I try not to design within the current rules. After all, most interesting mechanics aren't possible within the rules before they come out. TDFC, MDFCs, mutate, morph just to name a few.
Opponent morph is how they originally worked until MDFs were spoiled. The issue with that was that I needed to indicate that only the cards owner could look at the face down side.
Putting all that reminder text meant that there wasn't going to be a lot of room for rules text.
With regards to the sacrifice question, if you look at the bottom ability on the Potential Ally side, you'll see that all the skrulls automatically exfiltrate when they die. So your opponent is incentizied to not sac them. Also, one of the first designs was a skrull that expressly punished your opponents for saccing him.
This is an idea that I've been working on for a while. It's a group of DFCs that all have the same front face. Each back face is different.
When you cast a Skrull you choose which side to cast. Casting the backside gives you a Skrull. Casting the front side gives your opponent a 1/2 creature.
Each Skrull front is identical and each skrull back is very different. It's owner can pay the skrulls exfiltration cost to transform your skrull and take it back. When you do, your opponent might be hurt based on how they used your spy.
For example, some skrull punish their previous controller for attacking, some punish their previous controller for not attacking, etc
Opponents should feel like they are are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
I try not to design within the current rules. After all, most interesting mechanics aren't possible within the rules before they come out. TDFC, MDFCs, mutate, morph just to name a few.
Opponent morph is how they originally worked until MDFs were spoiled. The issue with that was that I needed to indicate that only the cards owner could look at the face down side.
Putting all that reminder text meant that there wasn't going to be a lot of room for rules text.
With regards to the sacrifice question, if you look at the bottom ability on the Potential Ally side, you'll see that all the skrulls automatically exfiltrate when they die. So your opponent is incentizied to not sac them. Also, one of the first designs was a skrull that expressly punished your opponents for saccing him.
This is an idea that I've been working on for a while. It's a group of DFCs that all have the same front face. Each back face is different.
When you cast a Skrull you choose which side to cast. Casting the backside gives you a Skrull. Casting the front side gives your opponent a 1/2 creature.
Each Skrull front is identical and each skrull back is very different. It's owner can pay the skrulls exfiltration cost to transform your skrull and take it back. When you do, your opponent might be hurt based on how they used your spy.
For example, some skrull punish their previous controller for attacking, some punish their previous controller for not attacking, etc
Opponents should feel like they are are damned if they do and damned if they don't.