Chris Taylor
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Love the name 
General Custom Cards: The Lab
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Onderzeeboot
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Anything specific you're looking for?
honestly no i just think they're a criminally underrepresented tribe in mtg and was wondering if yall had any sweet customs
like if i was still playing enough magic to warrant making another custom cube i would totally have a skeleton subtheme
edit: as long as it didnt interfere with my other idea which was to make a cube with all titles/artists of famous one-hit-wonder type songs
like if i was still playing enough magic to warrant making another custom cube i would totally have a skeleton subtheme
edit: as long as it didnt interfere with my other idea which was to make a cube with all titles/artists of famous one-hit-wonder type songs
Onderzeeboot
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(okay, not really a one-hit wonder, but eh...)
Chris Taylor
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I'm so lost. Does this all make sense if you've played undertale?
Onderzeeboot
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I haven't played it and just like the song and the graphics
Onderzeeboot
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So, I've been testing with Ancient Excavation and Sylvan Reclamation, and they've been really nice in my multicolor cube, so I thought I'ld make some on-theme alternatives for the enemy colors. I've only come up with a one so far, but it played pretty spectacularly in the games I tried it out in!
one so far, but it played pretty spectacularly in the games I tried it out in!
Onderzeeboot
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And the other one, plays like a charm as well
Chris Taylor
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Yeah that's an issue with MSE. "Basic" isn't part of the keyword trigger, so it puts land where it would put plains. If you manually add the reminder text in parentheses you can get it to look right
Onderzeeboot
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Thanks, I didn't notice that! Will fix before I print these out!
Onderzeeboot
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I suppose it's potentially a draw 3 on an empty hand but it's also potentially a lot worse. Not to mention the hand-knowledge cost. However, it puts stuff in your graveyard so, yay? This card would probably break constructed in half but who cares.
What's bbf? big beautiful fiend??
Onderzeeboot
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A typo
Onderzeeboot
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I came up with a slightly simpler variant for the cycler. The exile clause is mostly there to prevent shenanigans in constructed. Not that that's a concern in cube, but I don't like to design cards that couldn't be printed in a real set. As you can see I also fixed the reminder text (I fixed it on Bleed Dry as well).
cycler. The exile clause is mostly there to prevent shenanigans in constructed. Not that that's a concern in cube, but I don't like to design cards that couldn't be printed in a real set. As you can see I also fixed the reminder text (I fixed it on Bleed Dry as well).
up to 1 should be addedI came up with a slightly simpler variant for the
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Onderzeeboot
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I would have worded it as a "choose one or both" spell (see Branching Bolt for example) if I wanted it to work that way, but the wording is in fact intentional. This is a great, great tempo spell. Regrowing a burn (i.e. removal) spell while temporarily dealing with a threat feels great, and I like it even more than Manifest Aether so far in testing. I'm pretty sure four mana is a great deal for this effect, and since spellcasting is a normal part of progressing the game for both players, I think it's fine as is. Plus, this way your opponent can play around it if they choose. If you keep four mana open with a removal spell in the yard, and you've seen Syphon Aether in game 1, maybe it's correct to just declare attacks and pass the turn?
Onderzeeboot
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Well, that's regular templating for you. I'm afraid I can't do much about that (well... don't want to because it's the correct templating), e.g.Edit: Man, I really sound protective of this card. I do appreciate the input!
Onderzeeboot
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Both are actually correct.
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Those cards work differently. Common Bond allows you to put both counters on the same creature, that's why it's worded that way, though they could have used "Distribute two +1/+1 counters among one or two target creatures." Reap What Is Sown always puts a single +1/+1 counter on a creature, no matter how many targets you choose for the spell (see Abzan Charm, for example). In fact, Common Bond leads to more rules questions [citation needed] than Reap What Is Sown because using two lines on an instant or sorcery is really unusual unless the effects are disconnected from each other in a way, like cycling on an instant or sorcery. That's always on a separate line. That's not the case with the return effect on Syphon Aether though, and worse, there is actually a disconnected effect, the basic landcycling, that needs to be on a separate line. Splitting out the effect into separate lines will only lead to confusion of another kind, and I'm still not convinced it's default templating. Besides, Syphon Aether is no Dead Ringers, the text is actually readable and understandable, even if you have to read it twice.
The only point of confusion is that mtg templating qualifies both caregories, eg "creature from a graveyard" and "creature on the battlefield". Your spell is grammatically incomplete in that one half is qualified and one isn't. You'd have to write "spell on the stack" to accurately match templating, but "on the stack" is outside of normal mtg templates (but has been used).
Not that big a deal in my opinion.
Not that big a deal in my opinion.