Cool Card Design of the Day 6/22/2016 - Clash gets some nuance in the form of risk-reward analysis on this lone rare. You have some information to inform your decision, and can bet high or low depending on your confidence (or desperation).
This card is a little wordy and complex. When I first saw it I was suuper intrigued by the concept but wanted to come up with something cleaner and easier to understand
Here's what I thought up:
"Exile a card from your hand face down. If an opponent pays , he or she plays that card without paying any costs. Otherwise, you do."
Not sure what colour this should be, or what the cost should be -- but I do know the cost should be something generally everyone can pay. Some ideas:
"If an opponent pays X life"
"If an opponent sacrifices X permanents"
"If an opponent exiles X cards from the top of his or her library"
X in all cases can be fixed or variable, though I think "Sacrifices X permanents" is the only one that works where X is part of the mana cost. (XB to give an opponent the choice to pay X life isn't that great; a bad fireball in black, unless you're greeeaaat at mindgames)
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but maybe all of this is trying to squeeze mindgames into too small a space where they don't belong? anyway, that's all.
Mind games are fun and a nice touch of variety to Magic, but, as you point out, tend to wordy or complex and can potentially distract from the game.
I like the idea of a card that asks your opponent whether they want to play it or let you, but I'm also not coming up with a cost where the opponent wouldn't always say yes or always say no, and where the person playing it is happy either way.
Cool Card Design of the Day
This card is a little wordy and complex. When I first saw it I was suuper intrigued by the concept but wanted to come up with something cleaner and easier to understand
ReplyDeleteHere's what I thought up:
"Exile a card from your hand face down. If an opponent pays , he or she plays that card without paying any costs. Otherwise, you do."
Not sure what colour this should be, or what the cost should be -- but I do know the cost should be something generally everyone can pay. Some ideas:
"If an opponent pays X life"
"If an opponent sacrifices X permanents"
"If an opponent exiles X cards from the top of his or her library"
X in all cases can be fixed or variable, though I think "Sacrifices X permanents" is the only one that works where X is part of the mana cost. (XB to give an opponent the choice to pay X life isn't that great; a bad fireball in black, unless you're greeeaaat at mindgames)
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but maybe all of this is trying to squeeze mindgames into too small a space where they don't belong? anyway, that's all.
Mind games are fun and a nice touch of variety to Magic, but, as you point out, tend to wordy or complex and can potentially distract from the game.
DeleteI like the idea of a card that asks your opponent whether they want to play it or let you, but I'm also not coming up with a cost where the opponent wouldn't always say yes or always say no, and where the person playing it is happy either way.