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Post by ellipsis on Feb 12, 2019 0:19:42 GMT
Does the following make sense? Any way I could make it clearer or shorter? Gift of Sight Enchantment Endow (If you cast this card for its endow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. Its abilities apply to enchanted creature instead of this card.): Draw cards equal to half this permanent's mana cost, rounded down, then discard a card. The idea here is that when you cast a spell for its endow cost, its text is changed similar to Overload, such that every ability except the endow ability changes from {ability} to Enchanted creature has "{ability}".
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Post by kefke on Feb 15, 2019 0:45:02 GMT
The biggest problem I see here is that, mechanically, there's not a lot of difference between something being a global enchantment, or an aura. The enchantment can't really do anything, other than generate its effect, which it will still be doing attached to a creature. The only real difference when it comes to something like the example is that it's technically better as a global enchantment, both because it's harder to kill (as you can't just kill the creature), and because it doesn't require you to tie up one of your creatures to use its effect. Having an effect based on CMC helps, but is clunky. (Leaving aside that the example effect itself is a little broken.) It seems, though, like you're taking that into account, since I do note that the sample card offers a lower cost for casting as an aura.
I don't think there's an elegant way to do this, though. With bestow, the non-aura version of the card is capable of taking all the actions that the enchanted creature (presumably) would be, so they can word things as "THIS and/or enchanted creature", but even then most cards need a secondary line to define what it does as an enchantment. Here the non-aura card has different behaviour from a creature. "Enchanted creature gains all abilities of this card." could work in many cases, but there's bound to be some fringe cases where things would need to be reworded (also ignoring that the only time a non-artifact enchantment has gotten a tap ability was on a futureshifted card). Meaning your best bet still ends up being to have a secondary, "If this is an aura, <...>" effect.
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