Card of the Week Contest #398: 2 New 2 Begin

the5lacker: I suppose I should make an exception for draw steps in there, I'll add that. Should I up the number of cards you can keep in hand to 4 or 5? What I'm looking to do is make playing out your hand first and saving card draw for last. If I have 2 cards in hand and one of them is Divination, I can draw 2 cards when I cast it. But if I have 3 cards in hand and one is Divination I'll only draw 1.

The problem isn't doing the arithmetic, the problem is "My 3/1 trades with this. Oh, whoops, I forgot it was a Cat, no it won't, it's a free kill."

Since "Bobbulosh" and "this creature" is third person singular, it should be "dies". Also, dying effects usually use "When" and not "Whenever" (since usually that happens only once). See this for reference.

Taking advantage of the new digital-only stuff:



Sigardian Evangel already plays in this space but it's more aggressively statted (and has ETB upside) so the conjured card doesn't stick around. I think this design has its own niche.

ganzzert how about
Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, its base power and toughness becomes 2/2, ...
You should also probably put a reminder counter on it so that people don#t forget that it is 2/2.

kilenc That's an arbitrary ammount of 2/2s for 2 mana. And it isn't even limited to one turn. That's pretty busted. Maybe this should check if it started in you deck. Or if you want it to work multiple times, make it only work if you don't control other Viking Reserves or maybe limit the nummber of creatures you control to make it work. Even with those options, its easy fodder for free sacrifice abilities.

bastardneko You know you can activate that ability multiple times in a turn? Yes, it deals 2 damage to you each time, but it has quite the strange effect of the original attacking alone and potentially an army of copies attacking your other opponents.
Also continuous effects without any reminder of it usually cause memory problems. ("How much bushido does that thing have?") I know two different kind of counters on the same creature isn't that great either, but how about training counters?

bastardneko Also, I don't believe that the copies would have bushido, since the printed card doesn't have it (see below). Not sure if the intent was that the copies would have it, but just wanted to point that out. A workaround for that, and the issue about remembering (pointed out by Flo00 ), could be something like this:
"Other Burning-Hydra Ronins you control have bushido X, where X is half the number of +1/+1 counters on ~, rounded down." Or something similar, just giving an example.

"707.2. When copying an object, the copy acquires the copiable values of the original object’s characteristics and, for an object on the stack, choices made when casting or activating it (mode, targets, the value of X, whether it was kicked, how it will affect multiple targets, and so on). The copiable values are the values derived from the text printed on the object (that text being name, mana cost, color indicator, card type, subtype, supertype, rules text, power, toughness, and/or loyalty), as modified by other copy effects, by its face-down status, and by “as . . . enters the battlefield” and “as . . . is turned face up” abilities that set power and toughness (and may also set additional characteristics). Other effects (including type-changing and text-changing effects), status, and counters are not copied."