Eternalize means that it sticks around forever. Could be a token with indestructibility but that seems a little too powerful and problematic with leading to board stalls. So how do things stay around forever - if they are born again.... return to you hand.
I am pretty sure eternalize is going to be:
eternalize cost: Return [card name] from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only during your upkeep. [basically key wording Eternal Dragon!!]
So - Rosewater has said that there is an upcoming vanilla mythic and that n\ "A vanilla can’t have rules text by definition. It can technically have reminder text or flavor text." and that it "stands on its own...That’s not to say it can’t also combo with other cards. : )"
OK so lets design it... we can do this.
I think it is either a true vanilla which means:
Soemthing pushed on power/casting cost:
0 mana legendary 2/2 (can't be a 1/1 as we have seen that) (broken)
1 mana legendary 3/3 or something (that is probably broken)
2 mana legendary 4/4 or 5 /4 (maybe 2 colours)
Suspect it has to be legendary to give it the mythic feeling.
Maybe it involves colorless mana?
Maybe it is like a 4 mana 10/0 so it only survives if there is a global bump.
Or it is a tribal set - and is all tribes or something weird like that...
kinda cool that the black wrath combos very well with bontu itself. Wrath - doesn't kill Bontu - if it kills one of your creatures bontu is activated. I wonder if the other last stands will also activate...
White - gives you three creatures
Green - Overrun effect
Red - Something where you get effect for discarding cards
Blue - Discard draw seven
Can I just add one thing you are not considering. As a near forty year old with a 6 year old, I am now collecting a 720 cube to give to my son on his 16h birthday if he likes the game. It just seems like a nice concrete thing to pass on to your kid if they like magic.
You might want to consider doing the same thing with your future kids.
I think that this idea is completely right. It just fits perfectly with the theme of he set. As I remember the idea in Egypt was that you lived on with the gods after your death. It just is so flavourful and creates interesting decisions with the consequences cards and the embalm cards (as well as the cycling card - the demon gets a lot better if coloured symbols in the yard matter)
So I have been playing for a long time and I have amassed a large collection. I have a 5 year old son and my goal is for his 14th birthday to give him a fully curated cube as a way of passing on my love of the game to him. He loves Pokemon and i suspect he will like magic too. I felt this would be a really neat way to give him something very specific and a very neat gift.
The problem is - I don't play cube (other than on-line). I have been reading articles and using other lists and I thought an unpowered 720 would be the best as it would give him a way to do whatever he likes (he could cut it down to 540 or 360 or add powered proxies (although I might just get powered proxies and have them as an addition if he wants).
So I have almost all of the cards in this list (I bought proxies of the dual lands and I need about 50 of some of the more expensive cards which I will work towards over the next little while). The list is 715 because I am waiting for the completion of the dual tango lands which surely will come in the next 10 years right?
I want to know from the people that play what I should change. I suspect there are some changes that I should make. I know there may be too many lands but I wanted to give him sets so he could have them all and go from there as to how to adjust (I wanted to leave a little room for tinkering too).
"MaRo was very careful about his wording in the article as to make that sound unlikely but not outright deny it would ever happen, and that makes me cautious."
That last point is just not true:
"There will never be cards appearing in a Masterpiece Series that can't be found outside of it. (I'm talking, of course, about the card itself and not the particular creative/frame treatment.)"
What if double faced cards are evergreen... it would let them do two state effects in different ways in different sets.
You could have a riderless vehicle (with a cost to flip) and a driven vehicle. You could have monstrous (as we see with the werewolves). It opens up so much different design space (the difference would be the way things flip and the flavour it is enhancing.
Another idea is that vehicle mechanic that people are taking about is a lot like champion...
I am pretty sure eternalize is going to be:
eternalize cost: Return [card name] from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only during your upkeep. [basically key wording Eternal Dragon!!]
Neat in that it works on spells too...
Pretty sure that has to be it...
OK so lets design it... we can do this.
I think it is either a true vanilla which means:
Soemthing pushed on power/casting cost:
0 mana legendary 2/2 (can't be a 1/1 as we have seen that) (broken)
1 mana legendary 3/3 or something (that is probably broken)
2 mana legendary 4/4 or 5 /4 (maybe 2 colours)
Suspect it has to be legendary to give it the mythic feeling.
Maybe it involves colorless mana?
Maybe it is like a 4 mana 10/0 so it only survives if there is a global bump.
Or it is a tribal set - and is all tribes or something weird like that...
Lets get our game designer hats on.
White - gives you three creatures
Green - Overrun effect
Red - Something where you get effect for discarding cards
Blue - Discard draw seven
What do you think??
What if it is an enchantment version of cruel ultimatum... like a cruel ultimatum seal.
BBB to cast
UURR sac - cruel ultimatum
Actually - Maybe that is too good.
You might want to consider doing the same thing with your future kids.
It also seems awfully close to the last Masters set.
Any chance this is the next Un set? and they are just trolling...
All signs point to this being right.
The problem is - I don't play cube (other than on-line). I have been reading articles and using other lists and I thought an unpowered 720 would be the best as it would give him a way to do whatever he likes (he could cut it down to 540 or 360 or add powered proxies (although I might just get powered proxies and have them as an addition if he wants).
Here is list on cube tutor.
http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/56971
So I have almost all of the cards in this list (I bought proxies of the dual lands and I need about 50 of some of the more expensive cards which I will work towards over the next little while). The list is 715 because I am waiting for the completion of the dual tango lands which surely will come in the next 10 years right?
I want to know from the people that play what I should change. I suspect there are some changes that I should make. I know there may be too many lands but I wanted to give him sets so he could have them all and go from there as to how to adjust (I wanted to leave a little room for tinkering too).
Lots of thanks!
Quote:
"MaRo was very careful about his wording in the article as to make that sound unlikely but not outright deny it would ever happen, and that makes me cautious."
That last point is just not true:
"There will never be cards appearing in a Masterpiece Series that can't be found outside of it. (I'm talking, of course, about the card itself and not the particular creative/frame treatment.)"
I mean that is pretty definitive isn't it...
1/144 is .6% per pack. x3 is approx 2%
At a table it is 16.6% that one will be opened. That means that one every 6 drafts someone is going to be very happy. That seems like fun!
If you draft once a week and the odds are the same across sets chances are you open one a year or so.
Is that a fair comparison?
You could have a riderless vehicle (with a cost to flip) and a driven vehicle. You could have monstrous (as we see with the werewolves). It opens up so much different design space (the difference would be the way things flip and the flavour it is enhancing.
Another idea is that vehicle mechanic that people are taking about is a lot like champion...