Cool Card Design of the Day1/9/2014 - I don't remember why I kept this card out of the Weekend Art Challenge that spawned it, perhaps I was just happier with my other submission.
This is meant to be a weaker, non-green Sylvan Library. It gives you more and better card selection each turn, but will mill you out if the game goes too long. That description makes me wonder if it shouldn't be black, even though it doesn't eat your life as all the Phyrexian Arenas do. Still, Slippery Slope gives card selection rather than card advantage, so I think blue is its proper home.
Looks fun. Can you get back a card you exiled on a previous turn?
ReplyDeleteI'm… not sure.
DeleteI'm also not sure which way would be best, but I lean toward only choosing cards exiled this turn.
I'd like to see a variation that incorporates Bane Alley Broker technology:
DeleteSlick Slope
UB
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a charge counter on CARDNAME, then exile a card from the top your library for each charge counter on CARDNAME.
2UB: Put a card exiled by CARDNAME into your hand.
I think this wording lets you get any card. "This turn" is probably fine. I am let down at the fact that it uses charge counters. Waterfall counters? Surge counters (I like that one)? Swell counters? Something more flavorful than charge.
DeleteMight be better as an artifact that requires a tap for the activated ability.
DeleteAdd "If you do, lose 1 life" at the end. Voila! It's black!
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DeleteAnd Red!
Delete"At the beginning of your upkeep, put a slope counter on Slippery Slope, then exile a card from the top of your library for every slope counter on it. You may play one of those cards this turn."
I love how it backfires in the long run.
ReplyDeleteThe card selection effect doesn't feel so much like a slope. Some kind of research or meditation flavor feels more natural. Or is it some kind of waterfall that is strewn with jewels you can pick up?
Wow, I think the flavour is just perfect. Each turn, it's in your short term interest to keep going, but if you keep going every turn, eventually you'll have a big splat!
ReplyDeleteI went with charge counters just so other cards could manipulate it, but using a more thematic counter is better: We probably don't even want players manipulating it.
ReplyDeleteLots of good feedback here, folks. Thanks.
I really like the name Slippery Slope. It sounds like a great Blue/Red multicolor card.
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