MTG Salvation

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Where is the Indie Custom Cube?

We have decided to take down the Indie Custom Cube.

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Full spoiler is out. Some pretty sweet stuff!

-New promo art versions of Eternal Dragon and Karmic Guide.

-Some nice P3K goodies! Kongming, Lu Xun, and Strategic Planning are cubable in larger cubes.

- Darksteel Mutaion 1W Enchantment - Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature is an 0/1 Insect artifact creature with indestructible and loses all other abilities.

- Serene Master 1W Creature Human Monk Whenever Serene Master blocks, exchange its power and the power of target creature it's blocking until end of combat.

- Unexpectedly Absent XWW Instant Put target nonland permanent into its owners library just beneath the top X cards of that library.

- Ophiomancer 2B Creature - Human Shaman At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, put a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch onto the battlefield. 2/2

- Toxic Deluge 2B Sorcery As an additional cost to cast Toxic Deluge, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn

- Sudden Demise XR Sorcery Choose a color. Sudden Demise deals X damage to each creature of the chosen color.

I might have missed some stuff, but yeah, I'm happy to have preordered these.

No Ghazbán Ogre?

I actually ran him for a bit in my regular cube and he was quite good in the right deck. Plus he is so awesomely old school.

Some friends and I have put together a custom cube. All 360 cards are finished, but we aren't unveiling it until GDC (Game Developers Conference) in two weeks or so. I'll create a full thread for it then in the Cube Lists forum. Should be really fun to play with, although we are expecting it to need plenty of revisions once we get some playtesting in.

Here's a couple little teasers:

Well, I think it could work like this, but obviously the sac is no longer part of the cost.

T: ~ throws another creature. (Sacrifice another creature. ~ deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player.)

I'm pretty sure in order to still make the the sac part of the cost, you need to move the whole cost (including tapping, which is strange) into the ability. See the reminder text for Ninjutsu on Ninja of the Deep Hours, which IS a cost.

~ throws another creature. (T, Sacrifice another creature: ~ deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player.)

Possibly having two costs is also legal wording? Like this:

T: ~ throws another creature. (Sacrifice another creature: ~ deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player.)

Interestingly, I would expect Brion could get reworded at some point to use "another creature" instead of "other than ~". See newer cards like Cartel Aristocrat and Grimgrin, Corpse-Born.

Yeah, that makes sense. I guess I'm having trouble dealing with the reminder text, since I can't find any keyword abilities that target something. The closest I can find is "fight" which has this reminder text:

"Each deals damage equal to its power to the other"

But I'm not sure how to word it for throw. Something like:

"Sacrifice the second creature: The first creature deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player." seems really terrible and wrong.

Also, it is pretty funny that you linked to Cinder Pyromancer. One of my other keywords is:

Inspired (Whenever you cast a spell that shares a color with this creature, untap it.)

I'm making a custom set. I want to keyword the ability so I can use it on many cards. I also want to refer to cards that are thrown.

For example:

Blue Block 2
Artifact
T: Add U to your mana pool.
If Blue Block is thrown, return target creature to its owner's hand.

Hey guy, I'm working on a little custom cube project, and I want to have a mechanic that mimics Brion Stoutarm's ability, called Throw. What would be the best way to template it? Ideally, I'd like to be able to word the ability on creatures like this:

"T: Throw target creature you control."

But what would the reminder text look like? Would this work better worded similarly to "fights"?

"T: <this> throws target creature you control."

I'm not sure my rules-fu is up to the task of figuring it out.

Hey custom card experts! I'm working on a little project, and I want to have a mechanic that mimics Brion Stoutarm. What would be the best way to template it?

The ability on Brion Stoutarm is:
"Sacrifice a creature other than ~this~: ~this~ deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target player."

I'm calling the mechanic throw. On cards, should it be:

1) T: Throw.

2) T, Sacrifice a creature you control: Throw.

3) T: Throw target creature you control.

4) T, Sacrifice a creature you control: Throw that creature.

What would the reminder text look like?

The red 2/1 for 1R and blood rush R seems cool too.

If you have any kind of sac outlet, it gets much stronger.

Rampager seems nice as a pump spell that can also double as a creature in a pinch. I really wish Gyre Sage was a 0/1 that came into play with a +1/+1 counter already on it. Seems too likely it will never really beat even Llanowar Elves. Thrull Parasite might have some cool interactions? Getting Extort online for so cheap seems good, and it can slow down opposing Planeswalkers nicely.

Pretty much. I mean, its a friggen hammer-head shark with crab legs! And his name is Crableg Shark. It sounds like a character from Spongbob or something.

Also, its cool that being a 2/1 instead of a 2/2 actually makes him better.

Best card ever: