Robynne: Your hair looks pretty good. You almost look like a completely different person. That's probably partially due to the fact that you don't have your glasses on though.
Hey Cyan, I realized I never answered your question about living in Oz/protesting in SF. I lived in the Bay Area for a year before I moved over the rainbow. Before that I lived in Portland, Oregon, + before that I spent 17 frigid winters in the heartland of Alaska.
Doh!
Well when naming a product, it's important to think about it's meaning. If you name something after a body part of mine, i'm sure it'll sell great!!
My username used to me "Alex" but I added the " + " because when you add users to your friends list, they get a + on their name; this way, i'm everyones friend!
Morning all...First off I'd like to comment on Zigathon's angry tool post. The album wasn't leaked like everyone claims it was so I'm pretty sure that the stuff you were listening to wasn't tool. The only song out is Vicarious which is really good with an oldschool "Undertow" sound to it.
Second....I like the closing portal idea. I really limits your apponents ability to use it. They still get to rifle through their library and shuffle it...but who cares. We should make it manditory that they have to search their library and not an option...this way it hurts Sensei's Divining Top. They are forced to shuffle each turn until the "portal" closes.
Getting back to work now...be back later!:p
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hahahahaha... best post ever. Alex is nothing more than a gigantic caulk.... if you push his buttons he'll spray the white stuff wherever you want it to go... when you get alex too hot he explodes all over the place...
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Robynne: all of a sudden you don't look like you're 12 years old :D. I like the new haircut, but I'd keep the glasses if I was you. (P.S. great job telling everyone I wasn't getting naked pictures... but you totally forgot to PM them to me. Just didn't want you to forget).
I thought I read a birthday in there somewhere, but I can't find it now that I'm looking for it. Happy B-Day whoever it was.
I had the most interesting weekend ever. Friday, I went to a rodeo. Yeah yeah, there's 2 million jokes you can make about me watching a bunch of d00ds who could've stared in BrokeBack Mountain [the alex + story] ride bulls. one coyboy got shaken off and then trampled by the bull. It was intense, but he gave a big middle finger to the bull as he got hauled off on a stretcher, so methinks he was fine.
Saturday, my roomate had some friends over and we all went bar-hopping. This is when I found out that my roomate is a cowardly ***** with absolutely no game at all. The only girls he talked with all night were the ones I introduced him to, and I had to go so far as to ASK one girl to go talk to him, because he was too shy to introduce himself...
Not suprisingly, I met a girl in the bars as well. I think her name was Trish, but I'm not sure. We were off to a good start (she said she'd cut off my balls if I grabbed her ass, but thanks for the compliment) [you've gotta love a girl who talks that smoothly], when I asked her what her biggest fear in life was. I can't remember exactly what it was, but it was something along the lines of "getting old and not finding a man who will marry me." JACKPOT
Maybe it was the martini's (and the rum, and the beers, and the whiskys), but I hate to see someone living in fear. I dropped to one knee right in the middle of the bar, and proposed. "I've only known you for about half an hour, but you are my everything. Before today I went to bed at night every day and cried because I hadn't met you yet. Now that I have, I cry because I'm terrified that you'll realize I'm just some drunk from the bar. So please, take away my tears and complete my life. Will you, Tammie... no Torrie, no Trish... whatever your name was, will you please marry me?" No luck. Turns out she has a boyfriend, and he's got first dibs. I met him, and I have to say, for the guy who'se being a ****-block, he's pretty cool.
So testing the waters of our new friendship, I ask him for permission to marry her away, and he just laughs. So I drop back to a knee, "Did you hear that. I'm way better than your loser boyfriend, I haven't been able to stop thinking about you... well about parts of you, ever since we met. I'm crazy in love, so marry me or I'll go kill myself, and you'll be stuck with that lame ass boyfriend" Still no luck.
Finally, as we were about to leave, she ASKS ME to propose again... so naturally I do. This time though, she says yes, so I stand up and get a big wet kiss... I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I think I might be engaged. I just wish I had remembered to ask my fiancee(?) what her phone number was so I could double check.
Dux: That's nothing. Sky Hussar now THAT breaks Kiki-Jiki.
I was told today that this kid on my team called 911 twice this morning and hung up both times. They called back and his dad answered. The reason the kid called 911? He got an erection and didn't know what to do. I wish I was making this up.
So I ordered straight tequila, a little courage in a shot
I asked you for a date and then I asked to tie the knot
I got a little wasted, yeah I went a little far
But I finally got to hug you when you helped me to my car
The last thing I remember I heard myself say
I'm in love with you baby, I don't even know your name
'Cause I;m married to you baby and I don't even know your name
Wish my life was a dorky country song. *pout*
Oh Akroma...you so Cute.
So I open up my winnings and I get a Simic dual. I also got a bunch of split cards...thats kind of fun. I still would love to collect this block, but I don't play enough....missing a few hundred chase rares.
About the card...names? Okay I suck but here I go....
Eer....i like the word 'Duality' Kinda goes with the idea of giving both players creature cards.
~ comes into play with 7 life counters on it.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, he or she may remove a life counter from ~, then search his or her library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of life counters on ~, put it into play, and shuffle his or her library.
Still not sure if it would be better 7 or 8. I think JJ may be onto something about that "may." Gives the portal a more uncontrolable feel while making it more predictable. Of course if your opponent doesn't take a counter in the "may" example then we get first pick...but it could mess up how we've tinkered with the deck. So replacing the "may" might be for the best.
You know this card would suck in multi-player.
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You suck multiplayers??!? Is that what you said? I'm glad you got out and played at the prerelease...I wish I coulda!!:(
Tequila.....yummm.....* jonnyjonski goes off licking his lips and whistling country!!!:( /me hates country!!!
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Well, my pics aren't going to look NEARLY as good as the other 2 peeps, but somebody kept nagging me to post a pic, so here we go.
This is my ugly mug, last warning.
Sorry for the size of it, it's off my digital cam, and I dunno how to resize them.
I have no other pics I can post. I was about to destroy that one, but I got "persuaded" to post it.
Back to the contest. If the counter removal is a "may" clause, the flavor would be that for each creature that comes through, the portal shrinks, correct? But if we drop the "may" clause, then it's a timed portal, correct? I lke the latter better, as it is like the deadlines we impose when collecting new members.
I never thought I'd see a picture of Alex+'s caulk in the clan thread. Seriously, that's nasty. And kinda big.
As for the other pictures, wow... we're in a clan with two hot girls. How sweet is that? Hot damn. Nice cut Robynne. Your hair was amazing before, though. Don't cut it any shorter! And hey Talena you have some great assets there. I'd show you mine, but... yeah. I'll just get another boring shot of my face.
Alex, your "reversal" idea is also good, and I considered it for a minute, but since the rest of the clan is leaning for what we've got currently, I'm going to agree with them. But the reversal is pretty cool and if you don't mind I'm going to keep that idea in mind for some other cards I may design in the future. Oh, how did your movie go yesterday?
lol Travis....... your posts are so hiliarious but I'm not sure how to reply to them! I think Christopher's avatar sums it up best!
Sooo.....
Enchantment (R)
~ comes into play with 7 life counters on it.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, he or she removes a life counter from ~, then search his or her library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of life counters on ~, put it into play, and shuffle his or her library.
I made it non-optional, but then I noticed this takes away some of the choice factor to it. For example, your opponent gets it with 7 counters. If they remove a counter and search, they get a 6cc creature. But if they don't remove and search, YOU get the 6cc creature. So you have to build your deck with more than just a 5cc, 3cc, and 1cc in mind. Know what I mean? It actually makes it more interactive and cool to be "may" because you could each stall it in the hopes that you'll mess the other player's strategy. I think that's really interesting, but if people think it should be a forced remove, then we'll go with that.
Rarity is rare, right? And it's enchantment for sure. Cost is... :symg:? I think I'd be okay with that. Pretty much a second turn play, unless you build specifically to accelerate to a first turn drop... mox or Elvish Spirit Guide type deal. That's cool. As for the name, I agree that "duality" could be part of it. I also kind of like the "recruitment" theme but not sure how to work that in. Anyone got creative ideas?
Happy 29th Brian! 29 is cool because it's not 30. When you're 30 you're old, trust me. I'M OLD! Old and dirty. Perverted. Nasty... filthy. OOooooh yeah baby. *tries to fondle something... maybe a chair or mousepad* MMmmmm.
Yeah, uh, so I'm gonna get my wife to take one of me, brb.
Back! I just did the "myspace" thing instead - outstretched arm shots.
Yeah, I just got my hair cut too. Real short for the warm weather we're getting. Woooo! If you think I'm sexy, and you want my body... etc. YEAH!
Greetings everyone, First off, I'm positive that IS the new TOOL album. Vicarious is great, Jambi is pretty cool... and then its just a bunch of blah (a 17 minute song {split into two segments}, some weird song called The Pot, then Maynard does an Indian chant for nearly two minutes and the song after that is some woman talking to a doctor or something, then another couple of OK songs) until Right In Two. The next and last song is just a bunch of weird noises. However, after listening to it all day Saturday and for a little bit yesterday, I have to admit its gotten a little better. Its still rather disappointing though. The music is great... but Maynard should have had a little more participation in the overall process of creating it, instead of just writing lyrics to already completed music. And if you get ahold of me on AIM, I'll send you a couple songs and you can see for yourself. Or just wait until May 2nd, like I was going to. Damn booze... as most of my friends can attest, calling people at 5:30am and ranting about how let down I was isn't the best way to review music. Enough of that though... The Clan card looks pretty interesting, but why at only two mana? Is there any artwork for it yet? So, I now have two jobs. Which is why I'm not around as much. Also, this computer I'm currently using sucks. Hopefully, I can get over to my friend's place tonight and pick up my wireless internet antenna. Then, I'll be around quite a bit more. Well, I'm going to see how well some G and 10,000 Days works out for me. Later Called.
I don't have any recent pictures.
Too bad.
I don't have a camera right now either.
But yeah, the girls in our clan are cute.
I went to the DIS prere, among other things, this weekend.
I went the SAME colors (much to my chagrin) both flights that I did.
My first deck was much better than my second...my first went 2-2 and my second went 0-2.
My first deck had wave of reckoning and the bouncing dijnn, and one game I played Wave and Bounced the Dijnn...another game I used him to bounce the common taplands of my opponent. Also, I had Isperia and a TON of fliers. Both flights I had that SWEET 2/1 flier for 1W.
I think that Graft is a little harder than it seems to get working. I like forecast.
My second deck was the same colors (W/G/U) and my rares weren't as cool...
I lost first round, and second round I played this girl that was kind of silly, but she knew her ****. She made a 5 color deck! The first game she got out four signets eventually, after having to discard two of her three bomb DIS rares. (Rakdos Pit Dragon, Dread Slag) Pride of the Clouds kept coming out...it was a long game, but I think I won.
The second game got called for time, but since a 0-1-1 record doesn't let you win anything, I gave her the win and left.
Good rares from DIS that I pulled? Uhh...Momir Vig, Isperia, FOIL Odds//Ends...
I don't think I made out as well as with my GP boosters, where I got a dual, Niv-Mizzet, the Angel, and other good stuff.
If I am not lazy, I will try to get my friend to learn (Via modo, because Modo knows the rules best, and I learned a thing or two from it) and she can play at the CS prere, which I want details about...
I finally beat Kingdom Hearts 2 today.
I didn't try to get the secret ending, because it is on youtube.com. Hah.
Ummm, yah.
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Ice Age 2 was actually really good! Not that I didn't expect it to be.
Megan got me a fish tank. I have a fantastic digital camera, but someone took my cable by accident and it's not pretty much useless. *sad*
I'll put up some pictures in a bit.
Shafies girl is STRAIT from MySpace. You've got the angles hun. That's a bad thing.
Daron's pimping the angles a bit, but not to any extreme. He still looks like a pedofile everytime I see him. AHahhahahahhaha.
Robynne is cute as hell. *wink*
Always nice to know we got the hottest MTG girls in our clan.
I'm thinking about buying a nice camcorder. I am dealing with some Mastercard issues right now. They are charging me for phoning them when their service didn't work. I tried to register my card online but they said it was already done so. When I phoned, they charged me 1.50, and then hung up on me after waiting 20 min. Not too happy. I'll prolly go cancle my card before the month is done. Screw those bastards.
I also watched King Kong last night. The movie was crap until I got the about 12 min of awesomness in the middle. Lots of great looking action sequence then followed up by another half hour of boring crap, then a few min of action, then a bad ending.
Not bad as in "You know what's gunna happen", but bad as in "That was poorly executed".
eh, its a webcam and a crapy one.. its all about the angles
anyway nothing new here....took the kiddies to the dunes it was fun and now its time for 24
Talena, my crappy little webcam has a circular knob around the lens. You twist it to focus the thing. Set up your imaging program, get a view of your face on the screen, and turn it until it looks more in focus. If you have a better quality webcam than that, it might have autofocus or something, in which case that's not your problem. The only other thing I can suggest (not knowing that much about webcams) is to go into your webcam control panel (it came with software) and fiddle with some options. It's not THAT bad anyway. My compliments to your shalafi.
Oh, the kids are coming in from the yard, and they're dirty. My house isn't dirty. This is going to be a problem.
The wording on that card doesn't work rulewise, Daron, I don't think. Only the controller of a player can actually remove counters from it etc. It would need to say like 'At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may search their library for a creature with CMC = the # of counters on ~. If a player does, remove a counter from this.
I went through another day of training. 14 hours with 5 hours of pay. Thats what I get for my work being 2 and a half hours away with a two hour break. Left 8 am and bairly made it on time at 10:30. There was this brat that wouldn't sit still, he ran arround and grabbed the CD player and the CD's and the teachers Glasses. In the end I had him sitting on my lap being reletively restrained. I'm not sure what the corporal punishment rules in Japan are, by their slapstick comedy a little abuse might be tolerated. Not where in the states where your not allowed to disiplin your kids for fear of child abuse charge.
I think the idea of the card with the 'may' wording is growing on me. Just cause we can make the deck a little more versitile and depending on the board we probably wouldn't care if the opponent searched twice if we knew we could pull something devastating for the third pick. In this case I propose upping the starting counters to 8. I still like the idea of turning the creature into a legend.
Names?
Dynamic Duality
Aberrant Duality
Eerrrggg....not in a creative mood.
Flavor text... You know the difference between us? We make this look good. ~MIB ...or at least something close.
Hey, I liked it back when Magic would quote things from classic literature and stuff. Poetry from Samuel Colerige and others worked great as flavor text.
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..So, how soon until the Clan gathering? The ladies bunk with me!!
Ok, after some good thought, here are my feelings on the card: I like my original idea of both players fetching creatures at the beginning of their upkeeps. I don't like counters on cards(As you can see in my signature). The Called is a Legendary Clan, with the most elite as our members = I like the idea of fetching Legendary creatures. Yes, this can be a great advantage to whomever builds a deck around this card, but in mirror matches it can be a huge drawback. So after reading over the last 4 pages, all the proposed drafts, names and what have you; I present:
Legends of the Call - 3GG
Legendary Enchantment (R)
At the beginning of each player’s upkeep, that player may search his or her library for a legendary creature card and put it into play tapped. If they do, that player then shuffles his or her library. Some creatures possess such legendary power; their clan can not hesitate to have them called into battle.
My proposed casting costs are 3G or 2GG or 4G or 3GG?
Green does fetch Legendary creatures = Time of Need. I think our card may be near done! LMK What you all think. Fell free to change it anyway you like.
In other news; Thanx to BD, Jonski and EclipseAgent for helping me get my laptop working again. I AM BACK BABY!!
Now you may see me around the site or on AIM during the evenings!
NOW LETS SEE MORE PICS LADIES ........nipples!!!?:dance:
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Right on Dux! Although, I think 1GG is a good cost. 2GG works as well. I really think it should be double-green mana so its not so easy to splash. Congrats on getting the ol' laptop working again. I'll have my wireless antenna around midnight tonight, finally. Too bad I'll be sleeping by the time it arrives. I have to be up at 5am for work. In any case, perhaps I shall belatedly join the picture sharing fun-club. I can probably dig up a few good ones around here. Speaking of which, that's some good advice about the whole webcam thing, R_E. I always wondered why that thing spun around. Maybe I'll try tinkering with it so you can all check out my manly nipples. Later Called.
I got to say that I prefer the version with the counters and the GG as the mana cost. It just seems more playable to me. I think it is more narrow and requires extra thought in a deckmaking process which is what we want.
Primal Duality Legendary Enchantment (R)
~ comes into play with 7 life counters on it.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep if there are no counters on ~ sacrafice it. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, he or she removes a life counter from ~, then search his or her library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of life counters on ~, put it into play it is now a legend in addition to its other creature types, and shuffle his or her library.
Basicaly the same except now waaayyyy too wordy. I liked the idea of making it legendary so that only one can be out at a time...but it needed a way to die once the counters were gone. This may be a mistake as wordiness is never fun so maybe legendary = bad idea. I also like the idea of turning the creature into a legendary creature....because thats what the called is about, being elite and legendary....sure others can be like that, but we influenced them and we're better anyway . I left the counters at7 but am now thinking 6 might be better....I'm just not familiar enough with whats available as a CIP. Flavor text better represent us the most, I'm not sure how as I can't think of anything....something about everyone being equal but us being better at it. Kinda like someone bragging about being the most humble person in the world....
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Thanks for the HB shouts, DUX. . . + I like that version of the card - still abuseable with Legends who have activated abilites without costs, heh heh Also rewards folks for playing Legendaries creatures, rather than just critters.
Cost it :1mana::symg::symg::symg:? If we win, it forces everyone to build green decks
If it's going to have trips green in the cost, it should just be GGG.
I like the name that Daggs proposed, and I like it being Legendary and searching for Legendary guys. But...why are the counters called 'Life Counters'? Not that it's bad, just doesn't seem exactly fitting. Also, as I said previously, the search ability would most likely need to be worded differently, as you can't generally just take counters off of your opponent's stuff.
Honestly, for something this powerful, I think it needs to have 'When ~ comes into play, you may pay X life. If you do, search your library for a Legendary Creature with CMC equal to X and put X life counters on ~. Plus if you did it that way, it could be a little cheaper to play, like 1GG maybe. So here's my suggestion:
Primal Duality :1mana::symg::symg:
Legendary Enchantment (R)
When Primal Duality comes into play, you may pay X life. If you do, search your library for a Legendary Creature with converted mana cost X and put it into play, and put X life counters on Primal Duality.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may search their library for a creature with converted mana cost X and put it into play. If that player does, remove a life counter from Primal Duality, and put a Legend Counter on that creature.
If Primal Duality leaves play, all creatures with Legend Counters are shuffled into their owner's library.
All Creatures with Legend Counters are considered Legendary i n addition to their other creature types.
I like the leaves play part alot, because honestly, we are a large, varying group of personalities in this clan, and it's doubtful that most of us would ever talk to each other..if we weren't Called. Isn't that right, Silent Prophet
I know it's wordy, but, I think it's just right, and for precendence, I offer Ice Cauldron.
I think if you have to pay life to get it into play you should gain that life back...seems only fitting with green. Lets just make it wordier and loger.....ala the Caudron....and say that during YOUR upkeep you gain life equal to the counters on ~this card~. That way you put up the initial investment but get it back 3 times over for as long as the card stays in play. Simply put...you want to build something that will protect your investment.
Just a thought.
I don't like the wordiness though....but DUX's new version is to abusable. I think the counters are a necessity and the exact casting cost...thinking back....should be used to focus the deck more. I still like my Monkey Cage build around this card though!!:p
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Robynne: Your hair looks pretty good. You almost look like a completely different person. That's probably partially due to the fact that you don't have your glasses on though.
Just thought you'd. . . like to know.
le - @ alex
Well when naming a product, it's important to think about it's meaning. If you name something after a body part of mine, i'm sure it'll sell great!!
My username used to me "Alex" but I added the " + " because when you add users to your friends list, they get a + on their name; this way, i'm everyones friend!
Second....I like the closing portal idea. I really limits your apponents ability to use it. They still get to rifle through their library and shuffle it...but who cares. We should make it manditory that they have to search their library and not an option...this way it hurts Sensei's Divining Top. They are forced to shuffle each turn until the "portal" closes.
Getting back to work now...be back later!:p
ok I'm done.
Robynne: all of a sudden you don't look like you're 12 years old :D. I like the new haircut, but I'd keep the glasses if I was you. (P.S. great job telling everyone I wasn't getting naked pictures... but you totally forgot to PM them to me. Just didn't want you to forget).
I thought I read a birthday in there somewhere, but I can't find it now that I'm looking for it. Happy B-Day whoever it was.
I had the most interesting weekend ever. Friday, I went to a rodeo. Yeah yeah, there's 2 million jokes you can make about me watching a bunch of d00ds who could've stared in BrokeBack Mountain [the alex + story] ride bulls. one coyboy got shaken off and then trampled by the bull. It was intense, but he gave a big middle finger to the bull as he got hauled off on a stretcher, so methinks he was fine.
Saturday, my roomate had some friends over and we all went bar-hopping. This is when I found out that my roomate is a cowardly ***** with absolutely no game at all. The only girls he talked with all night were the ones I introduced him to, and I had to go so far as to ASK one girl to go talk to him, because he was too shy to introduce himself...
Not suprisingly, I met a girl in the bars as well. I think her name was Trish, but I'm not sure. We were off to a good start (she said she'd cut off my balls if I grabbed her ass, but thanks for the compliment) [you've gotta love a girl who talks that smoothly], when I asked her what her biggest fear in life was. I can't remember exactly what it was, but it was something along the lines of "getting old and not finding a man who will marry me." JACKPOT
Maybe it was the martini's (and the rum, and the beers, and the whiskys), but I hate to see someone living in fear. I dropped to one knee right in the middle of the bar, and proposed. "I've only known you for about half an hour, but you are my everything. Before today I went to bed at night every day and cried because I hadn't met you yet. Now that I have, I cry because I'm terrified that you'll realize I'm just some drunk from the bar. So please, take away my tears and complete my life. Will you, Tammie... no Torrie, no Trish... whatever your name was, will you please marry me?" No luck. Turns out she has a boyfriend, and he's got first dibs. I met him, and I have to say, for the guy who'se being a ****-block, he's pretty cool.
So testing the waters of our new friendship, I ask him for permission to marry her away, and he just laughs. So I drop back to a knee, "Did you hear that. I'm way better than your loser boyfriend, I haven't been able to stop thinking about you... well about parts of you, ever since we met. I'm crazy in love, so marry me or I'll go kill myself, and you'll be stuck with that lame ass boyfriend" Still no luck.
Finally, as we were about to leave, she ASKS ME to propose again... so naturally I do. This time though, she says yes, so I stand up and get a big wet kiss... I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I think I might be engaged. I just wish I had remembered to ask my fiancee(?) what her phone number was so I could double check.
Dux: That's nothing. Sky Hussar now THAT breaks Kiki-Jiki.
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I asked you for a date and then I asked to tie the knot
I got a little wasted, yeah I went a little far
But I finally got to hug you when you helped me to my car
The last thing I remember I heard myself say
I'm in love with you baby, I don't even know your name
'Cause I;m married to you baby and I don't even know your name
Wish my life was a dorky country song. *pout*
Oh Akroma...you so Cute.
So I open up my winnings and I get a Simic dual. I also got a bunch of split cards...thats kind of fun. I still would love to collect this block, but I don't play enough....missing a few hundred chase rares.
About the card...names? Okay I suck but here I go....
Diminishing Exhaltations
Inexplicable equality
Symbolic Duality
Incidental Duality
Pantisocratic Duality GG
Eer....i like the word 'Duality' Kinda goes with the idea of giving both players creature cards.
~ comes into play with 7 life counters on it.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, he or she may remove a life counter from ~, then search his or her library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of life counters on ~, put it into play, and shuffle his or her library.
Still not sure if it would be better 7 or 8. I think JJ may be onto something about that "may." Gives the portal a more uncontrolable feel while making it more predictable. Of course if your opponent doesn't take a counter in the "may" example then we get first pick...but it could mess up how we've tinkered with the deck. So replacing the "may" might be for the best.
You know this card would suck in multi-player.
Daggertooth
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
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Tequila.....yummm.....* jonnyjonski goes off licking his lips and whistling country!!!:( /me hates country!!!
*crawls to bed*
pic are fun i think everyone should post some pics...ill try to get some of cyan!!
PS. howcome everyones webcams seem better then mine? Robynne what kind do you have?
Sorry for the size of it, it's off my digital cam, and I dunno how to resize them.
I have no other pics I can post. I was about to destroy that one, but I got "persuaded" to post it.
Back to the contest. If the counter removal is a "may" clause, the flavor would be that for each creature that comes through, the portal shrinks, correct? But if we drop the "may" clause, then it's a timed portal, correct? I lke the latter better, as it is like the deadlines we impose when collecting new members.
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As for the other pictures, wow... we're in a clan with two hot girls. How sweet is that? Hot damn. Nice cut Robynne. Your hair was amazing before, though. Don't cut it any shorter! And hey Talena you have some great assets there. I'd show you mine, but... yeah. I'll just get another boring shot of my face.
Alex, your "reversal" idea is also good, and I considered it for a minute, but since the rest of the clan is leaning for what we've got currently, I'm going to agree with them. But the reversal is pretty cool and if you don't mind I'm going to keep that idea in mind for some other cards I may design in the future. Oh, how did your movie go yesterday?
lol Travis....... your posts are so hiliarious but I'm not sure how to reply to them! I think Christopher's avatar sums it up best!
Sooo.....
Enchantment (R)
~ comes into play with 7 life counters on it.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, he or she removes a life counter from ~, then search his or her library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of life counters on ~, put it into play, and shuffle his or her library.
I made it non-optional, but then I noticed this takes away some of the choice factor to it. For example, your opponent gets it with 7 counters. If they remove a counter and search, they get a 6cc creature. But if they don't remove and search, YOU get the 6cc creature. So you have to build your deck with more than just a 5cc, 3cc, and 1cc in mind. Know what I mean? It actually makes it more interactive and cool to be "may" because you could each stall it in the hopes that you'll mess the other player's strategy. I think that's really interesting, but if people think it should be a forced remove, then we'll go with that.
Rarity is rare, right? And it's enchantment for sure. Cost is... :symg:? I think I'd be okay with that. Pretty much a second turn play, unless you build specifically to accelerate to a first turn drop... mox or Elvish Spirit Guide type deal. That's cool. As for the name, I agree that "duality" could be part of it. I also kind of like the "recruitment" theme but not sure how to work that in. Anyone got creative ideas?
Happy 29th Brian! 29 is cool because it's not 30. When you're 30 you're old, trust me. I'M OLD! Old and dirty. Perverted. Nasty... filthy. OOooooh yeah baby. *tries to fondle something... maybe a chair or mousepad* MMmmmm.
Yeah, uh, so I'm gonna get my wife to take one of me, brb.
Back! I just did the "myspace" thing instead - outstretched arm shots.
Yeah, I just got my hair cut too. Real short for the warm weather we're getting. Woooo! If you think I'm sexy, and you want my body... etc. YEAH!
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First off, I'm positive that IS the new TOOL album. Vicarious is great, Jambi is pretty cool... and then its just a bunch of blah (a 17 minute song {split into two segments}, some weird song called The Pot, then Maynard does an Indian chant for nearly two minutes and the song after that is some woman talking to a doctor or something, then another couple of OK songs) until Right In Two. The next and last song is just a bunch of weird noises. However, after listening to it all day Saturday and for a little bit yesterday, I have to admit its gotten a little better. Its still rather disappointing though. The music is great... but Maynard should have had a little more participation in the overall process of creating it, instead of just writing lyrics to already completed music. And if you get ahold of me on AIM, I'll send you a couple songs and you can see for yourself. Or just wait until May 2nd, like I was going to. Damn booze... as most of my friends can attest, calling people at 5:30am and ranting about how let down I was isn't the best way to review music.
Enough of that though...
The Clan card looks pretty interesting, but why at only two mana? Is there any artwork for it yet?
So, I now have two jobs. Which is why I'm not around as much. Also, this computer I'm currently using sucks. Hopefully, I can get over to my friend's place tonight and pick up my wireless internet antenna. Then, I'll be around quite a bit more.
Well, I'm going to see how well some G and 10,000 Days works out for me.
Later Called.
Too bad.
I don't have a camera right now either.
But yeah, the girls in our clan are cute.
I went to the DIS prere, among other things, this weekend.
I went the SAME colors (much to my chagrin) both flights that I did.
My first deck was much better than my second...my first went 2-2 and my second went 0-2.
My first deck had wave of reckoning and the bouncing dijnn, and one game I played Wave and Bounced the Dijnn...another game I used him to bounce the common taplands of my opponent. Also, I had Isperia and a TON of fliers. Both flights I had that SWEET 2/1 flier for 1W.
I think that Graft is a little harder than it seems to get working. I like forecast.
My second deck was the same colors (W/G/U) and my rares weren't as cool...
I lost first round, and second round I played this girl that was kind of silly, but she knew her ****. She made a 5 color deck! The first game she got out four signets eventually, after having to discard two of her three bomb DIS rares. (Rakdos Pit Dragon, Dread Slag) Pride of the Clouds kept coming out...it was a long game, but I think I won.
The second game got called for time, but since a 0-1-1 record doesn't let you win anything, I gave her the win and left.
Good rares from DIS that I pulled? Uhh...Momir Vig, Isperia, FOIL Odds//Ends...
I don't think I made out as well as with my GP boosters, where I got a dual, Niv-Mizzet, the Angel, and other good stuff.
If I am not lazy, I will try to get my friend to learn (Via modo, because Modo knows the rules best, and I learned a thing or two from it) and she can play at the CS prere, which I want details about...
I finally beat Kingdom Hearts 2 today.
I didn't try to get the secret ending, because it is on youtube.com. Hah.
Ummm, yah.
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Ice Age 2 was actually really good! Not that I didn't expect it to be.
Megan got me a fish tank. I have a fantastic digital camera, but someone took my cable by accident and it's not pretty much useless. *sad*
I'll put up some pictures in a bit.
Shafies girl is STRAIT from MySpace. You've got the angles hun. That's a bad thing.
Daron's pimping the angles a bit, but not to any extreme. He still looks like a pedofile everytime I see him. AHahhahahahhaha.
Robynne is cute as hell. *wink*
Always nice to know we got the hottest MTG girls in our clan.
I'm thinking about buying a nice camcorder. I am dealing with some Mastercard issues right now. They are charging me for phoning them when their service didn't work. I tried to register my card online but they said it was already done so. When I phoned, they charged me 1.50, and then hung up on me after waiting 20 min. Not too happy. I'll prolly go cancle my card before the month is done. Screw those bastards.
I also watched King Kong last night. The movie was crap until I got the about 12 min of awesomness in the middle. Lots of great looking action sequence then followed up by another half hour of boring crap, then a few min of action, then a bad ending.
Not bad as in "You know what's gunna happen", but bad as in "That was poorly executed".
anyway nothing new here....took the kiddies to the dunes it was fun and now its time for 24
Oh, the kids are coming in from the yard, and they're dirty. My house isn't dirty. This is going to be a problem.
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I'm pretty sure of that anyway.
I think the idea of the card with the 'may' wording is growing on me. Just cause we can make the deck a little more versitile and depending on the board we probably wouldn't care if the opponent searched twice if we knew we could pull something devastating for the third pick. In this case I propose upping the starting counters to 8. I still like the idea of turning the creature into a legend.
Names?
Dynamic Duality
Aberrant Duality
Eerrrggg....not in a creative mood.
Flavor text...
You know the difference between us? We make this look good. ~MIB ...or at least something close.
Hey, I liked it back when Magic would quote things from classic literature and stuff. Poetry from Samuel Colerige and others worked great as flavor text.
Daggertooth
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
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..So, how soon until the Clan gathering? The ladies bunk with me!!
Ok, after some good thought, here are my feelings on the card: I like my original idea of both players fetching creatures at the beginning of their upkeeps. I don't like counters on cards(As you can see in my signature). The Called is a Legendary Clan, with the most elite as our members = I like the idea of fetching Legendary creatures. Yes, this can be a great advantage to whomever builds a deck around this card, but in mirror matches it can be a huge drawback. So after reading over the last 4 pages, all the proposed drafts, names and what have you; I present:
Legends of the Call - 3GG
Legendary Enchantment (R)
At the beginning of each player’s upkeep, that player may search his or her library for a legendary creature card and put it into play tapped. If they do, that player then shuffles his or her library.
Some creatures possess such legendary power; their clan can not hesitate to have them called into battle.
My proposed casting costs are 3G or 2GG or 4G or 3GG?
Green does fetch Legendary creatures = Time of Need. I think our card may be near done! LMK What you all think. Fell free to change it anyway you like.
In other news; Thanx to BD, Jonski and EclipseAgent for helping me get my laptop working again. I AM BACK BABY!!
Now you may see me around the site or on AIM during the evenings!
NOW LETS SEE MORE PICS LADIES ........nipples!!!?:dance:
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**EDS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY rianalnnanalanalanalanalanal!!
Homebrew is creating Magic.
Are you a pilot or a creator??
Congrats on getting the ol' laptop working again.
I'll have my wireless antenna around midnight tonight, finally. Too bad I'll be sleeping by the time it arrives. I have to be up at 5am for work. In any case, perhaps I shall belatedly join the picture sharing fun-club. I can probably dig up a few good ones around here.
Speaking of which, that's some good advice about the whole webcam thing, R_E. I always wondered why that thing spun around. Maybe I'll try tinkering with it so you can all check out my manly nipples.
Later Called.
Primal Duality
Legendary Enchantment (R)
~ comes into play with 7 life counters on it.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep if there are no counters on ~ sacrafice it.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, he or she removes a life counter from ~, then search his or her library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of life counters on ~, put it into play it is now a legend in addition to its other creature types, and shuffle his or her library.
Basicaly the same except now waaayyyy too wordy. I liked the idea of making it legendary so that only one can be out at a time...but it needed a way to die once the counters were gone. This may be a mistake as wordiness is never fun so maybe legendary = bad idea. I also like the idea of turning the creature into a legendary creature....because thats what the called is about, being elite and legendary....sure others can be like that, but we influenced them and we're better anyway . I left the counters at7 but am now thinking 6 might be better....I'm just not familiar enough with whats available as a CIP. Flavor text better represent us the most, I'm not sure how as I can't think of anything....something about everyone being equal but us being better at it. Kinda like someone bragging about being the most humble person in the world....
Daggertooth
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
Moderator Helpdesk
Cost it :1mana::symg::symg::symg:? If we win, it forces everyone to build green decks
I like the name that Daggs proposed, and I like it being Legendary and searching for Legendary guys. But...why are the counters called 'Life Counters'? Not that it's bad, just doesn't seem exactly fitting. Also, as I said previously, the search ability would most likely need to be worded differently, as you can't generally just take counters off of your opponent's stuff.
Honestly, for something this powerful, I think it needs to have 'When ~ comes into play, you may pay X life. If you do, search your library for a Legendary Creature with CMC equal to X and put X life counters on ~. Plus if you did it that way, it could be a little cheaper to play, like 1GG maybe. So here's my suggestion:
Primal Duality :1mana::symg::symg:
Legendary Enchantment (R)
When Primal Duality comes into play, you may pay X life. If you do, search your library for a Legendary Creature with converted mana cost X and put it into play, and put X life counters on Primal Duality.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may search their library for a creature with converted mana cost X and put it into play. If that player does, remove a life counter from Primal Duality, and put a Legend Counter on that creature.
If Primal Duality leaves play, all creatures with Legend Counters are shuffled into their owner's library.
All Creatures with Legend Counters are considered Legendary i n addition to their other creature types.
I like the leaves play part alot, because honestly, we are a large, varying group of personalities in this clan, and it's doubtful that most of us would ever talk to each other..if we weren't Called. Isn't that right, Silent Prophet
I know it's wordy, but, I think it's just right, and for precendence, I offer Ice Cauldron.
:symb::confused::symb:
eds - sorry, Channel begs to differ, but that was a long time ago. What you're talking about is black, to me.
Just a thought.
I don't like the wordiness though....but DUX's new version is to abusable. I think the counters are a necessity and the exact casting cost...thinking back....should be used to focus the deck more. I still like my Monkey Cage build around this card though!!:p