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Urza's Quality Control
Next name: [Festival of Snakes]
For Challenge # 049
I'm not sure about the exact costs, but the idea seems right. Originally you paid X once up front, but there wasn't room on the card for all the text about charge counters. This way, you can get a mini-Crystal Ball for
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that filters away lands, which is probably really good, but if you're looking for a unique answer, you can also scry with a big X later on.
Yeah, I think Chris's Accumulate lands are fine. The dangerous bit about two-mana lands is the potential for explosive early turns. If you have to skip getting mana from them for a few turns, I think that alleviates most of the problems.
I don't think Teferi's Isle ever did anything disastrous. Granted, that land takes 3 turns to get going, but the inability to use a double land the round you play it is a pretty strong set back. The whole point is to get the fast mana now.
Hmm. Does that imply that me Tilled Field et al are overpowered? They're 2 mana every other turn - but only if you use them every other turn. If you go a while without, then they can be 2 mana every turn.
Hee. Yes, I like it. A little reminiscent of Delay, but for combat. I like that you can use it on your own saboteurs or on opponents' scary creatures to buy a little time.
Even if you do that, you've given the opponent up to 5 extra cards before you punish them for it. I don't think that's overly powerful.
To the Moon and Back. I'll always choose the tougher of the two. ;)
Next name: [Urza's Quality Control]
For Challenge # 049. I thought about making this about taking a long time, which is what 'To the Moon and Back' means... but most of those ideas weren't very original. I like this idea. Even though the creature isn't gone for very long, the idea that the creature was shot off, orbited the moon, and is now on an unerring path at the defending player is kind of funny to me.
I rather like it. I can assure you, though, that my round one and round two play might be "Tap Fool's Paradise. Play Howling Mine. Round 2. Play a Swamp. Tap out. Play Underworld Dreams."
Not that I have a problem with this, mind you. ;)
Lands that produce multiple mana are stupidly good. Gaea's Cradle and Tolarian Academy are amongst the most broken cards from the most broken block. Ancient Tomb and City of Traitors are way above the curve by modern standards.
Even the innocuous Ravnica karoos like Boros Garrison, which don't give you more mana than you've had land drops, have been stated as being more powerful than current Wizards R&D would approve.
And I've been somewhat scathing in the past about cards on Multiverse that are lands that tap for multiple mana. Yet with the specified name "Fool's Paradise", I felt that I had to try to make one.
How big can you make a drawback on a multi-mana land before you make it unplayable? Is it the same space as Lion's Eye Diamond, where there's no space between "useless" and "broken" but in fact instead they overlap? Perhaps.
I had to make it "may" or it'd be ludicrously good in mill/Prosperity/Black Vise decks. It might be mostly unplayable. But I think I could see this card seeing occasional play in some crazy combo decks. And occasionally group hug EDH players would bust it out and make people suspicious :)
End step, put 50,000 charge counters on it then donate it to an opponent with Bazaar Trader.
Created Fool's Paradise.
Next name: [To the Moon and Back]... edit: Actually, that might be a bit hard. Your choice of either that or [To Hell and Back].
Created for Challenge # 049.
Sulfuric Vapors indicates that +1 damage per spell you cast is indeed fair at 4. But this is 4 and 4 life, and only hits players, and dings you if you get it wrong.
I'd almost always rather have Faerie Tauntings.
By the way, I'd like to apologize for having used the word 'consequences' twice in a row. I didn't even notice. Absurd.
+1 damage per spell you cast for 4? Seems fair to me...
So this deals maybe 2-3 damage to an opponent? For
? Methinks the reward needs cranking waaayy up.
Added Truth or Consequences.
Next name: [Fool's Paradise]
For Challenge # 049
The idea here is that you announce "During your turn, I will cast n spells" and punish you if you get it wrong. Felt like a boastfully red thing to do.
Ok "Sacrifice an eye" is quite possibly the most disturbing card text I've seen. Even above "sacrifice a player". I'm stopping there.
Threatened to disgust myself with my own entry for Engorged Fleshling.
Next name: [Truth or Consequences]
For Challenge # 049. You know, I looked up the definition of fleshing, and got "A person devoted to fleshly things." from two sources (both stealing from Webster's 1913). Funny thing is that all the "Use this in a sentence" examples clearly used the word fleshling like we'd use it now - an insult applied to humans from some non-fleshy source... probably robots.
But, in the spirit of 1913, I tried to put together a creature that was obsessed with filling himself with fleshy objects. It was originally homonoculus, but I'm using a lot of space here, so I made them Eye tokens instead. That's alright. Some mutant filling himself with eyes is probably creepier.