I think part of the fun of the Cube: Legacy project is putting off-color abilities onto chaff creatures. Fencer Clique becomes quite interesting when it has Lifelink...
Yeah, like I said, I think that's a fine perspective, but personally I feel it's better to honor the color wheel. A lot of Magic's dynamics, it's intricate play patterns, come from the fact that not every color is equal. Fencer Clique with Lifelink plugs a hole in blue's shortcomings. You can find this exciting, that's perfectly valid, but I get turned off by massive color pie violations like that and I feel it's ultimately unhealthy for the balance of the game.I think part of the fun of the Cube: Legacy project is putting off-color abilities onto chaff creatures. Fencer Clique becomes quite interesting when it has Lifelink...
Yeah, like I said, I think that's a fine perspective, but personally I feel it's better to honor the color wheel. A lot of Magic's dynamics, it's intricate play patterns, come from the fact that not every color is equal. Fencer Clique with Lifelink plugs a hole in blue's shortcomings. You can find this exciting, that's perfectly valid, but I get turned off by massive color pie violations like that and I feel it's ultimately unhealthy for the balance of the game.
Arguing the lifelink comes from a colorless source is problematic I feel. Yes, blue can easily give Clique lifelink if they use a colorless Equipment (provided you run such a card in the cube), but that equipment is a different card, taking up a card slot in your deck. You have to draw and cast both cards, plus pay the equip cost, to get that "blue" lifelinker. On the other hand, adding a lifelink sticker to a blue card creates a true mono blue lifelinker. No other investments are needed, because you're literally modifying the card. You're not jumping through any of the usual hoops, you're just creating a card that is most definitely breaking the color pie. Again, you could be fine with that, and that's okay, but for my cube I want to preserve the color wheel and prevent those scenarios.It is not a blue source that gives Clique lifelink. It is a colorless one. Blue can easily give Clique lifelink if they use a colorless Equipment. Blue can also run a lifelink creature if they just add them to their deck. Example: Wurmcoil Engine which is a lifelinker and very possible to play in a blue deck.
In my opinion these upgrades a colorless because they do not require you to have a certain color of land in your deck. This is one I am on the fence about though. I can 100 % respect when people respect the color pie this much. There are both up- and downsides but I would maybe cut the color requirement part because it would make the stickers simpler and easier/faster to read. Also it would never leave a player with a bad feeling when he makes the blunt mistake of snake picking a sticker he can’t use because he forgot to read the color requirement.
I like shroud for 1 turn. I have that on my Dinosaur race in my cube.
I do not think there is anything wrong with Skulk. It was more the cards it was put onto. Also if that is the logic then we should cut shroud as well.
Okay fair enough, lifelink on colorless sources is a bad example. How about all the other color pie breackagesssss in colorless artifacts that can be played in mono decks?
Well Immediate Action exist to make blue creatures gain haste.
Well spoken!
Now we only have the art issue left
Well, dbs got my back on the art issue, so the ball is in your court
...If you choose to continue with the ‘I will use existing card artwork on my custom cards’ you will change your mind before you have hosted two tournaments with these. You might as well listen to me now and save yourself some time
Riot stacking might be a bit much for our communist friend.
5/5 haste grizzly bears
Sorry, that's placeholder Art. I was planning on using non-MtG art for this one because it's a new ability, but it was late and I couldn't find any I was satisfied with before I went to bedWait!! Now you are ALSO distributing MtG art with absolutely no connection to the sticker ability?
Here's two for Onderz:
I never was able to find a Naya gold card that I really liked, so I decided to make my own! This guy ended up basically being a Selesnya/Boros/Gruul gold card more than a true Naya card, but that's ok because those three gold slots are consistently the ones where I have the least amount of flex space anyway. It was kind of interesting designing a card which had characteristics of 3 different 2-color gold pairs while still being appropriate in the vacuum of any of the three 2-color pairs it can be played in.