elRekko
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Favorite Set: Guilds of Ravnica
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Post by elRekko on Nov 10, 2021 17:19:51 GMT
Lets try something funny!  If you look at the reminder text for ninjutsu, this doesn't work currently because ninjutsu is an ability that's activated from the hand, not exile. This was such a problem baked into the mechanic itself that when commander got popular, wizards had to create an entirely new mechanic (commander ninjutsu) so it would work in the command zone. Because you wouldn't be able to play cards with ninjutsu from exile, you couldn't play them the cards exiled by this card from exile either with the current rules text. You're gonna have to do something cutesy if you want it to work. Updated! Could you please take a look? I try my best (i'm not an english native speaker) |
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inverness
3/3 Beast
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Favorite Card: Mystic Snake
Favorite Set: Kamigawa
Color Alignment: White, Green
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Post by inverness on Nov 10, 2021 20:48:26 GMT
Decided to go with an uncommon. It's designed to be a good body to deliver a virus payload with. Deathtouch makes it unappealing to block, and since you get the card back when it dies it's unappealing to target with removal.
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Post by hydraheadhunter on Nov 11, 2021 0:32:09 GMT
Not defending the design, because I don't think it's a good idea either, but people ran regular islands instead of snow islands all the time despite the fact that snow islands were (and arguably are) techincally speaking strickly better. But, this is strickly better on a whole nother level than that though, so the environment would have to have some pretty strong ways of punishing having too much energy, something we've not seen in its previous itterations, to make people want to play regular islands. It's possible you could see some island play if your punishments are harsh enough or common enough to offset the strictly better choice, but I don't think that'd be a healthy design pattern to fall into: We see where field of the dead and Oko got wizards... That's largely a matter of availability, plus there are anti-snow tech cards available. An otherwise completely identical Basic Island that just happens to also, while generating mana, generate a second, stockpilable resource doesn't really have any hooks to grab onto that allow tech cards easy purchase in the same way that the Snow supertype makes cards like, say, Break the Ice able to threaten overly indulgent manabases. Also Snow basics and the Snow supertype as a whole is largely... a mistake, that likely would've been left in the annals of history had Coldsnap not inexplicably existed. And I say that as someone whose first pack cracked was Coldsnap and who totally digs the idea of Snow. I'm glad we're in near complete agreement here and are just using different words to say the same thing. |
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Post by hydraheadhunter on Nov 11, 2021 0:54:56 GMT
Yeah, it looks like it'll work with the new wording. And, this wasn't meant to be a correction on your English, so I'm sorry if it came across that way. This was meant to be a comment on whether I thought the card would work within the current rules. A couple weeks back, the5lacker and I had a similar conversation about whether my wording would work within the current rules, and I'm a native English speaker, so it wasn't my fluency in question, and therefore your fluency isn't in question either. It's just that magic is a complicated game with a lot of rules: some of which are less flexible than others. You're doing English wonderfully. I've been here a while and I don't think anyone on this forum would willfully try to make anyone feel bad about their profiency with their second, third, or next language. Y'all all smarter than my monolingual ass, that's for sure. |
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elRekko
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Favorite Set: Guilds of Ravnica
Color Alignment: Blue, Red
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Post by elRekko on Nov 11, 2021 8:36:00 GMT
Yeah, it looks like it'll work with the new wording. And, this wasn't meant to be a correction on your English, so I'm sorry if it came across that way. This was meant to be a comment on whether I thought the card would work within the current rules. A couple weeks back, the5lacker and I had a similar conversation about whether my wording would work within the current rules, and I'm a native English speaker, so it wasn't my fluency in question, and therefore your fluency isn't in question either. It's just that magic is a complicated game with a lot of rules: some of which are less flexible than others. You're doing English wonderfully. I've been here a while and I don't think anyone on this forum would willfully try to make anyone feel bad about their profiency with their second, third, or next language. Y'all all smarter than my monolingual ass, that's for sure. Dont' get me wrong. I fully undertood your intention in your first message. I really appreciate the corrections and was only trying to apologize in advance in case of any syntactic errors. Many thanks for your words. |
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Post by Jartis on Nov 11, 2021 8:54:17 GMT
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Fermat
8/8 Octopus
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Favorite Card: Force of Will
Favorite Set: Guildpact (set when I started playing)
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Post by Fermat on Nov 12, 2021 2:08:27 GMT
Encoder's Notes  Artifact  If a creature dealing combat damage to a player causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. The repetition code is one of the most basic error-correcting codes.
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Post by The Harlequin on Nov 13, 2021 11:41:32 GMT
"Equilibrium" is supposed to be an adjustable keyword. For example:
.) E to 1 .) EE to CC .) EE to G ... Everything is possible.
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Post by shitting_ceratops on Nov 13, 2021 12:54:49 GMT
hey y'all, first post ever! |
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Post by hydraheadhunter on Nov 13, 2021 13:44:44 GMT
hey y'all, first post ever!
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Post by sdfkjgh on Nov 13, 2021 18:55:15 GMT
"Equilibrium" is supposed to be an adjustable keyword. For example:
.) E to 1 .) EE to CC .) EE to G ... Everything is possible.
There's a few problems, but the core of the idea is interesting. Allow me:
Biogeneric1 Transmogrifier2     Legendary Artifact--Aethertech3  Equilibrium-- to (You may spend as though it were to cast this spell.)4 Spells you cast have Equilibrium-- to --------------------------------------------------------- "Your desired outcome is out of the question!" is just a deceptive way of saying "Prove that it isn't impossible."5
1Did you mean Biogeneric or Biogenetic?
2Thanks, Calvin and Hobbs, for helping me know the proper spelling of this word.
3WotC discontinued the Æ ligature a few years ago.
4I decided to go with a more elegant solution. Instead of looking to convoke for wording, we're going with Sunglasses of Urza. This still allows the flexibility of equilibrium you were looking for--(You may spend as though it were ...), etc.
5I wasn't quite sure what you were trying to get at with the flavor text, as syntactically it made no sense as-is. I had to guess at the intent.
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Post by Daij_Djan on Nov 14, 2021 14:00:09 GMT
A normal Divination in 1v1, much more in multiplayer let alone Commander. Enjoy! |
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the5lacker
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Post by the5lacker on Nov 14, 2021 14:04:26 GMT
I just realized I never actually uploaded my entry. Oops.
 Voltaic Conduit   Sorcery  Voltaic Conduit deals 4 damage to target creature. You gain an amount of (energy counters) equal to the excess damage dealt to that creature. |
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the5lacker
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Post by the5lacker on Nov 14, 2021 14:41:18 GMT
Yeah, it looks like it'll work with the new wording. And, this wasn't meant to be a correction on your English, so I'm sorry if it came across that way. This was meant to be a comment on whether I thought the card would work within the current rules. A couple weeks back, the5lacker and I had a similar conversation about whether my wording would work within the current rules, and I'm a native English speaker, so it wasn't my fluency in question, and therefore your fluency isn't in question either. It's just that magic is a complicated game with a lot of rules: some of which are less flexible than others. You're doing English wonderfully. I've been here a while and I don't think anyone on this forum would willfully try to make anyone feel bad about their profiency with their second, third, or next language. Y'all all smarter than my monolingual ass, that's for sure. Yeah Magic-ese is borderline coding language. It's got its own weird rules layered on top of English's own weird rules. No one's going to give anyone too much guff about not intuiting the differences between alternate costs, activated abilities, etc. |
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Post by The Harlequin on Nov 15, 2021 10:24:01 GMT
There's a few problems, but the core of the idea is interesting. Allow me:
Biogeneric1 Transmogrifier2 Legendary Artifact--Aethertech3 Equilibrium-- to (You may spend as though it were to cast this spell.)4 Spells you cast have Equilibrium-- to --------------------------------------------------------- "Your desired outcome is out of the question!" is just a deceptive way of saying "Prove that it isn't impossible."5
1Did you mean Biogeneric or Biogenetic?
2Thanks, Calvin and Hobbs, for helping me know the proper spelling of this word.
3WotC discontinued the Æ ligature a few years ago.
4I decided to go with a more elegant solution. Instead of looking to convoke for wording, we're going with Sunglasses of Urza. This still allows the flexibility of equilibrium you were looking for--(You may spend as though it were ...), etc.
5I wasn't quite sure what you were trying to get at with the flavor text, as syntactically it made no sense as-is. I had to guess at the intent.
Let's wrap this up in a timely manner: Biogeneric -- cause it makes generic mana -- which, considering ya rewording, wasn't a miste, it was and is intentional that it "only" produces generic mana. Æ is just a letter in an latin alphabet -- And as long as that is the case I maey feel free to use the whole spectrum the language provides (besides being the most close representation of "Ä" there is in the english language). The glasses alter mana properties of an already established mana source. Paying/spending isn't consideres, in any way, shape or form I can imagine, as a way of paying for spell costs -- Only for ability costs. "...which may be used to pay the costs of activated and triggered abilities...." So the wording has to allow the payment of to be consideres as a valid way of spell cost payment. As far as i am informed, only convoke does that. And thereforth, because convoke payment gain of  never got erratered to , like literaly anything else, and that was also precisley that what i was aiming for, i went this route. If ya don't get the refference from my flavour text, it is Ok by me. Not everyone had profs or advisers with this twisted way of trying to encourage their studends to think outside the box of established, old and dusty rules, trying to expend science beyond existing boundries. |
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Post by Daij_Djan on Nov 15, 2021 20:29:59 GMT
This thread is now closed, the poll can be found here. And here's the next challenge! |
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"When in doubt, do a common." 