Thursday, June 25, 2020

CCDD 062520 - Adaptation

Here's a design inspired by Hostility, which turns Lava Spike-style direct damage into creature tokens. I wanted to capture the same feeling of rewarding a type of effect that isn't normally a great investment. Ikoria gave me exactly the tools I needed to do that in green.





Obviously it's strayed from the original inspiration in a lot of ways-- it breaks the cost and shuffle-into-library pattern from Lorwyn's original Elemental Incarnation cycle. But when I realized I could make my idea into a Kathril, Aspect Warper-style effect, I couldn't resist. Magic doesn't have too many of those.

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  1. I love this design so much.

    Evergreen keyword matters has been explored a handful of times each in white, black, and green. What would blue and red look at this design space?

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    1. Blue has Escaped Shapeshifter, which is old and short on abilities but otherwise a great model-- almost all the evergreen-keyword-matters designs check only your own creatures.

      Red could do this as a temporary effect, probably? "Whenever you cast a creature spell with X, CARDNAME gains X until end of turn."

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