<BB> Zid's Battle Board | Novek Shen

Extradite: The idea behind this is cool, but I think it's too swingy at uncommon - if it's being triggered often, it's a massive advantage piece, but if it's not it's practically dead. 7/10

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The elf nods, unsettled by the unfamiliar energies in the area. Beneath their hood, a slight grimace is visible on red lips.

"Please forgive my manners, friend. I am Aelewin, of Clan Ser Ka. May you enlighten me as to yourself and your world?"

Disciple of Ancient Tongues 
Creature - Treefolk Shaman 
You can't cast white, blue, black or red spells.
Whenever you cast a spell, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. When you do, put a +1/+1 counter on ~.
3/3

"Unless you have a sword that can cut through time itself, I don't think there's anything you can do."  Novek shrugged.  "I would appreciate any assistance you could offer me in locating a place to search for applicable knowledge."

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Solar Blade:  There's nothing quite like a good, old-fashioned capacitor for storing up charge for later use.  3 mana for activation seems appropriate, but I'd probably bump the casting cost up to 2.  9/10.

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You're likely remembering CR122.2, which says "Counters on an object are not retained if that object moves from one zone to another. The counters are not “removed”; they simply cease to exist." and assuming that the inverse is true if the object doesn't change zones; however, according to CR400.8, "If an object in the exile zone is exiled, it doesn’t change zones, but it becomes a new object that has just been exiled.", this does work as intended: the suspended object no longer exists; thus, neither do the counters; furthermore, there is no effect that places counters onto the new object created when you exile the suspended card from exile: as this new object does not have any time counters on it, it isn't suspended: according to CR702.62b, "A card is “suspended” if it’s in the exile zone, has suspend, and has a time counter on it."

A serpentine Eldrazi begins to crawl its way towards Novek with an indeterminate number of limbs. "Say, I wonder how dealing with this one might be?", the Beckoner muses as she takes out her stone tablet. 

Wretched Tidespawn
Creature - Eldrazi Drone  
Devoid (This card has no color.)
When Wretched Tidespawn enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them in your hand and exile the rest. If you control a creature with mana value 6 or greater, instead put each of those cards in your hand.
No intelligence and no intention. Yet still, it confounded even the village's sharpest strategists.
3/2

"Thank you for the information.  I will be sure to inquire after them once I have concluded my search for knowledge here."

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Name Recognition:  Countering any spell so long as another card with the same name exists on the battlefield or in their yard isn't a condition I would have thought to use, and it's pretty cool.  Counterspells are blue's primary form of removal, and each other color gets good removal at 1N, so I don't have any problem with this, but YMMV amongst people that use Counterspell as the metric against which countering any spell you want at an MV of 2 is judged.  10/10.

"I wish you luck in your quest, Novek formerly of Dominion Kitach."

They move, shifting into a more open posture, but unsubtly flashing their golden blade in a manner not so much a threat as a warning. As they move around Zid, circling slightly, their cloak flickers between smoky darkness and corporeal fabric.

"Say, friend, could you tell me of this plane of strange manas and odd abilities?"

Exelian Yaksha: Flavor of being an Efreet is off but ill give that the benefit of the doubt due to lack of context. Otherwise seems fine. Dunno how much it synergises or answers my card. 8/10

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Inquisitive Inspector 
Creature - Human Soldier 
Whenever you sacrifice an artifact token, put a +1/+1 counter on ~.
, Sacrifice ~: Create a Food token and a Clue token.
2/2

froggy

"Thank you."

Novek appeared thoughtful for a moment.  "I'm afraid that I didn't think to ask the name of the place where I was, so preoccupied was I with my quest to save my home.  But I can tell you that it is a confluence of mana unlike anything I have seen before or since.  According to the locals, two planes collided long ago, creating a landscape of interconnected sub-planes, each with a different combination of the magics of each of the two parent planes.  There were ten colors in total: the five I was already familiar with and that appear to be universal, and what the locals called Purple, Yellow, Orange, Brown, and Pink.  There was also raw mana of a form not yet touched by any of the other colors, but this was not used regularly by the locals."

Inquisitive Inspector:  Green and White both like their +1/+1 counters, and going tall is a common archetype of the pair.  I like that you can use a second copy of this card to generate a means to pump the first.  9/10

As Order of the Spyglass enters the battlefield, choose a color.

test

"Does anyone truly comprehend the full power of magic?" Novek replied.  "I know enough to know that there is too much to ever learn.  I can only hope that I understand my own limitations well enough to avoid making a critical error."

Novek Conjures Claustrophobia from Core 14.



Radiant Novice:  Another elegant design, though it's rather vulnerable to blue's flavor of on-board removal.  9/10.

Fleur

"I am searching for a way to stop that which has already begun: a spell gone wrong - horribly wrong."  She closed the book and inserted it into a small portal that appeared, then pulled a different volume out.  "I have seen many strange things in my travels, but I do not believe I've seen anything that resembles that creature in person.  As to sea creatures..."  Novek opened the book to a page about two-thirds the way through.  "My home has many such things.  What in particular about the denizens of the deep are you interested in?"



Deep Sea Studies:  What an interesting class that would be.  Sacrificing creatures for cards is more black's wheelhouse, but I don't mind the bend.  9/10.

A gleaming rift opens beside Novek, similar to the one he saw opened by the one-armed robot. But she is nowhere to be seen. The swirling colors of the rift turn black as night and the tear in reality expands taller than the lizard. A grotesque, bloated arm reaches out, followed by a similarly foul leg, then the rest of the hulking creature. Novek might have thought it an extremely corpulent man if not for its face being nothing but a black void resting inside the creature’s skull.

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Note: Reinforcements will be on the way for characters that need them