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Uncommon #2:
RG Doppelganger Aggro Ramp

Azolla's Doppelganger 
Creature - Plant Shapeshifter
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may tap any number of untapped creatures you control. This spell costs  less to cast for each creature tapped this way.
Haste
"Wait! Don't go over there, you-...she's too big this is bad this is BAD"
-Azolla, Double Trouble

Mythic Rare #1

After so long name-dropping her, here she is in all of her glory:

Azolla, Double Trouble 
Legendary Planeswalker - Azolla 
Doppelganger 
Azolla, Double Trouble has starting loyalty 1 and isn't legendary as long as she's a token. 
: Add two mana of any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast Plant spells, Shapeshifter spells, or spells with doppelganger. 
: Create a token that's a copy of a permanent you control. 


Bonus Cards:


Wisp of Dissonant Breezes 
Creature - Spirit 
Whisper (You may tap an untapped creature you control as you cast this spell)
Whenever you whisper a spell, you draw a card and gain 1 life.
2/2

amneister:



Nightly Visit: A fine concept, power-level feels a bit on the weak end. I wouldn't hate giving a bit extra

to do with it when you topdeck it. Still, a solid common.



Incubator: This is an intresting design. They are slpashable and seem very fitting in this world. I wish the faction concept was explored a bit more, I think it could have given the set a bit of structure. So far, the strongest card I've seen. I could see a world where the last ability costs 1W and you get to 1/1's. It makes it a little bit less splashable but it would simplify the card a lot and I don't think it would change the play patterns that much.



viz:



Crow of Ill Omens: It makes sense flavourly for insanity counters to be a downside, but I can't say I like it mechanically. Since there isn't really a way to remove them, they could turn to obnoxious. The card itself feels very weak. A 3 mana 1/2 flier that draws a card is about on rate, and this has a pretty significant downside. It also has a lot of internal tension, it draws a card but reduces your handside. I don't mind that as a concept but at a common it feels a bit off.



Chaotic Devils: Derrange is an odd mechanic, I don't know how I feel about it. It's very very low impact against aggro, and somewhat obnoxious against control? I think my

design and the crows kind of imply that you mainly give insanity counters to yourself, so this recontextualizes those cards, as the opposite being mostly true. This makes

crows even weaker, as this effect is much stronger when it stacks. It also makes the card I showed a bit of a hoser, which is not necesarly a bad thing, but I feel derrange goes in the opposite direction of the designs we were having. Also, I wish this could have flavour text so far the plane feels a bit barren in flavor.



Strength of the Deranged: This card is extremly weak, even if you have three insanity counters when you play this, it's a 3 mana give +4/+4 that gives you another

counter. It also hoses derranged creatures, again, I feel this type of tension is not well realized with the isnanity mechanic.



Sigil: The powerlevel is also pretty weak on this one. 5 mana for a two sided mind rot is way weak, even if hellbent gives you an advantage. As a mechanic, hellbent

is reasonable, it's a more aggresive mechanic which contrasts with whisper and doppleganger. Still, it's weird with derranged, as it hoses it. Flavor feels a bit generic

here too.



Hollow: It's okay, I think it could add three mana of any one colored to be a refernce to LED.



Foureyes:



Chilling Witness: Really good use of doppleganger here. Powerlevel is a tad scary here, untapping two lands and getting to 2/1 for five mana is quite strong. This likely

works better as an uncommon.



Sprout: Great and simple design. Powerlevel is too weak, but the idea is solid. I like that if you have a turn 2 whisper card, you can have this a T1 play. Otherwise

you probably wait a bit more because I think it's much better on T3.



Azolla's Doppelganger: Why is the card with doppelganger in its name without doppleganger? I don't get the flavor of it, later on Azolla is a planeswalker and this is not

her doppelganger. It seems to be playing into whisper, which doesn't seem to be in the RG space. It's missing PT, I assume it's a 0/0 that etb with X counters on it.



Azolla: Azolla is an intresting card, the +1 is a bit strange with the tribal stuff, but I guess it's not too bad. Doppleganger is solid here, we've seen this kind of card before (Jace). I don't love the -3 being both so strong and that it kills azolla right away, in some ways it reads more like a 3 mana clone.



Sorsal:



Spider: Right off the bat, the card has memory issues. Other than that, the card is fine, I don't hate a defensive card that taps for mana. I think the card is

too weak, a 3 mana 1/4 reach is nothing to ride home about and having to whisper to get a mana dork on turn 3 feels a bit low impact in my eyes. There are probably other

options and way to massage the numbers to make it a more solid card.



Rationalize: Great flavor! As it seems to be having, it's not super clear how much of a downside insanity counters are, so Idk how it would play. Exilign a token feels a bit

narrow, so it's okay against doppleganger but that's it. I think it could draw a card or be less restrictive.



Investigator: Cool enigma payoff. I think returnign to the battlefield feels much more white than blue, could have been a UW card. It's not easy to get enigmas into your

graveyard though, you need to meddle and then the back side needs to die. Still, a cool concept and solid flavor.



Tune into Broadcast: Powerlevel here is insane, it's a 3 mana clone, that then is a 5 mana clone, that then is gets you three 2/2 and counters on a bunch of creatures.

Cloning in white feels very off, and the powerlevel is too much.

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General thoughts: I saw some good efforts here, but I wish you played off each other a bit more. The insanity counters mechanic didn't work for me, and maybe a bit
more flavor was needed here, but still, a solid job in general.

I'll give the win to sorsal as I feel he got a lot of good flavor points and cool designs. The rare is whack overpowered, should probably be blue or at change those designs,
but still, I think the flavor is great. Close runner-up to foureyesisafish, with a lot of simple designs. I feel your last submistions were a bit overdone and had a couple of things I didn't love, but still, very solid cards.

Great job here guys!

lordpat
Appreciate your detailed feedback. Seems I didn't strike a chord with where you had envisioned your set going.

Out of curiosity, did you have a mechanic in mind for insanity counters? I took them more in the direction of how poison and experience work, since your card seemed to imply they just needed to exist on you instead of something you need to pay (like energy), and also something that you could have more of (as opposed to just having a state of "being insane" which would be better not shown through a counter). And I also wanted them to have an effect as opposed to just collecting them for no inherent effect. I used the concept of "brain damage" from Netrunner.

Common #1

Feed the Destitute
Sorcery
Create three Food tokens. (They're artifacts with ",, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
"The fanfare of war is invariably joined by a chorus of growling stomachs."
—Ana, Osslanian primalist

Common #3:
So the description of this is that it's a faction set with tribal elements and I haven't really seen anyone explore that yet. SO...

Reanalyze 
Tribal Sorcery - Homunculus 
Tap target creature. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Regulate (You may create a 1/1 white and blue Homunculus creature token or tap two untapped creatures you control to draw a card.)

So a few things:
-Osslan's homunculi are the result of experimentation and are quite different to the one-eyed, blue-fleshed varieties found on other planes, more so resembling small (at least most of the time), child-like humans with odd traits resulting from their experimentation, such as differing amounts of digits, weird patches of skin and hair colors, and sometimes more dramatic changes.
-I know bringing back tribal was probably not the top choice but I think it's cool. Also fits with Sparksurge's elemental clause.
-Each of the four factions likely has a mechanic, and the Primalists have a mechanic in the form of a 5c smoothing mechanic.

Mechanics:
Taba (WB Angels):
Almakine (UR UNKNOWN):
Osslan (WU Homunculi): Regulate (You may create a 1/1 white and blue Homunculus creature token or tap two untapped creatures you control to draw a card.)
Mardtz (BR Demons):
Primalists (wubrG Elementals):

Sorry for being that guy everyone but...
 lordpat vizionarius ameisenmeister Fermat we should probably get a move on here.

Common #5

Remenas' Aggression 
Enchantment - Aura 
Enchant creature you control
Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike.
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, you may pay . If you do, enchanted creature fights target creature defending player controls.

Common #7

Abandon Ideas
Sorcery
Target player discards two cards. If was spent to cast ~, you gain 3 life.
Primalists are often forced to operate covertly, particularly among the more ruthless societies.

Common 9

Burning Growth
Instant
Add or . Spend this mana only to cast Elemental spells.
In order to properly destroy something, you have to grow destruction itself.

Uncommon #1

Almakine Gallery
Land 
As ~ enters the battlefield, you may pay . If you don't, ~ enters the battlefield tapped.
: Add  or .

Uncommon #3

Delinquent Mercenary 
Creature - Imp Mercenary 
Haste
Successor 2 (When ~ dies, search your library for a creature card with power 2 or less that shares a creature type with ~, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
3/2

Here is the Mardtz mechanic:
Successor X (When ~ dies, search your library for a creature card with power X or less that shares a creature type with ~, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

It takes some inspiration from the Mercenaries from Mercadian Masques.


 

I'm of two minds about it. In the one hand, I think that the cohesiveness of the pack is important, with conflicting mechanics moving away from that ideal, but on the other hand, I really enjoy seeing new and interesting cards, so if your idea doesn't go too far against what we've got so far, full steam ahead!