Endless Swarms 2G
Creature - Insect (Common)
When Endless Swarms enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a card named Endless Swarms, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
Endless Swarms gets +1/+1 for each other creature named Endless Swarms you control.
A deck can have any number of cards named Endless Swarms.
1/1
I'm playing with the idea of a combined Relentless Rats/Squadron Hawk. I think 3 CMC is the sweet spot for this to cost, but I'm not sure if I need to drop it down to an 0/1 for balance?
A quick search shows that squandren hawks are rather pushed for this effect. A 2/2 with just the search effect is pushed at 3cmc and acceptable at 4cmc. Getting +1/+1 for each copy is fairly powerful so at the most pushed I would put this at 1ggg. It's just a crazy strong effect.
Imagine if Crusader of Odric had etb draw a card. That would push it up to at least cmc4. Then you are allowed to run nothing but crusaders and you get some insane benefits.
I am well aware that it is base 1/1. Its stil incredibly strong. If it only got +1/+0 it would be more reasonable but adding toughness is a significant upgrade. Without any + effect it would be a weak but acceptable draft card. The + makes it a power house.
I'm not sure if it's actually that strong. Squadron Hawk was good because you got to grab all your hawks, not just one. You're also sacrificing versatility of creatures to play a bunch of vanilla cards. I think it could be fine at 1GG as a 1/1.
Unlike hawks or rats or any similar creature you can't run out of these. Short of a torpor orb you will never run out of these creatures, even countering or discarding only stops one, you will draw more and begin the cycle. Rats is a powerful deck, but is manageable because they all have 1 toughness and eventually they run out with you trading 1 for 1.
Oh god the shuffling. Why not look at the top six cards instead, putting the rest on the bottom in a random order?
Thats an interesting thought. It makes the card a little worse in limited, but if you get any number of duplicates from the top six it's actually better in constructed that "search for 1"
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Creature - Insect (Common)
When Endless Swarms enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a card named Endless Swarms, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
Endless Swarms gets +1/+1 for each other creature named Endless Swarms you control.
A deck can have any number of cards named Endless Swarms.
1/1
I'm playing with the idea of a combined Relentless Rats/Squadron Hawk. I think 3 CMC is the sweet spot for this to cost, but I'm not sure if I need to drop it down to an 0/1 for balance?
Imagine if Crusader of Odric had etb draw a card. That would push it up to at least cmc4. Then you are allowed to run nothing but crusaders and you get some insane benefits.
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Thats an interesting thought. It makes the card a little worse in limited, but if you get any number of duplicates from the top six it's actually better in constructed that "search for 1"