Bloodline Inheritance (M)
Mana Cost: 5BG
Enchantment
As Bloodline Inheritance enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Each nontoken creature you control with the chosen type has all activated abilities of all creatures you control with the chosen type and all creature cards in your graveyard with the chosen type.
Whenever a nontoken creature with the chosen type enters the battlefield under your control, you may draw a card for each other nontoken creature you control with the chosen type.
That is a very high cost, and with that effect it might be necessary.
It looks far to easy to mill yourself with the second effect.
While I'm not certain its a good idea, I want to drop the cost of this down to 4BG, make it choose a creature type, drop the nontoken part, and draw only a single card when the chosen type etb.
I think it'd be pretty fair costing 7 or 8 mana overall. I'd not worry about self-mill -- generally if that's a concern then you should be in a winning position anyway. (Plus, this seems targetted at EDH, where it's even less of a concern.)
Agreed on maybe choosing 1 creature type -- this is possibly the most confusing card ever created in terms of keeping track of what has what abilities. 'Drop nontoken' only goes with the 'draw only 1', but I think keeping nontoken would be fine. This way makes for more of a fun big engine sort of thing, where you play cards and then draw into more of them, and so on. Adding token creatures would shift the emphasis toward using it for combos and token decks, which I frankly don't think we need more of, and also doesn't feel as fun to play with for such an expensive card.
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Mana Cost: 5BG
Enchantment
As Bloodline Inheritance enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Each nontoken creature you control with the chosen type has all activated abilities of all creatures you control with the chosen type and all creature cards in your graveyard with the chosen type.
Whenever a nontoken creature with the chosen type enters the battlefield under your control, you may draw a card for each other nontoken creature you control with the chosen type.
It looks far to easy to mill yourself with the second effect.
While I'm not certain its a good idea, I want to drop the cost of this down to 4BG, make it choose a creature type, drop the nontoken part, and draw only a single card when the chosen type etb.
Agreed on maybe choosing 1 creature type -- this is possibly the most confusing card ever created in terms of keeping track of what has what abilities. 'Drop nontoken' only goes with the 'draw only 1', but I think keeping nontoken would be fine. This way makes for more of a fun big engine sort of thing, where you play cards and then draw into more of them, and so on. Adding token creatures would shift the emphasis toward using it for combos and token decks, which I frankly don't think we need more of, and also doesn't feel as fun to play with for such an expensive card.
--Buck v Bell, 1927. This case, regarding the compulsory sterilization of inmates at mental institutions, has -- somehow -- never been overturned. Just a wee PSA for ya.