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2012-10-27 04:46:25: jmgariepy commented on Challenge # 056

Maybe they will create a new colored land frame for when they get serious and plan to print new colored lands? I mean, this is just a reprint for a collectible product. I assume they were going for minimalism here because that's what people who play the game enough to shell out $35 for specialty cards want.

2012-10-26 11:57:00: Vitenka commented on Challenge # 056

Because Erhnam Djinn? :)

2012-10-26 11:40:45: Jack V commented on Challenge # 056

Oh yes! Thank you. I was thinking of that, but I forgot it was actually green. I guess I could have tried to squeeze that into the cycle and got land and creature in one slot. But I don't think I would have found much to sensibly combo with it :)

I see they reprinted it with the colour marker thing. I still don't understand that: if they're abandoning the idea that cards should make sense if you only see them in monochrome, then why a special dot for colour, why not just say "the official colour is the colour/colours of the card frame" which is (a.) how everyone thinks it works anyway (b.) visually distinctive and (c.) takes up less space on the card?

2012-10-26 10:04:48: Alex commented on Challenge # 056

(Annoying trivia insert coming up! "Have there EVER been any coloured lands?" -> Yes: Dryad Arbor. Dryad Arbor is the modern Mistform Ultimus of annoying rules trivia.)

2012-10-25 12:03:04: jmgariepy commented on Challenge # 056

Five years ago, we probably would have predicted that Snow-Covered Lands wouldn't return. I think we'll see Arcane again... we may never see 'Splice onto Arcane', though.

I was thinking about a possible future block model where the Phyrexians simultaneously attacked three worlds. If Wizards got the same idea I did, then I'd assume Kamigawa would be a shoe in... you get a bit of nostalgia, and you get to intentionally blow up a world that wasn't pulling it's weight. Plus, wizards could go overboard with really powerful Spiritcraft and Arcane spells... why not? If you're officially burying the mechanics, you can let them go with a bang.

2012-10-25 11:53:25: jmgariepy commented on Compassion Without End

It makes it too good a card. Example of play:

Round 2: Tolarian Winds.
Round 3: Tormod's Crypt (and Spellbook I guess). Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt, target yourself, and congratulations. You just tutored 7 Plains out of your deck.

I mean, you could make the card do that, but it's going to jump to a cost of 6, which puts it well outside the range of "I like to play this with 4 Oblivion Rings and two Flickers."

I suppose I could have asked for an awkward creature type. Griffon would have been fine, for example.

2012-10-25 11:04:15: Jack V commented on Challenge # 056

OK, another reprint cycle :)

{w} Iona, Shield of Emeria Legendary Creature
{u} Mass Polymorph Sorcery
{b} Bitterblossom Tribal Enchantment
{r} Kessig Wolf Run Land
{g} Realms Uncharted Instant

I think the synergies are obvious. The one I'm most leery of is Realms Uncharted Iona, which is just "broken expensive creature spells go in green ramp decks", but I think that's still reasonable?

After much debate I decided to go with Kessig Wolf Run rather than creating a new mono-red non-colourless +X/+0 card because the synergy with the land-search and bitterblossom were so nice. But I'm unsatisfied that it's technically colourless and actually G/R.

I got types creature, land, enchantment, instant, sorcery and (grr) tribal. And supertype legendary.

I wished kodama's reach was an instant, so I could have had a land search that gave me the arcane subtype. I could also have changed kessig wolf run to Demonspine Whip, gaining artifact and equipment instead of land. I would have designed a new card, but I didn't want to design an arcane card as I think they're officially Not Coming Back (we may get "splice onto X" where X is "instant" or some other subset of instants that's not confined to one set).

Ideally I would have been able to sneak "artifact" onto a dual-type card and had artifact and land both, but (a.) there's a serious dearth of mono-coloured broken artifact creatures and (b.) whatever I do I'll have a hard time counting a land as one of the colours. Have there EVER been any coloured lands?

I also missed out "snow" and "basic" which are hard to fit in, and a lot of rarely-used subtypes like "gate" and "lair" and "trap" etc.

2012-10-25 10:43:24: Alex commented on Challenge # 056

Yeah, I had thought about the Stations approach here. (Blasting Station-Salvaging Station-Grinding Station-Summoning Station)

That is a clever approach on Compassion - or rather, on Boundless Trivia. You can fail to find, but you can't fail to shuffle.

2012-10-25 10:41:06: Alex commented on Boundless Trivia

Draw my deck with Archmage Ascension! Although a fully leveled Archmage Ascension kinda does that anyway...

2012-10-25 10:40:15: Alex commented on Compassion Without End

How about Plains? I think if you're not in Magic 20XX mode, referencing a random common looks very (very) odd. But white has an occasional history of fetching Plains in wacky ways.

2012-10-25 07:57:53: jmgariepy commented on Compassion Without End

I was aiming for an innocuous common creature that cost between 3 and 4 mana that could, in theory be printed in a core set, and would probably not be be picked high, unless you happened to make a Compassion Without End deck. So, I set up my parameters, and included "Rating of 2.0 or less" on Gatherer, and this seemed the best option... plus it's got a bit of flavor hook up in there as well. It could have been worse. I thought about Keepers of the Faith for a few seconds, but then I figured no one would take me seriously. Aven Flock was also on my radar, but I figured you only needed one Aven Flock to win, and that would be a bit anti-climatic.

2012-10-25 07:37:09: Jack V edited Fight

2012-10-25 06:19:13: dude1818 commented on Compassion Without End

Noble Vestige? Really?

2012-10-25 06:05:16: jmgariepy edited Boundless Trivia

2012-10-25 06:03:46: jmgariepy edited Unlimited Devotion

2012-10-25 06:02:33: jmgariepy edited Compassion Without End

2012-10-25 06:01:07: jmgariepy commented on Challenge # 056

Originally, I wanted to work with five curses that all fed into each other. I couldn't get the curse thingy to line up, since some colors just don't want to intentionally punish players as much as other colors do. I'm happy with where these cards ended up, though:

Ceaseless Fever Dream, Continuous Suppression, Unlimited Devotion, Compassion Without End and Boundless Trivia

In order to make this link up, I got sneaky with Compassion Without End. That isn't a 'may' ability...

2012-10-25 05:59:13: jmgariepy edited Unlimited Devotion

2012-10-25 05:56:16: jmgariepy commented on Boundless Trivia

For Challenge # 056.

2012-10-25 05:56:03: jmgariepy commented on Compassion Without End

For Challenge # 056.

2012-10-25 05:55:50: jmgariepy commented on Unlimited Devotion

For Challenge # 056.

2012-10-25 05:55:37: jmgariepy commented on Continuous Suppression

For Challenge # 056.