Cool Card Design of the Day10/10/2017 - Here's a mechanic that flavorfully rewards you for playing with a lot of scry.
If I tap my Crystal Ball and see Lingering Lamplighter, I get to draw it immediately. This common also happens to reward scrying once it's in play.
I See Pain in Your Future actually causes you to scry, so it can keep your omen chain going, and should also be playable as the only omen or scry card in your Constructed deck.
Lamenting Banshee has an immediate effect on the game when you scry it, in addition to putting it into your hand. (As much as I love this Seizan-ish effect, I realize now it's a poor choice here because it's confusing how the draw interacts with the omen itself.)
Design an omen card in the comments.
Not sure there's enough design space for a keyword, but maybe a cool rare or two.
ReplyDeletePsychic Medium
3UU
Creature - Naga Wizard - Rare
Omen
Whenever you would scry X, instead draw that many cards.
4/4
I see a really cool common/uncommon cycle if we believe this (like scy) can be in all colours
ReplyDeleteProphisies of Reckoning 1W
Sorcery
Omen
Destroy target creature that blocked this turn
Prophisies of Insight 1U
Sorcery
Omen
scry 3, draw a card.
Prophisies of sickness 1B
Sorcery
Omen
put two -1/-1 counters on target creature.
Prophisies of Fire 1R
Sorcery
Omen
Deal 3 damage to target creature or player
Prophisies of Growth 1G
Sorcery
Omen
target creature get +3/+3 and gains tarmple until end of turn
Fated End 4B
ReplyDeleteInstant
Omen
~ costs 1 less to cast for each time you've scried this turn.
Destroy target creature.
Not perfect, there's memory issues if you scry into this and weren't planning to, and I need wording to count the total number of cards for scry 2 (but not unique cards, scry 2 twice should count even if you leave the cards on top).
I also wonder -- could this be templated to work with any "reveal from the top of your library" effects? It seems a shame to tie it to the particular keyword.
It either has to be one or other or explicitly both, because scry doesn't reveal on its own.
DeleteOK, I'm sorry, I forgot the mechanic of scry, obviously the open-ended version should be if you look at cards from the top of your library, etc. That's trickier to template, I suppose, does it fail to work?
DeleteThat should work (but not with effects that skip looking and reveal immediately, like cascade, which might be a good thing).
DeleteHow much better does mulliganing become with Omen cards in the format?
ReplyDeleteYou don't get to cast it, so you'd still be at 7 cards. Still a lot worse than a free mulligan?
DeleteTechnically, mulligans happen before the game begins, so effects like this miiight not work then unless we explicitly say so. But hey definite look like they do, so we probably let them rather than add words.
DeleteAn Unexpected Goblin
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Creature - Goblin (C)
Omen
If you revealed An Unexpected Goblin it gains Flash and Haste until the end of your turn.
2/1
Cool. I'd split this into a red creature with haste and a blue one with flash, and that would make a fun pair.
DeleteWith only flash or haste it can't pull off its trick of surprising both players by hopping into play from somewhere down the deck. My original concept for this guy was the gremlin that pops out of the cupboard in the movie. I think two creatures that do this would be ok but this guy is basically a black Jolt because he'll probably end up in the blender at only 1 Toughness. Concepting him as that gremlin is also why he ended up in black.
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