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She still wins the cleavage alert award :rolleyes: Love the card, but sacrificing three white creatures us quite an ask.

Five out of five stars confirmed ;)

*woosh* Ok, woah. To me that was extremely confusing, but now that you pointed the reason... Style points for consistency. After rereading I have to up my score from four stars to five stars ;)

Right at the start, I'm like... Wait... Doesn't Flashfires destroy all Plains? You're thinking of Acid Rain, I think? And Flash Flood, I'm not sure what that card does, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't wash out white permanents... /me checks cards... Oh boy, that was a sloppy start... Edit...

Well, was Khans of Alara quickly solved? It's probably really hard to replicate Innistrad levels of deep, WotC can't even do it, and they're paid to do it.

They're a confusing signal to drafters. They go into only one faction, so they are less flexible than enemy color cards in this particular set. They are much worse than actual three color cards at signaling the fact that this set is about three color factions. They eat up card slots that we then...

I think we need a third person's input here, because I don't like the way Shards of Alara handled its uncommon gold slots. I don't think there's much to gain from an allied color card that goes into one guild only. If your goal is for drafters to move into a shard, you might as well print...

Can we ditch the allied colored cards? We don't have that much space with everything that's going on, and I think it dilutes the identity we're trying to build. They're also harder to generate a unique identity for, since each allied color combination is only played in one of the five factions...

Well, actually, the multicor commons I'm suggesting are more flexible than the Khans commons with off color activation costs, as they go into three of the five factions. They're practically monocolored in that regard, except that they build identity at the common level, which is the backbone of...

The hybrid activation is a sweet idea, I'm in! Khans has 15 multicolor identity cards; five three-color cards with morph, and two enemy color activation cards per color (for a total of 10 additional cards). I think we should have 15 as well. Not sure we should do 10 hybrid activations, how...

Do we want hybrid mana in the set? Like, a {u/r} card is playable in 4 of the 5 factions. I think we've got to consider it at least. Like morph, hybrid would help keep cards castable, especially if we put them at a single hybrid mana.

I'ld say retail style. You could do something like ravnic's Ravnica Remastered, which runs one copy of the rares, three copies of the uncommons, and six copies of the commons, if you want to turn this into a cube. Or pregenerate a lot of boosters and pick only as many as you need to draft.

I added an authors section at the top, so we can identify ourselves

If we're going by Khans of Tarkir's design skeleton, there will be no allied color cards. That's still the way to go, I think, but .i sometimes trip myself up when brainstorming cards. I definitely didn't mean to add a Dimir card to the set, sorry :) I think you're right about the mana fixing...

Ok, I set up a design skeleton for us to work on. Haven't filled in many details, just used the template I linked to in the document and put in five speculative gold slots (at the expense of a matching slot in a mono-colored section). https://etherpad.net/p/Vakeztan

Lame flavor text included to for layout purposes. Is this too much? I like most of what this is, but the P/T and amount of damage could be tweaked. Hard to cast, hard to maintain, but hits like a truck when you supply it with enough fodder. That's the idea.

I can't really think of a good design right now for Okat himself, but this is some killer art by Pete Mohrbacher for the card. Art link

Good points all!

I like Doctrine of Blood as the name of the religion this faction follows. I think it carries the sacrifice theme better than "God of the Burning Sky". I like Okat though, how about Okat, the Many-Veined? (Can we print Okat as a three-color indestructible mythic god that requires sacrifice?) I...

Yeah, I reckoned it was why ravnic went with oblation. The Kamigawa keyword follows the pattern "<creature type> offering", so the syntax is different, and was used on only five creatures, but we probably still shouldn't reuse the word. I just didn't feel like coming up with something else, and...