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How many 2/2 red Avatars with haste and trample would be in the set?
It is my opinion that - for purposes like your ascend - we should take the keyword action "conjure" from digital to paper and add rulings that specify you can only conjure from your sideboard. As long as you conjure in a way where the made public information in your design (like here) there is no need to restrict it to digital.
That would mean you could go back to naming the cards or using a marker type.
See Storm Prophet. A second attempt at Ascended, this time conceptualized for Urmak (bad Soviet times continent).
See New Mantra test.
"Repeat" to "Recite"
Recite would be the better wording, since repeat has mechanical connotations. Chant could also work. Since counters that disappear after a turn were a concern, I was thinking to make the player keep track of their mantra each turn, and I wanted wording for that.
"Repeat" is dangerous wording choice. Is the first time you "do" a mantra in a game already "repeating" it?
"Recite" seems like a superior option. And then if you explicitly want to count only "repetition" you could say "number of times you recited a mantra beyond the first/minus one".
Resing just the linked cards and this card, I cannot infer what "repeating a mantra" is. Is it like getting a mantra counter? Because that's already a one-line phrase.
See New Mantra test.
The wording makes me wonder if just making the subtype Mantra could replace "Repeat a mantra." The downside is that doing so could deny orhter card types, primarily artifacts and enchantments, abilities that could add to the mantra count.
See Flameblade Asura.
Your opponent does something specific.
I looked at the other cards... what does the ability word mean?
See Lie-Stitching Needle.
See Immediate Response Request.
See Panic Abound. Test design for ability word decipher
Right
@dude1818- Are you referring to second point of Selevala's ruling?
You don't need the timing restriction, but then you end up with all the problems of Selvala, Explorer Returned
Yeah, I hadn't checked what I had already wholly written while designing the card. I don't think there's much purpose in having a look before the reveal.
The mana generating ability alone was a lot of words, but I feel the flavor justifies it, while also not being worth an uncommon slot. Because colorless isn't a color, I thought a Mystery token would be the safer of the flavorful options (I had considered cause intrigue [see Forceful Detective]. In my current state of mind, I could write use "If a colorless card is revealed this way, instead add
." Either way, I figured the revealed card needed to be put somewhere, and the bottom of the library seemed natural. I did not know it'd need the "Activate only as an instant clause."
Was the first word supposed to be "Look"?
A lot of text for a common.
A mana ability that has unpredictable amount/kind of mana needs even more text: "Activate only as an instant." (compare Charmed Pendant)
See Bereft Bog.
See Miserable Meadow.