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Very sensible suggestion.
sure, why not - it drops rocks.
It's really hard to tell. But there are schemes to just drop four lands into play; which is also stupidly powerful, so I thought I'd try it.
We'll use these mainly to inspire names and places and tribes, not write complete sentences (unless you're into that kind of thing. Tolkien spent his life in this kind of work.) You would see mostly derivatives. cf. Leonin from Latin and Merfolk from French.
The central idea is the phonology and spelling of that language. French has an embellished spelling style, e.g. 'eau' when most languages just write 'o' or 'ou'. Frequent combinations like L' and D' and 'que' words, etc. make it distinct when spoken and written.
Sure, if you bring the forest to life; well, he's got a wealth of experience to go whomping on people with.
Just had a thought - does it stay non-tree long enough to gain a fourth counter from itself transforming?
Eep! Upheaval + Eureka! Mind you, I really like this combination, but hoo-bangy that's one heck of round one. What's really strange is that this might be fair in the context of Archenemy? I mean, assuming no one builds a deck planning to abuse it, that is...
This idea of yours amuseum, I rather like it. I feel it's bound to take some people out of the narrative, because they're bound to recognize one of the languages. But all you really need to do is use more obscure sister languages, and everything is cool again. Hearing Elves speak in French would probably drive me a little nuts, since I can kind of sort of comprehend that language when spoken. If they spoke Basque, though, you'd get the same effect as a made up language for me, I'm sure.
But, now that I think of it, maybe it's not so bad? I mean, so the Elves speak French. I'd probably get over it pretty fast...
A tree, mind you, with 3 +1/+1 counters on it. One of the toughest trees I know.
Probably because 'Flying' is the only deverbal noun keyword left, with an -ing ending. Itimidating or Trampling Creature would work just as well, I suppose.
Can I make a suggestion, though? Since the Centaur Archer dealt damage to flying creatures, could we reverse this and have the Pegasus Archer deal damage to non flying creatures? Probably 2 damage, since it's a little underpowered otherwise (compared to the Mawcor).
I've actually seen it before, but add a supertype rather than a subtype. I do find it interesting. It makes it harder to make " keyword soup" creatures, though, if you give thxe treatment to any other keywords. Then again, flying is probably the only ability that makes Sense as a supertype.
Well, he did mention that bit: " Why can't flying be a subtype? It's a really natural place for vanilla abilities to go, actually." It's an interesting proposal, and one I haven't seen before.
true, Cantonese is a harder sounding language, not unlike German and even English. By the same token, it has more flavor and attitude than Mandarin. (Albeit I love playing around with the R sound like northern speakers, yet prefer listening to Taiwan accent over mainland.)
Pinyin resembles too much like Japanese. So another point for Jyutping's distinctness. But now that you mention it, borrowing real languages as a basis for fantasy languages would make them more consistent. e.g. Mandarin=Merfolk, French=Elf, Cantonese=Goblin, German=Vampire, Latin=Human.
"Creature-- Flying Centaur." Oh, Vitenka. You're so silly.
Fair enough; landwalk it is
Interesting and very strange. I would indeed put unblockability in green after blue and then black, but I'm usually compelled to make it "landwalk" to make it seem like less of a stretch.
Nifty! Reminds me a bit of Predatory Focus, another green "unblockable-for-a-turn" uncommon.
The name is too close to Biorhythm, a classic green alt-win-con, but some variation on it should work.
....yeah; I pass that name over, as sounding like a cross between coughing blood and being a goblin. But fair point.
actually the topolect used in So Ling is Cantonese, using Jyutping romanization. So the name should be Hoici Gitcuk. you can use this dictionary to get Jyutping of Chinese characters: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php
Most spirits in the set so far don't have a second type, but that could be pushed in the 2nd or 3rd sets in the block.
Amusingly, you've ended up with Fledgling Mawcor here, just multicolour-ified. Which would indeed be a fine fit for the Community Set. Given Viashino Fangtail this could perhaps be 3/3; but OTOH I'm cautious of making all the multicolour creatures beefy. Real sets with a hefty gold theme had some surprisingly weedy gold creatures, like Woodwraith Strangler, Vizkopa Confessor and Minotaur Illusionist.
punnish rider on flavourtext
My gut says yes, it should - it's meant as a punishment card.
My head says "Development would never let that stand; in the NWO Slivers only help YOU, and so similarly this card is more appealing to a wider range of people, if you can (ab)use it yourself."
"A dude that imposes a small penalty for having nonbasics" sounds like Dryad Sophisticate. (Well, dudette.) I agree this is a pretty minimal bonus over Centaur Courser if the opponent has nonbasics.
Its own tap ability might be good. I also wonder if it should only notice opponents' nonbasics, because otherwise it's trivial to turn this on yourself by playing a smattering of Guildgates etc!
I agree. Not sure what other ability it should grant though. Maybe if it had its own tap ability?