First, while I was rendering Moonfolklore's take on Ertai, I started thinking about other ways to do a Wizard Adept, and decided that being able to pick a pet spell midgame (and switch it up) and just repeatedly cast it was an interesting place to play in.
Next, not a single person showed any love for my boy Crovax. I wasn't going to let that one go.
I initially played with him turning monstrous on another creature dying, but then decided that I could do everything I was doing with monstrous by just having him turn into a Vampire. I'm trying to avoid turning every card I design into a DFC, so I ended up with this. I'm fairly happy.
Ertai feels like he would read more smoothly with Imprint, and this version of Crovax feels like a DFC that's been crammed onto one side (which you acknowledged). I'm not sure what the benefit of bloating the card text is when a simple solution exists, but I get not wanting to rely on DFCs as a 'crutch'.
ReplyDeleteI think you can execute Crovax without dfc a little cleaner. I like the core idea. I like the flavor him dealing damage to you, but I think it's safe to cut it since it's not especially fun gameplay wise and it seems nonintegral to capturing the transformation of Crovax into a vampire, and that removes a lot of text. I also like the idea of reaching a threshold of counters before becoming a vampire, but that's because I've been into counters as a threshold lately.
ReplyDeleteThat Ertai is like a super-Spellshaper. Why the "shares a color clause," if I may ask?
ReplyDeletePoorly thought out keeping you from makign a 5-color goodstuff restriction. It would be better if the mana spent to activate the ability shared some color.
DeleteThat makes sense. The wording is tricky to shorten. Maybe you want "Discard a card" as part of the cost, not the effect? That's how current Spellshapers are templated.
ReplyDeleteAlso, maybe instead of X or less you can just have it be X. It wouldn't seem to make a difference. (Either way, you can use this to speed out Ancestral Vision, Wheel of Fate, Restore Balance, Living End, etc.)
Maybe you could use Dream Halls' wording somehow...
I had the discard as part of the effect rather than cost so there wasn't too much distance between when it happened and when the rules referenced it to check for color, but when I fix that design, it would definitely be part of the cost.
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