tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479847193762153273.post5206598527216553660..comments2024-03-11T02:32:15.295-04:00Comments on Goblin Artisans: CCDD 102313—UnwantedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479847193762153273.post-31229832642405377602013-10-24T14:11:14.570-04:002013-10-24T14:11:14.570-04:00Conjure is fascinating and deserves more explorati...Conjure is fascinating and deserves more exploration. My first instinct is that it's broken in this current form, but I'm not sure that's true outside of the infinite sideboards of casual play, and even if it is, it could still lead to something awesome.<br /><br />The fundamental questions seems to be: How good is a free card of your choosing when it costs three times as much usual? The reason I think the answer might be 'very' is that you rarely conjure a card instead of playing something on-curve from your hand, but you almost almost always conjure a card on a turn when you've got no relevant spells to cast; in that case, it doesn't matter whether it leaves you with four mana up or none—you weren't using that mana anyhow.<br /><br />While a 2/2 isn't worth as much of a card on turn 6 or turn 10 as it was on turn 2, it's entirely equivalent to drawing a Grizzly Bear from your deck at that stage of the game. If we remove the inherent card advantage of the mechanic, maybe that helps:<br /><br />Sideboard Bear {1}{G}<br />Creature - Bear (common)<br />Conjure {2}{G}{G} <i>(You may discard a card to cast this spell from your sideboard for {2}{G}{G}.)</i><br />2/2<br /><br />Of course, that implementation begs the question, how often will you conjure something by discarding anything other than an extra land card? You could run some narrow cards, planning to conjure them away if they turn out irrelevant. I think that's about it. Is that a bad thing? This version of conjure is a form of smoothing, like cycling.<br /><br />It's funny. When I saw your originally cost of 2G, I was like "but it doesn't need to cost extra if you put it in your deck since the ability only work from outside your deck" and as soon as I changed it to be on-curve I immediatly saw why it has to be inefficient. If the card is good enough to be in your main-deck, it'll never in your sideboard to matter there. Which makes me wonder if we should consider<br /><br />Clever Conjuration (null)<br />Sorcery (uncommon)<br /><i>(Nonexistent mana costs can't be paid.)</i><br />Conjure {2}{U}{U}<br />Draw two cards.Jay Treathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09428861685923241850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479847193762153273.post-40158954445619309922013-10-24T04:47:03.687-04:002013-10-24T04:47:03.687-04:00Unwanted Wish GB
Sorcery (R)
You may choose an car...Unwanted Wish GB<br />Sorcery (R)<br />You may choose an card an opponent owns from outside the game and any decks they own and exile it. You may cast it until end of turn. Exile Unwanted Wish.Axxlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16978784390180005187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479847193762153273.post-44224410625204554122013-10-24T00:35:01.300-04:002013-10-24T00:35:01.300-04:00Unwanted is unprintable and you did a good job of ...Unwanted is unprintable and you did a good job of explaining why, so let's riff on it. The ultimate goal here is to make the sideboard a more interesting element of limited play. So what if there were cards you wouldn't be excited to maindeck, but would be happy if they wound up in your sideboard?<br /><br />Sideboard Bear (common)<br />2G<br />Creature - Bear<br />Conjure 6 (You may cast this card from outside the game for 6.)<br />2/2<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17647677781801914930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5479847193762153273.post-2217168162535642192013-10-23T23:52:08.330-04:002013-10-23T23:52:08.330-04:00I like how you end it with some wise words.
I see ...I like how you end it with some wise words.<br />I see what you are getting at but I'm not sure if I like how these effects run from unplayable always to sometimes ok.TehWERRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05796150712853674684noreply@blogger.com