Chris Taylor
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Though not so much at self awareness
Sets Hour of Devastation Thread
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Though not so much at self awareness
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Eh, why is it so bad then? It's just a name, like Gerrard Capashen or Jaya Ballard.
I think pink cartoon hearts appeared in my eyes when I read Abbraid.
A 4/4 doublestrike that doesn't cost a card for 3WW seems preeeeetty strong to me.
Yeah, it does, there's a rules article that confirms.
This gets me a little excited for EDH. I like it as a value engine; however, there is not a lot of -1/-1 counter support. It also has some potential in cube, but as an archetype it would likely end up due to low number of support cards (I do not include infect as support) and potential for repetitive gameplay.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Hey wait a minute! This is just miscalculation!
Granted it's the miscalculation you'd make if any sort of 2cmc counter was too strong, but it's still basically that card. Impulse is better, granted, but I'm not actually so hot on this one.
Counter unless three is better than counter unless two, and impulse is waaaaay better than cycling. This card is really solid.
Miscalculation is really solid too, for sure.
I think that means we have to ban you from the forum now.
Laz
Developer
Chris Taylor
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It looks like eternalize is probably going the way of megamorph: interesting enough, and technically does interact positively with a lot of things we already do, but also unwieldy in that it specifies that things cannot be small about the card.
Like that card is interesting, but 6 mana is a lot, and at that point 4 cards is probably overkill, and because of the rigidity of the mechanic, you can't really tweak the numbers at all.
In the same line of reasoning, I do kinda like megamorph (In as much as it's morph, which is interesting, and involves +1/+1 counters, something else I like) but you do lose something. The mechanic shifts the cards to being more weighted on the flip side of things, but I find it most interesting where there's also some value to casting the creature outright (Kinda like a reverse kicker effect). It also trends to the whole package being more expensive, since the creature has to be bigger. There's a lot of factors narrowing the possibility space to where you could be forgiven for writing the whole experiment off as a dud, since it's got less hits than the similar mechanic that you love.
I think in the back of my head this is how I feel about living weapon. 100% of the power level of living weapon cards being located on Batterskull and Batterskull alone was something I used to think was pretty tragic, despite a few intermittently interesting cards like mortarpod also populating the set, but when I started to experiment with the mechanic myself, it kinda went nowhere. At base it's a creature that leaves behind an equipment when it dies, but both halves of that place annoying restrictions on the other. The equipment has to feature at least one toughness, driving up equip costs, and the equipment that gets left behind typically doesn't want to be overwhelmingly powerful either (A lot of the issue with batterskull) since artifacts are more difficult to deal with, and further frustrating is such a wordy mechanic (in the animate dead sense, not the ice cauldron sense) restricts how complicated the card can be in the first place, assuming your players remember the "One Impactful Card" mechanic from god, 6 years ago now?
I wonder if that cat is the real solution: Replacement level front, but mythic over the top level backside. (Maybe I'm not hip to the new magic, but
for a 4/4 double strike seems roughly Verdurous Gearhulk levels of insane)
Grillo_Parlante
Contributor
I wonder if that cat is the real solution: Replacement level front, but mythic over the top level backside. (Maybe I'm not hip to the new magic, but
I'm honestly not even sure how playable the cat is. Both ends feel to me like they play into medium to low floors, but allow for high ceilings, where as something like gearhulk is just consistently high powered.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
I honestly couldn't think of an easier comparison for a 5 mana 8 power creature, since wolfir silverheart actually has 12 power
But hey, I do remember wanting fencing ace with some upside, and upside found once your initial creature rush has been wrathed off seems like the place to put it. I'm going to try it, at any rate. Just, you know. Worried
Grillo_Parlante
Contributor
This was the first thing that crossed my mind to compare the externalize token with
Chris Taylor
Contributor
That's probably much closer.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
The good news for you is that Dragno-Style Twins is pretty poop, so the cat seems like a safe upgrade to Fencing Ace! Getting a 4/4 double strike for free on your Ace is pretty sweet!
So many White Zombies! Tempted to reboot my MODO cube.
