Dramatic Preview 3GG
Sorcery R
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it and place it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library. At the end of the turn place that creature on top of your library.
Siphon Well
Enchantment U
If a spell or ability from a card not named Siphon Well would make a player place a card from their library into their graveyard, that player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
Gristle Burst
Sorcery U
Sacrifice a creature. The next creature spell you cast this turn costs X less to play where X was the sacrificed creatures mana cost. Mana cost includes color. (If you sacrifice a creature with a mana cost of 1BG and attempt to cast a creature with a mana cost of 2G, it costs 1 instead.)
? 2R
Sorcery R
Target creature you has "when this creature would deal combat damage to a player, you may prevent that damage and reveal a creature spell in your hand instead. If you do you may place the revealed card onto the battlefield" until end of turn
Archival Research Facility 4
Artifact R T: exile a card from your graveyard. T: place a card exiled by Archival Research Facility into your hand.
Wall of Eyes 2BB
Creature - Eye U
Defender, Deathtouch
Non-Eye creatures you control may not attack.
Wall of Eyes may block any amount creatures.
3/3
I'm not sure if dramatic preview should leave the creature in place until EoT. Feels like it might be a little too abuseable with flicker effects.
You'd still get etb effects if you moved it from the battlefield to the library top as part of the spell resolution.
5 mana plus the flicker and another card, just to do a tooth and nail impression? Seems fair to me.
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How are the other cards looking? And as for preview I wouldn't mind changing it to
Dramatic Preview 3GG
Sorcery R
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it and place it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library. Then place that creature on top of your library.
Do you think we can make it cheaper? 1GGG? 2GG? Or is 3GG a good cost?
Gristle Burst is basically Offering. Unless the effect specifically says otherwise (like Edgewalker and Ragemonger), cost reduction effects will reduce colorless mana if there are no colored mana remaining. So in your example, :1mana::symb::symg: would reduce :2mana::symg: to :0mana:, or a cost of :1mana::symr::symw: would reduce a cost of :3mana::symw::symu: to :1mana::symu:.
Syphon Well can be a simple replacement effect instead of a trigger, otherwise two of thm go infinite. Something more along the lines of "If one or more cards would be put from a player's library into his or her graveyard, that player puts twice as many cards from his or her library into his or her graveyard instead."
Dramatic Preview 3GG
Sorcery R
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it and place it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library. At the end of the turn place that creature on top of your library.
Seems good to me. Green likes etb triggers, and this enables that without being overpowered.
Siphon Well
Enchantment U
If a spell or ability from a card not named Siphon Well would make a player place a card from their library into their graveyard, that player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
How about: Syphon Well (U/B)
Enchantment
At end of each turn, each opponent puts the top X cards from his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the number of cards put into his or her graveyard from his or her library this turn.
Gristle Burst
Sorcery U
Sacrifice a creature. The next creature spell you cast this turn costs X less to play where X was the sacrificed creatures mana cost. Mana cost includes color. (If you sacrifice a creature with a mana cost of 1BG and attempt to cast a creature with a mana cost of 2G, it costs 1 instead.)
Flavor is okay, I think it's a tad overpowered at 1 mana. Maybe make it cost 2(B/G) and have it cantrip?
? 2R
Sorcery R
Target creature you has "when this creature would deal combat damage to a player, you may prevent that damage and reveal a creature spell in your hand instead. If you do you may place the revealed card onto the battlefield" until end of turn
Why creature spell? Red is more about spellslinging.
This is a tad undercosted. Put an big mana cost on the "return to hand" ability, or raise the CMC of the artifact.
What about:
Archival Research Facility 2
Artifact R
Archival Research Facility enters the battlefield tapped. 2, t: exile a card from your graveyard. 2, t: place a card exiled by Archival Research Facility into your hand.
even cheaper, but costs a fair amount of mana to work and is delayed by a turn
Sorcery R
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it and place it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library. At the end of the turn place that creature on top of your library.
Siphon Well
Enchantment U
If a spell or ability from a card not named Siphon Well would make a player place a card from their library into their graveyard, that player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
Gristle Burst
Sorcery U
Sacrifice a creature. The next creature spell you cast this turn costs X less to play where X was the sacrificed creatures mana cost. Mana cost includes color. (If you sacrifice a creature with a mana cost of 1BG and attempt to cast a creature with a mana cost of 2G, it costs 1 instead.)
? 2R
Sorcery R
Target creature you has "when this creature would deal combat damage to a player, you may prevent that damage and reveal a creature spell in your hand instead. If you do you may place the revealed card onto the battlefield" until end of turn
Archival Research Facility 4
Artifact R
T: exile a card from your graveyard.
T: place a card exiled by Archival Research Facility into your hand.
Wall of Eyes 2BB
Creature - Eye U
Defender, Deathtouch
Non-Eye creatures you control may not attack.
Wall of Eyes may block any amount creatures.
3/3
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5 mana plus the flicker and another card, just to do a tooth and nail impression? Seems fair to me.
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Dramatic Preview 3GG
Sorcery R
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it and place it onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library. Then place that creature on top of your library.
Do you think we can make it cheaper? 1GGG? 2GG? Or is 3GG a good cost?
Syphon Well can be a simple replacement effect instead of a trigger, otherwise two of thm go infinite. Something more along the lines of "If one or more cards would be put from a player's library into his or her graveyard, that player puts twice as many cards from his or her library into his or her graveyard instead."
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Seems good to me. Green likes etb triggers, and this enables that without being overpowered.
How about:
Syphon Well (U/B)
Enchantment
At end of each turn, each opponent puts the top X cards from his or her library into his or her graveyard, where X is the number of cards put into his or her graveyard from his or her library this turn.
Flavor is okay, I think it's a tad overpowered at 1 mana. Maybe make it cost 2(B/G) and have it cantrip?
Why creature spell? Red is more about spellslinging.
This is a tad undercosted. Put an big mana cost on the "return to hand" ability, or raise the CMC of the artifact.
Cool card, but it's gonna screw up limited big time.
What about BG and cantrip?
What about:
Archival Research Facility 2
Artifact R
Archival Research Facility enters the battlefield tapped.
2, t: exile a card from your graveyard.
2, t: place a card exiled by Archival Research Facility into your hand.
even cheaper, but costs a fair amount of mana to work and is delayed by a turn
What if I make it a 1/1? I think at that point it will act like a Darkness + a diabolic Edict.