Cool Card Design of the Day 11/11/2015 - Both of these are inferior choices to Terramorphic Expanse for most sets, but could serve as alternatives somewhere.
To cut down on Terramorphic Rift's text size, you could go with:
"When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library."
Mechanically very different, but maybe more common? Hard for me to say. Your version tells a much clearer story, and that may be worth more than font pt.
I agree with you, that whole text of a another type basic land is not needed. The game does not feel rigged of someone sacrifices an plain for an plain. And sacrificing a nonbasic land for a basic, is quite often downgrading.
I like Gateway Unkown: It puts a random land card from your deck on the battefield, wich is not overpowered. Only if you have to thin out your deck quickly or have very powerfull lands in your deck (like if your playing vintage), this will have some real power.
But why exile. It sounds more logical to me if you put it on bottom
Yeah, I think it needs to be like Cascade, where they exile then go to the bottom in a random order. As it is it seems way too abusable and for most players, they wouldn't like accidentally exiling their favourite spells. It's one of those cards that would break a combo deck.
I don't like Gateway. I think that almost every deck should run 4 of this land and it doesn't add much of an interesting decision. It requires a lot of moving cards around without making the game better. Maybe I am underestimating the downside of not knowing what land it will before playing it (particularly before mulligan)
Cool Card Design of the Day
To cut down on Terramorphic Rift's text size, you could go with:
ReplyDelete"When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library."
Mechanically very different, but maybe more common? Hard for me to say. Your version tells a much clearer story, and that may be worth more than font pt.
I agree with you, that whole text of a another type basic land is not needed. The game does not feel rigged of someone sacrifices an plain for an plain. And sacrificing a nonbasic land for a basic, is quite often downgrading.
DeleteAgreed. Much better.
DeleteI like this a lot!
DeleteI like Gateway Unkown: It puts a random land card from your deck on the battefield, wich is not overpowered. Only if you have to thin out your deck quickly or have very powerfull lands in your deck (like if your playing vintage), this will have some real power.
ReplyDeleteBut why exile. It sounds more logical to me if you put it on bottom
On the bottom works. It's just more words. The important thing is they don't go to your graveyard.
DeleteYeah, I think it needs to be like Cascade, where they exile then go to the bottom in a random order. As it is it seems way too abusable and for most players, they wouldn't like accidentally exiling their favourite spells. It's one of those cards that would break a combo deck.
DeleteIt only gives it a push, by wish they can be put over the top. But theire have to be lands part of that combo. Splinter Twin doesn't work
DeleteI don't like Gateway. I think that almost every deck should run 4 of this land and it doesn't add much of an interesting decision. It requires a lot of moving cards around without making the game better.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I am underestimating the downside of not knowing what land it will before playing it (particularly before mulligan)