Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Doesn't need the drawback imo, but would prefer more colored mana symbols. 
or works equally well.
or works equally well.
General Print this Wizards! (So I can put it in my cube)
- Thread starter Chris Taylor
- Start date
Did you guys see this one:
Grazing Grove
Land
Grazing Grove enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add to your mana pool.
When Grove enters the battlefield you may pay to put a 3/3 beast creature token into play.
Thinking of making a series, the raise dead one I made seems absurd at though. 3cc +1 card is kinda nuts when it costs ya so little.
Grazing Grove
Land
Grazing Grove enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add to your mana pool.When Grove enters the battlefield you may pay
to put a 3/3 beast creature token into play. Thinking of making a series, the raise dead one I made seems absurd at
though. 3cc +1 card is kinda nuts when it costs ya so little.
I'm not sure it would matter all that often, but could the wrath work with a "choose one: destroy all toughness 1 or, destroy all power 1" clause?
Was thinking about cards for a format/set thinger but also for cube.
Warp Wisp
Creature - Elemental Horror
Flying, deathtouch
When Warp Wisp dies you lose 1 life and draw a card
Evoke
1/1
Warp Wisp
Creature - Elemental Horror
Flying, deathtouch
When Warp Wisp enters the battlefield lose 1 life and draw a card.
Evoke
1/1
Cruel Harvest
Sorcery
Destroy target creature.
Return a creature card from your graveyard to hand.
--------------------- Different themes now ------------------------
Abasement
Instant
Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
When Abasement is put into a graveyard you may exile it, if you do target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Glimmering Guide
Creature - Spirit
Flying
When Glimmering Guide is put into a graveyard you may exile it and put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
1/1
Buried Powerstone
Artifact
: Add
Threshold -: Put this card onto the battlefield from your graveyard.
This is gonna be for a set that has threshold and like recover and that mechanic dig I showed you guys before.
Dig X (To dig, look at the top X cards of your library you may put one of those cards on top of your library then put the rest into your grave yard)
Warp Wisp
Creature - Elemental Horror
Flying, deathtouch
When Warp Wisp dies you lose 1 life and draw a card
Evoke
1/1
Warp Wisp
Creature - Elemental Horror
Flying, deathtouch
When Warp Wisp enters the battlefield lose 1 life and draw a card.
Evoke
1/1
Cruel Harvest
Sorcery
Destroy target creature.
Return a creature card from your graveyard to hand.
--------------------- Different themes now ------------------------
Abasement
Instant
Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
When Abasement is put into a graveyard you may exile it, if you do target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Glimmering Guide
Creature - Spirit
Flying
When Glimmering Guide is put into a graveyard you may exile it and put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
1/1
Buried Powerstone
Artifact
: Add Threshold -
: Put this card onto the battlefield from your graveyard.This is gonna be for a set that has threshold and like recover and that mechanic dig I showed you guys before.
Dig X (To dig, look at the top X cards of your library you may put one of those cards on top of your library then put the rest into your grave yard)
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Infectious Corpse
Creature - Zombie
~ enters the battlefield tapped.
When Infectious Host dies, proliferate.
2/2
Harkwing Aegis
Instant
Up to two target permanents gain protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Proliferate.
Azusa, Ascended
Planeswalker - Azusa
+0: Proliferate.
-2: You gain an emblem with "You may play an additional land on each of your turns."
-5: Draw a card for each land you control. You may play any number of lands this turn.
That -2 on Azusa is too good. At the same time, the +1 is underwhelming. Harkwing Aegis should only target one permanent & it's STILL gonna be good. Infectious Corpse seems more interesting as a 2/1 that can't block.
Dig as a mechanic is dancing dangerously close to just being dredge, but less narrow which might be too good. I like the cards that can exile themselves for small value but it also feels pretty close to just being flashback.
Idea for a green proliferate card (caution: very simple design):
Mr. Rogers' Really Good Vibes
Instant, 2G
Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control. Untap it. Proliferate.
Dig as a mechanic is dancing dangerously close to just being dredge, but less narrow which might be too good. I like the cards that can exile themselves for small value but it also feels pretty close to just being flashback.
Idea for a green proliferate card (caution: very simple design):
Mr. Rogers' Really Good Vibes
Instant, 2G
Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control. Untap it. Proliferate.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Is it? Exploration is one mana. Granted, you can't get rid of an emblem, but I don't think the effect is overpowered at all for three mana, and is the fact that you can get multiple emblems after four turns really that scary?
It looks innocuous, but it's a planeswalker that puts loyalty counters on other planeswalkers, plus it's only a three-mana planeswalker. I suspect it plays way better than it reads, but I do agree it reads weak-ish. Then again, I'm fine with a weak-ish +1 on a three-mana planeswalker.
Eh. Nobody cubes Gods Willing. I do agree it's very, and probably inappropriately, pushed, but I don't see many people picking this card up if it only targets one thing.
Totally. That makes chump blocking for the effect impossible as well, nice.
CML
Contributor
Exploration is really good. Really, really good. But you're right. I didn't take into consideration how long it would take to actually start stacking emblems. The +1 is also probably fine.
Gods willing only targets creatures, not permanents. Targeting permanents makes it a lot stronger even without the proliferate. With proliferate, it's definitely fine. Seems a bit sarcastic when you respond to the gravecrawler suggestion the way you did. I guess a one drop aggro dude that promotes chump blocking mindlessly is great designwork. Definitely shouldn't have to earn that proliferation in a more elegant manner. I thought it'd be cool if it even had a gravecrawler style self-reanimate ability that checks if you have any dudes with +1/+1 counters or something interesting. But yea, that was just an idea. The diregraf ghoul design sounds way better.
Gods willing only targets creatures, not permanents. Targeting permanents makes it a lot stronger even without the proliferate. With proliferate, it's definitely fine. Seems a bit sarcastic when you respond to the gravecrawler suggestion the way you did. I guess a one drop aggro dude that promotes chump blocking mindlessly is great designwork. Definitely shouldn't have to earn that proliferation in a more elegant manner. I thought it'd be cool if it even had a gravecrawler style self-reanimate ability that checks if you have any dudes with +1/+1 counters or something interesting. But yea, that was just an idea. The diregraf ghoul design sounds way better.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Uh, that really wasn't meant to be sarcastic, but reading back I can see how you would think that. Conveying intention is hard when you can't use inflection and facial expressions
I was actually agreeing with you that "can't block" is probably a better drawback than "enters the battlefield tapped", because it forces you to be a bit more creative to achieve the "dies" trigger. I actually put a reanimation clause on it in an earlier draft (, remove two +1/+1 counters from among permanents you control), but it read so clunky that I left it off.Oh okay. Yea, your reanimate ability seems sweet. I thought you were going all CML-sarcastic on me out of nowhere.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Infectious Corpse
Creature - Zombie
~ enters the battlefield tapped.
When Infectious Host dies, proliferate.
2/2
Harkwing Aegis
Instant
Up to two target permanents gain protection from the color of your choice until end of turn. Proliferate.
Azusa, Ascended
Planeswalker - Azusa
+0: Proliferate.
-2: You gain an emblem with "You may play an additional land on each of your turns."
-5: Draw a card for each land you control. You may play any number of lands this turn.
Oooo, love the diregraph ghoul guy! I think he needs to be a 2/1, but yeah, he's awesome. I like that your opponent has some control over when you proliferate, so they can throw a wrench in your plans, and that basically every color has a way to do so.
That's a grand slam card
About the god's willing thing, the only effect like that I've successfully got people to play was emerge unscathed, and mostly that was because prowess is awesome.
I think if I want a green card to proliferate, it should probably be a creature. Prolifer-bear? I figure I want something more aggro curve topper/ramp midrange creature. Maybe something like this?
Graft 3 (~ enters the battlefield with 3 +1/+1 counters on it. When another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature to that creature)
When ~ enteres the battlefield, proliferate.
0/0
It's always kinda hard to come up with a card that every deck in that color will play and isn't also removal. So happy about the diregraph ghoul tho, that card really turns my gears
More cool ideas from the set.
Some Preamble: My theme here was this place is some world that is eerily empty. Not to say that it doesn't have flora and fauna and artifices littering it, but all the intelligent life has disappeared and it's most notable features are being overgrown and covered in ruins. The premise is that it is being "pioneered" by a bunch of refugees from dominaria who are trying to settle the place while investigating the history of the mysterious and unsettling place. There are a lot of sightings of ghostly figments and claims of strange magical presences but at least in the first set it would remain in-concrete.
Please remember a lot of these wont be common and that Exiling instead of dying is plus and a minus when dealing with recover. Also remember I plan on making this set for the advanced player in mind. I don't want people to have to juggle too much, that's why I'm keeping threshold at 7 and making it sorta easy to get.
Supervision
Sorcery
Each player reveals the top card of their library, you may choose to put all of those cards into their owners graveyards.
Draw a card.
Conjured Ally
Sorcery
Put a 2/2 blue flying elemental token onto the battlefield.
Predator's Ambush
Instant
Put a 4/4 green beast token onto the battlefield.
Vicious Memory
Creature - Spirit
Flying
Vicious Memory enters the battlefield exile a card in your graveyard.
When Vicious Memory would die, exile it instead.
2/1
Seasonal Hunter
Creature - Cat Beast
When Seasonal Hunter would die instead shuffle it into it's owner's library.
3/3
Angry Spirits
Instant
Angry Spirits deals 1 damage to target creature or player, if any creature dealt damage this way would die, exile it instead?
Recover
Scavengers Boon
Instant (R)
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature and gain 1 life.
Recover
Walk the Ruins
Sorcery
Dig 4 (look at the top 4 cards of your library, you may put one of those cards back on top of your library and the rest into your graveyard.)
Put a land card from your graveyard onto the battlefield tapped.
(this may need to be paired down a little but I think I might include some fetch or sac lands anyway lol)
Explorers Rig
Creature - Human Artificer
Flying
Threshold - When Explorers Rig enters the battlefield or dies draw a card.
3/3
Disgruntled Sappers
Creature - Human Rogue
Threshold - When enters the battlefield it deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
3/1
Nightly Visitor
Creature - Spirit
Flying, Vigilance
Threshold -: Put Nightly Visitor onto the battlefield tapped. (sorcery?)
1/1
Some Preamble: My theme here was this place is some world that is eerily empty. Not to say that it doesn't have flora and fauna and artifices littering it, but all the intelligent life has disappeared and it's most notable features are being overgrown and covered in ruins. The premise is that it is being "pioneered" by a bunch of refugees from dominaria who are trying to settle the place while investigating the history of the mysterious and unsettling place. There are a lot of sightings of ghostly figments and claims of strange magical presences but at least in the first set it would remain in-concrete.
The feelings I'm most interested in are exploration, antiquity, nostalgia, haunting and fish out of water tropes.
I like Recover, Dig, Threshold and graveyard triggers because they all interact very well with each other without putting too much strain on involving mana in the management of your graveyard resource, while not necessitating creating a whole class of cards for limited needed to interact beneficially or negatively with graveyards.
There will also be a lot less creatures outside of human size. I think spirits will come in all sizes and have a notable presence and there will be beasts and other animals about (but not a tonne) but you'll be expected to unlock your larger creatures with threshold, or augment them with spells. I expect small guys to be abundant and trades to be reasonable to keep the spell velocity and momentum going to give players a lot of opportunities to get back in the game with threshold and recover. You'll also be playing fewer expensive spells because you'll have abilities to pay for.
I like Recover, Dig, Threshold and graveyard triggers because they all interact very well with each other without putting too much strain on involving mana in the management of your graveyard resource, while not necessitating creating a whole class of cards for limited needed to interact beneficially or negatively with graveyards.
There will also be a lot less creatures outside of human size. I think spirits will come in all sizes and have a notable presence and there will be beasts and other animals about (but not a tonne) but you'll be expected to unlock your larger creatures with threshold, or augment them with spells. I expect small guys to be abundant and trades to be reasonable to keep the spell velocity and momentum going to give players a lot of opportunities to get back in the game with threshold and recover. You'll also be playing fewer expensive spells because you'll have abilities to pay for.
Please remember a lot of these wont be common and that Exiling instead of dying is plus and a minus when dealing with recover. Also remember I plan on making this set for the advanced player in mind. I don't want people to have to juggle too much, that's why I'm keeping threshold at 7 and making it sorta easy to get.
Supervision
Sorcery
Each player reveals the top card of their library, you may choose to put all of those cards into their owners graveyards.
Draw a card.
Conjured Ally
Sorcery
Put a 2/2 blue flying elemental token onto the battlefield.
Predator's Ambush
Instant
Put a 4/4 green beast token onto the battlefield.
Vicious Memory
Creature - Spirit
Flying
Vicious Memory enters the battlefield exile a card in your graveyard.
When Vicious Memory would die, exile it instead.
2/1
Seasonal Hunter
Creature - Cat Beast
When Seasonal Hunter would die instead shuffle it into it's owner's library.
3/3
Angry Spirits
Instant
Angry Spirits deals 1 damage to target creature or player, if any creature dealt damage this way would die, exile it instead?
Recover
Scavengers Boon
Instant (R)
Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature and gain 1 life.
Recover
Walk the Ruins
Sorcery
Dig 4 (look at the top 4 cards of your library, you may put one of those cards back on top of your library and the rest into your graveyard.)
Put a land card from your graveyard onto the battlefield tapped.
(this may need to be paired down a little but I think I might include some fetch or sac lands anyway lol)
Explorers Rig
Creature - Human Artificer
Flying
Threshold - When Explorers Rig enters the battlefield or dies draw a card.
3/3
Disgruntled Sappers
Creature - Human Rogue
Threshold - When enters the battlefield it deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
3/1
Nightly Visitor
Creature - Spirit
Flying, Vigilance
Threshold -
: Put Nightly Visitor onto the battlefield tapped. (sorcery?)1/1
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Ok, I'm fiddling with my cube again, and while I love Young Pyromancer, I'm currently annoyed that he doesn't play nice with the other prowess cards. So, is this change too dangerous or is this perfectly acceptable to jam into my cube twice?
I'm also looking to include familiars as an alternative to mana rocks. Sadly, the only one I can run given the intended combination of guilds (which I am changing, again, because I'm still not happy with the specifics of the guild combinations) is Thornscape Familiar. While I'm perfectly happy to run that, I'ld like to print some others. Here are the first two I thought of. I'm especially curious if you think Steelscape Familiar is too much with both Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas and Daretti, Scrap Savant in the cube.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
I support both artifact and enchantment subthemes, so there's a lot of noninstants and nonsorcery noncreature spells in my cube, yes. Of course, if it triggers Young Pyromancer, it triggers prowess, but there's a lot of cards that trigger prowess but not Pyromancer in my cube.
And the other two new familiars. Thoughts on the familiar cycle?
And the other two new familiars. Thoughts on the familiar cycle?
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
This is probably vastly less annoying than the above variant, and still playable.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Practiced Pryomancer seems fine. He's probably better than Young Pryomancer, but the difference will be less pronounced here than in constructed, so he'd be fine in my book.
Do you run runechanter's pike? I've had the same concerns as you, but I've just opted to swap around some of the previously enchantment spells in my cube rather than change these two (I don't actually run any sort of constellation/artifact specific thing though)
Also: Cloudscape famaliar should really have flying, both with the art and the name.
Do you run runechanter's pike? I've had the same concerns as you, but I've just opted to swap around some of the previously enchantment spells in my cube rather than change these two (I don't actually run any sort of constellation/artifact specific thing though)
Also: Cloudscape famaliar should really have flying, both with the art and the name.
I like your set symbol.
A good green six:
Fertile Elemental
Creature - Elemental
Flash
When Fertile Elemental enters or leaves the battlefield put a 1/1 green saproling token into play.
Evoke
5/5
I was thinking about modern the other day and thunked of this:
Reawaken
Instant
Return target creature with converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback
A good green six:
Fertile Elemental
Creature - Elemental
Flash
When Fertile Elemental enters or leaves the battlefield put a 1/1 green saproling token into play.
Evoke
5/5
I was thinking about modern the other day and thunked of this:
Reawaken
Instant
Return target creature with converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback
Chris Taylor
Contributor
I like reawaken, but the instant speed always made me think white for some reason
I dunno, you know when you cast selsnya charm for a 2/2 vigilence after they wrath? It feels like that to me (and for some reason my brain doesn't think that's green for some reason)
Hmmmm, wolfir avenger tho. Maybe I'm going crazy? Sweet card either way, regardless of what color it ends up being
The green guy seems a little more Voice of the Provinces than Avenger of Zendikar. Peasant maybe? I'm unfamaliar
Hmmmm, wolfir avenger tho. Maybe I'm going crazy? Sweet card either way, regardless of what color it ends up being
The green guy seems a little more Voice of the Provinces than Avenger of Zendikar. Peasant maybe? I'm unfamaliar
Dude I love this art!