Card of the Week Contest #386: Finite State Machine

So, zybourne , I have rules questions about attunement because I'm like that (also a small templating suggestion).

Let's get the simple templating suggestion out of the way first: the typical rules text for 'plundering' (the thing your cards first ability does) is: "draw a card, then discard a card." Your card works fine with the current wording (albeit a bit awkward because it says when for something that isn't a seporate triggered ability on the stack), but the typical wording's a bit cleaner.

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And now, the rules question. How does attunement work with multicolored spells. Like say I cast biovisionary and follow it up with double major. Both of them are blue and green. I want to assume that only one color can be attuned at a time, and casting your second blue spell that happens to also be your second green spell causes an 'attune to Blue' trigger and an 'attune to Green' trigger to both go on the stack an order of my, the controlling player's choice. But that's not exactly clear in the text, which could be interpreted as I cast my second blue-green spell this turn, so I get one trigger that attunes the game to blue-green until anothe attune trigger happens.

I think:
feels more stream lined. I also feel that if you're gonna have a token keeping track of the game state, it'd be better to go with six seporate tokens: Unattuned and Attuned to {Color} , so that the gamestate can be clearly marked and doesn't need to be remembered, rather than the one Attuned marker you've presented here. Of course, I'm not asking you to provide those: that'd be silly for a one-shot like CotW, but it's something to consider if you decide to flesh out the idea.

Felt like Party from ZNR and Venture from AFR would be fun (and flavorful) to do a crossover with so I came up with this:

I was close to using the shorter wording for the first ability, but I couldn't find any examples for optional plundering that used it. I also really like reflexive triggers.

Two triggers for your cool biovisionary deck which you can stack as you choose to set the attuned color is the intended behavior. I think your wording is clearer, but I'll probably do some A/B testing with my playgroup to see which they'd prefer. Also, yes to 6 collectible attunement tokens.

Just want to say I think this is a really cool CoTW challenge so far and that I like a lot of the ideas posted.

Daij_Djan: Looks like that's the one.

Finally found the template I was looking for for the reminder card, sneakily hidden in plain sight next to the poison counters.

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Crimson Frontrunner

Creature - Human Berserker (2/3)

Grievous (Whenever this deals combat damage to a player, that player becomes wounded. At the beginning of a wounded player’s upkeep, that player loses 1 life. When a player gains life, they are no longer wounded.)

As long as a player is wounded, creatures you control get +1/+0.

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A few quick things about Grievous and Wounded
1. Grievous is the default way of applying Wounded to players, but not the only way. There would be a handful of non-combat sources that apply Wounded either to your opponent or yourself at uncommon and above.
2. Wounded would appear almost exclusively in Black/Red, though there would be colorless sources.
3. Any Wounded synergy cards care about either player being wounded. If you want to push your advantage, there are plenty of ways of wounding yourself to apply pressure.
4. There would be a decent number of colorless life gain cards in limited to mitigate Wounded, though limited to one-shot effects. 

Updated my entry with pictures (and a slightly changed name due to the artwork I found).

"If you are wounded, gain X life." is an interesting thing to try from a perspective of development (many sets have at least 1-2 cards that only do anything if the set mechanic was applied), but it also makes me think - what color would it really matter in? Green, White, Black, all already do lifegain one way or another, so the set that features Wounded would just need to make sure all 3 have a source of lifegain among several commons for draft - alternatively, Black is one of the Wounded colors so it instead already has the focus of Wound-matters cards.

That leaves Blue and Red, the former of which is known for already doing plenty, and the latter is the color of "kill before I get killed", and appropriately a Wounded color. So the only color that really loses out is Blue at which point you can either resort to drafting the aforementioned lifegain cards or splash a pro-Wound/anti-Wound color in this this hypothetical Standard. (Alternatively, if this an allied multicolor set, Blue would be inherently paired with White and Black, which are lifegain and pro-wound/lifegain respectively.)

That said, what I would find particularly interesting though as an offshoot of that idea would be if there was a lifegain hatebear of sorts though that resulted from this back and forth design of trying to make an interesting Wounded metagame. Something like:

Frenzied Medic
Creature - Human Cleric
Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you gain 1 life. If you lost life this turn, you gain 2 life instead.
2/1
"The healing is more rewarding than the hurting!"

Alternatively, play on the fact Black can hose Wounded and inflict Wounded:

Voracious Bite
Sorcery
Grievous (Whenever this deals combat damage to a player, that player becomes wounded. At the beginning of a wounded player’s upkeep, that player loses 1 life. When a player gains life, they are no longer wounded.)
If a player is wounded as you cast ~, you gain 2 life.
~ deals 2 damage to any target.
"Curses! That vampire was on the brink of death...it was a trap!" - General Ivous

Yeah I've been really happy with how it went, I'm impressed by everyone's creativity!

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