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Den Mother.
Challenge # 080
Hitting up a random common creature (and waiting for something iconic) gave me... Balduvian Bears.
So. A legendary grizzly bear. Well, that's the cost and stats sorted out, anyway.
So, rare or mythic. Well, let's see what other abilities magic has granted bears. Flash... Bear Cub says that it's as big as its mother. There's an uncomfortable image. Other than that... there's a few size variants, a bit of blue hate... And Striped Bears gives card draw? Wtf? And Words of Wilding has been much discussed here before.
But it gives me a nice tribal idea. There we go. Instant evil combo; just add bears.
Sadly, I probably need to bump it to mythic; as the legendary downside just isn't down enough. (Though goodness me am I glad it's a legend - if you could get a few copies of this into play, it'd be a bearpocalypse)
Ah! I looked for an existing card, but missed Thran Weaponry somehow. It does seem unnecessarily complicated; the three word version looks a lot more exciting than the 40-word version.
(I suppose you might get some use out of the optionalness by attacking and waiting to turn it on until you see how the opponent blocks. But that seems to add a lot of complexity and not much fun.)
4+4+2 that is. And the echo didn't work with that extra
very well... which is an odd choice. Why didn't they just cost this 
?
Thran Weaponry said it was
-and-
, which usually works out about equivalent to 
. Well, with the minor benefit that you can choose to turn it off and on. So 
for this simpler version is probably fairly close.
For Challenge # 079
Wizards have been moving away from symmetric effects, but I think that's more important when something affects, say, white creatures, and mostly that just benefits you, but your opponent happens to have one or two white creatures and they randomly get better and both players find it easy to forget.
Since almost all decks play with creatures, I think the downside here is worth it, but still exploitable if you have more smaller creatures.
I'm not quite sure of the cost. White gets one-sided +1/+1 for
. It must be less good on an artifact, but how much worse?
Land of True Giants
I guess green gets Regrowth so as a hybrid splashing it whitewards is probably reasonable.
I've already cited Remember the Fallen, amuseum. If you read the discussion, you'll notice that we're all well aware that white gets Resurrection-style graveyard effects. The question is whether white gets Raise Dead or Nature's Spiral effects often enough to justify this being a
hybrid creature.
Proclamation of Rebirth
Remember the Fallen
Well, green definitely gets this ability. I do agree that it would make excellent sense as a
card, but I think 
makes sense, too. Look at Angel of Flight Alabaster, Remember the Fallen, and even Angel of Serenity. White doesn't get this ability very often, but it does happen.
I'm trying to think of a pie-based analogy but failing. It periodically happens that colour identity is strengthened when one colour gains a small fraction of something another colour can do. Like, red can deal damage to attacking creatures, or non-black creatures, but it almost never has a spell specifically for that. Whereas white or black can do.
This seems a case like that. Looking only at white, returning to hand can be seen as a weaker version of returning to play. (And one sufficiently useful and sufficiently weaker you can sensibly make cards for it, whereas red doesn't pay any more for "2 damage to anything" than for "2 damage to attacking".) But looking at black and green, they've staked a claim to "return to hand", so white could do it, but it would make the black/green portion of the pie more pointless.
It doesn't quite work, as returning to hand is something that is sometimes useful apart from a weaker form of resurrection. And also, it's exactly the situation where hybrid has bled before, so maybe it's ok in
, even though W doesn't normally do it?
Indeed. White gets loads of Breath of Life straight onto the battlefield effects, but very, very few that return to hand. That was Rachael's argument, and I think it's probably stronger than mine.
Well, white traditionally gets Resurrection rather than Raise Dead.
Had a big long discussion with Rachael about whether this is in flavour for white. White doesn't normally dig up creatures from graveyard to hand; she reckons it's more of a Golgari-style effect, especially since Rian gets the -1/-1 counters by dying and coming back to life herself. I was arguing it's probably okay based on things like Order of Whiteclay, but...
Much better in the case of wither; arguably too much better.
@Jack: I'm fine with that too. Banding was broken. I have no problem with this card hating on the fourth best keyword ability in the game (assuming indestructible is a thing now)
@jmg: I think banding is the one set of rules Wizards might be willing to break in order to make new cards :)
@Link. Yeah, the new version seems sensible, though I agree it's a shame it couldn't use the same template as the original :(
I doubt it'll stop people talking about the rules though :)
I didn't realize this would generate so much discussion! I'm going to edit the ability in an attempt to eliminate some of the issues discussed here.
I get the connection. I also like the Portal: 3 Kingdoms name. For once, I think the old version of fight works better. "~ deals damage, then the other creature deals damage" is better than "each deals damage simultaneously."
1-on-1 fight doesn't remind you of 1-on-1 combat? instead of the fight coming to him, he directly attacks another creature.
Landau, Village Artifismith... and a very odd dream.
For Challenge # 080. I hit random until I got a common creature, because that's how I roll. After 10 or so cards, Gatherer generated Village Ironsmith, a flip card. I didn't really want to do a rare flip card. Miffed, I went home and went to bed.
Then... I think I designed this card while sleeping. Everything besides the name. Very strange, and reasonable, too... which is odd because... I was asleep. I mean, the other think I dreamt about was that I owned a Fortune 500 business, and we were experimenting with top notch computer A.I.s, and combining them with well-trained dogs to create a new type of employee. One capable of doing the same work as a normal human with a normal computer, but for one-tenth the cost. That all seemed very reasonable while I slept.