General Fighting Disappointment: Lets fix some cards that were almost sweet

Onderzeeboot

Onderzeeboot

Ecstatic Orb
Doubling up on Bonesplitter is not uncommon :) Then again, I think rewarding the boros player with a good beater is awesome!
 
Lucre

Lucre

If your removal is poor it would feel an awful lot like fighting a good ordeal deck in theros limited. I've lost a lot of games in bad peasant formats to decks full of cards that appreciate buffing like that and cards like bone splitter etc. The protection knights are especially troublesome.
 
Lucre

Lucre

I just feel like double strike + bonus decks are even less fun as a regular element of your cube than monolith decks or vortex decks.
 
FlowerSunRain

FlowerSunRain

Contributor


While the idea is good, being in the dreaded 4 mana zone makes this card basically unplayable. Let's make it a smaller mana cost, keeping the text the same but adjusting the base stats. Which of these seems reasonable and do any seem unreasonable?

A)
{1}{R}{R}
3/2

B)
{1}{R}{R}
2/2

C)
{1}{R}{R}
3/1

D)
{R}{R}
2/1

E)
{1}{R}
1/1

A seemed reasonable at first, but at second blush it might be overpushed (compare Fire Imp(is Fire Imp even a card worth comparing to?)). B and C both seem perfectly reasonable. E compares to Sparkmage Apprentice providing some long term value to a mariginal card. D is the aggro version that might not work well as the enchantment decks probably don't like that cost.
 
Laz

Laz

Developer


I found this card while trying to pull the zombie theme together and just wish that this text was on something that wasn't a 4 mana 2/2...
 
Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor

Contributor
I do love the idea of a hard to remove zombie for gravecrawler staying power though

Jason has suggusted the 3/2 flying unearth, I've got my B1 2/1 undying, and at one point I had a zombie piker with "pay 1 life: regen"

He worked reasonably well. Maybe this is a cooler way to do it?
How about this:

BG
Exile a creature card in your graveyard: regenerate ~, then put a +1/+1 counter on ~
2/1
 
Jason Waddell

Jason Waddell

Administrator
Staff member
Seems powerful. Maybe annoyingly so. I feel like it should have to pay some amount of life to use that. Who knows.
 
Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor

Contributor
Also Jason while you're here:

Mad science U1
enchantment
U, sac a creature: draw a card. Play this only as a sorcery

Taking suggestions for flavour text
 
Jason Waddell

Jason Waddell

Administrator
Staff member
I don't know. In general zombies are trying to find ways to win the game via 2/1's in the phase of the game where 2/1's are no longer relevant. Also they tend to skew towards black mana to play Gravecrawler over and over. It might be good. I get stuck on the military intelligence angle of "how many times do I need to activate this before it's better than a card draw spell?".

If anything it's probably best in a deck with a) a ton of threaten effects and b) things like Tuktuk. It'd be more likely to be played in UR than UB.
 
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