General Custom Cards: The Lab
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Chris Taylor
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Murder Investigation
FUCK I hate it when the right cardname is some terrible common from 10 years ago
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
So apparently people are cutting Young Pyromancer now, and CT's running a better version. So here's another better version:
Something spicier at 3 mana:
Something spicier at 3 mana:
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As a gold equipment theme anchor I think that's killer.Stoneforge Armorer
Creature - _____ Artificer
ETB Stoneforge Mystic
Your second effect to make 1/1s.
2/2
I can imagine a situation where you want to use the +1/+1 but I cannot imagine many. What’s the design decisions here?
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Yeah, that seems like a plant for a high powered cube.
Got a little carried away
So, the basis for the idea: someone pointed out that (especially in faster environments) a lot of the spells matter token producers are very play/draw dependent. So my initial idea was something like a Young Pyro variant with the first upkeep treasure ability(ripped from hearthstone) to help alleviate that issue.
Which turned into this monstrosity
So, the basis for the idea: someone pointed out that (especially in faster environments) a lot of the spells matter token producers are very play/draw dependent. So my initial idea was something like a Young Pyro variant with the first upkeep treasure ability(ripped from hearthstone) to help alleviate that issue.
Which turned into this monstrosity
I mean.. as always any card can be fine because it is totally dependent on the cube it goes into.
One of the most fun cube drafts I’ve ever tried was when one of my friends had this design philosophy: “What if Power 9 was the correct power level and all cards have this power level.”
There was a 2 mana Cruel Ultimatum and some 5/5 creatures for 1 mana that also had some form of evasion. It was massively fun. Mana cheat, insane threats and conspiracies. Everything was totally broken.
So there is hope for your Pirate. It just needs the right home.
One of the most fun cube drafts I’ve ever tried was when one of my friends had this design philosophy: “What if Power 9 was the correct power level and all cards have this power level.”
There was a 2 mana Cruel Ultimatum and some 5/5 creatures for 1 mana that also had some form of evasion. It was massively fun. Mana cheat, insane threats and conspiracies. Everything was totally broken.
So there is hope for your Pirate. It just needs the right home.
Nope.
It likely comes down on turn 2. It is a 3/2 for three, which is strong for a slow environment but doable. Thing is it has bonkers cardadvantage, which becomes stronger in a slow format.
I play mainly urza block cube. That format is slow, and by that I mean, really really slow.
are playable in that cube. That’s how strong card advantage is in a slow environment.
I had a crush on Urza’s Blueprints when I was younger.
I don't think that randomly buffing one of the best red cards ever is the way to do this. I'd much rather see new designs like this OP Pirate if I were to make/play a cube like that.
Certainly most cards would be new designs. But trying to get Lightning Bolt close to Ancestral Recall level would help figure out a sort of baseline for the burn in the format
When I was messing with a high power custom cube, I went the opposite way. my Recall variant draws two. I figure Recall is the best power and could take a nerf. You'd still first pick that in most packs, I suspect.
Inexplicable Evisceration
