Legendary Creature - Human Cleric 2WW
If damage would be dealt to a player, prevent that damage. That player gains life equal to the damage prevented this way.
When a player has 10 or more life more than his starting life, that player loses the game.
2/2
Something I came up with. Basically instead of making it a race to 0, the game now turns into a race to 30. This basically can turn the tide. If you have been behind, suddenly you get ahead. There should be lots of things that could be built around this, and I hope it doesn't break too many things.
It still doesn't prevent loss of life and I'm not completely sure how it interacts with infect.
- This causes everyone to instantly lose when playing EDH, is that intended? It would most certainly instantly would be banned. One way to fix it would be to have it based on starting life instead.
This. Any effect based on a specific life total becomes potentially broken in Commander (Serra Ascendant, Divinity of Pride, Felidar Sovereign, etc). As said above, the safest way is to have it be along the lines of "When a player has 10 or more life than his or her starting life total..." It's a bit clunky, but it helps prevent games from just ending in the first 3 turns or so.
And something else, a hopefully interesting and different possible "finisher":
Enter Transcendency 3UUUU
Sorcery
Search your library for an instant or sorcery spell. Target player casts it. You choose targets for that spell. Replace all instances of “you” in that spell with “target player”.
Epic (For the rest of the game, you can’t cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)
I was trying to think how to make an Epic card that allows you to cast cards from your deck (and possibly multiple epics ones to be able to cast multiple spells while not being allowed to cast), but now there's the problem that replacing all instances of "you" leads to issues with the epic clause already (if you can even change the parts of the clause) and I don't even know what other spells this would break.
The alternative would be to word is as such:
Search your library for an instant or sorcery spell and cast it.
But I think the "Epic" part would prevent that since you can't cast spells?
If damage would be dealt to a player, prevent that damage. That player gains life equal to the damage prevented this way.
When a player has 10 or more life more than his starting life, that player loses the game.
2/2
Something I came up with. Basically instead of making it a race to 0, the game now turns into a race to 30. This basically can turn the tide. If you have been behind, suddenly you get ahead. There should be lots of things that could be built around this, and I hope it doesn't break too many things.
It still doesn't prevent loss of life and I'm not completely sure how it interacts with infect.
This. Any effect based on a specific life total becomes potentially broken in Commander (Serra Ascendant, Divinity of Pride, Felidar Sovereign, etc). As said above, the safest way is to have it be along the lines of "When a player has 10 or more life than his or her starting life total..." It's a bit clunky, but it helps prevent games from just ending in the first 3 turns or so.
Enter Transcendency 3UUUU
Sorcery
Search your library for an instant or sorcery spell. Target player casts it. You choose targets for that spell. Replace all instances of “you” in that spell with “target player”.
Epic (For the rest of the game, you can’t cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)
I was trying to think how to make an Epic card that allows you to cast cards from your deck (and possibly multiple epics ones to be able to cast multiple spells while not being allowed to cast), but now there's the problem that replacing all instances of "you" leads to issues with the epic clause already (if you can even change the parts of the clause) and I don't even know what other spells this would break.
The alternative would be to word is as such:
Search your library for an instant or sorcery spell and cast it.
But I think the "Epic" part would prevent that since you can't cast spells?