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Recent updates to Multiverse Design Challenge: (Generated at 2025-05-21 10:55:34)
For Challenge # 039
I'm not sure if the flavour works. The intent is:
affluent = repeatable source of card draw
albatross = killing this equals bad
:)
For Challenge # 038.
How to capture the flavour of a greased weasel? I decided (i) haste and (ii) hard to catch.
I decided on an optional "return to hand" to represent "hard to catch". I'm not sure why, but it felt right that it could dodge removal, but did so by squirting over to somewhere else entirely, but not be able to dodge mass removal or creature combat.
It would fit the flavour to have it be returned when it's blocked, but I think I like the simplicity of the current version.
Greased Weasel
Affluent Albatross
Sliding Snow Leopard
I think my comment was stuck on the pre-Onslaught block thinking of "Who needs more than 5 lands anyways?". That's not true nowadays, bless The Maker. I suppose one should always be aware that, even if I can't think of an easy way to cheat this card out early, someone else is bound to.
But, ultimately, I much prefer your second answer, Alex. Cards like this should be hitting bombs and not mana-bases. Even if it would be fair to hit lands, it wouldn't be fun, so why do it?
I think when I originally wrote it, it didn't include the battlefield, so exiling basic lands didn't seem as big a deal on turn 7. (It might hose some decks, but only ones that really needed their 8th plains). Now I look at it, I agree that even at seven mana locking someone out of the game isn't a fun way to win, so it should be nonland (or at least non-basic-land) after all.
I think Wizards prefer to avoid making any single card that can so completely hose a deck whose manabase is all Plains, or whose manabase is all Swamps. Sowing Salt had that "nonbasic" rider. You could do it with land animation plus Eradicate or land artifactisation plus Splinter, but they try to avoid making a single card do that.
Plus, this card would just feel more epic if it were exiling a creature plus all copies of it, or some big scary equipment or something, than if it were just taking away a bunch of land.
Well, when you pay that casting cost, maybe it doesn't?
Needs "nonland", otherwise Ouch.
Really tough recursion. Though, if you gave me a spell that said:
Instant
Counter target spell. Lose 2 life.
I'd play it over Cancel any day of the week. Forget all the other options.
Apparently it's not here, unless my search-fu is lacking, but I know I've seen something similar... somewhere. Still, it's fun.
Is there? What a shame. I mean, good for the person who first came up with it... I did like how goofy this ability felt, but I couldn't have been the first person to have thought of it.
Isn't there a card very much like this somewhere on Multiverse?
Added Karmic Koala. Unfortunately had to mention the stack, because I didn't want "countering my own spell sheanigans" to win people the game. Though, I got to admit, that's not a common path to victory...
Sorry! Forgot to explain. :)
It means "spend only white mana from a day source." I chose to write that as {dW}, like how Phyrexian Mana is written as
.
EDIT: Aaand you can't see that, but I think you know what I mean. Anyway, I appear to have addidentally capitalized it on the card.
Nice. Seems a bit of a strong effect - pretty similar to Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar given that you get this twice per round (in a duel). OTOH, I don't quite know what {DW} is meant to represent, so it's slightly hard to interpret :P (I'm taking it as "Day White" mana as in Dienoct, but is that "spend only white mana from a day source", or "spend either white mana or mana from a day source"?)
Hee, delightful! I love both reading the design process and the end result :)
I made Lucid Lynx.
For Challenge # 039.
But you can always just fail to find any in libraries you don't care about, and that makes the card look ugly :) I guess even if you don't touch it, they still have to shuffle -- doh, I forgot to say shuffle. sigh
Mark Rosewater suggested adding "if you search or look through a library, its owner has to shuffle it afterwards" to the comprehensive rules, rather than writing it on every card.
In fact, maybe it should just be "target player's library and graveyard -- you're most likely only caring about one player, but it seems nice that if you really want to clear out all copies of something that really hoses your deck, you can.
Or maybe I should just say "search any number of non-command zones". I nearly did that originally, but (a) most people don't know what's a zone and (b) I don't want to suggest that one day a card may reference the command zone.
OK, rephrasing needed :)
Quantal Quetzal .jv