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5 months ago ::
Jan 19, 2013 - 1:39PM
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Date Joined:
May 17, 2012
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edit: updated Cowardly Elf  Creature - Coward  : Add to your mana pool. If any opponent would add  or  to his or her mana pool. Exile ~, search your library for a basic land card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped, shuffle your library. 0/1 The idea for this card comes from experience of playing. Along similar lines. Unstable Elf-stone  Artifact : Add to your mana pool. If ~ would be destroyed, instead exile ~, search your library for a basic land card and put that card onto the battlefield tapped, shuffle your library.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 19, 2013 - 1:43PM
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Date Joined:
Dec 13, 2011
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Cowardly Elf isn't an Elf?  Most of the time it's just a Llanowar Elves  , but sometimes it's a cheap Rampant Growth  . Seems good but not ridiculous. What is the second "Search your library..."?
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5 months ago ::
Jan 19, 2013 - 1:45PM
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May 17, 2012
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Thanks.  I think it's more balanced without elf type as well. The 2nd was a typo.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 19, 2013 - 2:05PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 17, 2012
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I never run elf tribal so i think this would have to be a 0/1 as well as not an elf to be balanced...
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5 months ago ::
Jan 19, 2013 - 2:16PM
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Date Joined:
May 17, 2012
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You're probably right, updated.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 19, 2013 - 7:46PM
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Date Joined:
Dec 31, 2012
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If its not an elf, then don't call it an elf. Call it "Cowardly Birds" or something.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 19, 2013 - 8:15PM
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Nov 15, 2012
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looks like a dinosuar to me, how did it survive?
anyway nice idea, chase after the elf to find a new land
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5 months ago ::
Jan 19, 2013 - 10:11PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 10, 2009
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Don't go with "if" replacement effects. Just make a triggered ability. Which, by the way, has an awkward trigger. Especially because red is an ally to green. It's awkward that your opponent can exile it at anytime. Imagine you drew this as your chump blocker. Also, make it optional to search. It's bad enough that the creature goes when you don't want it to. You don't want your opponents to easily mess up your Ponder  , right? Finally, venturing into "pretty much better than Llanowar Elves " is not something I like very much. Cowardly Elf Creature - Coward : Add  to your mana pool. When an opponent adds  or  to his or her mana pool, exile CARDNAME. If you do, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. 1/1
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5 months ago ::
Jan 20, 2013 - 1:33PM
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Oct 12, 2010
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Why black and red? Why not blue and black?
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5 months ago ::
Jan 22, 2013 - 1:01PM
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Date Joined:
May 17, 2012
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Because I'm trying to avoid making it strictly better than cards like Llanowar Elves I don't mind it having some weaknesses. I could change the name but I don't like Cowardly Birds as a replacement. I think of blue as once stuff is in play being more effects like Unsummon  and Inaction Injunction  , they are not so much of a problem agaisn't mana creatures as red burn spells (there are probably better examples than Shock  ) or black cards like Black Sun's Zenith  .
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