Cool Card Design of the Day
Every day, I design a new card and discuss it briefly. Sometimes I will examine new possibilities for colors or mechanics, sometimes I'll re-examine existing executions and sometimes I'll just design something I think is neat.
3/02/2011 - A twitter conversation yesterday between Monty Ashley and Matt Tabak (who are both great follows for you Twitterers) began with an explanation of why you can run unlimited Relentless Rats in Commander (because the Rats ability overrides the deck-building limitation and not the other way around). That led Monty to propose the wacky ability, "For deckbuilding purposes, this card counts as two cards." I pointed out that Mishra's Bauble is basically already that card, but there are functional differences which led to the question, "If a card said, 'this counts as X cards' how big would X have to be?" The answer is two.*
