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8/8/2016 - What if all your charms were commands? Or better: fully escalated.
The biggest problem is making it clear what a mode is. It's easier nowadays thanks to bullet points, but old and different cards exist. There's a reason we don't see 'mode' in the rules text of cards much.
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I'd like to see an "up to" in this kind of effect, just so you don't accidentally screw yourself by having zero valid targets for one or more modes (see: Dromoka's Command, which has five separate instances of the word "target").
ReplyDeleteOr Demonic Pact, or anything with cancelling-out modes.
DeleteBut yes, this seems like a nice design space. It might be broken with some old card but that can be fixed with banning. I'd be interested to see how strong it is in modern/standard with a dedicated command deck.
I used the wrong wording: This wouldn't be a 'whenever' trigger, it would be a replacement effect.
Delete'Up to' would definitely be much friendlier, yeah.
The promise of 'fully escalated' actually falls flat as worded bc Escalate already lets you choose any number of modes :( it just charges you extra for 'em, which is rather disappointing.
ReplyDeleteThe wording would probably be best as 'choose any number of [modes]' if you're going for friendliness, but also I love the idea of struggling to meet all the target requirements for an all-mode card. This can be a wacky rare, can't it?
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This makes me think of other ridiculously weird design space, such as "Whenever you may, you must."
Probably on a curse or something.
The backwards wording of escalate does make it bad with this. Dang. Good catch.
DeleteLove it.
ReplyDelete