BOO3 2: BOO4

>not BOO4c

I'm up for filling the last slot but only if none of the guys who got dropped from BOO3 want to join

Also only if the cut colour isn't green because I've done that lol (I don't mind want colours I'd get tho)

I'd be interested in trying this if there's still enough room. As for color combinations... maybe UR?

I would like to join the Fifth Color Reserve team. My favorite color pair is UR.

Interest. No color preferences (except maybe anything without blue =P)

I'm in.

If we're doing pairs, I'll take RW, RG, WU or UB.
If trios, then I'll be fine with Mardu, Grixis or Temur.
If we're omitting a color: Blue.

But honestly, I'll be fine with taking whatever's left over, just as long as I get to be part of this.

So, since there's twelve people interested, kinotherapy and I have decided to divide B. O. O. 4 into two different Scar City-style four-color sets. I'll be leading a nonblue set with CanterburyEgg , fluffydeathbringer , Icarael , gateways7 , and ziolang . The rest of you will be working with kinotherapy on a nonwhite set; they'll post soon with the details (which may or may not be the same as what I'm doing).

Each of us will design twelve commons, ten uncommons, six rares, and two mythics with color identities inside our color pair, though the mythics have rather more freedom in colors; feel free to design a four-color or tricolor mythic if you want. Manafixing will be supplied by a common dual-land cycle, an uncommon mana-rock cycle, and a rare dual-land cycle to be supplied (by me?) later, so you don't need to worry about including it yourself.

The default split of commons is five in each color and two multicolored or colorless; four uncommons in each color, an arcun, and another multicolored or colorless card; and two rares in each color and two multicolored or colorless rares, but you can feel free to adjust the number of gold and colorless cards as needed as long as the cards are color-balanced (Scar City has two-thirds of its uncommons as multicolored cards, for example).

Remember that your cards are a little look into a world with no blue. Think about how that affects your setting, but also about how it affects the mechanics. Without blue, card flow is scarce, damage is harder to get over a stalled board, tools to manipulate the pace of the game are limited, and powerful instants and sorceries are hard to answer. Yet, as the linked cards show, all of these gaps can be filled within the color pie, so think about how you can do that, and how that'll inform your mechanical theme.

I think we should aim for a Modern power level, but if you all want to overrule me and target something else instead we can discuss that.

You have two weeks. Good luck.

The details

Each of us will design 30 cards within our designated two colors (or colorless!): 12 common, 10 uncommon, 6 rare, and 2 mythic. I'll talk about multicolor cards a bit later, but in general make sure to keep your cards color-balanced (for example, 6 commons of each color; 4 uncommons of each colour and 2 gold uncommons etc) though you can go hog wild with the two mythics. You can make lands at any rarity, which will be included as colorless, but don't make dual lands e.g. Foul Orchard as we can decide upon those as a cycle and add them separately.

You're encouraged, but not required, to design a mechanic for your miniset. Regardless of whether you dor or not, you definitely ought to have a mechanical theme that ties your set together. Try to pick a theme that functions well in limited; I would advise against using two or more non-evergreen mechanics.

Oops no white

Remember that these minisets exist in a world where doesn't exist. Flavourfully, this is up to interpretation; you have total flavour freedom over your miniset, after all. Mechanically though there's a few things to bear in mind: unique strengths won't exist, such as white weenie strategies, and its mechanics will belong solely to the colors that it shares those mechanics with. For example, is now the only color that can reliably deal with enchantments, so you might not want to make your non-aura enchantments too strong if you have any. In the absence of , you may want to try incorporating white mechanics, such as exile-based removal or tapped-creature removal in , or anthems in , in a fashion that doesn't cause color breaks. If you're one of the three color pairs with , then you're in luck since it has a lot of overlap with .

Things we really ought to decide quickly

It's worth communicating as much as possible so that we don't wind up designing redundant cards or archetypes. There are also some parts I figured we ought to work out as a group, primarily how multicolored our set will be. We could go for a regular, low gold set, with just one arcun (gold, archetype-defining uncommon card) and a few at rare/mythic, or we could go full Scar City Ravnica, in which case we'd have a lot more. I think would prefer less gold this time around, though I don't mind either way as long as we're on the same page. Based on that, we can then decide cycles such as whether or not it's worth including taplands for fixing and what the rare lands should look like.

Feel free to discuss the set here, or we can discuss it on the MSE Discord where I'm more active. If there's enough interest, we could make our own server to collaborate easier.

Set skelly for my group:

COMMON: 5 cards of each color; 2 colorless
UNCOMMON: 4 cards of each color; 1 gold; 1 colorless
RARE: 2 cards of each color; 2 cards in any combination of gold or colorless
MYTHIC: 2 cards, no restrictions

I got the numbers completely wrong in my previous post. I'm kind of disappointed nobody pointed out that they didn't even add up to 30.

"colorless" here means either a colorless artifact or a land which contains no colored mana symbols, so again you can make, say, Cavern of Souls, but you can't make River of Tears.