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1 year ago ::
May 05, 2012 - 11:24PM
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So maybe Erzuval's flavor text should be:
"Allow yourself to join the tide of life!"
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1 year ago ::
May 05, 2012 - 11:36PM
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Heres another Green Hero! This ones a healer type, maybe a Goddess or something. Yavailana, Forerunner of Forest's Dawn :3:  Legendary Creature-Treefolk Avatar Seed Yavailana's Toughness is equal to the number of permanents on the battlefield with fungus counters on them. regenerate target creature with a fungus counter on it. 4/X "We come to allow life to flourish, not wither away."
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1 year ago ::
May 06, 2012 - 1:30AM
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- UnCon Prizewinner 2008
- Infernal Spawn of Infernal Spawn of Evil
- Chairman of the Board
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b. Why the hell did you put the white mana symbols before the colourless mana symbol??????
the reason why people do this is one of the great mysteries of our age
firstrike
Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
This definitely doesn't mean what you think it means.
I was referring to the painting The Treachery of Images.
I know.
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1 year ago ::
May 06, 2012 - 3:13PM
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Wow, I look away for a few days an all kinds of stuff shows up.
Anyway, things:
At the moment I'm planning on twelve mythics for the set. There will be two mythics for each color. I've chosen green's mythics to be the planeswalker that accidently brought The Creep to Sankora, and a fungus elemental overmind that rules over the invading plants. White and blue will get a gold mythic as will red and black.
I'm trying not to fill this set up with too many legendaries. This isn't Kamigawa.
You are right, flavor text will be an important factor in explaining the ecology. Unfortunately, flavor text doesn't come very easy to me, so that is something I plan on working through last.
At the moment I'm still trying to figure out a mechanic for the red and black faction. I kind of want a burn/despoil mechanic that hurts things and removes counters.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in an thread with GM_Champion" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against AzureShade when card design is on the line!
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1 year ago ::
May 06, 2012 - 10:57PM
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Who was the planeswalker who brought the Creep? Thanks for telling us, for I kinda get carried away with characters. I just love making key generals and stuff.
Maybe for that red/black, they seem to be evil, so maybe something necromantic-like? Maybe it could be something like:
Dehydration (If a creature dealt damage by this creature has counters on it, instead remove that many counters until there is no more damage, or no more counters)
If this doesn't make sense, which I don't think it does, example:
Something, maybe called a Horaat Dunemage, deals 5 damage to a creep crawler with 8 +1/+1 counters on it. The Dunemage would remove 5 of those counters instead. If the same crawler had 4 counters on it, the Dunemage would remove 4 counters, and deal 1 regular damage.
How's that?
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1 year ago ::
May 07, 2012 - 7:20AM
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You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in an thread with GM_Champion" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against AzureShade when card design is on the line!
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1 year ago ::
May 07, 2012 - 3:51PM
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@Azure
I can almost guarantee that Purge will eventually exist. WotC have a history of reversing mechanics to get cool interactions and that sounds like one they'd do. Mad Props etc.. lol
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1 year ago ::
May 07, 2012 - 10:28PM
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Purge, that's actually pretty cool! Would this work? I'll recycle the name: Horaat Dunemage    Creature-Human Bandit Wizard  Purge (You choose any number of permanents and/or players with counters on them, then remove a counter from each of them.)
2/1 When the Horaat conduct a raid, they send in dunemages first to immobilize the guards, so then the raiders can pillage without any rude interruptions.
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1 year ago ::
May 08, 2012 - 6:17AM
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I don't know if Purge will ever get to be an actual thing. While Wizards loves to reverse mechanics from time to time, this one breaks one of MaRo's cardinal rules, in that it can remove poison counters from players.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in an thread with GM_Champion" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against AzureShade when card design is on the line!
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1 year ago ::
May 08, 2012 - 6:48AM
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Anyway, now that I have some mechanics skeletons to work with, squaring them has been a tough process. Prophecy seems fine so far as is, and I really like Purge. The problem is that I can't decide if I need to work over Seed some more.
The existence of Purge makes this something of a "counters matter" set, which is what I wanted when I devised Seed's use of fungus counters with the idea that spells in green might do extra things to cards based on the amount of counters, or have a reduced cost depending on the number of fungus counters on the board. However, I'm not sure where to strike the balance between Seed and Purge. I'm more than willing to accept suggestions on the matter.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in an thread with GM_Champion" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against AzureShade when card design is on the line!
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