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Recent updates to Silmarillion: The War of the Jewels: (Generated at 2025-08-03 10:35:14)
Nice french double vanilla. Good design.
Love it. And yeah, the subtle reference is better than the blatant one.
You're doing a great job of translating memorable sylmaril bits.
Cool.
Any reference to Hymn to Tourach is happenstance (unless it was subconscious), but it made me wonder if I should push it further - like naming it "Hymn to Melkor" or whatever. I'll keep it as it is since I think that reference is likely sweeter because it does it without even really trying / pushing it / by accident.
Recklessly giving up your own cards is a nice way to make this feel red in addition to the randomness of the discard. And if you are hellbent this is a colorshifted Hymn to Tourach (or worse in multiplayer...). But being hellbent is something red can play into.
As a nerd I like that the reference to Hymn to Tourach also means the musical theme is carried over.
Being predisposed to random discard in red this is a top-notch cad design to me. But you know you don'tget complains about the bleed from me.
Illustration, flavor text and design all match up very well.
Cantrips are generally not red-flagged for being cantrips alone. Combining them with removal would be an issue and something that makes the cantrip repeatable (e. g. self-bounce/blink).
I am not aware of any red flags concerning multiple token creation at sorcery speed, but of the twelve cards creating two 2/2 tokens there is only one common (Knight Watch) and that could conceivably a red-flagged card to put more tokens at common in a set that needs it.
This has a very specific flavor so it seems hard or at least it would feel forced if I went around and made it a cycle of some kind.
I guess I can eat the red flag since I've been careful with those.
There's also this thing though... I mean, "as an additional cost to cast blaa" is just kinda ugly to me. It's pretty clear what this does, right? I feel like the current wording also pronounces the flavor of it. Can't I use like, idk, Dead Reckoning or Lat-Nam's Legacy as an example? :D
Speaking of red flagging, do you guys know if a card like Elvish Visionary or Phyrexian Rager is red flagged (or in my case, Watchtower Loremaster)? How about Flurry of Horns or Raise the Alarm (Out of the Pit)?
I think this unintuitive (since not standard) wording is more deserving of a red flag than the more usual wording.
I'd eat the red flag if I were you. But since you can ignore often repeated text you can also just go and make a cycle of these and split the complexity up into a minor theme.
It is better to first design the card you want to make and not bother about red flags until your first revision i. e. use the wording you would generally use and figure out which red-flagged cards need to be changed once you can look at the whole lot side-by-side.
Okay, this is a stupid reason, but the reason why it isn't worded that way is because it would make the card have four lines of text and cards with 4 or more lines of text are said to be red flagged by NWO (or do additional cost texts actually count?). This way it fits into 3 lines (in the Magic Set Editor render) so it's a "hack" in a sense...
Added reminder text
Added reminder text
Ended up with the same design as Wicked Souls did.
Skeleton slot change
Was reprint of Drove of Elves. Now uses the "stealth" and counts the number of elves (not green permanents) you control (like Heedless One).
Shortened the flavor text
Shortened the flavor text
I'll probably need to cut the flavor text from this card entirely. Perhaps I can place it on another card...
Shortened the flavor text
Shortened the flavor text
Template it as an additional cost like Deprive?
Shortened the flavor text
Shortened the flavor text