Pyromana ShamanR
Creature -- Goblin Shaman T: Add R to your mana pool. Spend this mana only on red spells.
1/1
Pursuit of a Passion1R
Sorcery
Exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card.
Flashback -- exile the top 10 cards of your library.
Goblin Dance Party 3RRR
Sorcery
~ deals 3 damage to each creature. Destroy target land. Put three 1/1 red goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.
Add R to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast spells from exile.
Hedron Blade seems insane. At 2 mana, it's a Vulshok Morningstar that equips for one less and can draw a card and refund a mana. At 4 mana, it's Haunted Platemail that equips for 2 less and can draw two and refund 2 mana - or you can remove the first counter, and you've got a cantripping Morningstar and the first equip is free. And it only scales up from there.
I think this card:
Hedron Blade X
Artifact - Equipment
Hedron Blade enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Hedron Blade
Equip X, where X is the number of charge counters on Hedron Blade
Is already probably playable as a decent curve-filler equipment. Give it a static equip of 2 or maybe 3 and it's actually pretty stellar, and better than most equipment WotC prints these days.
Tacking on the ability to draw a card for every 2 you spent is just nutty. Like, can you imagine, t4 this, t5 draw 2 and cast a seven drop? And that's without even using it as really efficient equipment.
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I feel like just being flexible enough to be vulshok morningstar or haunted platemail is enough to be printed, like the raw stats already make it stupid good, the abilities are just gravy. Maybe +2/+1 or +2/ +0, if you are trying to trim power?
Playing around with the idea of Standstill and came up with this...Frost Titan's daughter?
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Legendary Creature - Barbarian Wizard
Eirwen, Winter's Key is unblockable.
When a player casts a spell, sacrifice Eirwen, Winter's Key. If you do, permanents that player controls don't untap during their next untap step.
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Erg Champion1B
Creature - Human Warrior (R)
First Strike
At the beginning of your end step if Erg Champion didn’t deal lethal combat damage to a creature or damage a player, Erg Champion deals 2 damage to you unless it came under your control this turn.
3/1
This could probably be simplified.
Erg Champion 1B
Creature - Human Pirate
First Strike, Lifelink
Erg Champion can't block.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 3 life.
3/1
This way, you have to attack with it to regain the life you're otherwise losing. "Deals lethal combat damage" seems redundant, as there's few things this will bounce off in combat without killing and without itself dying. Making it upkeep instead of end step saves you from having to use the "unless it came under control" clause.
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Erg Champion 1B
Creature - Human Warrior
First Strike
At the beginning of your end step if Erg Champion didn’t deal combat damage, it deals 2 damage to you.
3/1
Actually, we could clean this up to still have an Erg Raiders-esque drawback and not hit you on your first turn by making it an end-of-combat trigger:
Erg Champion 1B
Creature - Human Warrior
First Strike
At the beginning of your end of combat step, if Erg Champion didn’t attack this turn, it deals 2 damage to you.
3/1
That way you can cast him after combat and avoid the damage.
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Sower of Chaos looks like it should probably be 1R or 1B. Two-colored, it'd never make the cut.
Rat Keeper seems weird. The token generation is obviously strong, and I'd 100% cube Bitterblossom on a dude, but overall his abilities seem all over the place.
Axe-Slinger Champion is a bit nutty in that you need to block it with TWO 3+ toughness creatures, and even then it needs to be >3 if you don't want to lose both of them. But I suppose it's basically just 2 power + haste and evasion which is decent without being busted (Chandra's Firebird)
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I want more tribrid cards... especially in shard colours. I think these have cool flavour (need names though), what about power level?
Geistcaller 1U
Creature - Human Wizard
Whenever a Spirit or Zombie creature enters the battlefield, scry 1.
1(W/B)(W/B): Exile target card from a graveyard. If you do, put a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.
2/1
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Jund Guy 1R
Creature - Goblin Rogue
Red creatures you control with power 3 or greater have first strike.
1(B/G)(B/G): Target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
2/1
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Grixis Dude 3B
Creature - Zombie Wizard
Whenever a card is put into your graveyard from your hand or library anywhere, you may pay B. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life for each life lost this way.
1(U/R)(U/R): Draw a card, then discard a card.
3/3
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Naya Critter 2G
Creature - Cat Warrior
Trample
When Naya Critter becomes the target of a spell or ability, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
1(R/W)(R/W): Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may reveal an Equipment card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
3/2
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Bant Buddy 2W
Creature - Human Soldier Wizard
Bant Buddy gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control.
4(G/U)(G/U): Put a token that's a copy of target nonlegendary creature you control onto the battlefield.
My problem with most of these is that they're not that exciting. The FRF ones were Mythic Rarity and explored some largely unexplored design space. Also, these should likely be off-center Shard cards, as the FRF ones were off-center Wedges.
Naya Blademaster 1W
Creature - Human Warrior Shaman
Doublestrike 4(R/G)(R/G): Each creature you control gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control
1/1
Jund Bloodcaller 2G
Creature - Goblin Druid
Haste, Trample 1(B/R)(B/R): Jund Bloodcaller deals 3 damage to each player
3/2
Grixis Sludgebelcher R
Creature - Imp Shaman
Whenever Grixis Sludgebelcher is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to you (U/B)(U/B), put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard: Return Grixis Sludgebelcher from your graveyard to the battlefield.
2/1
Esper Soul-Sculptor 1B
Artifact Creature - Zombie Artificer
When Esper Soul-Sculptor enters the battlefield, reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand and you lose life equal to its converted mana cost 2(W/U)(W/U): Exile Esper Soul-Sculptor. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
2/1
Bant Fortifier 4U
Creature - Human Knight Advisor
Exalted
Creatures you control have "T: tap target permanent" 3(G/W)(G/W): Put a 1/1 white and green Knight token with Exalted onto the battlefield
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Sacrifice a Human: Gain life equal to its toughness.
When ~ dies, you may exile it. If you do, return another target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to it's power. It becomes a Zombie in addition to its other types.
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Black 2 drop, sac-outlet, Human and Zombie tribal support, and reanimation spell in one. (Maybe too much too ask? :))
Geistcaller: Costs can't target, and you shouldn't use another player's graveyard as a cost, so the exile should be part of the effect. Spammable 1/1 flying for 2 on a decent body is probably too good. I'd probably increase the activation cost by 1 to line up with Jade Mage.
Jund Guy: The first ability doesn't work as desired because the power/toughness layer comes after the abilities layer, so it should be changed to a triggered ability. Something like "Whenever a red creature you control with power 3 or greater attacks, it gains first strike until end of turn." Handing out first strike and deathtouch on one card strikes me as kind of cheesy. Maybe replace first strike with menace or something?
Grixis Dude: Seems fine, not the most exciting.
Naya Critter: The target trigger seems pretty OP, depending on how much cheap repeatable targeting stuff is available. Infinite damage with Lightning Greaves or Grafted Wargear, or merely insane amounts of damage with Bonesplitter, Skullclamp, or Hex Parasite and it also finds most of those cards? Triggering off abilities is problematic.
Bant Buddy: Seems fine as a Crusader of Odric with goodness. I would want to play with this, but I'm irrationally partial to copy effects.
My problem with most of these is that they're not that exciting. The FRF ones were Mythic Rarity and explored some largely unexplored design space. Also, these should likely be off-center Shard cards, as the FRF ones were off-center Wedges.
Naya Blademaster 1W
Creature - Human Warrior Shaman
Doublestrike 4(R/G)(R/G): Each creature you control gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control
1/1
Jund Bloodcaller 2G
Creature - Goblin Druid
Haste, Trample 1(B/R)(B/R): Jund Bloodcaller deals 3 damage to each player
3/2
Grixis Sludgebelcher R
Creature - Imp Shaman
Whenever Grixis Sludgebelcher is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to you (U/B)(U/B), put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard: Return Grixis Sludgebelcher from your graveyard to the battlefield.
2/1
Esper Soul-Sculptor 1B
Artifact Creature - Zombie Artificer
When Esper Soul-Sculptor enters the battlefield, reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand and you lose life equal to its converted mana cost 2(W/U)(W/U): Exile Esper Soul-Sculptor. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
2/1
Bant Fortifier 4U
Creature - Human Knight Advisor
Exalted
Creatures you control have "T: tap target permanent" 3(G/W)(G/W): Put a 1/1 white and green Knight token with Exalted onto the battlefield
1/6
I was trying to do something beyond body + some ability with some random effect with hybrid cost - it seems like interesting design space to have the second ability synergise with the first part, but neither being useless alone either. I think mine are much more interesting, no offense, although I do like the Bant guy's design even though it's one of the weaker ones. The cycle is deliberately centred since I might come up with enemy ones too.
Geistcaller: Costs can't target, and you shouldn't use another player's graveyard as a cost, so the exile should be part of the effect. Spammable 1/1 flying for 2 on a decent body is probably too good. I'd probably increase the activation cost by 1 to line up with Jade Mage.
Jund Guy: The first ability doesn't work as desired because the power/toughness layer comes after the abilities layer, so it should be changed to a triggered ability. Something like "Whenever a red creature you control with power 3 or greater attacks, it gains first strike until end of turn." Handing out first strike and deathtouch on one card strikes me as kind of cheesy. Maybe replace first strike with menace or something?
Grixis Dude: Seems fine, not the most exciting.
Naya Critter: The target trigger seems pretty OP, depending on how much cheap repeatable targeting stuff is available. Infinite damage with Lightning Greaves or Grafted Wargear, or merely insane amounts of damage with Bonesplitter, Skullclamp, or Hex Parasite and it also finds most of those cards? Triggering off abilities is problematic.
Bant Buddy: Seems fine as a Crusader of Odric with goodness. I would want to play with this, but I'm irrationally partial to copy effects.
Yeah Naya's trigger is broken. I wanted a clever way to work with equipment but forgot about 0 cost ones.
Grixis guy could also read 'put into a graveyard from anywhere'. Quite pushed then, though.
First strike and Deathtouch on a card exists already. It's fine. Here you have to put extra mana into it too.
Agree about the Spirit maker. Activation cost of 3 would be fairer and could remove the GY hate part (it was there to mirror Beckon Apparition).
Probably too strong for standard, and a bit of boring design. But anyways,
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Instant
Landbolt deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Landbolt deals 3 damage to target creature or player instead.
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Creature -- Goblin Shaman
T: Add R to your mana pool. Spend this mana only on red spells.
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Pursuit of a Passion1R
Sorcery
Exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card.
Flashback -- exile the top 10 cards of your library.
Goblin Dance Party 3RRR
Sorcery
~ deals 3 damage to each creature. Destroy target land. Put three 1/1 red goblin creature tokens onto the battlefield.
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Hedron Blade seems insane. At 2 mana, it's a Vulshok Morningstar that equips for one less and can draw a card and refund a mana. At 4 mana, it's Haunted Platemail that equips for 2 less and can draw two and refund 2 mana - or you can remove the first counter, and you've got a cantripping Morningstar and the first equip is free. And it only scales up from there.
I think this card:
Hedron Blade X
Artifact - Equipment
Hedron Blade enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.
Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each charge counter on Hedron Blade
Equip X, where X is the number of charge counters on Hedron Blade
Is already probably playable as a decent curve-filler equipment. Give it a static equip of 2 or maybe 3 and it's actually pretty stellar, and better than most equipment WotC prints these days.
Tacking on the ability to draw a card for every 2 you spent is just nutty. Like, can you imagine, t4 this, t5 draw 2 and cast a seven drop? And that's without even using it as really efficient equipment.
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Blazing Elements deals X damage to target creature or player.
Awaken - X (XRR)
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creature - Shaman
~ can't be tapped during your turn.
T: add R to your mana pool. This mana can only be spent on red spells.
0/1
This way, he can only pay for morphs, instants, and flash. also can't be stopped from chumping.
Gruntson-burner R
creature - Goblin
T: add R to your mana pool. This mana can only be used to cast red creatures.
1/1
Either of these would be good, and perfectly printable.
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Eirwen, Winter's Key is unblockable.
When a player casts a spell, sacrifice Eirwen, Winter's Key. If you do, permanents that player controls don't untap during their next untap step.
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Erg Champion 1B
Creature - Human Pirate
First Strike, Lifelink
Erg Champion can't block.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 3 life.
3/1
This way, you have to attack with it to regain the life you're otherwise losing. "Deals lethal combat damage" seems redundant, as there's few things this will bounce off in combat without killing and without itself dying. Making it upkeep instead of end step saves you from having to use the "unless it came under control" clause.
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Creature - Human Warrior
First Strike
At the beginning of your end step if Erg Champion didn’t deal combat damage, it deals 2 damage to you.
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StaffThe question is, is this card even cube-able? It mostly just seems like a bad Porcelain Legionnaire.
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Legionaire being what he is and black 2 drops being what they are, perhaps that's not that bad
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Creature - Human Warrior
First Strike
At the beginning of your end of combat step, if Erg Champion didn’t attack this turn, it deals 2 damage to you.
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That way you can cast him after combat and avoid the damage.
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StaffRat Keeper seems weird. The token generation is obviously strong, and I'd 100% cube Bitterblossom on a dude, but overall his abilities seem all over the place.
Axe-Slinger Champion is a bit nutty in that you need to block it with TWO 3+ toughness creatures, and even then it needs to be >3 if you don't want to lose both of them. But I suppose it's basically just 2 power + haste and evasion which is decent without being busted (Chandra's Firebird)
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Geistcaller 1U
Creature - Human Wizard
Whenever a Spirit or Zombie creature enters the battlefield, scry 1.
1(W/B)(W/B): Exile target card from a graveyard. If you do, put a 1/1 white and black Spirit creature token with flying onto the battlefield.
2/1
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Jund Guy 1R
Creature - Goblin Rogue
Red creatures you control with power 3 or greater have first strike.
1(B/G)(B/G): Target creature you control gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
2/1
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Grixis Dude 3B
Creature - Zombie Wizard
Whenever a card is put into your graveyard from
your hand or libraryanywhere, you may pay B. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life for each life lost this way.1(U/R)(U/R): Draw a card, then discard a card.
3/3
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Naya Critter 2G
Creature - Cat Warrior
Trample
When Naya Critter becomes the target of a spell or ability, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
1(R/W)(R/W): Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may reveal an Equipment card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
3/2
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Bant Buddy 2W
Creature - Human Soldier Wizard
Bant Buddy gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control.
4(G/U)(G/U): Put a token that's a copy of target nonlegendary creature you control onto the battlefield.
1/1
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Creature - Human Warrior Shaman
Doublestrike
4(R/G)(R/G): Each creature you control gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control
1/1
Jund Bloodcaller 2G
Creature - Goblin Druid
Haste, Trample
1(B/R)(B/R): Jund Bloodcaller deals 3 damage to each player
3/2
Grixis Sludgebelcher R
Creature - Imp Shaman
Whenever Grixis Sludgebelcher is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to you
(U/B)(U/B), put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard: Return Grixis Sludgebelcher from your graveyard to the battlefield.
2/1
Esper Soul-Sculptor 1B
Artifact Creature - Zombie Artificer
When Esper Soul-Sculptor enters the battlefield, reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand and you lose life equal to its converted mana cost
2(W/U)(W/U): Exile Esper Soul-Sculptor. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
2/1
Bant Fortifier 4U
Creature - Human Knight Advisor
Exalted
Creatures you control have "T: tap target permanent"
3(G/W)(G/W): Put a 1/1 white and green Knight token with Exalted onto the battlefield
1/6
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Sacrifice a Human: Gain life equal to its toughness.
When ~ dies, you may exile it. If you do, return another target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to it's power. It becomes a Zombie in addition to its other types.
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Black 2 drop, sac-outlet, Human and Zombie tribal support, and reanimation spell in one. (Maybe too much too ask? :))
Jund Guy: The first ability doesn't work as desired because the power/toughness layer comes after the abilities layer, so it should be changed to a triggered ability. Something like "Whenever a red creature you control with power 3 or greater attacks, it gains first strike until end of turn." Handing out first strike and deathtouch on one card strikes me as kind of cheesy. Maybe replace first strike with menace or something?
Grixis Dude: Seems fine, not the most exciting.
Naya Critter: The target trigger seems pretty OP, depending on how much cheap repeatable targeting stuff is available. Infinite damage with Lightning Greaves or Grafted Wargear, or merely insane amounts of damage with Bonesplitter, Skullclamp, or Hex Parasite and it also finds most of those cards? Triggering off abilities is problematic.
Bant Buddy: Seems fine as a Crusader of Odric with goodness. I would want to play with this, but I'm irrationally partial to copy effects.
I was trying to do something beyond body + some ability with some random effect with hybrid cost - it seems like interesting design space to have the second ability synergise with the first part, but neither being useless alone either. I think mine are much more interesting, no offense, although I do like the Bant guy's design even though it's one of the weaker ones. The cycle is deliberately centred since I might come up with enemy ones too.
Yeah Naya's trigger is broken. I wanted a clever way to work with equipment but forgot about 0 cost ones.
Grixis guy could also read 'put into a graveyard from anywhere'. Quite pushed then, though.
First strike and Deathtouch on a card exists already. It's fine. Here you have to put extra mana into it too.
Agree about the Spirit maker. Activation cost of 3 would be fairer and could remove the GY hate part (it was there to mirror Beckon Apparition).
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Landbolt deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, Landbolt deals 3 damage to target creature or player instead.
EDIT: Ah, whoops. Yeah, for the mana cost
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I think it might be fine (for standard) if it was a sorcery. They seemed to love their sorcery burn nowadays...
Anyways I've been playing Hearthstone and interested in the Axeflinger guy.
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Legendary Creature - Dwarf Warrior
Menace, trample
Whenever Thorin Oakenshield is dealt damage, he deals 2 damage to target opponent.
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If he's blocked by multiple creatures, he still only gets one dealt damage trigger, right?
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