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Heh. The first thing I did was to look 'noisesome' up in the dictionary... but, as you can see, I was spelling it wrong, and assumed that Link just made the word up. (Hey, it's Magic. We do it all the time.) 'Noisesome' sounds like some group is agitating. For example: It was a very vocal English populace who sent 'Chinese Gordon' to his doom in the Sudan, believing that he had some sort of magical powers that would stop the Mahdist revolutionaries. This card is to represent a noise-full inquiry - an investigation to quell popular dissent.
I noticed my spelling error after I tried linking to it in Challenge 49s page. I didn't think to re-check the dictionary after that point. Whoops. Let's just assume that this particular form of investigation is in bad taste, or odiferous... it gets the same idea across.
Oh, and I edited the card to sac itself and cost one cheaper. It does make more 'common sense' in a couple of ways...
Sphinx Amnesic
Next card: [Silicon Golem]
For Challenge # 049
I tried to make this a bit swankier, but couldn't think of any additions.
I considered having separate "if is damaged" and "if would be destroyed", possibly exiling your graveyard. That gave a pleasingly dangerous feel: you can use it with dredge mechanics, but you are in fact liable to forget everything at the wrong moment! But it was too cluttered mechanics-wise.
Maybe it should exile the graveyard when it DOES die? But again, that's nice flavbour, but there's little gameplay improevemtn from a drawback mechanic.
In fact, I'm sure this already exists, but I can't remember what the official card for it is, I just hope mine is sufficiently different.
It's a bit like a reverse of Swans of Bryn Argoll or Belltower Sphinx. It's like "prevent all damage", but with a rider which is theoretically a drawback, but often will be a major advantage.
I looked for a more original interpretation: I hoped to have a sphinx that caused opponents to forget, but the grammar didn't work out right for that.
I don't know, jmgariepy... I think I understand it better this way than it it just made an artifact token that wasn't a copy of anything. And yes, dude, it's no longer a creature. This card is weird in more ways than one.
I'm not quite sure what makes this Noisome, though.
I was pondering something like:
Noisome Query -
Sorcery
As an additional cost to play ~, pay any amount of life.
Search your library for a card with CMC less than the amount of life paid, reveal it, and put it into your hand.
Oops, unintentional side-effect! Made it "you control".
Nice idea. Flavour-wise, it seems to make sense that if this manages to take out a creature, it should also destroy the Query.
Perhaps it would be better if it just said "that copies the destroyed creature's abilities" than to list the things it isn't.
And, yes, when I go about taking your entries literally, I shouldn't be surprised when you have the Manhunter be 'artful' by turning its subjects into pieces of art. ;)
Artful Manhunter
Next card: [Sphinx Amnesic]
It's no longer a creature?
For Challenge # 049.
Probably undercosted.
Noisome Query. Somehow, it didn't end up a blue/red Sorcery.
[Artful Manhunter]
For Challenge # 049. The abstract names seem to be the hardest to work with. Luckily, I was able to find a concrete concept in a Noisesome Query, by imagining it as a military style inquest into an unpopular officer. For "Artifact - Orders" to work, we'll have to assume that we're on some militaristic world, where sending orders via some sort of artifact (perhaps something similar to Courier's Capsule) is a common enough event, and the set has at least 10 'Orders' in it, and a few cards that affect Orders.
On the ability: I really like Slow Motion, but I think half of why I like it is because it's secretly very powerful. 5 is more than 2U, but it still may be too cheap. Especially considering the Query can change over to a better target when one appears (The Inquest counters don't continue to effect the old creature, but they're still there. I wish there was a way to spell that out on the card, but I guess we'll have to rely on common sense). Probably too powerful, but much too slow against some decks. Maybe that's good enough? Maybe this should sacrifice the Query too?
You know, when I saw the word "Disrespect", my first thought was to make two creatures start a rap battle. Unfortunately, I had no idea how to pull that off.
The best value out of this guy seems to be swallowing all your opponent's creatures, as a Pacifism-chucking machine.
I was thinking it could become a set theme; kind of a backwards Equipment. You'd subsume the attach, detach, die abilities into a keyword (like Equip), and could have the unblockable clause as an ability on the attached creatures.
I'm pleased "Flying Kraken" became a ship.