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Post by viriss on Nov 29, 2019 22:21:30 GMT
Favored Enemy (Whenever this creature kills another creature, exile that creature card from the graveyard. As long as one or more cards are exiled this way, this creature can only block or be blocked by creatures that share a creature type with one of those cards.) Example: Conclave Ranger    Creature - Elf Warrior  Favored Enemy (Whenever this creature kills another creature, exile that creature card from the graveyard. As long as one or more cards are exiled this way, this creature can only block or be blocked by creatures that share a creature type with one of those cards.) Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under and opponents control, untap Conclave Ranger. 2/3 I know the Favored Enemy is wordy, but I'm not sure how else to capture the flavor. I'm also assuming "kills" in the reminder text is understandable, though I know it has a few vague edge cases.
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Post by fluffydeathbringer on Nov 29, 2019 23:28:08 GMT
Favored Enemy (Whenever this creature kills another creature, exile that creature card from the graveyard. As long as one or more cards are exiled this way, this creature can only block or be blocked by creatures that share a creature type with one of those cards.) Example: Conclave Ranger Creature - Elf Warrior Favored Enemy (Whenever this creature kills another creature, exile that creature card from the graveyard. As long as one or more cards are exiled this way, this creature can only block or be blocked by creatures that share a creature type with one of those cards.) Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under and opponents control, untap Conclave Ranger. 2/3 I know the Favored Enemy is wordy, but I'm not sure how else to capture the flavor. I'm also assuming "kills" in the reminder text is understandable, though I know it has a few vague edge cases. (This mechanic is a bad idea because 1) it depends 100% on your opponent deciding that you get to have favoured enemy online 2) it depends on your opponent playing sufficiently small creatures consistently enough that you can get favoured enemy online without your creature dying in the process 3) if your opponent's got too many of the same type in their deck, it does sweet fuckall 4) even if their tribes are diverse enough, it's too minor an upside to bother with both the narrow hoop to jump through and the cost of maintaining your favoured-enemy creature for that sweet sweet Tormented Soul action 5) it actually gets worse as you favoured enemy more creatures, because it increases the amount of your opponent's things that can now block your guy. This is a clear instance of getting lost in the flavour sauce and making something tortured and barely functional as a result. I say go back to the drawing board on this one.) |
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Post by Jéské Couriano on Nov 30, 2019 0:33:39 GMT
Favoured Enemy is part of a school of design that Wizards generally doesn't try to dip into anymore, and it's because you cannot guarantee that an opponent is going to run a deck that allows Favoured Enemy to be much of a factor. This is especially painful if it's in a format where tribal is a factor.
(Also, this is out-of-colour in Selesnya and would fit better in Dimir. Neither green or white get evasion of this stripe.)
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Post by voltaic-qui on Nov 30, 2019 1:21:52 GMT
I think this can kind of be salvaged if instead of the convoluted exile stuff, it just keyed off cards in the yard.
(This creature can't be blocked by creatures that don't share a creature type with a card in their controller's graveyard.)
Which has its own problems, to put it lightly. I have absolutely no idea why you would keyword this - if anything, shouldn't this be the reverse??
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Post by inferno390 on Nov 30, 2019 2:36:20 GMT
What if instead of it can’t be blocked, it’s a Bushido type effect where X is the number of creature cards that share a creature type with blocking/attacking creature? If that makes sense?
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Post by Jéské Couriano on Nov 30, 2019 5:51:20 GMT
What if instead of it can’t be blocked, it’s a Bushido type effect where X is the number of creature cards that share a creature type with blocking/attacking creature? If that makes sense? No. This has the opposite issue - potentially game-breaking vs. tribal decks and useless against decks that use creatures that don't share types or that use no creatures.
The fatal issue with this keyword from a design standpoint is that it is completely dependent on factors well outside your control, i.e. the opponent's deck composition. This is why Fear got the axe, why Intimidate got 86'd, why Protection is now deciduous and not evergreen, and why colour-hate in general is not a thing anymore.
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