The Crossover Game

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viriss - Elsa: Fitting, and a good way to incorporate both the ice and the snowmen. I would have liked the amass to also say snow in the keyword (“Amass snow Golem” or even “Amass blue snow Golem”) instead of only Golem and the explanation in the reminder text; it might confuse with the original Amass (which is now errata’d to Amass Zombie). Still, fitting. And would make a good return to the snow type.



Idea - Boosette: Kinda clunky. Three mana for a 1/1 flying menace with eventually an exile effect plus a bigger spirit is pretty alright, but the wording isn’t all there. It doesn’t take into account Boosette going into the graveyard, and there are two “exile”s. The greatest offense is that you only make three spirits before Boosette sticks around, but there are four tokens and spirits around her in the art! (I understand that’s an art thing, I don’t actually take offense)



Jartis - FLUDD: A blue/white Blood Moon, but even worse as it also hits basics. It’s more expensive, but I don’t see it being very fun either way. A kind of land destruction that might be counteracted with artifact destruction.



emberfire17 - Mystery Block: I like the idea of it giving different kinds of tokens like the powerups in the games (possibly tokens that would also be used more in a set), but I don’t really like how expensive this is. Essentially you pay 4 for the block, 1 for the ability, and 1 for one of the power ups if you don’t get the coin. That’s six mana for possibly just a Giant Growth. That’s terrible. If it didn’t destroy itself it might be more acceptable, but currently, nah.

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So, winner is viriss for the only Frozen card. It fits and seems fun enough in a control kind of way. Second is emberfire17 for something that still needs a polish up on the mana required.

{Spoiler}Text for life gain/loss is typically written first with the opponent's loss of life and then your gaining of life (not that it matters much since it happens simultaneously). Extort and the first ability seem both fine and an interesting punishment for treasure abuse, though seeing the prevalence of treasures in red I do think any player using treasures that much is likely to have the means to easily dispatch a 1/1 with no protections. The second ability seems frankly... extremely restrictive for no reason? First it requires you to have ten treasures, which not only means you need to make ten treasures, you also need to have 10 mana just sitting around unspent. Considering you likely want to play this card as early as possible the timing of its abilities seems countersynergistic. Further the prize is the ability to pay life to give your opponent's mana. Yes if they spend the mana you gain life and they lose life, but they still got the mana and you lost a (nontoken) permanent. Mechanics like tribute show how weak a card can be in practice when an opponent is given the choice of two alternatives, even if both alternatives benefit you, which this ability doesn't. So it's an extremely restrictive and also costly giving your opponents cheaper phyrexian mana in a sense, that they can choose to use or not.

{Spoiler}First, thank you for the flavor words. While I am familiar with the character (and McDonalds, obviously), the supersize me name I wasn't aware of and this enabled me to better look into the aspects you wanted to reference. Happy Meal's flavor is just perfect (no pun or further implications intended) and Supersize me giving power but not toughness, thus increasing the creature's size but not survivability is also some simple but really good representation. While I can see the "fast food" implication in haste there though, it does feel a bit out of place in this card with greater toughness than power and no use for a quick attack (in fact given it's static abilities it seems wiser to hold it back). Considering the likes of Furious Bellow, Jor kadeen the Prevailer and Reckless Charge, for getting +3/+0 with a minor restriction on the repeatability seems to be considered balanced. Eat your heart out, firebreath, I guess. seems like an appropriate replacement for in this case, and needing to get and spend a food, plus effectively spend 3 life for this seems like a fair trade-off.

{Spoiler}Lemme just get my Consulate Dreadnaught. Lizard, you take the helm.

I'm not entirely sure what the crew 1 is referencing (if anything), though I can imagine where the haste and the cost reduction is coming from. This card is... very powerful though. It's not unprecedented and there are also effects Like Peacewalker Colossus, Mobilizer Mech and Mech Hangar let you turn your vehicles into creatures without crewing, which I would argue is an exceedingly similar effect to crew 1 due to how easy crew 1 is to do. The later assortment of effects seems to all have repeated 2-3 mana costs or else a higher crewing to begin with, but Astor gives crew 1 to all your vehicles and only costs 1 more mana than this. I would say that's the best comparison here, with abilities that I think have pretty similar power given their respective right circumstances. Still, Astor is a 4/4. So, after much rumination, I guess your card is more balanced than I first thought.

{Spoiler}A lot of two colored two mana creatures this time it seems. I will confess, I'm really not seeing the flavor here. Farm, I guess? But the Potato Head here seems to be the toy company version. I did look it up and there does seem to be based on a guy who used a potato to "make funny faces", though aside from farming I'm really not seeing how this portrays a brand or the character of the mascot. I guess being an artifact works with being a toy?

Balance-wise not much to comment on, everything seems solid to me. Like potatoes before getting mashed.

{Spoiler}Victory on this one goes to melono for excellent and creative flavor representation on a balanced card. emberfire17 gets second place with also good flavor representation, and a card that was far more balanced than it first seemed, at least by my standard "compare it to what wizards has made" method.