A friend and I have started designing a set where a major theme is two souls inhabiting one body. Trying to figure out how we want the "god" characters to work exactly, so any feedback or advice would be great. The card would work as an MDFC, so I'm not sure exactly how to write that out. The idea is the front side provides resources that the backside can then use. We were a little afraid returning the card to your own hand was abusable so made it sorcery speed only.
Front Side:
Alden, Inquisitive Vessel WU
Legendary Creature - Human
Whenever you scry you may pay 2 if you do draw a card. 2R: Return Alden, Inquisitive Vessel to its owners hand. Activate this ability only as a sorcery.
2/2
Back Side:
Lamell, Breaker of Limits 2RW
Legendary Creature - God
Haste, Double Strike
Whenever Lamell, Breaker of Limits enters the battlefield under your control or attacks you may discard a card, if you do deal damage to any target equal to the converted mana cost of that card. 2U: Return Lamell, Breaker of Limits to its owners hand. Activate this ability only as a sorcery.
Usuall you can denote 2 sides of the card by just putting // on a blank line between side A and side B. Most people grok that as DFC shorthand.
Your front side feels more red/blue to me, since red and blue are the two colors we've seen "scry matters" abilities before. The back side is missing power/toughness, so I can't really evaluate how its costed, but it seems strong as anything more that a 2/2.
Flavorwise, I don't understand the two souls thing you're going for, so the human/God thing feels more like it should be a transform than a Modal with bounce. If you gave some more context to what the "two souls" means to your character/world that might help.
My bad on forgetting the P/T for the back half, 2/2 was right.
Transform could work, but it's 2 souls mutually sharing one body, so it seemed like the option to choose which side you were casting fit that flavor better. It's like two minds in one body, one mind coming to the front depending on the situation if that makes more sense. One of those minds just happens to be a god's mind.
I agree that red and blue make a little more sense for the front half.
Side 2 doesn't scream God to me. The way you've describe this two souls idea sounds like something that can freely shift between two forms, but the bounce and recast is a super expensive way to do that. Then you can also tweak the cost on the front side so that you can make the backside stronger.
This could feel more like a regular human powering up into god mode:
Alden, Inquisitive Vessel 1RU
Legendary Creature - Human
Whenever you scry you may pay 2 if you do draw a card.
2W: Transform Alden, Inquisitive Vessel. Activate this ability only as a sorcery.
2/2
//
Lamell, Breaker of Limits
Legendary Creature - God
Haste, Double Strike
Whenever this creature transforms into Lamell, Breaker of Limits or attacks you may discard a card, if you do deal damage to any target equal to the converted mana cost of that card.
2U: Transform Lamell, Breaker of Limits. Activate this ability only as a sorcery.
4/4
Front Side:
Alden, Inquisitive Vessel WU
Legendary Creature - Human
Whenever you scry you may pay 2 if you do draw a card.
2R: Return Alden, Inquisitive Vessel to its owners hand. Activate this ability only as a sorcery.
2/2
Back Side:
Lamell, Breaker of Limits 2RW
Legendary Creature - God
Haste, Double Strike
Whenever Lamell, Breaker of Limits enters the battlefield under your control or attacks you may discard a card, if you do deal damage to any target equal to the converted mana cost of that card.
2U: Return Lamell, Breaker of Limits to its owners hand. Activate this ability only as a sorcery.
Your front side feels more red/blue to me, since red and blue are the two colors we've seen "scry matters" abilities before. The back side is missing power/toughness, so I can't really evaluate how its costed, but it seems strong as anything more that a 2/2.
Flavorwise, I don't understand the two souls thing you're going for, so the human/God thing feels more like it should be a transform than a Modal with bounce. If you gave some more context to what the "two souls" means to your character/world that might help.
Transform could work, but it's 2 souls mutually sharing one body, so it seemed like the option to choose which side you were casting fit that flavor better. It's like two minds in one body, one mind coming to the front depending on the situation if that makes more sense. One of those minds just happens to be a god's mind.
I agree that red and blue make a little more sense for the front half.
This could feel more like a regular human powering up into god mode:
Alden, Inquisitive Vessel 1RU
Legendary Creature - Human
Whenever you scry you may pay 2 if you do draw a card.
2W: Transform Alden, Inquisitive Vessel. Activate this ability only as a sorcery.
2/2
//
Lamell, Breaker of Limits
Legendary Creature - God
Haste, Double Strike
Whenever this creature transforms into Lamell, Breaker of Limits or attacks you may discard a card, if you do deal damage to any target equal to the converted mana cost of that card.
2U: Transform Lamell, Breaker of Limits. Activate this ability only as a sorcery.
4/4