In this thread I want all your wildest theories, hopes & own ideas of Viviens Planeswalker card.
To me it seems she sorta is a replacement for Garruk, since Nissa has now gotten an abundance of
Planeswalker-cards set after set & Garruk can't be used as easily as he doesn't occur in recent stories.
WotC has a problem now & inventing a new green Planeswalker to me is a welcome solution.
Now I don't expect her Magic to be just a copy of Garruks. But still rather similiar.
What we have:
In her picture she's accompanied by spirit animals & she's drawing arrows from that green spiritual essence.
Her Arkbow is of advanced, magical technology & stores the essence of lifeforms she encounters.
That is probably why we see the 2 green spirit animals next to her: She once encountered them & since stored
their essence in that Arkbow. Now how does she get to their essence ? I don't think simply by encountering
chosen lifeforms. Maybe by fighting them & acquiring a bloodprobe ? no idea. I hope you can help me out.
In any case though she is capable of summoning those creatures, which essences she stored in her Arkbow.
Probably in form of Token Creatures which are copies of those lifeforms.
These are 2 speculative things for 2 of her abilities. The third though I try make synergizing with the other 2.
Vivien, Fauna Mage 2GG (5 Loyality) M
+1: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand
& the rest on bottom of your library in any order. Each opponent gains 1 life for each noncreature-card revealed this way.
0: Create a Creature Token thats a copy of a Nontoken-Creature named with an Essence-counter. It is a
green Spirit in addition to its other types. If this is the third time
this ability is activated, remove the corresponding essence counter.
-X: Vivien deals X damage to target Creature. Then put an Essence-counter on Vivien with that creatures name.
So . . . 5 Loyality is a lot. But I did that to make her -X more viable.
+1 is simply a way to refuel & potentially grant a target to hit with -X to get a copy, if nothing else.
0 is where she shines. Potentially make copies of Non-Token-bombs. But you have a limited
amount of copies.
-X This is the way how she gets to the essence: by fightin those creatures. Also possible to kill stuff
& to combine with her 0
Vivien -- will be played in a creatureless deck, likely a combo one and/or false cure.
0 ability -- if I'm reading this right, you can't use the 0 ability without first using the ultimate. Also, the "if this is the third time" ability doesn't make sense. So, if I were to copy a elf, then a bear, then a knight (si I used the ability three times), which essence counter will I be removing? If you's saying none because I need to elf three times to remove the elf counter, that's an incredible amount of bookkeeping involved since it would mean each essence counter has its own counters to keep track of how many times its been used.
-X -- NOT green, and given she starts with 5 loyalty, insanely powerful even if it were red.
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I didnt consider abusive stuff with +1. & i rather came up quickly with it. So i see now it needs a change.
When i developed her 0, i waa aware that it was causing bookkeeping. I prefered to avoid it, but other wordings ended up too strong. This ability was the most struggle & its by far not perfect. Sorry. & yeah, its only usable after she -X'd something. This was mostly about flava to display Vivien first needs to get to the essence.
-X There are some other green cards too that deal damage to creatures. So i dont see how this one is not in greens territory.
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In this thread I want all your wildest theories, hopes & own ideas of Viviens Planeswalker card.
To me it seems she sorta is a replacement for Garruk, since Nissa has now gotten an abundance of
Planeswalker-cards set after set & Garruk can't be used as easily as he doesn't occur in recent stories.
WotC has a problem now & inventing a new green Planeswalker to me is a welcome solution.
Now I don't expect her Magic to be just a copy of Garruks. But still rather similiar.
What we have:
In her picture she's accompanied by spirit animals & she's drawing arrows from that green spiritual essence.
Her Arkbow is of advanced, magical technology & stores the essence of lifeforms she encounters.
That is probably why we see the 2 green spirit animals next to her: She once encountered them & since stored
their essence in that Arkbow. Now how does she get to their essence ? I don't think simply by encountering
chosen lifeforms. Maybe by fighting them & acquiring a bloodprobe ? no idea. I hope you can help me out.
In any case though she is capable of summoning those creatures, which essences she stored in her Arkbow.
Probably in form of Token Creatures which are copies of those lifeforms.
These are 2 speculative things for 2 of her abilities. The third though I try make synergizing with the other 2.
Vivien, Fauna Mage 2GG (5 Loyality) M
+1: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand
& the rest on bottom of your library in any order. Each opponent gains 1 life for each noncreature-card revealed this way.
0: Create a Creature Token thats a copy of a Nontoken-Creature named with an Essence-counter. It is a
green Spirit in addition to its other types. If this is the third time
this ability is activated, remove the corresponding essence counter.
-X: Vivien deals X damage to target Creature. Then put an Essence-counter on Vivien with that creatures name.
So . . . 5 Loyality is a lot. But I did that to make her -X more viable.
+1 is simply a way to refuel & potentially grant a target to hit with -X to get a copy, if nothing else.
0 is where she shines. Potentially make copies of Non-Token-bombs. But you have a limited
amount of copies.
-X This is the way how she gets to the essence: by fightin those creatures. Also possible to kill stuff
& to combine with her 0
Go crazey & share your ideas please
0 ability -- if I'm reading this right, you can't use the 0 ability without first using the ultimate. Also, the "if this is the third time" ability doesn't make sense. So, if I were to copy a elf, then a bear, then a knight (si I used the ability three times), which essence counter will I be removing? If you's saying none because I need to elf three times to remove the elf counter, that's an incredible amount of bookkeeping involved since it would mean each essence counter has its own counters to keep track of how many times its been used.
-X -- NOT green, and given she starts with 5 loyalty, insanely powerful even if it were red.
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
When i developed her 0, i waa aware that it was causing bookkeeping. I prefered to avoid it, but other wordings ended up too strong. This ability was the most struggle & its by far not perfect. Sorry. & yeah, its only usable after she -X'd something. This was mostly about flava to display Vivien first needs to get to the essence.
-X There are some other green cards too that deal damage to creatures. So i dont see how this one is not in greens territory.