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5 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 7:58AM
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Natures Beckon  Instant Put a creature card with converted mana cost three or less from your hand onto the battlefield. Sort of a green Dark Ritual/Unearth. Is instant ok or do you think it should be a sorcery? What does [ICD] stand for anyways?
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5 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 8:04AM
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Natures Beckon
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Put a creature card with converted mana cost three or less from your hand onto the battlefield.
Sort of a green Dark Ritual/Unearth. Is instant ok or do you think it should be a sorcery? What does [ICD] stand for anyways?
ICD = Individual Card Discussion.
I'd say make it a sorcery. Otherwise, it unintntionally gives any low-cost creature Flash.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 10:39AM
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Yeah, it should be a sorcery. That said, giving Deadly Recluse  flash would be more true to the nature of Spider than what we have now.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 11:31AM
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I'm not sure this needs to be a sorcery, flash is green and this puts pretty acceptable limits on its use. I might add that the creature must be green though, both because that has history in green and it better mirrors Dark Ritual.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 11:37AM
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I would agree that giving the creature flash isn't a problem and actually makes the card a very solid uncommon. It doesn't feel like a common effect, so I think I'll leave it as an instant. As for making it only a green creature, I don't think thats necessary either. I'd prefer to keep it as an attractive card to pair with all the colors.
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Cards are not entirely unlike living organisms in this regard. All the good ones are a result of long evolution; the 'original' ones are either monocellular or mutant aberrations.
Graveborn are strictly better than Zombies. I mean, look at that wicked beard . You try growing that when your dead. And I know aging fellows who are suffering from Male Pattern Baldness, who would kill for a Mop like Ribsy's over there.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 11:57AM
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I would agree that giving the creature flash isn't a problem and actually makes the card a very solid uncommon. It doesn't feel like a common effect, so I think I'll leave it as an instant. As for making it only a green creature, I don't think thats necessary either. I'd prefer to keep it as an attractive card to pair with all the colors.
But then I can flash in a Geralf's Messenger  in a mono- green deck. :/
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5 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 12:13PM
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I would agree that giving the creature flash isn't a problem and actually makes the card a very solid uncommon. It doesn't feel like a common effect, so I think I'll leave it as an instant. As for making it only a green creature, I don't think thats necessary either. I'd prefer to keep it as an attractive card to pair with all the colors.
But then I can flash in a Geralf's Messenger in a mono- green deck. :/
You could, but is it a problem? If you are playing monogreen I'd say there are going to be lots of times you got stuck with a Messenger in your hand and no Beckon to get it onto the table. Even then, is it a bad thing that the monogreen player get limited access to the Messenger? People playing messenger would likely be running this in a b/g deck anyways.
I promise I'm not arguing just for the sake of it. Your saying it would break things too harshly since obviously messenger was put a BBB for a good reason and this card would get around that. Changing it to green still keeps it as a fine card, and it probably should be that or a lot of the time it would read "add three mana of any colour to your mana pool. Only spend this mana on creatures" which wasn't what I was going for. Your logic is too sound for me to ignore!
So the final version would be:
Natures Beckon (darn symbols)
Instant (U)
Put a green creature card with a converted mana cost of three or less from your hand onto the battlefield.
Still very solid, and doesn't violate any other cards costs.
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Perfect originality is overrated and often ugly. The best and most beautiful cards I've ever seen were clearly inspired by something else.
Cards are not entirely unlike living organisms in this regard. All the good ones are a result of long evolution; the 'original' ones are either monocellular or mutant aberrations.
Graveborn are strictly better than Zombies. I mean, look at that wicked beard . You try growing that when your dead. And I know aging fellows who are suffering from Male Pattern Baldness, who would kill for a Mop like Ribsy's over there.
Hey Dudibus, I can't take you seriously until you take your shirt off!
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5 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 12:31PM
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Yeah, you can flash in messenger, but really, is it worth it to play that? Messenger doesn't autowin you the game, and it's going to be a dead card whenever you don't draw beckon.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 1:14PM
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There is precedent for making this green-only ( Dramatic Entrance  , Lure of Prey  , Norwood Priestess  ) but the majority of green cards that put creatures into play from other zones are not restricted by colour.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 1:21PM
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Yes thank you I will play my Doran, the Siege Tower  , Woolly Thoctar  and/or Leatherback Baloth  turn one. Although I'm sure there are even more vicious things to do with this. Way overpowered.
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