MTG Salvation

What part of Waterbending Stifler is white, either flavorwise or design-wise?

Wall Bender is beefy enough that using its ability instead of attacking with it feels like a waste. Maybe make it a Horned Turtle?

Spiritual Assistance: "white Spirit creature token with flying"?
Also, the protection ability should be on a separate line, because as written the creature retains the protection after the triggered ability resolves, even if at some later point it becomes no longer haunted. (An "Exorcise" spell in uncommon white perhaps?)

Why is Air Shield a sorcery? Was the "Fog that doesn't suck when you have a worse board position" slot already taken in green?

Arrest works from a gameplay standpoint, but from a flavor standpoint, it confuses me. Our creatures so far are a bunch of animals, dead guys, and some hybrid-blue waterbenders, who are a small and scattered people. Who exactly is doing the arresting? (I don't know who Yang-Chen is so maybe when his legend is spoiled it will make more sense.) I feel like there should be some sort of "air gust" instant spell that taps a creature, though I suppose the firefly kind of does the same thing.

White sometimes gets activated ability hate and sometimes gets force-spike-ish effects. I know it's a bit of a stretch, but the set is about activated abilities, so i felt it wasn't that big of a deal at this juncture.

EDIT: Flavor wise this would probably be a law enforcement agent of the northern water tribe.

Air shield is a sorcery because white needed a sorcery. It could very easily become an instant, but i just find it strange when a color has almost all instants and only a single sorcery. Perhaps that's not a big deal at all, i wouldn't know.

Yeah, arrest is not the best flavor card, it was mostly for function. I suppose this would be flavored more towards the earthkingdom, whom has a functioning police system.

Yang-Chen is the air avatar before Aang. She was ruthless in her avatar duty, and her actions resulted in 100 years of peace after her death. Yang-Chen's justice is basically her entire story on a card.

Quote from MOON-E

Black like white will have haunt. It will also have black firebenders, sand benders, and a few bloodbenders.

I get the mechanics, I guess I'm just having a hard time imagining the cards they will be on. For the other colors, tons of stuff jumps to mind right away, but with black I just don't know what it is gonna look like. Like, what would a black sandbender do?

what kind of black-haunty things are you thinking of?

I am not doubting it'll be cool MOON-E, I just can't visualize it atm.

PS I think arrest is fine flavor wise, I think its pretty much a perfect removal spell for here actually.

Keeping the ball rolling with some green. The earthbending ability is pretty hard to balance, so these will require a whole lot of testing.

[cg01] Rubble Recycler G
Creature - Human
2G: Return a land card from your graveyard to your hand.
1/1

[cg02] Fox Antelope 1G
Creature - Fox Antelope
G, Sacrifice ~: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
2/2

[cg03] Badger Mole Cub 1G
Creature - Beast
Bending - Whenever you activate an activated ability of a creature you control, put a +1/+1 counter on ~.
1/2

[cg04] Earth Kingdom Soldier 1G
Creature - Human Soldier Bender
1G,T: Target land you control becomes a 4/4 creature until end of turn. It’s still a land.
2/2

[cg05] Novice Earthbender G
G,T: Target land you control becomes a 2/2 creature until end of turn. It’s still a land
1/1

[cg06] Skyshot Bender 2G
Creature - Human Bender
1G,T: Target land you control becomes a 2/4 creature with reach until end of turn. It’s still a land.
2/3

[cg07] Boarcupine 3G
Creature - Beast
Deathtouch
3/3

[cg08] Earth Village Defenders 3G
Creature - Human Bender
2G,T: Up to two target lands you control become 3/3 creatures until end of turn. They’re still lands.
3/3

[cg09] Crumble Cliff Gang 3GG
2G,T: Target land you control becomes a 6/5 creature with trample until end of turn. It’s still a land.
4/4

[cg10] Badger Mole 3GG
Creature - Beast
Bending - Whenever you activate an activated ability of a creature you control, you pay put a land card from your graveyard onto the battlefield tapped.
4/5

[cg11] Saber-tooth Moose Lion 5G
Creature - Elk Cat
5/5

[cg12] Earthen Shield 1G
Instant
Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains hexproof until end of turn. If that creature is also a land, it gets an additional +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.

[cg13] Earth Charm G
Instant
Choose one - Put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped, or target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn; or untap up to two target lands you control.

[cg14] Harrow

[cg15] Grind to Dust 1G
Sorcery
Choose one - Destroy target artifact; or destroy target enchantment.
Bending - If you activated an activated ability of a creature you control this turn, choose both.

[cg16] Renew the Earth 1G
Sorcery
You may put up to one land card from your hand and up to one land card from your graveyard onto the battlefield tapped.

[cg17] Boulder Toss 2G
Sorcery
Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. If the creature you control is a land, regenerate it.

[cg18] Rock Hide 2G
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature or land
Enchanted permanent gets +2/+2 and has "1G: Regenerate this creature."

[cg19] Earth Kingdom Style 2G
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has “1G, T: Target land you control becomes a 3/3 creature until end of turn. It’s still a land.”