I realized I left out some set details. This is going to be a 2 set block per wizards new structure, Colisum will be a large set with 270 cards and
I was debating if I wanted the second set to be a large set as well. Another thing was I am unsure if I just want to use gold cards or hybrids, my preference is hybrids because I love their flexibility, but gold cards are generally allowed to be more powerful due to the stricter requirements.
Also, here are some changes to integrate and mirage
Integrate golem 6
Artifact creature - Golem (c)
Integrate (when ~ enters the battlefield you may sacrifice an artifact)
If ~ integrated an artifact when it entered the battlefield, place two +1/+1 counters on it
3/3
Mirage Creature 1UG
Creature - Illusion Snake (c)
Mirage - 2UG, return ~ to it's owners hand: target creatre gets -3/-0 until end of turn and another target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn
2/1
I think changing Interlace to a set bonus and making it check for a set number of enchantments in order to get an additional bonus would work better. And with it set this way, it's possible to give some of them an upkeep effct as well
Interlace enchantment 3R
Enchantment (c)
Creatures you control get +2/+0
Interlace - if you control 3 or more enchantments creatures you control get an additional +1/+0
I see what you mean about mirage, I'll change that.
As for integrate, I was trying to make it a mix of devour and exploit. But making it an exploit derivitave would just make it cleaner to work with. And I could switch conspire and integrate, and give grixis a token zombie theme with some u/r artifact support. U/r to me feels like it should be more artifact based than u/w as most of whites artifact usage outside of the original esper is equipment. Where as the izzet use machines in their experiments and would make for a good artifact theme with sacrificing your artifacts to make better artifact creatures.
While I still think split second works, maybe evoke would work just as well. It gives the primal feeling through using elementals and the word itself.
Interlace is kind of how I think theros should have been, on top of constellation. I was planning on costing the enchantments a little higher, but throw in lords tobdecrease the cost of the activations and casting cost of the enchantments to kind of push the enchantment deck.
Heliod. He needs to get a face full of Emrakul so he can see just how insignificant he is.
It's xenagos' job to take down heliod and the pantheon. He almost did it once, and with elspeth "dead" and ajani fighting the gods himself (albeit in a different way), he'd have a good crack at it a second time. As I believe he is dead in the same sense elspeth is just done in a different way.
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker is scheming again, looking to rebuild his power after the mending. This time he has found a way to transport large swaths of land, people and beasts from multiple planes onto one mana rich world. Their purpose is to fight, not only for Bolas' own amusement, but so that he may also harvest the energy released from the chaotic fighting as well as gather more knowledge on the different tactics mages use.
I have been debating on how I wanted to do this block, and I decided to just make it a straight multicolor block using the shard colors. Until I can think of other names for them for the block, I will just be calling them by their original names.
Here are the mechanics I plan on using
Split second for jund
Conspire for esper
New mechanics for shards
Returning mechanics
Split second for Jund
This was to show how savage this color group is and how little time to think you have when you have massive beasts and surprise attacks coming at you
Conspire for Esper
I went with conspire to show blue's planning, as well as the deceitfullness of u/b and w/b
New mechanics
Grixis - Integrate x - when [artifact creature] enters the battlefield you may sacrifice x artifacts, if [artifact creature] integrated artifacts, [effect]
I wanted to use r/u for artifacts since wizards mostly prints ins/sorc stuff for u/r, so grixis was the only choice, I know grixis is black based, but flavor wise for this block black is using artifacts to further it's own goals
Naya - interlace - pay x: do y for each enchantment you control
Interlace will be used only on enchantments, as the idea is that the caster is interlacing their enchantments for offense/defense
Bant - mirage - pay x and return ~ to it's owners hand, if you do, [effect]
The idea behind mirage is that the creature is simply an illusion to hide the true effect the caster wants and the way I was hoping mirage would play as is kind of a turbo fog/control deck
Here's some examples for the new mechanics
Example creature #1 7
Artifact creature - Golem (C)
Integrate 2 (when ~ enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice two artifacts)
When ~ enters the battlefield, if it integrated artifacts, place a +1/+1 counter on it and it gains trample
3/4
Example enchantment 3GW
Enchantment (u)
Interlace 2WG: put a 2/2 green and white elemntal creature token on the battlefield for each enchantment you control
Example creature #2 1U
Creature - elemental (c)
Mirage - return a land you control to it's owner's hand
When you pay ~ mirage cost target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn
0/2
These are the first mechanics I've tried to design and as well as the first custom block so any feedback is appreciated.
Take a look to the sky just before you die
It is the last time you will
Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
I like this list, it will be very helpful when I start working on the set that's brewing in my head. One card you forgot to add for green is Leatherback Baloth sure it's vanilla, but it also comes down turn 2.
Some multi color cards from the recent ravnica are
I don't think I quite understand this sarkhan timeloop. To me it goes like this, original sarkham does his stuff on the planes, goes to tarkir, re writes the history, he's never born, but since he still exists, a 'man calling himself sarkhan' did all of that stuff. But because he was never born, no one has any memory of him. He's basically a blindspot in everyones minds, including bolas. I fail to see the problem, so could someone please explain that to me. Lol
Maybe in the eventual return to theros, gideon goes back to theros because he's heard about what happened there and runs into ajani. Only for xenagos to make his comeback and take over the plane now that heliod doesn't have a champion anymore. But I may just be a little hopeful and biased
With that shaman, she'll cost less, she'll come out very early in dragon decks. In mcl, she'll cost 3 if you have all the servants out and even if you only have one she then costs six, which is easy for gruul to get to.
And Dragonmaster Outcast would be nice to have too, but wotc would probably consider him a flavor fail due to being a dragon master, and an outcast. Lol
What I meant was that if you started with a core set, with 2 set blocks, technically it should rotate out with the first set of the first actual block, due to those technically, with the new rotation, a block. But you could also just go with Lord of Atlantis' idea and have the core set rotate out by itself.
Edit: another option would be to make the core set non rotating, and have mediocre cards in it with a few powerhouses, that way you wouldn't have to worry about reprinting certain cards or creating replacements for cards that are going to rotate. And by mediocre I mean stuff like Cancel
I voted no on the core set because if you have one, then it and the first set of your story line block will rotate out together, leaving the second set to rotate out with either the first set of another block, or another coreset.
Also, I wouldn't mind helping with building the sets, I've been wanting to start doing card creation but wasn't quite sure where to start.
I loved this latest article, but it saddens me that atarka is basically just a giant hungry cow cosidering her card. They could have made her a little more intelligent.
Well she's probably intelligent but unfortunately she does not have a translator (was probably yesterday's snack ) to tell us what she was saying. I find it interesting that Atarka roasted her meal first before eating it. Shows how classy she is .
well, now that I think about it, they all had translators at the ready, except kolghan and atarka. Maybe they don't care about needing a translater. Plus, from atarka's reaction, it seems like she wasn't expecting the temur to show up, so she wouldn't have had a translator ready, if she even has one.
I was debating if I wanted the second set to be a large set as well. Another thing was I am unsure if I just want to use gold cards or hybrids, my preference is hybrids because I love their flexibility, but gold cards are generally allowed to be more powerful due to the stricter requirements.
Also, here are some changes to integrate and mirage
Integrate golem 6
Artifact creature - Golem (c)
Integrate (when ~ enters the battlefield you may sacrifice an artifact)
If ~ integrated an artifact when it entered the battlefield, place two +1/+1 counters on it
3/3
Mirage Creature 1UG
Creature - Illusion Snake (c)
Mirage - 2UG, return ~ to it's owners hand: target creatre gets -3/-0 until end of turn and another target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn
2/1
I think changing Interlace to a set bonus and making it check for a set number of enchantments in order to get an additional bonus would work better. And with it set this way, it's possible to give some of them an upkeep effct as well
Interlace enchantment 3R
Enchantment (c)
Creatures you control get +2/+0
Interlace - if you control 3 or more enchantments creatures you control get an additional +1/+0
As for integrate, I was trying to make it a mix of devour and exploit. But making it an exploit derivitave would just make it cleaner to work with. And I could switch conspire and integrate, and give grixis a token zombie theme with some u/r artifact support. U/r to me feels like it should be more artifact based than u/w as most of whites artifact usage outside of the original esper is equipment. Where as the izzet use machines in their experiments and would make for a good artifact theme with sacrificing your artifacts to make better artifact creatures.
While I still think split second works, maybe evoke would work just as well. It gives the primal feeling through using elementals and the word itself.
Interlace is kind of how I think theros should have been, on top of constellation. I was planning on costing the enchantments a little higher, but throw in lords tobdecrease the cost of the activations and casting cost of the enchantments to kind of push the enchantment deck.
It's xenagos' job to take down heliod and the pantheon. He almost did it once, and with elspeth "dead" and ajani fighting the gods himself (albeit in a different way), he'd have a good crack at it a second time. As I believe he is dead in the same sense elspeth is just done in a different way.
I have been debating on how I wanted to do this block, and I decided to just make it a straight multicolor block using the shard colors. Until I can think of other names for them for the block, I will just be calling them by their original names.
Here are the mechanics I plan on using
Split second for jund
Conspire for esper
New mechanics for shards
Returning mechanics
Split second for Jund
This was to show how savage this color group is and how little time to think you have when you have massive beasts and surprise attacks coming at you
Conspire for Esper
I went with conspire to show blue's planning, as well as the deceitfullness of u/b and w/b
New mechanics
Grixis - Integrate x - when [artifact creature] enters the battlefield you may sacrifice x artifacts, if [artifact creature] integrated artifacts, [effect]
I wanted to use r/u for artifacts since wizards mostly prints ins/sorc stuff for u/r, so grixis was the only choice, I know grixis is black based, but flavor wise for this block black is using artifacts to further it's own goals
Naya - interlace - pay x: do y for each enchantment you control
Interlace will be used only on enchantments, as the idea is that the caster is interlacing their enchantments for offense/defense
Bant - mirage - pay x and return ~ to it's owners hand, if you do, [effect]
The idea behind mirage is that the creature is simply an illusion to hide the true effect the caster wants and the way I was hoping mirage would play as is kind of a turbo fog/control deck
Here's some examples for the new mechanics
Example creature #1 7
Artifact creature - Golem (C)
Integrate 2 (when ~ enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice two artifacts)
When ~ enters the battlefield, if it integrated artifacts, place a +1/+1 counter on it and it gains trample
3/4
Example enchantment 3GW
Enchantment (u)
Interlace 2WG: put a 2/2 green and white elemntal creature token on the battlefield for each enchantment you control
Example creature #2 1U
Creature - elemental (c)
Mirage - return a land you control to it's owner's hand
When you pay ~ mirage cost target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn
0/2
These are the first mechanics I've tried to design and as well as the first custom block so any feedback is appreciated.
It is the last time you will
Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
Kudos to whoever gets this reference
Some multi color cards from the recent ravnica are
Maybe some of these will help
Maybe in the eventual return to theros, gideon goes back to theros because he's heard about what happened there and runs into ajani. Only for xenagos to make his comeback and take over the plane now that heliod doesn't have a champion anymore. But I may just be a little hopeful and biased
But if you unmorph it, the caryatud will die because it now has 3 power
Edit: another option would be to make the core set non rotating, and have mediocre cards in it with a few powerhouses, that way you wouldn't have to worry about reprinting certain cards or creating replacements for cards that are going to rotate. And by mediocre I mean stuff like Cancel
Also, I wouldn't mind helping with building the sets, I've been wanting to start doing card creation but wasn't quite sure where to start.