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May 19, 2012 -- 9:24PM, Kavu_Overlord wrote:

Affinity for spells cast this turn? Affinity-Storm? For being similar to two pretty overpowered mechanics, it seems balanced, maybe even on the weak side. Still, it's a cool intro to the mechanic and lets you come up with Manaweave combos for normal cards too

The popular opinion seems to be that the mechanic is weak.  I can see how that works, though I was planning for the mechanic to be abused in the block.  I was thinking that there would be a good bit of Suspend cards to allow you to stack them all to come into play on the same turn.  I thought things like that would help lower the cost, not to mention the mechanic wasn't meant to power out the cards quite the way people seem to be thinking.  It was more that playing enough before it would make them nearly free, almost like a trap.  I see that it wouldn't work quite that way, but that was the intent.

May 23, 2012 -- 2:36PM, Mown wrote:

I think I prefer Manaweaver over razorborne's mechanic, since it's a bit easier to control and doesn't go spell, spell, ASDGSADSAD you're dead. Not big on the name though. However, I am slightly sad that it doesn't actually let you cast the spell for less, unless you only cast 0-cost spells.
The activated ability could be better excecuted, as it is currently in conflict with the whole casting a lot of spells. I'd almost go as far and say that you could just have him tap, or even make it into a passive, so players won't have to ask themselves if the ability applies to newly drawn cards.

I just wasn't 100% sure what would be overly abusive.  I was simply thinking that paying would be fair sine the first card would be reduced by . second spell would be reduced by , third by and so on and so forth.  Something like that in an artifact deck could cause you to cast an etire hand without paying a single mana cost if you have the right cards ready.

May 23, 2012 -- 7:52PM, Rush_Clasic wrote:

Manaweave is awkward. It's so difficult to make worthwhile with the reduction being a single mana. Ultimately, you never get to a point where it's easier to cast unless you figure out a way to free play a ton of stuff, which is probably a winning scenario anyway. I think a reduction of is just way more sensible. I also dislike that his ability is a tap ability. On bigger guys, a tap ability has to be amazing to be worth not attacking. It'd be neater for this to just have a combat damage trigger.

I was thinking of it being a tap ability at the end of your opponent's turn and playing off of their spells, but you're right.  I guess I saw the card as a combo-maker, and not a beater, but I did give it the body of a beater, so that was my mistake.  Either way, I still think reducing by would have been a really huge advantage, especially if he didn't tap.  Also, as worded, manaweave stacks, so without tapping, I'd have to add in... more text to use only once per turn?  I dunno.

After a lot of thinking, would this have been a better submission?

Djinn of Pleas -
Creature - Djinn - R
Manaweave (This spell's mana cost is reduced by for each spell cast before it this turn.)
Flying
Cards in your hand have Manaweave.
: The next spell you cast has manaweave. Activate this ability only once each turn.
"Some say the tides of war are driven by a single wish made in a moment of despair, giving shape to a creature of pure arcane energy." ~Genevi Archivist
3/5

I dunno, now I'm just playing around with the idea since I have input.