When Tamatoa enters the battlefield, create a colorless Treasure artifact token with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."
Whenever you sacrifice a Treasure, put a +1/+1 counter on Tamatoa.
When Tamatoa dies, create X colorless Treasure artifact token with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool." where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Tamatoa
Tamatoa, Shining Steward 2UU
Legendary Creature - Elemental Crab
When Tamatoa enters the battlefield, create a colorless Treasure Artifact token.
Whenever you create a Treasure token, put a +1/+1 counter on this.
When Tamatoa dies, create X blue Merfolk creature tokens with hexproof, where X is equal to Tamatoa’s power.
1/1
I changed the sac effect to ETB which makes it stronger and the treasures to merfolk because I feel like creatures would be better than more Treasure.
merfolk don't make sense if we're trying to make the actual Tamatoa, and not just, like, a good crab creature. Also why an *elemental* crab??
Original design is good. Not much I would add to it other than maybe changing when he makes treasures so that he's more self-sufficient. Maybe whenever he deals combat damage to a player?
Also "whenever you sacrifice an artifact" might be more fun, just because blue tends to have artifact synergy, and it opens him up as an artifact general in commander rather than just specifically a treasure general. It still fits the theme too since he's known to collect other lost valuables, like Maui's hook.
2UU
Legendary Creature - Crab
When Tamatoa enters the battlefield, create a colorless Treasure artifact token with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."
Whenever you sacrifice a Treasure, put a +1/+1 counter on Tamatoa.
When Tamatoa dies, create X colorless Treasure artifact token with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool." where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on Tamatoa
2/4
Tamatoa from the Moana movie. A treasure crab.
I’d change it up a bit so it’s more synergistic.
I’d suggest
Tamatoa, Shining Steward 2UU
Legendary Creature - Elemental Crab
When Tamatoa enters the battlefield, create a colorless Treasure Artifact token.
Whenever you create a Treasure token, put a +1/+1 counter on this.
When Tamatoa dies, create X blue Merfolk creature tokens with hexproof, where X is equal to Tamatoa’s power.
1/1
I changed the sac effect to ETB which makes it stronger and the treasures to merfolk because I feel like creatures would be better than more Treasure.
Original design is good. Not much I would add to it other than maybe changing when he makes treasures so that he's more self-sufficient. Maybe whenever he deals combat damage to a player?
Also "whenever you sacrifice an artifact" might be more fun, just because blue tends to have artifact synergy, and it opens him up as an artifact general in commander rather than just specifically a treasure general. It still fits the theme too since he's known to collect other lost valuables, like Maui's hook.
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