Cool Card Design of the Day1/14/2016 - Completing this week's exploration…
Assist was much simpler than mentor, but still not relevant to Limited. Today, we look for something that works without opening one or two particular mythics in your booster pack.
Enhance will turn on with most any planeswalker—provided its not busy clinging onto to dear life—but Phantom Wurm, Nessian Asp, Arcbound Lancer, Angelheart Vial, Dreadship Reef, Hibernation's End, and Helix Pinnacle will too. Granted, half of those offer poor explanations for the flavor here, but we only need the story to make sense within the block, and we can easily make sure everything capable of having a lot of counters in the block does feel like it's something powerful that you can draw a little extra energy/insight from.
Ooh, yes, "with counters on" is an interesting take. That does allow multiple ways of turning them on.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, I think that four counters is still quite a hurdle: most of those are going to be creatures, with the exception of a few artifacts that accumulate charge counters, and turn-on keywords like Ferocious could be triggered by a much greater proportion of cards. And the rewards don't seem commensurately greater. Would it be better with "two counters" or "four counters across any number of permanents"?
Or I guess it could be something else planeswalkers do. "If you control a non-creature permanent with CMC 4+"? "If you activated a non-creature non-mana activated ability this turn"? I don't know if that's a good idea but it's where it took me.
Two or Three counters might prove correct. Only playtesting could say.
DeleteYour other two suggestions seem pretty good.
Thank you!
DeleteI liked the approaches you took here.
Very Melviny. Has the bonus over old versions that you could print it at common (which I had a lengthy comment about that got eaten).
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Oh, huh, weird!
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