- Druki
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illakunsaa posted a message on Thunderherd Migration Ben Hayes Twitter#RampantGrowthTooOpPosted in: The Rumor Mill -
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Reesepuff posted a message on Ixalan geocache...Again.This is going to be Mirrodin Pure vs New Phyreixa again. Winner was already chosen.Posted in: The Rumor Mill -
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Teysa_Karlov posted a message on Half-Kitten Half- Ordinary PonyThe Ordinary Pony doesn't have augment...Posted in: The Rumor Mill
Aw... I wanted to make the ultimate Magic creature...
AN... ORDINARY MAN!!!!!
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Marek14 posted a message on Maro Twitter - More or LessIn silver-bordered land, could this change One with Nothing into Two with Nothing?Posted in: The Rumor Mill -
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Mister Lamp posted a message on The Grand Calcutron - RoboRosewater Twitter spoilerPosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from Crazy Pierre »Yeah, the card doesn't explicitly say you can't reorganize cards in your hand, but it implies it. I am going to reorganize cards in response to this, or just might concede basically in draft, as I don't want the game to control how i organize cards in my hand. This isn't fun.
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SoulFeast posted a message on Axis of MortalityPosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from Druki »Axis of Mortality, turn turn turn
Tell us the player who we will spurn
Crazy life-gainy!
Gonna be a painy!
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Sphynx posted a message on Reddit spoilers - Deadeye Plunderers and Dinosaur MilitantDoranosaurus! =PPosted in: The Rumor Mill -
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desruprot posted a message on SCG: Mathas, Fiend Seekeroh nice Bounty Hunter does need to collect his own bounties now.Posted in: The Rumor Mill -
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SultaiAscendancy posted a message on Unstable spoiler from SDCCPosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from sleeper agent 2.0 »Quote from theMarc »Honestly, I never got all the people clamoring for contraptions.
Steamflogger Boss was explicitly created as a joke, and as an example of a futureshifted card from a future that would never come to pass. But people took the joke seriously, and started demanding that WotC find a way to make it work. The thing is, they worded it specifically so that the card didn't work. And you guys are shocked that they couldn't make work (outside of silver-border) the mechanic that was never meant to work?
There was only ever going to be one of three outcomes to this: WotC gives up, and contraptions never happen; contraptions get shoehorned into the game in an unsatisfying attempt to make people happy; or they only happen in silver-border land. Asking for contraptions was like Calvin & Hobbes fans asking for a write-up for the rules to Calvinball.
The thing is, we've actually got to a point where "assemble a contraption" could work in "normal" magic. We have had "the land continues to burn" as reminder text for years. Cards now create tokens. Cards "investigate" which lets its rules reminder text do the work of explaining what that means. It is hardly a stretch at all to have "assemble" be a mechanic that creates a contraption token, or lets you search out a contraption, and let its reminder text do the heavy lifting the way investigate does.
My guess is that's what "assemble" will do in Unstable, but no reason why that couldn't have worked in black border too.
The difficulty with contraptions isn't the fact that assemble is a keyword. As you said, we've had mechanics like that for years. The trouble is that it's a keyword action that is taken place by s creature (specifically a rigger). The player is always the one who creates/investigates/proliferates, even if the ability comes from a creature.
However, while the action being undertaken by a creature does make it difficult in black border, that doesn't mean it's impossible. Two block mechanics already involve a creature, not a player, taking a unique action: exploit from Dragons of Tarkir, and explore from Ixalan.
But let's say that we make assemble an artifact token creation mechanic, like investigate. It makes flavorful sense, but it wouldn't really work as an action take by a creature. Why? Target creature explores would work. Target creature exploits a creature could work if that creature has an exploit trigger. But target creature investigates doesn't work, because creatures don't create tokens, players do. A tutoring mechanic for an artifact with the contraption subtype also wouldn't work, because creatures don't tutor, players do.
So making a mechanic that works as a creature action is pretty difficult, and making it flavorfully work for contraptions is even harder. Plus it also has to playable and work with Steamflogger Boss. That isn't easy to do, even in silver border, so I'm very curious to see the solution Maro came up with. But expecting this to happen in black border isn't really fair at all.
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That Thoughtseize is really cool looking.
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Hail to the king, this guy is pretty fun looking.
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Squirrel Lord- excuse me, the Squirrel Earl looks waaaay too good.
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Tell us the player who we will spurn
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Just wait until they reveal the mythic Mercurial Chemistest.