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4 months ago  ::  Jan 27, 2013 - 12:02AM #1
Shazzeh
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On second thought I'm not going to make a separate thread for every random common, and the cards will probably make more sense in the context of the rest of the set.

I'm making a set that I'll never finish in which blue doesn't exist except in hybrid cards. All its mechanics are being bled out as hybrids and the other colors are going to have sort of blue-y subthemes to flesh out the new color pie.

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Extricate
Instant (common)
Return target blocked creature to its owner's hand.
Draw a card.

Patrol Dodger
Creature - Human Rogue (common)
Patrol Dodger can't be blocked by creatures with toughness 3 or greater.
2/1

Neural Spook
Creature - Human Rogue (common)
When Neural Spook enters the battlefield, look at the top three cards of target player's library. You may have that player put those cards into his or her graveyard. If you do, sacrifice Neural Spook.
1/1

Dormant Hederodon
Creature - Plant Beast (common)
Defender
As long as you have seven or more cards in hand, Dormant Hederodon can attack as though it didn't have defender.
4/8
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4 months ago  ::  Jan 27, 2013 - 12:14AM #2
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The green defender's P/T seems a little oppressive for a common. Most three-mana defenders don't go higher than 1/5.

Pardon me for asking, but what stops people from making mono-blue decks and enjoying access to every card in the set?
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Apr 19, 2012 -- 5:36AM, prospector wrote:

Think of how Neo couldn't beat the robots, but they kept him around anyways to defeat Agent Smith. Sure, the robots might not like having a Neo running rampant because instead of playing their favorite 4 drop fatty robot, they have to play a bunch of one mana Matrixs to contain him, but at least Neo keeps Agent Smith from reanimating an Iona on turn two.

Jun 26, 2012 -- 3:07PM, GM_Champion wrote:

Are you saying I'm trying to blame my loss on something? I don't care that I lost, I care that he's a sore loser, and a cheater, and a liar.

Oct 5, 2012 -- 1:36PM, magicpablo666 wrote:

CKY, are you bad at anything?

Oct 25, 2012 -- 9:53PM, magicpablo666 wrote:

I really enjoy imagining this from Kevin's perspective. Because in Kevin's world, Rosewater actually reads everything he types. Mark is sitting there right now, reading this, and thinking "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled. . ." Or some such. He chuckles low, then clicks on "The Best Of KEVINSET" and says "Yes, this'll do just fine. A busty lady with banding who deals direct damage to Zones!? Why this will be the star of my next set, and no one will ever believe you Kevin." Then he closes his Macbook, so his servant may move it out of the way, while another servant puts a Fetal Richard Garfield Clone lathered in Steak Sauce in front of him. Then Mark Feasts.

I mean, In KevinWorld, Mark is reading the very words I'm typing as well. Heck, in KevinWorld maybe I am Mark.

Nov 9, 2012 -- 2:27PM, Exxile72 wrote:

I'm beginning to think CKY may be anime in real life...

Feb 11, 2013 -- 7:38AM, Jessica_Morgan wrote:

Don't go anywhere CKY, I need to crash dramatically through your window and propose marriage and I don't want you throwing off my paradrop.

Mar 15, 2013 -- 7:56AM, Knifethrower wrote:

[In response to a thread about how hard grading is]

Upon reading this, I've found myself completely unable to operate in the world.  I tried to decide what to eat for breakfast, and pondered the vast consequences of my choice.  How do I balance my dietary needs against my desire to eat good-tasting food? Should I factor in how long it takes to prepare?  Cereal is ready in moments, but bacon takes longer to cook.

Then there is the impact on other industries.  Do people in the cereal industry deserve to be employed more than people in the bacon industry?  Which industry should I support? I don't even have the data regarding HOW MUCH the cereal industry benefits from me eating a bowl of cereal, or how much the bacon industry benefits from me eating a side of bacon.  How can I compare two qualities I can't even quantify?

And let's not forget the milk on the cereal.  In addition to determining whether or not milk is healthy for me, how much that benefits the milk industry, and how much the people in the milk industry deserve my support, we have to factor in the fact that cows are put under brutal conditions in order to collect thier milk.  Of course, the same goes for the pigs, and then they get killed.  Of course, I really like bacon.  So I need to come up with a scale that compares the value of cow happiness to pig happiness to my happiness.  What trade-offs am I willing to make here?  Does the fact that the pig gets put out of its misery count as a plus or a minus?  Isn't bacon bad for me anyway?

Deciding what to eat for breakfast (or any meal) is impossible.  Help me!

Apr 11, 2013 -- 6:15AM, altimis wrote:

I must admit chinkeeyong, you have the most interesting character ideas; and you play them well.

Apr 12, 2013 -- 7:13PM, magicpablo666 wrote:

Anyway, you'd be surprised about Time Stop. When I first saw that card as a relatively new player I didn't see its full potential until I read the reminder text. Is it that unintuitive, though? Mine I mean. What is possibility? Is it possible for me to type these words with my tusks? No, because I don't have tusks. Although I am now tempted to go buy some - obviously not from poachers or whatever - and use them as typing apparatus. I could be the best secretary ever. "What's your words per minute sir?" "Well, only six, but I use these tusks to type them." "You're hired!" That was the interview. And is anyone else disappointed that "apparati" is not the plural form of apparatus? I just could strangle a dictionary, because "apparatuses" is a real word. I guess it sounds pretty cool. I'll call them my Apparatusks.

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4 months ago  ::  Jan 27, 2013 - 12:21AM #3
Shazzeh
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Yeah, I wanted the defender thing to be big enough that you would actually want to attack with it but it's probably going to have to be a lot more expensive.

There are three times as many monocolor as hybrid cards of each color, so blue will have an equally-sized pool of cards as everyone else. I haven't given a very representative sample so far, though.

Two more:

Ridicule
Sorcery
Target player reveals his or her hand and discards each nonland card with the same name as a card in his or her graveyard.
"That didn't work the first time. What makes you think it would help you now?"

Hysteric Treachery
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
You can't choose a creature with converted mana cost greater than the number of creature cards put into its controller's graveyard from anywhere this turn as Hysteric Treachery's target as you cast Hysteric Treachery.
You control enchanted creature.

Black is taking blue's "information" effects, -X/-0, permanent theft of permanents. It's going to have a mill theme—not as a terrible win condition, but to synergize with stuff like this.
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4 months ago  ::  Jan 27, 2013 - 12:46AM #4
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Rush already made this set. well, started to, no idea if he finished it.

 
120.6. Some effects replace card draws.
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4 months ago  ::  Jan 27, 2013 - 12:59AM #5
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Most of the threads don't have the cards anymore. I was only posting renders at the time, until raz started complaining (always with the complaints). It was based on indentity, had a mechanical mana theme, and over I think the idea is good. I wish the forums hadn't eaten the main thread.

Anyway, this isn't the best example, but as the thread title suggests, this is an easy way to cheat extra hybrids into your set. 
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4 months ago  ::  Jan 27, 2013 - 7:08AM #6
Mata_Hari
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Wait, wasn't it Fallingman who did this??
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4 months ago  ::  Jan 27, 2013 - 7:08AM #7
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4 months ago  ::  Jan 27, 2013 - 8:55AM #8
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Just kidding here's more cards

Ruminant Druid
Creature - Human Druid (c)
: Add to your mana pool. If you have seven or more cards in hand, put a +1/+1 counter on ~.
0/1

Beyond the Horizons
Sorcery (u)
Search your library for up to five basic land cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library.

Green is getting uncounterability, shroud, hexproof (all of which it really has already), card draw (which it's supposed to have but doesn't really), basic land type manipulation, and maybe some other stuff. It's going to have a cards-in-hand subtheme because I like the idea of non-aggro green decks being a thing.
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4 months ago  ::  Jan 27, 2013 - 11:32AM #9
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Jan 27, 2013 -- 7:08AM, Mata_Hari wrote:

Wait, wasn't it Fallingman who did this??




I've been wanting to do something similar with a Sixth color.  The set would contain no mono-Purple cards, but have enough hybrid Purple/X cards in all five colors that players had the option of splashing Purple for a grab-bag of purple themed effects, or even making a mono-Purple deck entirely of hybrids.

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4 months ago  ::  Jan 27, 2013 - 12:20PM #10
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Would a "no blue" set have any use for uncounterability, though?

Jun 27, 2012 -- 12:04AM, GM_Champion wrote:

Clever deduction Watson! Maybe you can explain why Supergirl is trying to kill me.


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