Cool Card Design of the Day7/24/2013 - Here are a couple cards messing with red's new play-this-card-now-or-never mechanic. Ember Phoenix is a Future Sight for combat, while Lizard Wizard is a more efficient, but riskier Rummaging Goblin.
I may have gotten a little silly with the second card, after finding such adorable art…
That Ember Phoenix isn't really a phoenix.
ReplyDeleteEmber Phoenix (and its inspiration, new Chandra) remind me of what I was getting at back when I wrote Subdivisions (here: http://goblinartisans.blogspot.com/2011/07/subdivisions-part-one.html), that the Future Sight/Oracle of Mul Daya mechanic could be situated into Red's slice of the pie as a representation of its ability to accelerate time (i.e. bring the future into the present).
ReplyDeleteRe-reading that made me sad that Snapcaster Mage wasn't red. (Which MaRo confirmed that it could easily have been!)
I think he's said that he might have preferred it in red at some points, but didn't even think of it because Tiago wanted a blue card. It might be a good example in an argument against more invitational cards.
DeleteAn argument against invitational cards in the sense that it causes them to feel beholden to amateur designers? I'm not really sure what you're saying.
DeleteI'm not even sure anymore. Feel free to ignore me.
DeleteI think invitational cards are an awesome idea, but there definitely is a problem that top winners naturally want very spike cards: ie. very resource managing, very efficient, and very strong.
DeleteSnapcaster was an awesome design: beautiful and elegant and interesting. But it was ridiculously good, it probably should have been pushed less (eg. being red not blue) even as a top-tier card, but wizards understandably didn't want to risk making an invitational card suck.
I think that's what axx1e meant. Or should have meant IMHO :)
Ooh, riffing off of the "red Future Sight" idea:
ReplyDeleteObsessive Clairvoyance (rare)
1R
Enchantment
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play the top card of your library.
Whenever you play a card, if you didn't play it from your library, sacrifice CARDNAME.
Ancestral Precall R
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Exile the top three cards of your deck. You may play them this turn.
Recropotance RRR
DeleteEnchantment
You can't play more than one spell each turn.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.
Ideas Unbound should totally color-shift to red.
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