour deck, but the more red you are, the earlier in the game it's likely to "turn on".
Thank you!
Eshadol Conscript and Fire Punch
Other people, do jump in here :)
I love the flavor and potential art description!
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"relies much more on the powerful strength of its personal Great Spirit of Fire than on the light cast by the Four."
I'm not sure of the right cost/bonus/size trade-off here, it would be different at common or rare. But I was pleased to finally think of an ability that fit with the flavour but also made Eshadol stand out more than "people at war" (which is every magic set :))
Thank you! I thought of it as a combination of blue's "can't attack unless" serpents, and illusion creatures which bounce to hand.
I agree, it's probably not broad enough to be a keyword, though if I remove that I may need to find another way to get the "doesn't want to be seen" flavour, I'm not sure it comes across.
Come to think of it, maybe it should just be "can't attack if defending player controls an untapped creature" (or controls two untapped creatures)?
Fascinating mechanic.
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This has to be sold on the art, of someone leaping too high or tripping off a bridge, and floating into the dark between Isles, gasping for breath...
It's probably has too much extra text that doesn't matter, but I liked the idea of a reverse "-1/-1 and loses flying" (which I thought was a standard heavy-weight-curse themed card but can't find it now).
Bridge Defence
ETA: Drift Away
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1G->G. Add defender.
Oops! Yes, it's basically exactly the same but costs twice as much and has half the toughness. Apparently I always undercost defenders. Oh well, functional reprints are always ok.
And I didn't bother with defender as it seemed redundant but I suppose it would be odd without it. Alternative, I could add a point of power or two, although that would make the card a lot different.
I thought the difficulty with the bottom card might be people picking the deck up too far and seeing the second-bottom card. But I guess there are some "bottom card of library" cards already so it's hopefully ok.
I know what you mean about creatures. I originally wrote "blue creatures", but I didn't want to make cards that lock you into a specific deck. And I like the idea of "fish", but then it would probably end up being a niche tribal card, which might be ok but isn't what I started with.