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Themes for Dragon Gate

Major Themes:

• Top down story events
• Choices (new types? riddle, agenda) -> Abzan Siege
• Some cards in classic frames (all Dominaria mini-set, half of Nexus mini-set)
• Each game will have drastically different choices and outcomes (high variance)

Minor Themes:

• Tribal
  • Tarkir: dragon, wall
  • Dominaria: sliver, merfolk, goblin, elf, kithkin, nightstalker

• Specific card names in rules -> Somreck Keel & Guddek Reag

• 2 dual land cycles (rare)

  • Tarkir: pseudo-fetch for basic land types -> Mystic Fountain
  • Dominaria: has basic land types -> Overflowing Paddies

• Dragonlord cycle (allied color) (mythic)

Possible Themes:

• Soft Wedge (Tarkir ex-clans)
• Returning mechanics? charms, Kindle
• Land related to each PW (6 different colors) (rare)

Mechanics:

• Tarkir -- (New timeline. Still some resistance to the Dragonlords. Thus Brood vs. Resistance)

  • Defy -- If this (main color or gold) spell was paid with opposite colored mana, effect. -> Bubble of Defiance
  • Breath -- As attacks may pay cost for effect. Dragons mainly. -> Carbon Dragon

• Nexus

  • Domain -- Effect for each basic land type you control. -> Hingejaw Crocodile
  • Clan Destiny -- trigger when matching creature type ETBs -> Bloodfeaster

• Dominaria

  • Uniformity - ~ gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control named ~. -> Kithkin Militia
  • Conjoin -- join two creatures into one -> Goblin Striker & Merfolk Leaper