Anti-Replicator Engine3 Artifact
Juxtapose (As you cast this spell or when it leaves the stack, you may put the cards in your hand on the bottom of your library in any order, then draws that many cards.)
If a source would copy or become a copy of something, it doesn't instead. Put each card that cannot become a copy this way into its owner's graveyard. "It is said that too much of anything is bad for you. But I've learned there are very bad things, that even one of, becomes too much. No one wants that. Not me—but especially not fragile you."
—Karn the Grand Architect
This design is based on Colostrum powder and its hyper-potent medicinal properties.
It's worded this way especially so that it works with the concept of Modal Copies that I came up with a long time ago. This concept primarily involves permanents that can exist as multiple copies of different cards at the same time. They can change their mode based on game-state interaction. The way this works with them, a card that is a modal copy of other cards, is only put into the graveyard if it tries to change its mode.
Primer
Colostrum is the First Milk of cows, which is produced after birth for the incubation period of the calf. This fluid is hyper potent, containing 10x the amount of immunoglobulin, growth factors, Proline Rich Polypeptides, and other benefactors that normal milk has.
As a supplement, Colostrum supports the immune system in a dynamic way. It powerfully checks against a number of malfactors presented by infectious agents, which together would otherwise produce a very discomforting, hard-fought, or even life threatening struggle for your body.
Colostrum directly supports the immune system, provides immediate remedy, and capability for response and defense. It is truly a super-supplement for the immune system.
Colostrum has been proven to have powerful antiviral, antibacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-allergen effects. It fights even HIV—and has been shown to return normal function to the immune system of people infected with that virus.
Further studies have shown that Colostrum from cows vaccinated for bovine coronavirus enabled infected calfs to fight off the virus—preventing diarrhea and enabling the calfs to fully recovery to perfect health.
In summary, this essentially would mean that some colostrum is secretly hyper-immune, and contains antibodies against coronavirus. It's not to say that they will work against this strain (and your body won't have to make its own), but it's also not to say that this strain is actually mutated at all, because it doesn't appear to be functionally different from BCV, SARS, or MERS at all so far.
Big Lab
It's a harsh truth, but we have to remember that Big Lab is a business first. It's intuitive for scientists to hinder information until they can monetize it for themselves. It can also be intuitive for scientists to purposely withhold information in lieu of other options that might be more profitable for them. An expensive vaccine for example, instead of an inexpensive natural supplement like Colostrum, which also has a lot of market competition out there to face off with against.
Considering this, please don't think that just because study information is vague or isn't available, that it means the truth isn't out there, or that other information can be entirely discredited. It can't—the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It doesn't disprove anything—so don't think that way. Keep your mind open and don't work yourself into any dead ends.
Immunity Overhead
Let me aware you to one of the major deadly factors of all infections. It's biological or immunity overhead. The term corresponds to the essence of the body being overburdened with the surmounting task of defending itself from infectious or toxic substances—in addition to everything else it's autonomously doing—or needs to do.
Viruses can replicate very fast, meaning that your body has to continuously produce more and more antibodies to successfully fight them off. These antibodies don't just come from nowhere, they are made from special proteins that the body traditionally has in limited supply. The body also has to spend other metabolites in order to signal for their production, put them together, and fuel all the cellular processes. This amounts to dangerous overhead for the body facing imminent threat.
Benefactors of Colostrum
Even so—the many immune factors found in colostrum (Immunoglobulins, Lactoferrin, Proline Rich Polypeptides, Cytokines, Lysozyme) provide the body with an ample ability to defend itself—and even fight off other infectious agents you might be battling at the same time (such as bacteria, influenza, or Rhinovirus).
Lactoferrin’s primary mechanism is blocking the entry of viruses into target cells by competing for binding sites on the cells—or by binding to viral proteins to inactivate them. It can also bind to bacteria to the same effects. So even if you're fighting a new virus, this provides a lead for your metabolism to produce its own specific antibodies (for that specific virus) and ultimately defeat it.
Another key player in this are the Proline Rich Polypeptides. These are special proteins that your glands need to create and mobilize its own immune factors. These proteins also provide pathway to the production of Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha (TNF-a). This cytokine controls the entire inflammatory cascade of cytokines, which are secreted when the immune system is mobilized to fight antigens. Proline Rich Polypeptides also provide pathway to the production of Gamma Interferon (INF-y). This is another major cytokine that interferes with the ability of pathogens (especially viruses) to replicate. This is why Colostrum is especially powerful supplementation for fighting viruses.
Protein Depletion
One of the major malfactors in battling infectious agents (especially viruses)—is the depletion of special (and crucial) proteins that the body needs to successfully create and engage immune response and activity. As the war rages on, you body is using up more and more of its protein stores to fight the surplus of infectious agents. However, this gets even worse when you consider the following fact: Viruses further deplete your proteins stores when they force replication.
This is how viruses work. They force your genes to produce sequence code, which then forces your body to take its own protein and replicate the virus. This means when you're fighting a virus, your protein stores are being depleted in double-time. In addition to this, there is both a latency and a biological overhead involved in digesting, sourcing, and synthesizing new, special polypeptides.
If you're battling multiple viruses at the same time this is going to be really bad news! But good news is that this also furthers how critical colostrum supplementation can be—and how critically it can help your body to defend and defeat a crushing overhead that your immune system is facing!
For example, the Proline Rich Polypeptides in colostrum help to bypass the entire digestive and protein synthesis process, providing the capability for your body to directly engage immune response and produce immune factors or engage immune activity.
Further Benefactors of Colostrum
Colostrum is also lush in Immunoglobulins: IgA, IgG, IgM, IgD, IgE. These are all present in colostrum. Typically, there is another latency (and resource overhead) in creating these antibodies from special protein polypeptides. However, the supplementary antibodies in Colostrum provide the body with immediate reinforcements for your body to attack antigens with. IgA are specially beneficial against viruses and bacteria because they are adaptive and aggressively protect the mucus membranes (where exposure to infectious agents most predominantly begins).
Colostrum also contains an array of Growth Factors, which are commonly available to the body in very spare supply, and the body only up-regulates production of these in the face of trauma (or inflammation). If you inhibit inflammation, the body will cease up-regulation (as the signaling for them also ceases).
These factors are crucial to the body to help regulate cellular repair and cellular stability. The factors found in Colostrum are: Insulin-like Growth Factor 1, Platelet Derived Growth Factor, Epidermal Growth Factor, and Transforming Growth Factor. These factors pave a clear road to recovery in the face of damage done by infectious agents—or the damages done by toxins that infectious agents produce. This is just the perfect bonus to the arsenal of benefactors provided in Colostrum.
End Testament
I am an athlete who has taken this supplement for years now with great results. I used to have immune problems, especially with intense training, but I never get sick anymore. Only minor symptoms at most―even with long bouts biking in the cold. I take 3000~4500mg—split between the day—morning, lunch, and always a dose before bed. In closing, I am confident that this supplement can be used to help fight the virus, fully recover infected people quickly, and should also be able to help prevent the virus from developing in new people.
ContraveneUU Instant
Counter target noncreature spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. If an ability is countered this way, that ability can't be activated or can't trigger until the end of its controller's third turn after this spell resolves. "O' the extents you go to—and all for nothing but delusion. If only you had the means to realize the eye of the beholder. It has no concern what we think of ourselves."
Contraverse1UU Instant
Counter target spell. If a spell is countered this way, spells with the same name can't be be cast or copied until the end of its controller's third turn after this spell resolves. Some men have all the luck in the world. Some have all the bad luck.
Anti-Device Replicator is a very cool card. It does have a few problems that I would like to address. The first is Juxtapose. This ability is a mess. You can swap your hand when you cast, or when the spell resolves or if it is countered. Drop the as you cast or the resolve/counter and it becomes a much more reasonable though still excessive ability. The second is you have obviously tried to head off any and all potential copies but have missed a large number of them, that is copies of cards in exile that are then cast. Finally, is that you kill all cards that try to copy making Mirrorweave into Duneblast. While this isn't inherently a problem the added functionality means you need to increase the cost of the card appropriately.
COntravene/verse, this is a memory nightmare. Three turns are far too long to expect people to remember something like this without a memory aide. When hitting a spell exile it with counters that are removed at upkeep. For abilities, it's a little stronger but put counters on the source and make them lose all abilities while it has those counters.
Anti-Device Replicator is a very cool card. It does have a few problems that I would like to address. The first is Juxtapose. This ability is a mess. You can swap your hand when you cast, or when the spell resolves or if it is countered. Drop the as you cast or the resolve/counter and it becomes a much more reasonable though still excessive ability.
Can't do that. Juxtapose exists as an enterprise concept to fix the flow of the cards in MTG, by means which hyper-accelerates the game pace, making the game more interactive and fun. This is only one keyword, of many that will be made with different draw functionalities. These keywords need to be able to operate outside the conventions of casting and countering spells. They are intended (and need to work) even if a spell is unable to resolve in order to secure the dynamic stimulus in the flow of the cards.
I thought about just using the word 'source' (if a source would be copied). I guess I'll have to go back to that instead.
Since the effect you mentioned includes a two-card combo, the resource overhead, combines with the fact that both cards add up to the CMC of the single one. I would considered that potential effect balanced in this. There's no need to increase the cost of this card any.
I don't believe in memory problems for gaming. If you're playing game, be it Dungeons & Dragons or MTG, it is the players responsibility to make all the preparations and take all the necessary notes to keep pace with the game. From a development perspective, this is the standard we want to establish, because it removes crippling limitations that would otherwise hold the capabilities of development back from being able to implement things that are interactive and fun.
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Artifact
Juxtapose (As you cast this spell or when it leaves the stack, you may put the cards in your hand on the bottom of your library in any order, then draws that many cards.)
If a source would copy or become a copy of something, it doesn't instead. Put each card that cannot become a copy this way into its owner's graveyard.
"It is said that too much of anything is bad for you. But I've learned there are very bad things, that even one of, becomes too much. No one wants that. Not me—but especially not fragile you."
—Karn the Grand Architect
This design is based on Colostrum powder and its hyper-potent medicinal properties.
It's worded this way especially so that it works with the concept of Modal Copies that I came up with a long time ago. This concept primarily involves permanents that can exist as multiple copies of different cards at the same time. They can change their mode based on game-state interaction. The way this works with them, a card that is a modal copy of other cards, is only put into the graveyard if it tries to change its mode.
Colostrum is the First Milk of cows, which is produced after birth for the incubation period of the calf. This fluid is hyper potent, containing 10x the amount of immunoglobulin, growth factors, Proline Rich Polypeptides, and other benefactors that normal milk has.
As a supplement, Colostrum supports the immune system in a dynamic way. It powerfully checks against a number of malfactors presented by infectious agents, which together would otherwise produce a very discomforting, hard-fought, or even life threatening struggle for your body.
Colostrum directly supports the immune system, provides immediate remedy, and capability for response and defense. It is truly a super-supplement for the immune system.
Colostrum has been proven to have powerful antiviral, antibacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-allergen effects. It fights even HIV—and has been shown to return normal function to the immune system of people infected with that virus.
Further studies have shown that Colostrum from cows vaccinated for bovine coronavirus enabled infected calfs to fight off the virus—preventing diarrhea and enabling the calfs to fully recovery to perfect health.
In summary, this essentially would mean that some colostrum is secretly hyper-immune, and contains antibodies against coronavirus. It's not to say that they will work against this strain (and your body won't have to make its own), but it's also not to say that this strain is actually mutated at all, because it doesn't appear to be functionally different from BCV, SARS, or MERS at all so far.
Big Lab
It's a harsh truth, but we have to remember that Big Lab is a business first. It's intuitive for scientists to hinder information until they can monetize it for themselves. It can also be intuitive for scientists to purposely withhold information in lieu of other options that might be more profitable for them. An expensive vaccine for example, instead of an inexpensive natural supplement like Colostrum, which also has a lot of market competition out there to face off with against.
Considering this, please don't think that just because study information is vague or isn't available, that it means the truth isn't out there, or that other information can be entirely discredited. It can't—the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. It doesn't disprove anything—so don't think that way. Keep your mind open and don't work yourself into any dead ends.
Immunity Overhead
Let me aware you to one of the major deadly factors of all infections. It's biological or immunity overhead. The term corresponds to the essence of the body being overburdened with the surmounting task of defending itself from infectious or toxic substances—in addition to everything else it's autonomously doing—or needs to do.
Viruses can replicate very fast, meaning that your body has to continuously produce more and more antibodies to successfully fight them off. These antibodies don't just come from nowhere, they are made from special proteins that the body traditionally has in limited supply. The body also has to spend other metabolites in order to signal for their production, put them together, and fuel all the cellular processes. This amounts to dangerous overhead for the body facing imminent threat.
Benefactors of Colostrum
Even so—the many immune factors found in colostrum (Immunoglobulins, Lactoferrin, Proline Rich Polypeptides, Cytokines, Lysozyme) provide the body with an ample ability to defend itself—and even fight off other infectious agents you might be battling at the same time (such as bacteria, influenza, or Rhinovirus).
Lactoferrin’s primary mechanism is blocking the entry of viruses into target cells by competing for binding sites on the cells—or by binding to viral proteins to inactivate them. It can also bind to bacteria to the same effects. So even if you're fighting a new virus, this provides a lead for your metabolism to produce its own specific antibodies (for that specific virus) and ultimately defeat it.
Another key player in this are the Proline Rich Polypeptides. These are special proteins that your glands need to create and mobilize its own immune factors. These proteins also provide pathway to the production of Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha (TNF-a). This cytokine controls the entire inflammatory cascade of cytokines, which are secreted when the immune system is mobilized to fight antigens. Proline Rich Polypeptides also provide pathway to the production of Gamma Interferon (INF-y). This is another major cytokine that interferes with the ability of pathogens (especially viruses) to replicate. This is why Colostrum is especially powerful supplementation for fighting viruses.
Protein Depletion
One of the major malfactors in battling infectious agents (especially viruses)—is the depletion of special (and crucial) proteins that the body needs to successfully create and engage immune response and activity. As the war rages on, you body is using up more and more of its protein stores to fight the surplus of infectious agents. However, this gets even worse when you consider the following fact: Viruses further deplete your proteins stores when they force replication.
This is how viruses work. They force your genes to produce sequence code, which then forces your body to take its own protein and replicate the virus. This means when you're fighting a virus, your protein stores are being depleted in double-time. In addition to this, there is both a latency and a biological overhead involved in digesting, sourcing, and synthesizing new, special polypeptides.
If you're battling multiple viruses at the same time this is going to be really bad news! But good news is that this also furthers how critical colostrum supplementation can be—and how critically it can help your body to defend and defeat a crushing overhead that your immune system is facing!
For example, the Proline Rich Polypeptides in colostrum help to bypass the entire digestive and protein synthesis process, providing the capability for your body to directly engage immune response and produce immune factors or engage immune activity.
Further Benefactors of Colostrum
Colostrum is also lush in Immunoglobulins: IgA, IgG, IgM, IgD, IgE. These are all present in colostrum. Typically, there is another latency (and resource overhead) in creating these antibodies from special protein polypeptides. However, the supplementary antibodies in Colostrum provide the body with immediate reinforcements for your body to attack antigens with. IgA are specially beneficial against viruses and bacteria because they are adaptive and aggressively protect the mucus membranes (where exposure to infectious agents most predominantly begins).
Colostrum also contains an array of Growth Factors, which are commonly available to the body in very spare supply, and the body only up-regulates production of these in the face of trauma (or inflammation). If you inhibit inflammation, the body will cease up-regulation (as the signaling for them also ceases).
These factors are crucial to the body to help regulate cellular repair and cellular stability. The factors found in Colostrum are: Insulin-like Growth Factor 1, Platelet Derived Growth Factor, Epidermal Growth Factor, and Transforming Growth Factor. These factors pave a clear road to recovery in the face of damage done by infectious agents—or the damages done by toxins that infectious agents produce. This is just the perfect bonus to the arsenal of benefactors provided in Colostrum.
End Testament
I am an athlete who has taken this supplement for years now with great results. I used to have immune problems, especially with intense training, but I never get sick anymore. Only minor symptoms at most―even with long bouts biking in the cold. I take 3000~4500mg—split between the day—morning, lunch, and always a dose before bed. In closing, I am confident that this supplement can be used to help fight the virus, fully recover infected people quickly, and should also be able to help prevent the virus from developing in new people.
Contravene UU
Instant
Counter target noncreature spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. If an ability is countered this way, that ability can't be activated or can't trigger until the end of its controller's third turn after this spell resolves.
"O' the extents you go to—and all for nothing but delusion. If only you had the means to realize the eye of the beholder. It has no concern what we think of ourselves."
Contraverse 1UU
Instant
Counter target spell. If a spell is countered this way, spells with the same name can't be be cast or copied until the end of its controller's third turn after this spell resolves.
Some men have all the luck in the world. Some have all the bad luck.
Alt 1: "And today—that man is you."
Alt 2:"And today, guess which one you are?"
Alt 3: "And today, guess which one I am?"
COntravene/verse, this is a memory nightmare. Three turns are far too long to expect people to remember something like this without a memory aide. When hitting a spell exile it with counters that are removed at upkeep. For abilities, it's a little stronger but put counters on the source and make them lose all abilities while it has those counters.
Can't do that. Juxtapose exists as an enterprise concept to fix the flow of the cards in MTG, by means which hyper-accelerates the game pace, making the game more interactive and fun. This is only one keyword, of many that will be made with different draw functionalities. These keywords need to be able to operate outside the conventions of casting and countering spells. They are intended (and need to work) even if a spell is unable to resolve in order to secure the dynamic stimulus in the flow of the cards.
I thought about just using the word 'source' (if a source would be copied). I guess I'll have to go back to that instead.
Since the effect you mentioned includes a two-card combo, the resource overhead, combines with the fact that both cards add up to the CMC of the single one. I would considered that potential effect balanced in this. There's no need to increase the cost of this card any.
I don't believe in memory problems for gaming. If you're playing game, be it Dungeons & Dragons or MTG, it is the players responsibility to make all the preparations and take all the necessary notes to keep pace with the game. From a development perspective, this is the standard we want to establish, because it removes crippling limitations that would otherwise hold the capabilities of development back from being able to implement things that are interactive and fun.