Tuesday, June 13, 2017

CCDD 061317—Chrysoaoramancer

Cool Card Design of the Day
6/13/2017 - I forget exactly how this design came about, but it was definitely intended to be a smaller, more limited Aether Adept. The result is more efficient early, better for tempo or aggro builds, but has lower potential to impact the late game.


As I was posting that, I felt like a name that weird deserved a more special effect, and indeed wants to interact well with jellyfish (which relatively recently became its own creature type again), so made this:


I was tempted to instead interact with bounce effects (something like "If you would return a permanent to an opponent's hand, put it on top of that player's library instead") but jellyfish tribal just felt right.

6 comments:

  1. "Whenever a creature is returned to its owners hand, you may pay U. If you do, create a 2/1 blue Jellyfish" or similar could be another bonus.

    Really like the first design - you could also do power or toughness as well. I might make it "another" - though Whitemane Lion proves that's not necesssary.

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    1. I like that effect.

      Yeah, the fact that you have to pay to keep re-casting it makes that okay.

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  2. Chrysoaoramancy XXU
    Sorcery
    Return X target creatures to their owners hands. Create X 2/2 blue jellyfish creature tokens.

    Release the Jellys

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    1. Release the Elves XXG
      Sorcery
      Search your library for up to X basic land cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Create X 2/2 green Elf Warrior creature tokens.

      Release the Phyrexians XXB
      Sorcery
      You draw X cards and lose X life. Create X 2/2 black Horror creature tokens.

      Release the Knights XXW
      Sorcery
      Create X 2/2 white Knight creature tokens and X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.

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    2. Release the Elementals
      XXR
      Sorcery
      CARDNAME deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers, Create X 2/2 red Elemental creature tokens.

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