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This is quite nice. I like it.
Toxic Slime Mold and Rapid Digestion. I like the idea of Ooze tribal.
Complete overhaul.
Hahaha! Okay, this challenge is producing great things from you :)
Extreme Haruspicy, based on Vanquish the Foul
And Floor is Lava based on Æther Flash. This is fun once I got started.
That's cute, really. Hungry hungry library :p
Hahaha, that flavour text is great :)
Floating Library of Lisperia, based on Isperia
Stunted Drake, based on Flamekin Brawler
No, I think it's a great idea - just been completely swamped and haven't had any good entries.
Yeah, I think it's an interesting challenge, I just suck at it :)
Wowee. This is a very powerful Lord; I don't think there are any others with this effect except Sliver Legion. But that seems okay because Oozes are a pretty niche tribe. Fun :)
Noted. I don't think the challenge is a bad one, per se. I just overestimated people's desire to do a flavor text based challenge. Evidently, I enjoy working on flavor text more than anyone else on this board. Fair enough. I won't submit any flavor challenges in the near future.
That, of course, doesn't stop myself from liking the challenge, so maybe I'll submit a few more entries over the week. I added Unerring Ballista off of a happy accident from Gatherer. Aladdin's Ring really needed that update.
For Challenge # 091. Random generator first gave me Lightning Strike of all things, but I passed on that, since I didn't want it to look like I was trying to say something. Second hit gave me Aladdin's Ring. That card actually could use a functional reprint. And it would probably be uncommon nowadays, so doopadoo.
The flavor was tricky. I kept wanting to do something, like show where the blasting energy was coming from, or have some unique killing effect, but all those things lead to other designs. Then I stumbled upon something that should never pin-point precision, getting just that. Once again: doopadoo.
ya it's entirely up to the block design and flavor
Hmmm. To me, this isn't really a design challenge. There's, well, not much design to do. Coming up with card names and flavour text is an important part of card design, but not the part that I enjoy the most.
The only way I can think of to make this interesting is to try to do a Terror/Shatter in Mirrodin, reprinting a card in a set where it would play significantly differently to how it played wherever it was printed before.
Me neither, really. I just figured that if MTGSalvation lets it fly, then I wouldn't stop a person who wanted to do it. It's not something I would choose to do, though, no. And, had this been the Discussion thread, I would have argued against it. In the Challenges thread, though, I'd rather just see someone complete the challenge, whether or not they have a different opinion than I do.
Yeah, I wouldn't count colourshifts as functional reprints.
I have hard time with "functional reprints." To me, Lightning Strike is a functional reprint of Searing Spear, but Cylian Elf has a much more relevant creature type than Runeclaw Bear, and is therefore better. Something similar can be observed with Judge's Familiar and Cursecatcher. In a vacuum, Judge's Familiar looks better all around, but Cursecatcher is much more relevant because of its creature type.
Why do you say Priest of Urabrask could have added black mana? Not only does that make little sense flavor-wise, it would really change the nature of the card and what deck you would play it in. It's actually truer as a color shift to shift the added mana as well. And honestly, I wouldn't consider a color shift a functional reprint, but perhaps I just don't understand the term very well.
It should be noted that the MTGSalvation Wiki has a list of functional reprints and takes things like the 'Human Prospector' into consideration with additional notes attached to their list. If I'm to follow their logic, then color palette swaps (and colorless swaps) are also acceptable in the definition of functional reprint (an 'extreme' example would be Priest of Gix to Priest of Urabrask, which not only changes color, but also the color of mana added to the pool. I find it interesting that that didn't need to happen. Priest of Urabrask could have just added black mana...)
As far as I'm concerned, it's all fair game, as long as the focus is flavor, and not function. Black Zur's Weirding is cool. Now come up with an appropriate name, and a bit of story. ;)