Congratulations to Cantripmancer for his winning card!
Equistrike
Sorcery (R)
Equistrike is red and white. Exempt — If each player controls the same number of creatures, you may play Equistrike without paying its mana cost.
Tap all creatures. For each creature, its controller may have it deal damage equal to its power to a creature of his or her choice. For a single breath, the clamor of battle was replaced by the reverent hush of death, then death was silent no more.
Artist: Dread "Morgorth" Jim
Note: I have forgone the "(Nonexistent mana costs can't be played.)" reminder text purposefully, in the Wizard's spirit of "after so many cards with [Foo] reminder text, we assume they get it by now, especially on complicated rares."
Exempt is an ability word that appears on spells and indicates a condition, which, if met, the spell can be played without paying its mana cost. It doesn't just apply to cards with no mana cost, as Deepwood Legate and the other cards like it from Mercadian Masques would receive Oracle updates to receive Exempt. (Thanks, Woap, for reminding me that it's called an "ability word".)
Asking out a girl is like trying to cast a first turn Necropotence. Sometimes the other player will have the Force of Will to say no. You shouldn't let that stop you from trying it.
Woot. Here's to taking a chance! Thanks to all the judges for the points, and a big *phew* to all my opponents. There were some VERY creative ideas out there this round. I honestly expected Genesys to take the trophy.
Edit: Here's a link to my reasoning, which includes my argument for not putting a mandatory playing-color restriction on the card. If anyone wants to know.
That Cantripmancer hasn't noticed that ability words unify the conditions of special abilities, rather than their effects; or that the judges didn't fault him for it.
At least the card isn't broken. And for once, the reasoning about letting it into other colors works.
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That Cantripmancer hasn't noticed that ability words unify the conditions of special abilities, rather than their effects; or that the judges didn't fault him for it.
Actually, Radiance deals with effect, not condition, as does Chroma, it seems. So that isn't exactly true. Ability words simply tie similar mechanics together to more easily identify them, having nothing to do with condition vs. effect. Exempt is used appropriately in this case.
Asking out a girl is like trying to cast a first turn Necropotence. Sometimes the other player will have the Force of Will to say no. You shouldn't let that stop you from trying it.
Actually, Radiance deals with effect, not condition, as does Chroma, it seems. So that isn't exactly true. Ability words simply tie similar mechanics together to more easily identify them, having nothing to do with condition vs. effect. Exempt is used appropriately in this case.
Perhaps you were confusing Radiance with something else?
Chroma counts colored mana symbols. There's one that pumps creautres for their White mana symbols, and one that sets its own power and toughness by counting all green mana symbols on your stuff.
I don't know how you missed that.
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But there's no special condition to play those spells. The unifying quality is that those spells affect creatures of the same color. That's an effect. Not a condition. Chroma has no special conditions under which it has to be played. Chroma's unifying quality is that all effects deal with colored mana symbols. This is an effect, not a condition. I really don't know how more plain this could be. Ability words don't always unify conditions.
Asking out a girl is like trying to cast a first turn Necropotence. Sometimes the other player will have the Force of Will to say no. You shouldn't let that stop you from trying it.
Well it seems you're right that I wasn't exactly correct, as it seems I meant something different by 'condition' as it seems to have been taken.
No ability word says what happens or what you can do. They either give conditions or requirements where the ability applies, or unify the manner in which one or more of its parameters are determined. Chroma abilities exist in the magnitude of some colored mana symbols. Radiance abilities take all and only permanents sharing a color with a particular permanent to be their object (the grammatical term).
Extra: Sweep sets a value by how many lands of a certain basic land type you elect to return to hand. Channel requires a discard and always indicates an ability whose effect is of the same type as another ability on the card.
Exempt is saying that, in some circumstance, this spell won't cost anything to play. I can already tell a spell is like another spell when they may avoid retail pricing. Will you call all of them 'exempt'? No, that would be dumb, because there's nothing specially unifying about them at all which an audience you're allegedly not assuming to be stupid would care to have you signify!
(I haven't forgotten you didn't make the card, Dragoon26)
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The comprehensive rules specifically state that ability words 'tie together cards that have similar functionality, but they have no special rules
meaning'
In this case the similar functionality would be something like:
Serendipity { }
Sorcery Rare
Exempt - If Serendipity is the only card in your hand, you may play it without paying its mana cost.
Draw three cards.
The point is that if you look at a bunch of cards with the same ability word, you see the resemblance.
Alternatively, the ability word could mean:
Battle Rage 2RR
Exempt - If each player controls the same number of creatures, you may play Battle Rage as though it had flash.
All creatures have double strike.
I realize that there are other cards that can be played for free, but you must realize that without context, you cannot debate whether or not exempt is a good ability word, because it has no intrinsic meaning; it is as important as the art.
The comprehensive rules specifically state that ability words 'tie together cards that have similar functionality, but they have no special rules
meaning'
[. . .]
I realize that there are other cards that can be played for free, but you must realize that without context, you cannot debate whether or not exempt is a good ability word, because it has no intrinsic meaning; it is as important as the art.
What do you mean by context? I'd ask how it's relevant but that would be a really strange question.
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I believe he means other cards with the same "ability" (I use quotations because I hate non-keyword abilities that still have the name in front of them, I find the whole design pointless ;)).
Nice card cantripmancer :).
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I'll bet you wish you had a non-unglued/unhinged card that shared your first name.
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Equistrike
Sorcery (R)
Equistrike is red and white.
Exempt — If each player controls the same number of creatures, you may play Equistrike without paying its mana cost.
Tap all creatures. For each creature, its controller may have it deal damage equal to its power to a creature of his or her choice.
For a single breath, the clamor of battle was replaced by the reverent hush of death, then death was silent no more.
Artist: Dread "Morgorth" Jim
Note: I have forgone the "(Nonexistent mana costs can't be played.)" reminder text purposefully, in the Wizard's spirit of "after so many cards with [Foo] reminder text, we assume they get it by now, especially on complicated rares."
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Edit: Here's a link to my reasoning, which includes my argument for not putting a mandatory playing-color restriction on the card. If anyone wants to know.
That Cantripmancer hasn't noticed that ability words unify the conditions of special abilities, rather than their effects; or that the judges didn't fault him for it.
At least the card isn't broken. And for once, the reasoning about letting it into other colors works.
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Let the haters hate.
congrats!
who brought the art of silent war.
Actually, Radiance deals with effect, not condition, as does Chroma, it seems. So that isn't exactly true. Ability words simply tie similar mechanics together to more easily identify them, having nothing to do with condition vs. effect. Exempt is used appropriately in this case.
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Surge of Zeal, Leave no Trace (man it's hard to remember any radiance card).
Perhaps you were confusing Radiance with something else?
Chroma counts colored mana symbols. There's one that pumps creautres for their White mana symbols, and one that sets its own power and toughness by counting all green mana symbols on your stuff.
I don't know how you missed that.
Awesome avatar provided by Krashbot @ [Epic Graphics].
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Check out my Commons Cube.
No ability word says what happens or what you can do. They either give conditions or requirements where the ability applies, or unify the manner in which one or more of its parameters are determined. Chroma abilities exist in the magnitude of some colored mana symbols. Radiance abilities take all and only permanents sharing a color with a particular permanent to be their object (the grammatical term).
Extra: Sweep sets a value by how many lands of a certain basic land type you elect to return to hand. Channel requires a discard and always indicates an ability whose effect is of the same type as another ability on the card.
Exempt is saying that, in some circumstance, this spell won't cost anything to play. I can already tell a spell is like another spell when they may avoid retail pricing. Will you call all of them 'exempt'? No, that would be dumb, because there's nothing specially unifying about them at all which an audience you're allegedly not assuming to be stupid would care to have you signify!
(I haven't forgotten you didn't make the card, Dragoon26)
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meaning'
In this case the similar functionality would be something like:
Serendipity { }
Sorcery Rare
Exempt - If Serendipity is the only card in your hand, you may play it without paying its mana cost.
Draw three cards.
The point is that if you look at a bunch of cards with the same ability word, you see the resemblance.
Alternatively, the ability word could mean:
Battle Rage 2RR
Exempt - If each player controls the same number of creatures, you may play Battle Rage as though it had flash.
All creatures have double strike.
I realize that there are other cards that can be played for free, but you must realize that without context, you cannot debate whether or not exempt is a good ability word, because it has no intrinsic meaning; it is as important as the art.
What do you mean by context? I'd ask how it's relevant but that would be a really strange question.
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Nice card cantripmancer :).