I liked yours, though. Really the only word missing from your card was "Untapped" so you couldn't abuse the multikicker, but flavorwise, it was an original white sweeper.
My main concern is making a mono-green card that can hit nonbasics. Even though green doesn't traditionally smack nonbasics, it isn't beyond the realm of green's intentions. White wouldn't hit nonbasics, when white hits lands, it hits everything at once with a sense of justice. Black doesn't aim at nonbasics because of a lack of specificity, it just kills lands or converts them to swamps which aligns with black's ethos well. Blue at best can bounce lands (though much rarely with a greater emphasis on nonland permanent targeted bounce, which is fair since bouncing a land is a veritable time walk) and it also tends to convert lands into islands, but mostly as a flavor of flooding or enabling islandwalk. These all make sense.
I feel that green taking aim at sweeping out all nonbasics is in line with green's emphasis on searching out basic lands.
Thanks Herbert. I forgot that you can "tap" tapped creatures (which doesn't make a lot of sense, intuitively speaking.) And I think we might see a card someday where green DOES hit non-basics, but it likely won't be a sweeper. WotC is scared enough of one land destruction at 3 mana, so I can't seem them printing any sort of mass land destruction that isn't 10 mana or some other ridiculously prohibitive cost, even limiting to non-basic. Think about how many Spikes would rage (even if budget players would secretly rejoice.)
I think if I had to come up with a sweeper, it would've been similar to the YMTC "Take Root", where it turned a creature into a 1/1 Forest creature, except make it a sweeper. (Super Dryad Arbor steroid spell!)
So I got railed in the last round for making a monogreen card that addresses Nonbasic lands, which I think is shortsighted.
Just because there are yet to be many cards that effect nonbasic lands in green, why could there never be? It certainly is not removed from green's ideology. Green expands basics, always requires people to grab basics, and even though it tends to destroy indiscriminately when it comes to lands (or particularly noncreature permanents) it is not impossible that of any other color, green would get a version of Ruination.
Does precedent need to be set to judge a card against? I figured that was sort of like a helpful suggestion, but you know, working within lines of color ability should be taken into account.
Take for example, Rithaniel's card, who had won that round. This is nothing personal and I did like this card. But black is on this card and it is not accounted for. It had overwhelming reaction, people loved the fact that it looked into each zone and shuffled all creatures into their owner's deck, that's pretty snazzy.
However, black makes no sense here. Black would be a part of this action. Aside from a card like Misinformation or cards that put cards on top of an opponent's library like Chittering Rats or Dimir Machinations, black rarely gives resources back to an opponent unless they're trying to use that regifting as a process that slows the opponent down. In this case, black would take part in not only a sweep that would shuffle all reanimation targets into their opponent's libraries it would also keep any from being discarded or left in their own hand to attack with.
But it's green and white enough, so this is overlooked, right?
Herb, I definitely felt you had a tough challenge. While mine should have been relatively easy (monowhite!... and Mdenham figured my convoke exile tapped creatures wouldn't count, due to not having a way to tap the cards), I had a tough time making a "new" card that could hit everything in a creative way. After all, destruction, exile and fold into library have all been done already. \
The reason I knocked it down is that it felt like too much of a sweeper... you are likely not only to wipe out their creatures but a majority of lands as well if you're against any constructed deck. That said, I'm not sure how I would have done a sweeper in monogreen to hit creatures in an elegant way.
So, are there any guys good with wording that would like to review my cards for Round 3? I'm pretty sure it's worded incorrectly, but I'm not sure how to word it properly.
I'm bummed I had to drop this month, as I loved the storyline progression. I also thought it was interesting that people who critiqued my card through it was overpowered (2 mana on one land!) or underpowered (tap every creature? SUCKY!). Reminded me of the Vexing Devil conversations.
Hmm i always seem to stumble at exactly this point, just out of interest they need to look at all the relevant entries and make a card or pick one/ a few they like? Most of the entries aren't very cohesive i know mine aren't really based on previous entries much...
I think the combination of hard to design cards (ie twobrid) and colorless only made this month a bit complicated.
Please just edit your post if you want to add something before someone else posts. - GM
I'm not sure I'm digging the "colorless es mas importante than colors" theme, but I guess we stick with it. It just seems that we could be having more fun with twobrid if we weren't shoehorning in a colorless matters theme. Just my two cents anyways.
Can someone who's more probably more rules-knowledgeable than me please check my Round 2 card and see if the wording is correct? If so, thanks in advance.
Also, I'm assuming we can only have a "Creature - Incarnation" card and not a "Creature - (Type) Incarnation", correct?
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Thanks Herbert. I forgot that you can "tap" tapped creatures (which doesn't make a lot of sense, intuitively speaking.) And I think we might see a card someday where green DOES hit non-basics, but it likely won't be a sweeper. WotC is scared enough of one land destruction at 3 mana, so I can't seem them printing any sort of mass land destruction that isn't 10 mana or some other ridiculously prohibitive cost, even limiting to non-basic. Think about how many Spikes would rage (even if budget players would secretly rejoice.)
I think if I had to come up with a sweeper, it would've been similar to the YMTC "Take Root", where it turned a creature into a 1/1 Forest creature, except make it a sweeper. (Super Dryad Arbor steroid spell!)
Club Flamingo Wins: 1!
Herb, I definitely felt you had a tough challenge. While mine should have been relatively easy (monowhite!... and Mdenham figured my convoke exile tapped creatures wouldn't count, due to not having a way to tap the cards), I had a tough time making a "new" card that could hit everything in a creative way. After all, destruction, exile and fold into library have all been done already. \
The reason I knocked it down is that it felt like too much of a sweeper... you are likely not only to wipe out their creatures but a majority of lands as well if you're against any constructed deck. That said, I'm not sure how I would have done a sweeper in monogreen to hit creatures in an elegant way.
Club Flamingo Wins: 1!
Club Flamingo Wins: 1!
Club Flamingo Wins: 1!
Club Flamingo Wins: 1!
Club Flamingo Wins: 1!
I think the combination of hard to design cards (ie twobrid) and colorless only made this month a bit complicated.
Please just edit your post if you want to add something before someone else posts. - GM
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I'll have to make it there first. Profani has QUITE the lead.
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Also, I'm assuming we can only have a "Creature - Incarnation" card and not a "Creature - (Type) Incarnation", correct?
Club Flamingo Wins: 1!
Club Flamingo Wins: 1!