Thursday, May 30, 2013

CCDD 053013—Ambush Spider

Cool Card Design of the Day
5/30/2013 - Tangle Spider deserves a power-level update. In honor of Giant Trap Door Spider. Alternately, Qasali Ambusher needs a simpler, mono-color version.


11 comments:

  1. It eats Wind Drakes for breakfast! A+

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  2. Isn't this just a "bad" version of Skylasher?

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    1. Shock is a bad Lightning Bolt, too. I would hope this wouldn't live in the same limited environment as Skylasher, but that doesn't stop this from being a solid, elegant design.

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    2. Isn't Skylasher just a broken version of this?

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  3. This seems like a common for an expert set? It eats Wind Drakes but isn't that much more powerful than one.

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    1. Whether or not this needs to be uncommon really depends on the limited environment. If it's all grizzly bears then we don't want this to be a common Flametongue Kavu, but with lots of hill giants it's probably fine at common.

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    2. Oh, and uh, either way I like it a lot.

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    3. Yeah. It's definitely not too complex for common. I made it uncommon because it's not hard to make it a 2:1, but a given Limited environment could potentially make this reasonable at common.

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  4. Awesome! I could totally believe this was in M14. A more ridiculous version:

    Ambush Spider 4GG
    Uncommon

    Flash, Deathtouch, Reach

    When ~ enters the battlefield it gets +3/+3 until EOT.

    1/2

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  5. Great design Jay! Love cards that give green more play depth.

    I submitted a similar version on the blog a while ago when we were discussing the Murder, Cancel etc cycle of 1CC answer cards with 3 words. Mine was

    Spider 1GG
    Creature - Spider
    Flash, Reach, Deathtouch
    1/3

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