Schwa77
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 108
Favorite Card: Gishath, Sun's Avatar
Favorite Set: Ixalan
Color Alignment: Blue, Red, Green
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Post by Schwa77 on Apr 2, 2020 21:09:32 GMT
We all know how long it takes to develop a custom MTG set. Often I've found people have cool ideas for sets but don't have the time and/or motivation to commit to taking that idea and creating a set around it. That's where this thread comes in. A place to drop design ideas for sets that you, for whatever reason, don't plan on executing, and a place for those looking for ideas to drop in and potentially become inspired. I'll start off the thread with one of my ideas as an example: A top-down post-apocalyptic themed set- Split between 2 factions: survivors and "destroyers" (whoever caused the apocalypse, be they aliens, zombies, robots, what have you)
- Bring back vehicles and have colored vehicles throughout the set
- Bring back Kaladesh Energy as radiation to power up creatures and/or artifacts
Can't wait to see what people come up with, and I hope others are inspired by the ideas dropped here!
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Post by ameisenmeister on Apr 4, 2020 15:58:17 GMT
We all know how long it takes to develop a custom MTG set. Often I've found people have cool ideas for sets but don't have the time and/or motivation to commit to taking that idea and creating a set around it. That's where this thread comes in. A place to drop design ideas for sets that you, for whatever reason, don't plan on executing, and a place for those looking for ideas to drop in and potentially become inspired. I'll start off the thread with one of my ideas as an example: - A top-down post-apocalyptic themed set
- Bring back vehicles and have colored vehicles throughout the set
- Bring back Kaladesh Energy as some sort of radiation to power up creatures and/or artifacts
Can't wait to see what people come up with, and I hope others are inspired by the ideas dropped here!
Cool idea. Maybe you could, right from the start, codify a way for people to share their ideas. For example, main catchphrase in bold letters and then the related ideas in bulletpoints, so people can find ideas easier while scrolling. Just a suggestion, though. |
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Schwa77
2/2 Zombie
Posts: 108
Favorite Card: Gishath, Sun's Avatar
Favorite Set: Ixalan
Color Alignment: Blue, Red, Green
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Post by Schwa77 on Apr 4, 2020 19:36:41 GMT
Good call! I've updated the example and it definitely makes it easier. |
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Post by Lady Mapi on Apr 4, 2020 20:11:29 GMT
A set I've been too lazy to make is a pseudo four-color set excluding Red. - Basically it's just an expanded version of this.
- Think Bant + black - everything is extremely regimented and orderly, and no-one knows what to do now that red mana is back.
- Red mana is treated the way a more normal set would treat snow mana or energy - you don't have red cards, but you have plenty of cards with a red kicker or alternate cost.
The main reason this didn't happen is that I'm not sure how to make the set feel good to play without turning into a bunch of Good Stuff decks.
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Post by ZephyrPhantom on Apr 4, 2020 21:45:20 GMT
A set I've been too lazy to make is a pseudo four-color set excluding Red. ... I think pinpointing draft archetypes would be your friend here - Unchain is a very flexible mechanic that lets you turn permanent cards with ETBs into sorcery-esque cards. You could easily create something like  Unchain Tempo ,  Unchain Burn, ::WR:: Unchain go-wide with Rally the Peasants type effects, and  Unchain Stompy where Unchain acts similar to Bloodrush. As you've probably noticed these are all fairly aggressive archetypes but this is kind of par the course for red. Have uncommon signpost cards that reward specific strategies and/or play mana without spamming really generic payoffs like "Whenever a creature ETBs" and the like (Though "Whenever you cast a spell with red mana" could be an interesting one-off signpost). Your non-Red archetypes could then all be about the combo/control decks that you didn't cover with your Red archetypes.  control is an easy one, but something that might fit very well into a format like this is   Turbofog. |
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