Friday, February 15, 2013

CCDD 021513—Graveyard Vagrant

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2/15/2013 - Scathe Zombies meets Reassembling Skeleton.

Haakon, Stromgald Scourge pouts.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

CCDD 021413—Crack the Whip

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2/14/2013 - Wha-Chi! Wha-Chi!

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

CCDD 021313—To Greener Pastures

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2/13/2013 - What would a modern Land Tax look like? Knight of the White Orchid and Kor Cartographer are the most recent implementations. They don't show up often (nor should they, as the effect dangerously encroaches on already too-similar Green), but I think these cards show that it's still part of white's color pie.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

CCDD 021213—Mist Dryad / Ethereal

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2/12/2013 - Ethereal is a very meta mechanic. Its weird enough that it wouldn't appear on sufficient cards to justify keywording it. Even if you wanted to put the word on the card to help drive a set's theme, you'd probably just use an ability word. That's not what I want to talk about, though. Here's an ethereal card:

Monday, February 11, 2013

CCDD 021113—Rewire

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2/11/2013 - Inspired loosely by Frontline Medic, which seemed to beg the question "What else can we do with X spells?", I present Rewire.

Saturday, February 9, 2013

The Coolest Card from Gatecrash

...is probably not the one you were expecting. It doesn’t have any blog-o-sphere buzz, and it’s unlikely to set the tournament scene ablaze. But when it comes to a cool card, I guess you could say that those factors are immaterial.



Friday, February 8, 2013

CCDD 020813—Soul Ooze

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2/8/2013 - There are no white Oozes. Crusader of Odric and Ajani's Pridemate are about as close as you get to white creatures that work like oozes, but I'm looking for a literal creature-type Ooze. What would a white ooze look like?

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Our theoretical white Ooze pretty much has to key off of either creatures entering the battlefield or life gained. Cathars' Crusade mechanically oozes your team but is just an enchantment. Juniper Order Ranger is very oozey, but again, neither mono-white nor technically an Ooze. I might've mocked one up like this, except Champion of the Parish is already doing it better.