CCDD 071817—Brine Viper

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7/18/2017 - Its blood is a paralytic agent.

CCDD 050516—Serpent of the Black Sea & Spear of a Vengeful Sea

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5/5/2016 - Two more simple serpents, both reactive.

CCDD 050416—Ravenous Tsunami

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5/4/2016 - Ravenous Tsunami inverts Islandhome/Islandwalk like Lonely Serpent so that it's good against most decks and a liability against some (rather than weak against most and good against some / irrelevant against most decks and absurd against some).

Like Hungry Serpent, Ravenous Tsunami uses must-attack rather than can't-attack. There's an argument for using must-attack when it's thematic in blue, given red and blue's shared history of sirens, but I'm 100% fine with just making this red (though red hating mountains seems wrong, and red hating islands seems archaic).

CCDD 050316—Hungry Serpent

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5/3/2016 - "Must attack" tends to be a red thing, but it made Hungry Serpent's drawback more relevant, both mechanically and thematically.

CCDD 050216—Lonely and Softheart Serpents

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5/2/2016 - Fell into a Sea Serpent design hole last week. So it's gonna be Sea Serpent week here. First up…

CCDD 031616—Kird Pegasus & Mist Serpent

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3/16/2016 - When I saw this art, my first instinct was a Pegasus Birds of Paradise. That wasn't interesting—or mono-green—so my next instinct was Pegasus Kird Ape. Adding {1} and flying to Kird Ape is still fairly strong. That felt too uninspired to share here, though, so I tweaked the mechanic to be more interactive. Take a look.

CCDD 081811—Lake Hellion

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8/18/2011 - Lake Hellion came directly from the art. That's clearly a Hellion, with its tell-tale mouthy tendrils. But it's also in water, which isn't the standard hellion lair (see Crater Hellion and Volcano Hellion). In theory, everything fire needn't always be red and everything water needn't always be blue. In practice, however, there are almost no exceptions. So... a blue hellion. Sure. What would that look like?