I hate to be even more heartless than anyone has wanted to be thus far, but... if you fail to read the round requirements correctly, is it really anyone's fault but your own? I mean, of course helpful people can and should point out the error if they catch it, but ultimately it seems like the player's own responsibility to make sure their card fits. If you don't make exceptions for late entries (even with time zone mixups), is there really a reason why you need to make exceptions for misreading the prompt?
Eventually, Wizards is going to have to crash Jace 2's price.
Care explaining why they have to?
Also, am I the only person who felt Jace Beleren was a sure deal, solely because he has his last name on the card like the other four planeswalkers (and core sets are about personality and flavor)?
Duplicate <cost> (As you cast this spell, you may pay its duplicate cost. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)
This was something I came up with that was intended as a hybrid of stuff like Conspire, Kicker, and Replicate. It's a general form of Conspire, really. Unlike Kicker, you get two spells that have to be separately countered. Unlike Replicate, the duplicate cost could potentially be aggressively costed, as you can only ever pay it once.
Rules text should be pretty straightforward and can probably be ripped straight from Conspire.
Sample Card: Twin Lightning1R
Instant (C)
Duplicate 2R(As you cast this spell, you may pay its duplicate cost. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)
Twin Lightning deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
I feel this is a good thing, as it means that each core set we can perhaps look forward to an old mechanic being (briefly) returned to the Standard setting, as well as the minds of new players. It won't just have to be Scry that's in M12, but perhaps Kicker for a year, followed by Cycling for a year, or Buyback for a year...
After all, old mechanics all have something that could be explored a little more, and the core sets allow that small-scale exploration, without the need to fit it to a blockwide theme or a specific flavor explanation. And this exploration can be done once a year.
I can see it happening (though it does leave only three mythics, since we have the planeswalker and BSA and Time Reversal)... and I want to register my bets on what they will be now!
Blue Titan4UU
Creature - Giant (M)
Shroud
Whenever Blue Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, tap up to three target permanents. They don't untap during their controller's next untap step.
6/6
(Alternate guess: Scry 3, then draw a card.)
Black Titan4BB
Creature - Giant (M) B: Regenerate Black Titan.
Whenever Black Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, target opponent reveals three cards from his or her hand. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.
6/6
Green Titan4GG
Creature - Giant (M)
Trample
Whenever Green Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, you may put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.
6/6
Option D is the farthest from neat and clean among all the submissions, in my opinion. How does it interact with Replicate? Multikicker? Anything where "each" references something other than a card?
I don't really see another place to submit this, so I'm just going to do it here.
Moss_Elemental, I know you said in the previous thread that you didn't see flavor text fitting on this card, but I came up with a one-liner that I think might do it. I know there isn't exactly a flavor text poll, but in case you can figure out some way to vote on such a thing, here it is:
It is everywhere of theirs you could want.
Of course, if flavor text really is out of the question, just ignore this
(Scroll Thief's flavor text is missing quotation marks too, while we're at it.)
Hate to be pushy, but I'm still hoping to get an answer for this.
Care explaining why they have to?
Also, am I the only person who felt Jace Beleren was a sure deal, solely because he has his last name on the card like the other four planeswalkers (and core sets are about personality and flavor)?
Duplicate <cost> (As you cast this spell, you may pay its duplicate cost. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)
This was something I came up with that was intended as a hybrid of stuff like Conspire, Kicker, and Replicate. It's a general form of Conspire, really. Unlike Kicker, you get two spells that have to be separately countered. Unlike Replicate, the duplicate cost could potentially be aggressively costed, as you can only ever pay it once.
Rules text should be pretty straightforward and can probably be ripped straight from Conspire.
Sample Card:
Twin Lightning 1R
Instant (C)
Duplicate 2R (As you cast this spell, you may pay its duplicate cost. When you do, copy it and you may choose a new target for the copy.)
Twin Lightning deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Compare to Burst Lightning.
After all, old mechanics all have something that could be explored a little more, and the core sets allow that small-scale exploration, without the need to fit it to a blockwide theme or a specific flavor explanation. And this exploration can be done once a year.
I would love it if this were the implication.
Blue Titan 4UU
Creature - Giant (M)
Shroud
Whenever Blue Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, tap up to three target permanents. They don't untap during their controller's next untap step.
6/6
(Alternate guess: Scry 3, then draw a card.)
Black Titan 4BB
Creature - Giant (M)
B: Regenerate Black Titan.
Whenever Black Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, target opponent reveals three cards from his or her hand. You choose one of them. That player discards that card.
6/6
Green Titan 4GG
Creature - Giant (M)
Trample
Whenever Green Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, you may put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.
6/6
That art definitely looks like it could be Chain Lightning. Or Jagged Lightning, but that would be less cool.
EDIT: Dang, 'Nathed!
Anyways, I really like A.
Moss_Elemental, I know you said in the previous thread that you didn't see flavor text fitting on this card, but I came up with a one-liner that I think might do it. I know there isn't exactly a flavor text poll, but in case you can figure out some way to vote on such a thing, here it is:
It is everywhere of theirs you could want.
Of course, if flavor text really is out of the question, just ignore this