I'm a fan of all of these investigate cards. I can see myself running a version of this that costsShhhhh don't tell people I'm not working
These are cool
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I came up with this for my custom land cycle- what are your thoughts?
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1. The Ixalan Transform Land template always looks cool.
2. I find it odd that these have mana costs. Perhaps you just wanted to let the players know that they are color restricted to two specific colors?
3. I find it odd you are using existing MtG card art for these.
4. I would find a way to not write everything on these cards. Make it a fundamental rule in your cube that these custom sticker-creators always give stickers to cards that meet the written criteria. In this way you can cut 1/3 of the card text.
Example:
All Together Now
Sticker
Convoke (reminder text)
In this variant you need to keep the mana cost in the upper right corner. If you wish to cut that you need to keep the text that explains that these only go on two specific colors.
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Now can you tell me how players will gain access to these stickers? What’s your plan?
to the mana cost and add Lifelink to the mana cost and add Flying to the mana cost and add Deathtouch to the mana cost and add Haste to the mana cost and add Trample
Oh, right. I am going to print a bunch of these cards, shuffle them together, and deal out 3 per player at the start of the draft. Everybody gets some time to look at the cards in the center, then we do the normal draft. After the draft, we do a snake draft (decide the pick order, nr 1 starts, followed by 2, etc. Nr 8 gets two picks, then we go back to 7 and all the way back up to 1, who gets two picks, and then you descend from 2 to 8 again). I am probably going to make some of these basic stickers (the evergreen keywords), and if you've got a sticker you can't add to a card in your deck, you can flip cards from the stock until flip a basic card that does go onto a card in your deck, so you always get to add 3 stickers. We want to guarantee change is going to come, after allNow can you tell me how players will gain access to these stickers? What’s your plan?
I've also included Once More with Feeling and Top Deck Mode, who can go on any card, regardless of color.
Re 1: I agree
Re 2: Yup, it's just the most convenient way to quickly show the color requirement I put on these. Note that in the original cubes that started this idea, there is no color requirement, but I don't want to vandalize the color pie if I don't have to. It's there for a reason.
Re 3: It's meant to help people quickly interpret the cards. Maybe I should put different art on there that's a little more... marquee, but the idea is that by looking at the art you have an idea what the card does. I don't need to use new art for that. In fact, reusing art might make it easier, because everybody who recognizes Marionette Master's art can remember that it has fabricate.
Re 4: Not a bad idea. I'ld have to find a way to make clear what the additional requirements (beyond color) are though.
We have 0 precedent for this in Magic. Can you show me one card that has done this before? Used the same art for a card that is doing something entirely different and with new card type.
2) Well you can just change the colors of the cards. You don’t have to also add the mana cost in the upper right corner. Another solution is to simply ignore the color pie which I am normally against but these are like colorless artifacts: they break the color pie in odd ways because colorless gets everything. Want a creature with flying in mono-green? Try Smuggler's Copter. I would not add color requirements to the stickers.
3) In that case you should definetely find some new artwork because people will be more confused than feel guided by those artworks because they already exist on printed Magic cards. You have got the opposite logic there
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So I already have this system in my Rogue-like cube. I have just been using conspiracies instead of stickers. This new discovery (Thanks Onde https://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/cbs.286/page-153#post-85914) is waaaay smoother because the actual upgrade sits on the actual upgraded card. I like this a lot. I am going to try and steal this idea. I think I’ll be using the Conspiracy: Take the Crown template.
How are people making the actual stickers?
But how do you make a Chandra emblem without a Chandra? The answer is you can’t.
Therefore your logic doesn’t hold. 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
Flying Flash Menace Haste Vigilance Lifelink Prowess Deathtouch First strike Shroud, and WotC has been steadily adding more flash to black in recent years. Problem is, of course, that flash still feels more . The lack of a proper evergreen keyword is a problem WotC has been trying to solve for quite some time, so I have no reason to suspect I can cook one up just like that. Then again, it doesn't have to be. I'm looking for a keyword that goes on a few blue and black creatures for this cube, I don't have to fill sets with it. So, with that in mind, I did think up a few options. What do you think? and moving flash to ?
