Mythic: (Mythics replace lands)
1. Parallel Crossing2UU
Sorcery (M)
For each legendary creature target opponent controls, you may search that player's library for a card with the same name and put it onto the battlefield under your control. If you did, shuffle that player's library. We're not so different you and I, in another reality I could call you 'pawn.'
Cycling U(U, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Rare:
2. Brazen, Many Masks2U
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard Shapeshifter (R)
Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Many Masks, you may have it become a copy of target creature on the battlefield, except it's name is Brazen, Many Masks, it's legendary, and it gains this ability and changeling.
2/3
Uncommon:
3. Coiling EngineX
Artifact - Snake Vehicle (U)
Menace
Crew 3
Coiling Engine enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
0/0
4. From Below2R
Instant (U)
Create two 1/1 red goblin creature tokens.
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a land, you may return From Below from your graveyard to your hand.
Commons:
6. Replicating Wizard2U
Creature - Human Wizard (C)
A deck may contain any number of cards named Replicating Wizard.
Ripple 1 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top card of your library. You may cast the revealed card if it has the same name as this spell without paying its mana costs. Put the remaining revealed cards on the bottom of your library.)
1/2
7. Lost CharmB
Instant - Charm (C)
Choose 1 -
* Each opponent discards a card.
* Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn and loses all creature types.
* Remove all counters off of target artifact or creature. Each opponent loses 1 life for each counter removed in this way.
8. Master of DisguisesU
Creature - Human Rogue Wizard (C) T: Choose a color and a creature type. Target creature becomes that color and creature type until end of turn. (It looses all other colors and creature types)
1/2
9. Giant Blackmailer3B
Creature - Giant Rogue Mercenary (U)
Blackmail (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to an opponent, that player reveals that many cards from his or her hand and you chose one of them. That player discards that card.)
3/3
10. Leaked Blueprints1
Artifact (C) 1, t: Sacrifice Leaked Blueprints: Search your library for a vehicle or equipment card, reveal it, and put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
12. Temporal Slip1U
Instant (U)
Put target creature into its owner's library 3rd from the top.
13. Crown of Flames "Power erupts. Absolute power erupts splendidly."
14. Surging Dementia "A little dementia is all it takes to set your priorities straight."
Foil:
15. Lotal, The Rigger V21RR
Legendary Creature - Goblin Artificer Rigger (R)
Fabricate 2 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on it or create two 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.) R, Sacrifice an artifact: The Rigger deals 2 damage to target creature or player. U, remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.
1/1
(original:)
Lotal, The Rigger1RR
Legendary Creature - Goblin Artificer Rigger (R)
Fabricate 2 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on it or create two 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.) Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets The Rigger, you may return it to your hand. If you do, change the target of that spell to another target creature. If that spell would deal damage to a creature, it deals that much damage +2.
1/1
What do you think? What's your draft order here? Is anything too confusing? Broken? Annoying?
What do you think of the policies this pack hints at?
1) Mythics replacing the pack's land?.
2) Mythics and Rares using (apparently) one-shot keywords not found elsewhere in the set.
Cut: Enlightened Teacher2W
Creature - Human Cleric Adviser (U)
Vigilance Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Enlightened Teacher, you may search your library for an artifact or enchantment card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.
1/3
The text of legendary creatures with overly long names usually refers to their 'first' name, i.e. "whenever you cast a spell that targets Lotal". Also while it's not necessarily bad to use the old keywords, for Lotal in particular I feel like there's not really a reason to use an old keyword when he's designed so that you'll want the servos like, 95% of the time. Just make him create some thopters. Or focus on the decision point by just having him deal damage equal to his power to target creature on his heroic trigger rather than increasing the spell's damage.
As-worded, Brazen doesn't retain his heroic ability when he copies, only "other abilities". Is this intentional?
Also I believe you need to specifically list out the abilities it gets as per Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, i.e. "you may have it become a copy of target creature on the battlefield, except its name is still 'Brazen, Many Masks', it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it gains changeling and this ability."
There isn't any game definition for "retains" and it's unclear how that would behave with cards like Shuriken and others which give a new ability to the creature which normally aren't copied and so would already be kept, but might now be kept even after the equipment is removed.
also I'm totally drafting leaked blueprints for Revella from last pack, or to support my Wispeaver-Vanishing Cloak combo deck!
Re: Names - I'm glad someone noticed this. This is an intentional bucking of the convention, suggesting that their "hero name" is how they're known and how they identify, rather than the given name. It's a small bit of flavor that works within the rules.
Re: Old Keywords - I think you're right on Lotal, The Rigger; I've got to rethink this one. I hit on the idea of using older keywords on some of the legendary creatures as a gimmick - something to make each of them feel more special. It also hits the idea that these cards are coming from, or rooted in, other planes. I think Brazen, Many Masks and Parallel Crossing are fair examples of this, but my use of Fabricate here wasn't that inspired. Maybe something like this:
Lotal, The Rigger V21RR
Legendary Creature - Goblin Artificer Rigger (R)
Fabricate 2 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on it or create two 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.) R, Sacrifice an artifact: The Rigger deals 2 damage to target creature or player. U, remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.
1/1
Re: Brazen: You're right; fixed.
Re: Blueprints: I like this card too. Wispweaver combo for the win! Unless that nasty Magus of the Pithing Needle gets in your way....
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1.
Parallel Crossing 2UU
Sorcery (M)
For each legendary creature target opponent controls, you may search that player's library for a card with the same name and put it onto the battlefield under your control. If you did, shuffle that player's library.
We're not so different you and I, in another reality I could call you 'pawn.'
Cycling U (U, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Rare:
2.
Brazen, Many Masks 2U
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard Shapeshifter (R)
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Many Masks, you may have it become a copy of target creature on the battlefield, except it's name is Brazen, Many Masks, it's legendary, and it gains this ability and changeling.
2/3
Uncommon:
3.
Coiling Engine X
Artifact - Snake Vehicle (U)
Menace
Crew 3
Coiling Engine enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
0/0
4.
From Below 2R
Instant (U)
Create two 1/1 red goblin creature tokens.
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a land, you may return From Below from your graveyard to your hand.
5. Throwing Knife
Commons:
6.
Replicating Wizard 2U
Creature - Human Wizard (C)
A deck may contain any number of cards named Replicating Wizard.
Ripple 1 (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top card of your library. You may cast the revealed card if it has the same name as this spell without paying its mana costs. Put the remaining revealed cards on the bottom of your library.)
1/2
7.
Lost Charm B
Instant - Charm (C)
Choose 1 -
* Each opponent discards a card.
* Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn and loses all creature types.
* Remove all counters off of target artifact or creature. Each opponent loses 1 life for each counter removed in this way.
8.
Master of Disguises U
Creature - Human Rogue Wizard (C)
T: Choose a color and a creature type. Target creature becomes that color and creature type until end of turn. (It looses all other colors and creature types)
1/2
9.
Giant Blackmailer 3B
Creature - Giant Rogue Mercenary (U)
Blackmail (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to an opponent, that player reveals that many cards from his or her hand and you chose one of them. That player discards that card.)
3/3
10.
Leaked Blueprints 1
Artifact (C)
1, t: Sacrifice Leaked Blueprints: Search your library for a vehicle or equipment card, reveal it, and put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
11.
Orc Thug 1R
Creature - Orc Rogue Mercenary (C)
2/2
12.
Temporal Slip 1U
Instant (U)
Put target creature into its owner's library 3rd from the top.
13. Crown of Flames "Power erupts. Absolute power erupts splendidly."
14. Surging Dementia "A little dementia is all it takes to set your priorities straight."
Foil:
15.
Lotal, The Rigger V2 1RR
Legendary Creature - Goblin Artificer Rigger (R)
Fabricate 2 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on it or create two 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.)
R, Sacrifice an artifact: The Rigger deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
U, remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.
1/1
(original:)
Lotal, The Rigger 1RR
Legendary Creature - Goblin Artificer Rigger (R)
Fabricate 2 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on it or create two 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.)
Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets The Rigger, you may return it to your hand. If you do, change the target of that spell to another target creature. If that spell would deal damage to a creature, it deals that much damage +2.
1/1
What do you think of the policies this pack hints at?
1) Mythics replacing the pack's land?.
2) Mythics and Rares using (apparently) one-shot keywords not found elsewhere in the set.
Cut:
Enlightened Teacher 2W
Creature - Human Cleric Adviser (U)
Vigilance
Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Enlightened Teacher, you may search your library for an artifact or enchantment card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.
1/3
As-worded, Brazen doesn't retain his heroic ability when he copies, only "other abilities". Is this intentional?
Also I believe you need to specifically list out the abilities it gets as per Lazav, Dimir Mastermind, i.e. "you may have it become a copy of target creature on the battlefield, except its name is still 'Brazen, Many Masks', it's legendary in addition to its other types, and it gains changeling and this ability."
There isn't any game definition for "retains" and it's unclear how that would behave with cards like Shuriken and others which give a new ability to the creature which normally aren't copied and so would already be kept, but might now be kept even after the equipment is removed.
also I'm totally drafting leaked blueprints for Revella from last pack, or to support my Wispeaver-Vanishing Cloak combo deck!
- Rabid Wombat
Re: Old Keywords - I think you're right on Lotal, The Rigger; I've got to rethink this one. I hit on the idea of using older keywords on some of the legendary creatures as a gimmick - something to make each of them feel more special. It also hits the idea that these cards are coming from, or rooted in, other planes. I think Brazen, Many Masks and Parallel Crossing are fair examples of this, but my use of Fabricate here wasn't that inspired. Maybe something like this:
Lotal, The Rigger V2 1RR
Legendary Creature - Goblin Artificer Rigger (R)
Fabricate 2 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on it or create two 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.)
R, Sacrifice an artifact: The Rigger deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
U, remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.
1/1
Re: Brazen: You're right; fixed.
Re: Blueprints: I like this card too. Wispweaver combo for the win! Unless that nasty Magus of the Pithing Needle gets in your way....