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Roused Grizzly - 1G
Creature -- Bear (U)
Roused Grizzly costs 1 less to play on your first turn.
2/2
Prostrate Self - 2W
Instant (U)
All damage that would be dealt to creatures you control this turn is dealt to you instead.
Gaea's Respite - 3GGG
Instant (M)
Whenever a creature you control dies this turn, you may search your library for a green creature card and put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Choosing such a short dress to wear on stage was always a risk.
Arcanis's Ban - 1UU
Instant (U)
Counter target spell. Its controller can't play spells of the same type as the countered spell this turn.
Capricious Djinn - 4RR
Creature -- Djinn (M)
Flying
When Capricious Djinn comes into play, redistribute control of all creatures at random, then untap them. They gain haste until end of turn.
5/5
Rain of Vitriol - 2BB
Enchantment (R)
At the beginning of each upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature.
When there are no creatures in play, sacrifice Rain of Vitriol.
Penthouse Nibblers - BR
Creature -- Rat (R)
At the beginning of your upkeep, the player(s) with the most cards in his or her hand randomly discards a card.
2/2
Prostate Self - Could probably cost W. Look at Safe Passage
Gaea's Respite - Pretty strong. Would probably need lots of testing, just for sac engines.
Arcanis's Ban - Probably would/should cost 2UU. No immediate benefit, but it's still a whole step up from cancel.
Capricious Djinn - Should probably cost a R more. These effects aren't supposed to be pushed too much, limiting how often they show up, due to how time consuming/frustrating they are.
Rain of Vitriol - (y)
Penthouse Nibblers - Should be "(...) hand discards a card at random", but other than that, good.
Gaea's Respite is too broken, sorry man! You can stack your deck with Sakura-Tribe Elders and all manner of green creatures, and bang, cast your whole library and trigger dozens of enters play, leaves play, and other bonuses. It's an instant win if you build around it. It's fine in limited though, so it could be uncommon (if it wasn't broken in constructed).
Arcanis's Ban - Includes the phoneme "anuses". Say it aloud. But other than that, I agree that the bonus needs to be weak, you got that part right, and I think you accomplished that. Most of the time it won't matter, but sometimes it's nice. Dissipate was just reprinted and is properly costed IMO.
Nibblers might not need to be rare, not sure.
Good stuff! I've been doing a lot of designing and threads lately. Welcome back.
In the end, Gaea's Respite is just Natural Order + 2 mana.
Not exactly, no.
Natural Order:
As an additional cost to cast Natural Order, sacrifice a green creature. Search your library for a green creature card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.
Gaea's Respite:
Whenever a creature you control dies this turn, you may search your library for a green creature card and put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
In layman's terms, Natural Order lets you sac a green creature to get any green creature from your library. Gaea's Respite makes it so that you get a green creature from your library for each of your creatures that dies that turn. They have some flavour similarities but mechanically they're too different to directly compare IMO.
I won't bother coming up with a list of the ways you can abuse that, but here's one simple one off the top of my head:
1) Get Sakura-Tribe Elder into play.
2) Cast Gaea's Respite.
3) Sacrifice the Sakura-Tribe Elder to search for a Forest and another Sakura-Tribe Elder and put both into play.
4) Repeat, and then repeat again.
5) Sacrifice the remaining Sakura-Tribe Elder for a Forest and an Autochthon Wurm* and put both into play. Your opponent can't destroy it this turn, or else you'll just search for another and put it into play.
* can be any green fatty
It's clearly a lot more degenerate than that, even.
I'm not sure how best to fix it. One way would be to limit it to one creature.
Variant 1 - 3GG
Instant (R)
Cast Gaea's Respite only if a green creature died this turn.
Search your library for a green creature card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.
Wording is good, but I'm not sure about the mana cost. Would need some testing I think. (That's designer for "I don't know." :p)
Another way would be wordier, but more true to the original:
Variant 2 - 3GGG
Instant (M)
Green creatures you control gain "When this creature dies, you may search your library for a green creature card and put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library" until end of turn.
Far less prone to abusive/infinite combos but still extremely powerful.
Roused Grizzly - 1G
Creature -- Bear (U)
Roused Grizzly costs 1 less to play on your first turn.
2/2
Prostrate Self - 2W
Instant (U)
All damage that would be dealt to creatures you control this turn is dealt to you instead.
Gaea's Respite - 3GGG
Instant (M)
Whenever a creature you control dies this turn, you may search your library for a green creature card and put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
Choosing such a short dress to wear on stage was always a risk.
Arcanis's Ban - 1UU
Instant (U)
Counter target spell. Its controller can't play spells of the same type as the countered spell this turn.
Capricious Djinn - 4RR
Creature -- Djinn (M)
Flying
When Capricious Djinn comes into play, redistribute control of all creatures at random, then untap them. They gain haste until end of turn.
5/5
Rain of Vitriol - 2BB
Enchantment (R)
At the beginning of each upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature.
When there are no creatures in play, sacrifice Rain of Vitriol.
Penthouse Nibblers - BR
Creature -- Rat (R)
At the beginning of your upkeep, the player(s) with the most cards in his or her hand randomly discards a card.
2/2
Prostate Self - Could probably cost W. Look at Safe Passage
Gaea's Respite - Pretty strong. Would probably need lots of testing, just for sac engines.
Arcanis's Ban - Probably would/should cost 2UU. No immediate benefit, but it's still a whole step up from cancel.
Capricious Djinn - Should probably cost a R more. These effects aren't supposed to be pushed too much, limiting how often they show up, due to how time consuming/frustrating they are.
Rain of Vitriol - (y)
Penthouse Nibblers - Should be "(...) hand discards a card at random", but other than that, good.
Overall, pretty good set of cards. \o/
Prostate self is probably overcosted.
Gaea's Respite is balanced in eternal formats but would have to be tested for a standard environment.
Arcanis's Ban is pretty powerful, but Cancel is underpowered anyway, seems fine, if you really wanted, you could cost it at UUU
Yea, this should probably cost more, compare to cards like Scrambleverse
Seems a bit weak, compare to Black Sun's Zenith, Pyrohemia, Mutilate, Porphyry Nodes etc.
Pretty good for the Nibblers
Gaea's Respite is too broken, sorry man! You can stack your deck with Sakura-Tribe Elders and all manner of green creatures, and bang, cast your whole library and trigger dozens of enters play, leaves play, and other bonuses. It's an instant win if you build around it. It's fine in limited though, so it could be uncommon (if it wasn't broken in constructed).
Arcanis's Ban - Includes the phoneme "anuses". Say it aloud. But other than that, I agree that the bonus needs to be weak, you got that part right, and I think you accomplished that. Most of the time it won't matter, but sometimes it's nice. Dissipate was just reprinted and is properly costed IMO.
Nibblers might not need to be rare, not sure.
Good stuff! I've been doing a lot of designing and threads lately. Welcome back.
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Natural Order is bonkers.
Respite isn't much better.
You got 99 attackers but I'm blocking with 1.
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Not exactly, no.
Natural Order:
As an additional cost to cast Natural Order, sacrifice a green creature. Search your library for a green creature card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.
Gaea's Respite:
Whenever a creature you control dies this turn, you may search your library for a green creature card and put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
In layman's terms, Natural Order lets you sac a green creature to get any green creature from your library. Gaea's Respite makes it so that you get a green creature from your library for each of your creatures that dies that turn. They have some flavour similarities but mechanically they're too different to directly compare IMO.
I won't bother coming up with a list of the ways you can abuse that, but here's one simple one off the top of my head:
1) Get Sakura-Tribe Elder into play.
2) Cast Gaea's Respite.
3) Sacrifice the Sakura-Tribe Elder to search for a Forest and another Sakura-Tribe Elder and put both into play.
4) Repeat, and then repeat again.
5) Sacrifice the remaining Sakura-Tribe Elder for a Forest and an Autochthon Wurm* and put both into play. Your opponent can't destroy it this turn, or else you'll just search for another and put it into play.
* can be any green fatty
It's clearly a lot more degenerate than that, even.
I'm not sure how best to fix it. One way would be to limit it to one creature.
Variant 1 - 3GG
Instant (R)
Cast Gaea's Respite only if a green creature died this turn.
Search your library for a green creature card and put it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.
Wording is good, but I'm not sure about the mana cost. Would need some testing I think. (That's designer for "I don't know." :p)
Another way would be wordier, but more true to the original:
Variant 2 - 3GGG
Instant (M)
Green creatures you control gain "When this creature dies, you may search your library for a green creature card and put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library" until end of turn.
Far less prone to abusive/infinite combos but still extremely powerful.
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Maybe "Search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost lesser than the dead creature's converted mana cost."
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