Silkweaver Mystic 1W (R)
Creature - Human Monk
Sacrifice Silkweaver Mystic: You or target
planeswalker you control gains protection
from the color of your choice until end of
turn.
When Silkweaver Mystic dies, your
opponents can't cast spells this turn. "I put my heart and soul into this cloth."
2/1
Obnoxious Zealot 1W (U)
Creature - Human Cleric
When Obnoxious Zealot enters the
battlefield, for each opponent, the next
creature spell that player casts costs 1
more to cast. "Peace is to be kept by force; we shall
drive out the seeds of conflict, so that
people can finally live in harmony."
2/2
I wanted to fiddle with some traditional white mechanics like protection and taxing in present-day Standard. It seems that Wizards has been moving in that direction recently, with cards like Elspeth Conquers Death and Selfless Savior, and I hope that this trend doesn’t stop.
The first one seems right, though part of me wants it at 2W instead of 1W. It may be one of those things where the cost depends on the environment its in as well. I like the card though, and the two effects are a nice synergy together.
The second one I think does need to be at 2W since it hits creatures and putting an opponent off their curve unexpectedly is more valuable that trinket text on a grizzly bear. Otherwise, a neat card as well.
With only the sac ability I could see silkweaver at that cost and p/t. However, with the die trigger I think it needs a cost of W to activate.
The zealot looks very interesting but I really don't like the memory issue. If your opponent is playing lots of creatures it easy to tick it off right away but if you drop one or more of these against the control player, six + turns later I don't want to try and figure out if they resolved or if they were countered when trying to cast the finisher. Also, typically noncreature spells are taxed rather than creature spells.
Admittedly, both cards are a little undercosted compared to most current creatures in white. That was intentional, but I understand the criticism. Regarding effect costs, I too think that Silkweaver Mystic's death trigger would still be viable even if it required to pay W.
Obnoxious Zealot was originally intended to work on all spells, but then I changed the effect to work on creature spells only, because I thought that that was a little too powerful. I don't know if I'm comfortable changing the effect to work only on noncreature spells, because the main purpose of the card was to slow the opponent down. Still, I could raise the cost to 2W and have it work on all spells, plus I'm thinking of having the effect last "until your next turn", since the effect would serve its originally intended purpose just as well.
Creature - Human Monk
Sacrifice Silkweaver Mystic: You or target
planeswalker you control gains protection
from the color of your choice until end of
turn.
When Silkweaver Mystic dies, your
opponents can't cast spells this turn.
"I put my heart and soul into this cloth."
2/1
Obnoxious Zealot 1W (U)
Creature - Human Cleric
When Obnoxious Zealot enters the
battlefield, for each opponent, the next
creature spell that player casts costs 1
more to cast.
"Peace is to be kept by force; we shall
drive out the seeds of conflict, so that
people can finally live in harmony."
2/2
I wanted to fiddle with some traditional white mechanics like protection and taxing in present-day Standard. It seems that Wizards has been moving in that direction recently, with cards like Elspeth Conquers Death and Selfless Savior, and I hope that this trend doesn’t stop.
The second one I think does need to be at 2W since it hits creatures and putting an opponent off their curve unexpectedly is more valuable that trinket text on a grizzly bear. Otherwise, a neat card as well.
The zealot looks very interesting but I really don't like the memory issue. If your opponent is playing lots of creatures it easy to tick it off right away but if you drop one or more of these against the control player, six + turns later I don't want to try and figure out if they resolved or if they were countered when trying to cast the finisher. Also, typically noncreature spells are taxed rather than creature spells.
Admittedly, both cards are a little undercosted compared to most current creatures in white. That was intentional, but I understand the criticism. Regarding effect costs, I too think that Silkweaver Mystic's death trigger would still be viable even if it required to pay W.
Obnoxious Zealot was originally intended to work on all spells, but then I changed the effect to work on creature spells only, because I thought that that was a little too powerful. I don't know if I'm comfortable changing the effect to work only on noncreature spells, because the main purpose of the card was to slow the opponent down. Still, I could raise the cost to 2W and have it work on all spells, plus I'm thinking of having the effect last "until your next turn", since the effect would serve its originally intended purpose just as well.