MTG Salvation

Quote from EasyLover »

Of course you dont need mana elves to make this card viable. Its damn powerful already.
But there is this lil synergy:
If you cast turn 1 Elvish Mystique & turn 2 this card by spending 1 mana from a land & 1 Mana from the mana elf, your turn 3 will only have 1 land, that stays tapped. If you now play your 3rd land, youd have 2 untapped lands & a mana elf = 3 Mana turn 3.
Thats a damn nice trick to evade the Snakes disadvantage & also consisting of already playable cards d:)

Quote from ReapThaWhirlwind »

I just want to kindly say that Mark Rosewater's opinions have almost no authority with me whatsoever.

I personally believe that the man has been designing Magic: the Gathering entirely blind for years, and fails to possess any dynamic understanding of game and its scientific dynamics. This belief majorly extends to Richard Garfield as well, although I'd say he seems to have a keener sense of theoretical understanding towards certain fun factors of gaming, and this gives him the edge to blindly implement something beneficial now and again. Yet from the very beginning, it's clear to me that the man himself also designed Magic entirely blind, and to this day has achieved no greater understanding towards the scientific details of aspects such as the flow of the cards, the nature of effects based on how they specifically interact with the game, the balance of power based on that principal understanding, and the need for equality (balanced by flavor) which should be the aspect that ties the entire game together and brings it full circle.

Mark Rosewater is just the same, he rambles on a lot about color restrictions, and speaks vaguely on power-level, but never does he articulate upon the intricacies of the game and its scientific dynamics. In fact, he goes so far into the blind devotion of his color separation theories, that his design schematics produce lopsided balances of power between colors set and set (extending all the way to the legacy and vintage formats themselves).

With that said, I hope you can bear with me when my design (which embodies the understanding of these scientific details) attempts to correct and restore the balance of power and interactivity to where it should be.

Quote from silvercut »

Helping Dude 2G
Creature - Elf Warrior
T, Inflate G (Pay for each inflation counter on this, then add an inflation counter): Another target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
2/2

Fiery Dude 1R
Creature - Goblin Shaman
T, Inflate R (Pay for each inflation counter on this, then add an inflation counter): CARDNAME deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
2/1

Twiddly Dude 1U
Creature - Merfolk Wizard
T, Inflate U (Pay for each inflation counter on this, then add an inflation counter): You may tap or untap target permanent.
0/3

Necrotic Dude 2B
Creature - Zombie
T, Inflate B (Pay for each inflation counter on this, then add an inflation counter): Look at the top two cards of target player’s library. Put one of those cards into that player’s graveyard.
2/2

Quote from Legend »

Or some advice as to how to design one?