You know what, it’s about time that I just create a boiler plate message that I can more or less copy to all of your threads.
1. If you want to make changes to the rules, please do so for mechanical reasons. If a similar ability isn’t being used because it doesn’t “flow” or “lacks adherence to sound principles”, or you feel a card deserves “allowance for flavor” or the like, you are a not a great designer. If a card does not look right or is too wordy when fully written out, simply abandon the card.
2. Assume that your card will be used by idiots without the comprehensive rules with them. If someone with a basic grasp of the rules who reads the card is still confused and would need to read additional rulings to navigate core functions of your cards, you are a bad designer.
3. the color pie is a good thing and should be upheld, not seen as a norm that you should be making every sort of exception to. As an extension of this, hybrid mana means that either color could get an effect, not that one color could get it but you want the other color to get it.
4. interaction between cards and giving a card weaknesses where other cards can respond to it is a GOOD thing. Abusing special actions, hybrid abilities, deus ex abilities, and protective abilities on all of your cards so their function can’t be interfered with is a sign of a bad designer, even if one or two cards with protection may be okay in a vacuum.
5. What sees play is dependent on the actual metagame. Making a card for a specific combo with two obscure old cards that wouldn’t be too fast or reliable compared with what people actually play is not powerful.
Does that cover everything, guys?
Edit: surprisingly, all of those points fit in here. Hybrid ability that reduces interaction and doesn’t work within the rules on a clone that can be cast in mono green whose text was edited specifically for imagined interactions with a single card.
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It will check that is an artifact and move on...only 1 counter is put.
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Don't forget the Goose and the Cooking Book of Hell
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We badly need a card that reference: "They are taking the Hobbits to Isengard"...plis
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Creature - Bear
When enters the battlefield, create a 2/2 green Bear token and a 4/4 green Bear Token
Bears you control have "This creature has Ward X, where X is the number of creatures you control with power higher than this creature."
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It gave so much Legends of Korra's finale vibes...<3
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WAKANDAZhalfir FOREVER!!!1
The only concern I have with this card is that I would never want to play this outsided of monored...its weaker with the most color it costs.
EDIT: The second one has an actually good ability in the NoBlue side...I rectify that you won't want to play in a monodeck and the 2 colors effect is better than mono and 3 colors versions
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Legenadry Artifact - Equipment
Whenever Teyo's Aegis Shield becomes attached to a permanent put a shield counter on that permanent. This triggers only once per turn.
Equipped permanent isn’t a planeswalker and is a creature in addition to its other types. It gets +0/+3, defender, "Creatures you control with defender can attack as though they didn’t have defender." and "[-1]: Create a white 0/2 Wall token with defender". (Loyalty abilities can still be activated.)
Equip Creature 2
Equip Planeswalker WW
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I think it is fine to have it a -1 it gives planeswalkers that can't protect themselves too well a way to do so but not as free as a +0/+1 ability will do.
Plus the double protection via shield counter makes up for the cost well.
On the shield counter dilema, card can only ever put a single shield a turn at the cost of mana, I believe if anything I can touch the cost to something more fair but I don't think paying 2 mana a turn to one shot protect a single card be broken or something (Heck any pinger can remove the shield easily for what it matters) plus simple destruction protection is fine, card can always be bounced or exiled which are more preferred ways of removal as they don't trigger death effect and in exile case are more permanent.
The problem with your suggested restriction is and will always be memory issues, imagine a token deck having to track which token hadn't recieve a shield during the game is super unpractical.
And on a side note, and for Irony this card is kinda pointless with actual current Teyo as he already makes tokens with its -2 (Well you can makes sightly smaller walls for less loyalty I guess) and cardname already exist so I modified it. Also made it legendary just becuase it became a less generic thing with the name change.