Zotan's land-stealing ability is kind of strange to see on a Jund card, kinda sticks out. I can't really rack my brain for anything really interesting though, I think Jund, then +1/+1 counters, then Kresh. What if you return sacrificed creatures instead of lands?
Also, does Whirpool really need to return tapped? 6 mana is a lot to keep up to bring back something at opponent's EOT, and it's also a ton to invest in a play that won't pay off till the next turn. Unless you have plans to put in some really really good reanimation targets, should be fine just returning.
Well, sacrificing lands is usually the easiest, come a certain part of a match, so I wanted to make that option a little bit less appealing. It's a bit strange, but it's also pretty unique, and fun to play around with I think. Combines well with
Tectonic Edge for example. I could make it "put a +1/+1 counter on Zotan" instead, when they sacrifice a land. I agree that +1/+1 counters can be a Jund thing.
I made Whirlpool return tapped because it can tap for mana itself (by untapping a land), lowering the virtual cost of the first activation to
, and because I don't really want anyone to plop a blocker onto the battlefield mid-combat. Returning it to play tapped makes it a lot less taxing to figure out what is going to happen in combat, and a little less time-consuming to play because it doesn't really matter. I would have put in "Activate this ability only any time you can cast a sorcery", but "... tapped" was way shorter
I knew a lot of people who drafter RG or GW aggro almost exclusively in dissension draft to prey on the 3-4 colour flight of fancy style decks.
I would usually always go boros pack one so I wasn't such easy prey but it really helped that those enchantress aggro decks were around because it kept the games from becoming too much like durdle cold wars. I think it's kinda like how people were grateful to have red burn decks and white land destruction decks around in the old days of dragon cubes.
Is Zotan some sort of joke about Conan? You know Howard killed himself at the age of 30 right?
Yeah, aggro has to be an option. Boros should have you covered there, and Gruul can also lay down the beats.
Also, who is Howard? Joke about Conan? Am I missing something? [reads Wiki] Oh, the author of Conan. Uh, I still don't see the joke?
A final one for the night to complete the Esper cards; the CDE 3-drop in Esper colors! This looks pretty mean, but then again, it's not much better than
Plumeveil (right?), and that's an uncommon!
I have to find some other wording. This was copied off of Souls of the Faultless, but that has defender... Then again, this working better on defense is kinda flavorful for a "Guard", so maybe I'll keep it this way?
Edit: Updated Lingering Guard (now Lingering Legion) with possibly relevant creature type (Warrior) and better wording. And flavor text.
