Cool Card Design of the Day6/12/2013 - Book Burning seems like an appropriate counterpoint to yesterday's CCDD. It probably needs to cost more than one mana, but I wouldn't deign to guess how much without playtesting. It might work at one mana, if you replace "end step" with "upkeep step."
cool card, but just saying. http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=35891
ReplyDeleteOh, that's why I had an underscore in front of the name of this entry. I needed to find a new name. How about "Burning of Books?" (kidding)
Deletediscard/hand size things are usually concepted as brain trauma type cards, I'd call it alzheimers :-)
ReplyDeleteThis seems a little oppressive with turn two Vampire Hexmage...
ReplyDeleteWhat if it also had Vanishing?
DeleteLike Vanishing, or something like it. A smart white or green deck would pack some responses, but I could still see a lot of other matchups being painful.
DeleteHere's a vanishing-like take: Base the maximum handsize on a creature's power and shrink it every turn
DeleteBook Burner 2BB
Creature - Demon (R)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on CARDNAME.
Each player's maximum handsize is equal to CARDNAME's power.
6/6
I like this as a take on the Drawback Demon, though I want him to have flying, at least. Could get fun with proliferate/counter removal shenanigans either keeping both players' hands low, or maintaining him as an undercosted beater.
DeleteFor an effect that takes so long to be meaningful, does this really have to be symmetric?
ReplyDelete(black planeswalker)'s (noun).
ReplyDeleteBook of the Damned?
"The Black Book"?
Or maybe just "Agony".
It's weird that it enters with 7 counters, but you take one off before you ever check handsize. For that reason I would want to switch it to an upkeep trigger.
ReplyDeleteI like how the big-hand control decks that would be most hurt by it are also the most likely to be packing answers, while aggro decks that can't deal with it are also the least likely to care.