The deal with being in public and somewhat called "harassment" (and i clearly distinquish between a from a court defined harassment and a person just feeling they are harassed) , is that its really different pieces.
As a private person you have no impact on public that even remotely justifies that anyone attacks you directly.
However, as a public person, like a politician or as we have here, a cosplayer that actively presents their body in public on public events to players, its in your right to criticizes exactly that, which is the body, its presented in a sexualized manner, so commenting in that way is not even inappropriate (might not be your personal taste, but thats a different deal).
If a private person gets mails from random persons theres zero reason or justification, so thats an entirely different matter compared to someone that publicly pushes themselves into public opinion.
Its a really important part of projecting this matter to the context its presented in.
If i see a women feeding a baby and i tell her "You are a 6/10, i wouldnt even rape you" , it would be an unbelieavable inappropriate thing to say , but to someone that in public makes money by presenting their body ? If i tell that to a stripper ? Inapprioriate for sure, but still an entirely different deal, as context matters, the environment matters and if you do not want to expose to that, you are not forced, you can simply not do that job.
If you go to the extreme and outlaw any potenially rude comment, you restrict language by a great deal, so much that people cannot express anything without fear somebody will feel hurt or insulted, and if that justifies that your social media gets permanently flagged and you suffer for it, its a way more extreme response than the "rude comment" started out as.
The adult option would be to point the rude comments out and keep it on a apprioriate level of response, you can talk stuff out and discuss it to proof a point without going to war directly , and still keep in mind, that no person is outright evil, for such things.
And yes, the real sick people are the ones that perform the threats, thats just downright cruelty and has no other reason than pleasing a sadistic pleasure, and that is absolutely nothing a society has to, or should accept, but its a completely different animal to a critic from an public figure.
I am on the side to promote that individuals are responsible for what they are doing.
Jeremy didnt incite harassment, he did poorly phrased comments sure, but thats hardly crazy evil, its just rude and if you talk to him about that, yes ofcourse he knows himself its rude, and thats about it, you can stand above it and realize that something thats already enough, realize you gone a bit to far and the moment you are told so, you can better yourself, problem solved ; the sick people that continue to threaten , thats what remains, but thats adults, responsible for their actions, and any adult that isnt insane should have enough intelligence to not even do that to begin with.
Racist comments are a special kind of deal, just as gay-topics etc. etc.
Its highly controversial to many people and especially your work place is a context with special meaning here.
If i make a racial comment in private, thats it, nobody cares. If someone is insulted they can sue me, i get appropriate punishment, and/or we settle the topic before it escalates, thats the potential for discussion and understanding that is much more valuable than taking every little comment and blow it up like its a death threat right away ; its clearly not.
In your context part you clearly see context matters so much.
Context is key for this here.
All the screenshots are mostly out of context and look entirely different if you get the big picture.
Yes people are offended a lot, but its undeniably a thing you have to be able to deal with if you have any kind of public job, or open yourself up to that (and if you cannot deal with it, its simply the wrong job for you, as theirs issues with lots of jobs and you cannot just blame others for that, self-responsility is a thing, its not that others are always to blame for anything you do and anything you do will have an effect on others, if your job is in public, thats a given).
I think america in special a lot of people are highly influenced by what some special individuals say , so they build up some form of responsibility for what they say, simply because of that.
And i think, it again depends on context and what group you talk to.
In the case here the group of people is the magic community, people that watch Jeremys Channel, thats already a very small subsection again and people that enjoy trollish comments, so they are already open to that and have their own problems why they cannot control what they are doing (as no sane person would write a death threat email to anybody, but lots of people do, especially in heated discusions and extreme topics).
But here Jeremy cannot be at fault for what individuals end up doing, the targeted audience are adults, and should totally be able to control themselves.
----
Your last part.
I also think he could be much less rude in his comments and from his latest comments he acknowledges this, as often you have to be told you are going over the edge, and if its good to think about it (but again, its about critic and staying on a non-extreme course, you want discussion and not open war).
Lots of stuff i can relate to and the topic is simply overblown by extreme margins.
In the end, people said some mean things and others reacted to them ; thats actually all that happened, thats rude at best, but its not downright evil.
This topic would much easier and smoother be solved in a much smaller circle, or in private between these two.
Pulling it to public just makes things worse, by a lot and it doesnt serve anybody, be they right or wrong, in the end, this open warfare just damages the community and people will bunker themselves into even more extreme sides and become even more unable to discuss anything without directly insulting each other.
----
But one thing is guaranteed, this will be a hot topic for the rest of the week and probably the next one, and at some point, nobody will care anymore and just play Magic again.
- TheOnlyOne652089
- Registered User
-
Member for 15 years, 2 months, and 8 days
Last active Thu, Mar, 28 2024 22:25:06
- 2 Followers
- 5,792 Total Posts
- 1070 Thanks
-
Nov 30, 2017TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemPosted in: Articles
-
Nov 30, 2017TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemThe fact that a comment makes someone feel harassed doesnt mean it is harassment.Posted in: Articles
Just because someone feels insulted, its not automatic evil in nature.
Most important, he never told to her directly, you literally have to seek out his channel to see the comments, so you actively have to search yourself to see negative comments about yourself.
The indisputable issue are the sick minded individuals that go over the top and do exactly that, email directly, twitter to her directly etc. They do the harassment, they are 100% guilty for it, and they qualify for it, as they indeed take a sadistic pleasure in doing that, its among the most harmful type of troll.
Then theres a difference between private people and people in public.
As a private person nobody has any public interest in what i do and so comments about my person would be out of context.
The moment what you are doing is part of a community, like cosplay at a grand prix and doing pictures of that etc. You present yourself in public and so comments about exactly that are clearly presented.
That alone is no harassment and its just as important to clearly draw a line between what people truly say and what is casually said, simply put, if you are talking to a group of people for hours, chances are you will say something stupid and someone will feel insulted ; so it has to be viewed in context and not just "oh god, look what he said" , and finger point exactly that and ignore anything else.
And especially for Jeremys channel, its clearly a form of topics and talking that you might easily find offending, others do not, some think hes right about a bunch of stuff, and i believe you can easily see he has a bunch of points.
All the so called harassment can be put down to context that gives it a background, so that is what makes the topic a lot more slippery than just believing its all crystal clear.
The idea of thinking its downright crystal clear and theres only black/white in it, is already short sighted, as you have to see more of the picture to get a real glimpse of the actual truth.
-
Nov 30, 2017TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemYea, if people truly think theres just 1 problem at hand, and that others, but ofcourse never themselves are a part of it, thats just ridiculous, as it is the kind of finger pointing that just wants to make someone else responsible for what you think is bad.Posted in: Articles
If someone truly feels harassed, seek the police, file a claim, prevent the harassment, thats what you can do as an adult, theres a little bit of responsibility for your own too.
Its not your job to defend your wife, if you truly want fairness, she can do that on her own and she should be absolutely able and willing to do so (and if she isnt, that is a problem you have to start working on).
Its always a big question mark, if you have to drag your personal issues into public.
That just makes everything worse, much worse, as you are suddenly exposed to people that choose sides and over dramatic defend it, no matter if it effects them at all.
The adult way to solve the issue would simply be if she started out to simply ask to stop exactly what she thinks is bothering her. Any responsible adult will accept that and change behavior if its reasonable, and if they dont, you file a claim against them, so they get judged by a neutral court (or you are proven wrong on your feeling of being harassed, thats also an option and as an adult your have to live with it). -
Nov 30, 2017TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemTheres critic and just phrasing opinions and as a form of entertainer and content provider he has a form of talking that a lot of people find offensive, but there is plenty of comedians i find offensive, but that doesnt make them in any way problematic.Posted in: Articles
Comments can easily be in bad taste and thats undeniable the case for Jeremy, but the real core of the issue to discuss is the small amount of truly idiotic people that take it to a true harassment and violent form of threats ; and the question to discuss would be if you as a content provider are truly responsible for what some sick individuals do , given they are adults, these people are the actual problem, and thats not Jeremy.
The same kind of sick individuals exist on the other spectrum too, some of them Social Justice Warriors that somehow feel Jeremy has to be "utterly destroyed" and death threats against him are "totally fine".
Seriously, its the same kind of sick individuals and its the CORE of a true problem which puts every little issue into full on overdrive roadkill.
It serves nobody and its a form of discussion that is very prevalent in the internet.
Its a culture of trolls and social justice warriors that simply cannot keep their actions behind a healthy line that keeps a minimum of civilized discourse alive.
If people get famous they undeniable have to have a tougher hide. The more people you know and the more people respond to you, the more bad comments you will accumulate.
Thats natural, and people will either like what you do or they will not.
Some of the sick people will downright hate you for whatever you do and this leads to the exact problem of people that think they have to act themselves , right now and fight what they think is the evil, everyone thinks they are in the right to do so and so nobody is able to self-reflect and see they are going over the top.
If matters settle down you could easily see Jeremy seeing himself that a bunch of stuff crosses the line , but bad taste comments and actual harassment should be dealt with in court and absolutely not in public for people to just judge and start their little lynch mobs in every corner burning whatever victim they just found.
----
So there is more than just one problem.
A lot of problems and everyone is part of some problem, if they see it, know it, or still deny it. -
Nov 30, 2017TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemTheres plenty of "good" men that started wars and killed people in the name of what they thought to be somehow the right thing.Posted in: Articles
The reality is, there are no "evil" and no "good" men, just opinions and people that push these ideology with violence over the other, who ever wins will be in the right, the other side clearly must have been wrong.
Its not the job of people to start a lynch mob and "destroy" other human beings and its downright pedantic to think that is in any way what "good men" should do.
Any problem has to be discussed and solved on the appropriate level.
Pushing topics in public only serves the trolls and media hype , people calling out for a single entity to be blamed for everything they think is bad.
The reality is, theres not a single bad person and everyone is usually to some degree responsible for what they do or do not do.
People really like to give small problems horrific names so they sound like much bigger problems, that leads only to despair and misery, it has no positive benefit for anybody, just pampers the ideology of people that really think they are the only legit form of judgment call, self-administered justice isnt the way to go and if you ever get in the situation to think someone is the personified evil, you are guaranteed wrong and simply ignore the other standpoint (so you become evil yourself, just to pretend to defend against evil, thats in no way a solution and only leads to a conflict in which everyone can blame anyone to be in the right and suddenly there are no good men left anymore).
-
Nov 30, 2017TheOnlyOne652089 posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemA very big issue is that different topics are brought together, while they simply do not fit.Posted in: Articles
Nazi and troll posters are two very different things and should never be put together, just to fuel a cause, thats selling your own arguments cheap and makes them one-dimensional black/white thinking again, which is good for nobody.
Also, there will be critic and negative critic as well, that has to be acceptable.
Nobody is forced to be overly positive about anything.
If you truly dislike something you can say so, and its value to the discussion that this is expressed and not just ignored, or even outlawed as something terrible wrong.
At the same time its very valid to criticize something and not come up with a solution on your own right away. I can critic a cook and not be able to make it better, thats totally fine and it must be legit to do so. The point of critic is that you should never need to justify for it, the receiver can take the critic and see it as an issue, or they dont, thats their cup of tea and its what an adult has to learn to deal with.
But here again, this changes a lot if someone is in private or its brought up in public and presented to a mob of people.
If you just honestly dislike cosplay and say so, thats fair, nobody forces you to like anything.
The "locker-room-talk" is a topic entirely for its own. Its something that is widely accepted and always was. Women to the same about men, they even do it among each other, it might just be more subtle than the direct approach of actually saying it out loud, even if its just in the "locker-room" (or in this case a youtube channel, or a bunch of twitter posts).
Its fine on its own.
What really pushes the topic to become a real issue is how stuff completely gets lost and out of control incited to be way bigger than what it really is (and yes, thats a terrible huge deal with the amount of media and the very real interest of media to promote topics into "highlights" and further push the mob to generate more horrific events to report about, its almost a self proclaiming prophecy, so its very difficult to truly say what amount of discussion is healthy and what is just talking it to bits and pieces, as many if not all topics will be seemingly super hot for the moment and meaningless the next week, as there is no real issue beside the illusion of talk at all).
----
How would an adult deal with bad talk about them in private ?
You confront the person and actually tell them to stop as its not ok for you.
Solves the issue, unless the person is actively not recognizing your problem.
In public it changes a lot.
Theres either somewhat anonymous people that jump on a topic train and pick sides, which very often leads to extreme reactions, way over the top (any threats via mail or any form of actual harm is absolutely no-go, no matter what the topic is, theres never a reason to choose violence to solve anything.
So if you talk in public, it will have an effect on people and it will polarize the people more and more. Thankfully lots of people can distinguish between a topic that truly effects them and just a rat catcher lynch mob , but some cant, and the poster shouldnt be responsible for these individuals, as almost anything could be seen as an incentive for violence, if the individual has some sick mind, theres an entirely different problem of its own (and yes, you have to ask yourselves why so many "troll" people exist and no matter the topic, they are harmful and actively ignore any productive discussion).
----
For the topic at hand, the first problem that ignited this into a public *****-fest was that it was brought to public at all.
Solving these kinds of issues should have been a thing between Jeremy and Sprinkle , in private or by her actively telling what bothers her, its just fair to do so, as it solves most issues and avoids outside people to intervene.
If that doesnt work out and somebody is not taking your arguments, you can take it to the police and to court to actively stop what bothers you with something like a protective injunction suit, which again should solve the issue at hand, instead of putting it up for debate to a lynch mob that just wants blood, no matter from who.
Its a very clear picture if a topic is just instantly brought to public, avoiding any legal options (or doing so later, in hopes the public opinion boosts your side).
See, if a topic is discussed in public, it will never be fair.
People pick side right away and defend it for whatever the cost, even if it doesnt effect them personally at all ; which brings the Social Justice Warrior term to fruits.
Yes thats a problem just as trolls.
Its good to have empathy, but its bad to jam ideals and ideology into a topic and mix topics entirely, just to proof a point that has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
----
Believe it or not, neither Jeremy nor Sprinkle are somehow "evil incarnate" , they arent and they arent "toxic" to the community.
The kind of topic and how much its media-hyped and exaggerated , thats an entire issue of its own and overshadows the problem they personally had to solve between each other and makes it like a community issue , which it isnt, the community is fine, theres very rare cases and problems to deal with and they shouldnt be ignored, but also not exaggerated into spheres they arent fit for.
And this is, about a game, a hobby, people enjoy playing the game and enjoy being part of a community, if this is taken to a level of social criticism it doesnt serve a purpose for the game it just harms the experience for everyone, as it puts a stigma to the game, that it neither deserves or justifies at all. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Its just utility so far, which could be a enchantment.
3UU
Starts at 3 loyalty
+2: Scry 2, then draw a card
-3: Mystical tutor
-9: Future sight emblem
Also i do not know why you made the two abilities, i would pretty much allways go +2 all the time, even the ultimate seems to be kind of "worse" (or at least very similiar, as its just card advantage).
Look at the new blue one, it has an way stronger emblem like yours, but actual one that is "new" and feels kinda crazy (so players are giggly to get it and find ways to get it more quickly).
Mystical Tutor on a 5 mana card is also very unimpressive, just feels totally out of place if the card has a card advantage ability anyway.
Also i am unsure if a planeswalker should have a keyword like Scry, but that might be ok, as it was done in a core set and "somehow" has a status to be a possible everygreen.
So overall, its a utility card, and the +2 alone is super strong, but it does not feel like a planeswalkers and misses a lot that planeswalker should "actual" do (which means, reflect a idea of magic, each planeswalker is like a complete magic deck in itself, in a narrow form).
Flavourwise "destroy" makes kinda sence, as the object really "breaks" on the target (an imagine would show that a lot better i think).
Bread for all
Sorcery (C)
Each player searches his or her library for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffles his or her library.
Do not like that in white. Its really a green thing, this could easily work as a green card, as we have this kind of rampant growth allready in green (XGG for X basics).
In white the only real justification is the "equal gain" (ala balance) which is a very very small thing, and more often used to let you catch up instead of giving everyone a gain.
Tithe and the like are good examples for this "catch up" thing, but yours is truly a green card (everyone gains something is done on a bunch of green spells mostly rare though).
Ice Razor
Snow Artifact - Equipment (R?)
Equip
Equipped creature gets +3/+0 and deathtouch.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, destroy ~.
Whenever you cast a snow spell, return ~ from your graveyard to the battlefield.
I would remove snow mana, and just make it a "Snow permanent" itself.
Maybe just let it "rebuild" itself in a "blizzard" (aka snow spell).
While your "skip untap" seems nice to reflect damage to a player, it might just work as deathtouch to reflect its "sharp" part.
As it is, it might even see play in a infect deck or the like with snow lands to get it back, a deck were the power boost comes in handy aswell.
Maybe another mechanic beside "snow" can reflect the ice idea ; could make sence to simply connect it to "islands" as a snow/water idea, but i struggle to get a good one thats not "snow".
Which is not half as fun as the decision version.
The thing to "ignore" target is just that you have the option to choose what you want on resolution.
The possible cards to target from your library are not in your grave before the card resolves, you do not even "Know" them.
So in case they are 3 lands, i will gladly take 3 cards from my graveyard.
If i have no graveyard, i just draw 3, BUT if that card is something like dredge (were you can simply make more mechanics that kinda work like it, does not have to have the self mill, replacing the draw and maybe pay life, less abusive, works aswell).
Also triggers stuff that cares that its "milled" from your library, in case a mechanic wants to actual use that.
*I am a fan to keyword "mill" anyway, everyone knows what it means, and if you do not, it takes 5 seconds and you get it (Millstone you know).
On top of that i enjoy how the card plays way more than just putting the top three in my hand (or 3 from the grave) its just relaxing to grab the top three put them in the grave and "then" decide.
Big one is also if you can "replace" the draw (not necessary with dredge, also have the "Words of" enchantments and stuff like that) ; then you gain the tripple reclaim (not necessary on the cards you mill, but in case you want that for miracle, go ahead, put them back as you want).
Not having a target does not seem to be a problem, especially as the card does not work in its full glory if it must have 3 targets (which makes it MUCH worse, as it can actual "fizzle" against graveyard removal, which sucks enormous).
What could work is to exile the top three cards and 3 from the grave, then let the player pick 3 to put back on top.
Stuff like this:
Life Lessons :symu::symg::symb:
Sorcery (R)
Exile the top three cards of your library and up to three target cards from your graveyard. Choose three cards and put them back on your library, the rest into your graveyard.
That has "more" text than the other version and not no interaction with "self-mill" / "drawing", overall feels way less "UGB" , as it is a work around to get a similiar effect, but neither color really uses this kind of mechanic.
Well maybe Blue with Three Wishes, but thats very old (and actual just a worse draw 3 for just one turn).
Life Lessons :symu::symg::symb:
Sorcery (R)
Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard. Then put up to three target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library and draw three cards.
Like that less, the target is "more text" for less options, restricts the card in a way that seems to make it "more boring".
However, if theres a version i miss you might mean, just give me the hint.
Well what you say is constructed ; were green has not the largest **** around.
In limited, creatures actual "rarely" get over 4/4 ; so you will in fact pretty much allways go as the winner ; and mostly beside that at least trade.
If they have the dragon size "rare" around, it wont help you, but chances are high that they will have something else around.
If everything goes wrong, you hit your own guys.
Which gets me to the idea that this guy should simply "gain" something from the fight, so it makes sence to beat your own.
Craterhoof Yearling 2GG
Creature - Beast (U)
When ~ enters the battlefield, it fights target creature.
Whenever ~ kills a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on it.
4/4
*Kills just the short for "creature dealt damage by ~ is put into a graveyard" (in the respect of dies).
Yea, thats small, but you can hit your own guy and "hopefully" get an effect from that aswell.
In worst it upgrades to a 5/5 , which is quite a size on a 4 drop (especially if that ones also trades 2:1).
But the fact remains, if they "only" have a 5/5 or larger, and nothing else, than this guy sucks (like Skindrender and kavu suck when nothing is on the field).
As rare it can be "enormous".
As it is, its a pretty good common, underwhelming for uncummon.
Well problem i see is simpel.
You just did a "worse" hells Thunder.
Sure you would play that, its a piece of damage.
But the brutal unearth cost of CCCCCC should get more, it has to get something that makes it worth that insane cost ...
Lightning Ball RRR
Creature - Elemental (R)
Trample, haste
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice ~.
Unearth RRR
6/1
Using powercreep i could even see this.
Its Ball Lightning upgraded.
"Fine somehow" , brutal strong for sure, the boring stuff is, 3 mana is just too less to justify that.
Lightning Ball RRRR
Creature - Elemental (R)
Trample, haste
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice ~.
Unearth RRRR
7/1
Better ?
Kinda, at least 4 is a lot.
We have "Koth" after all and plenty of powerfull stuff at 4 mana ; but here we have the edge of a "real" mono red card, not just one that wants to be.
Sure this card would be auto-playable, its the piece of card thats just "good" and screams for a burn deck, and the format would NEED to have instant speed removal, otherwise this card just wrecks them all, and just gets nuts in a dedictat burn deck.
At 5 red we have Demigod of Revenge, that guy was crazy, easily 10 damage worth of haste damage right to the face ; and every topdeck could just be another round of Demigod Pawnage.
It was perfect at 5 ; you could just win casting Demigod after another.
So for 5 red you get a hell of power, and as said, its not easy to make a card thats worth the mana and still fun.
At 1-4 mana we have plenty of Ball Lightning cards allready, its just swinging bunch of keywords around, but they hardly change at all.
5+ is more difficult, especially as the mono red decks obvisious tend to be "burn" decks, its like thats the only thing the color really is worth for.
Well making a worse indestructible is not really good.
Sure, first strike is "worse" double strike, but making an effect thats just plain "worse" than its precedessor is kinda bad.
What you did is done in many "different" ways, the persist/undying mechanic is ment to make the creature "sturdy" , protection does that, and indestructible anyway.
In fact, regeneration is something that more and more gets replaced by "indestructible" , as its easier (does not have the, remove from combat, tap this, remove damage crap that all the newbs played wrong anyway).
Indestrictible is simpel. It is destroyed ? No it is not.
Thats it.
Your mechanic seems to be like a kind of protection against effects that actual rarely happen outside of constructed.
Limited has a very small number of board sweepers for a reason, point removal is king and "fair" (1to1 trade).
Making that kind of mechanic seems to be not really a good idea and it does not add interaction.
Persist and Undying are awesome because they just "work" and you can play around with the counters a lot, abuse EtB stuff and all that things (which are dangerous aswell, as we see for persist and the many problems with it, while Undying is less problematic, but the stronger mechanic to start with).
Well making it X is for sure better for all the EDH gang.
However, might be just me, but the cantrip bothers me, i kinda want it to be symmetric, do X, put X back, draw X ; just cantrip makes it XX1 do not enjoy that.
Also i do not see it as an instant, reclaim and the like work as instant, the effect is small enough and you "can" use it to rescue a card against grave removal, or simply cast it after your stuff died (which works especially for reclaim).
However, to squeeze X=1 out it, you pay 1GUB ; quite underwhelming at 4 mana to get this effect (which literally is mill 1 and regrowth).
I favourise the 3mana, 3mill, 3reclaim, draw 3 ; kinda works best just for the numbers.
Powerwise its good aswell, but i hardly see it be totally broken (even as it can chain into each other, and do that with Manamorphose for example is quite a deal and potentially a combo, but is that so much more problematic than any other Storm combo around ? Be it TimeSpiral, Dragonstorm or anything ?).
5 might be the more "correct" cost to catch it as a 333 effect (still good enough, but manacost is not as pretty).
Maybe stick to the hybrid cost idea and give it a go for 6 (might look better anyway).
Life Lessons (U/G)(U/G)(U/B)(U/B)(B/G)(B/G)
Sorcery (M)
Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard. Then put three cards from your graveyard on top of your library and draw three cards.
Thinking about it that might be it. 6 is expensive, but after all its a strong effect and as memtioned it has some potential to go "combo mode" with Rituals and Manamorphose (kinda like the combo with Pyromancers Ascension, to loop Nixious Revival with manamorphose).
But thats problematic ? I think for 6 mana thats totally fair ground.
And damn i kinda love that manacost which seems like a "wave" of mana.
Elemental Appeal was "fine" and 4 mana => 7 damage is still quite a number, Blistering Firecat was a "house" like Ball Lightning was in its time.
But right now, we just have so much stronger creatures, that a drawback like the one-hit wonders do not really make the cut.
What i allways enjoyed like hell was Demigod of Revenge, that felt so damn good as a card for 5-times red ; it was a top notch finisher (while also being black).
This ball lightning suffers a lot from the Gut Shot removal around, especially as nearly all removal that is played costs just 1 mana (bunch cost 2, but nearly none is more expensive, unless its the flexibility to do other stuff aswell).
SOOO, this means it can be a totally stupid strong card, IF you hit with it, which should be difficult but rewarding.
Electrocolypse RRRRR
Creature (R)
Trample, haste
At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice ~.
12/1
Might be just me, but 12 seems like a really fair number.
For 5 mana you really ask for a lot, and as it hits just 1 time, the effect must be huge enough to justify that.
Expensive Ball Lightning also suffer from the fact that they lose the "early game" advantage, your opponent will be a lot more prepared with removal and blockers (especially annoying first strikers or even double striker; even lifelink blockers are just annoying).
Yea, 12 seems ridiculous much, but it has to justify all that and be a "high risk, high reward" card.
If your opponent can do "nothing" to stop it, they eat a lot, or it totally fizzles into nothing.
Super difficult to make this card work thats for sure.
Either its just too expensive, no matter how big, or its just too easy and spells 20 damage.
One is sure, heavy mono colored cards should have a "HUGE" upside, as nearly nothing in magic right now really pushes you to play a mono colored deck, its all about multicolor or at least 2 colors ; mono is just way underpowered and ironically a CCCC card is WAY harder to cast than a multicolored one, thats how far we are into the pool of color nightmares.
I think so aswell.
Would make it not hybrid but a 3 mana card:
Life Lessons UGB
Sorcery (R) (M?)
Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard. Then put three cards from your graveyard on top of your library and draw three cards.
Its just me, but its a kind of cool card that combines so well the more narrow effects you get in the colors otherwise.
Reclaim, Regrowth, Concentrate, Bone Harvest.
Somehow this does everything i would like in a UGB Recurrsion deck, and its just a powerfull card.
In worst case you just draw 3, with any cards in the grave i can choose what i want back, like a tripple regrowth.
Mono green can get a Regrowth effect, so the combined power of black, blue and green should get more (kind of like Snapcaster on a spell, taked with Eternal Witness, taked with Gravedigger, somehow its "THE" color combination of getting cards from the grave back).
Powerwise this could easily be 5 mana and still do its job, but i feel like this could be a prime example of the UGB color combination, as it does such a good job (its just a multi format all star, like Pernicious Deed and all the like).
*Like it enough to include it in my custom card cube ^^
They do not like black.
Sure we get bunch of random "mono black" cards that still suck mostly, and black still has the major deal with enchantments (while white gets insane strong point removal and its own Vindicate Ring).
Time for another "Torment" set full of black goodies ; Time just repeats ...
*Currently even Phyrexian is multicolor, the former black poster.
Well the drawbacks are not that "big" , as each was at least played, the major ones are at least problematic.
Sure a counter for a 1 drop is totally possible, and "Daze" might be the only free counter that actual works somehow (as you can avoid it, and somehow it makes intresting situations, at least in my view).
However being on the play means you have an advantage, if blue can counter your stuff even before they drop a land its just annoying.
To be said, Mental Misstep is not "too strong" per se, its just too good in exactly the format that has the major amount of 1-2 drops.
If a free counter can counter allmost all the important cards in your format, its just way too good without a real drawback.
In any other format, misstep targets the small amount of stuff it is supposed to target, and thats "fine" (still good, but not problematic).
Mental Misstep was especially nuts in Legacy as you could use it in every deck and guarantee a hit and allways have an edge doing that.
Everyone plays 1 drop, everyone runs Brainstorm, Duress, creatures, Stifle and what ever, Misstep could hit so much that it was crazy.
So the idea to counter 1 drops is not bad, but its a problematic card in a format that so much works with 1-2 drops like legacy does (and thats why its banned).
Thats not "good" TimeVault + Untap is ridiculous stupid ...
Among the most idiotic things in vintage.
The 1 mana discard spells are good to get stuff away "early" ; late game you have other options.
Creature- Elf Shaman (U)
When ~ enters the battlefield, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library for each B spend to cast it, then draw a card.
3/3
Kinda bad if the green part is a ugly 2/2 for 2G on uncommon.
With black it becomes a gravedigger, which is common at 3B.
Maybe up the ability to care for "each" black mana.
Without black its still a 3/3 that cantrips for 3G ; which is fine.
With black its for sure a strong card in limited and "might" do the job in constructed if black/green is a real deck.
Exhaust Weird :3mana::symr:
Creature- Weird (U)
Shroud
When ~ enters the battlefield, creatures can't block this turn, then sacrifice it unless was spent to cast it.
5/1
Shroud might be outdated with hexproof (and that seems to be true as we did not get another shroud card with hexproof around).
Irgnoring that its a pretty strong creature that acts like a lava axe with a alpha strike on it ; and keeps hitting them over and over.
If i stick with the idea to increase the effect for each colored spent it would look like this:
Exhaust Weird :3mana::symr:
Creature- Weird (U)
Haste
When ~ enters the battlefield, target creature can't block this turn for each R spent to cast it, then return a creature you control to its owners hand, unless U was spent to cast it.
5/1
The self bounce might be tricky to get it back over and over, maybe you really want that effect, which means the blue acts as a drawback.
Also i would use haste instead of shroud, somehow this card really wants "haste" to go to the town right away with its can't block effect.
Soul Audit :4mana::symw:
Sorcery (U)
Exile target creature. If was spent to cast Soul Audit, search that creature's controller's library for all cards with the same name as that creature and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Hard removal in mono white seems wrong. Sure we get Path to exile, but thats a card "made" for constructed and it kind of spits on the color pie (to give white insane removal, while black deeply wants that).
Maybe you just make it a simpel and easy "flicker" effect in white, and add the black to it.
Soul Audit 2
Sorcery (U)
Exile target creature. Return that creature to the battlefield, unless B was spent to cast ~.
That might do the trick.
Its die hard "terminate" for 1WB which feels fine, and without black, you can use it on your own stuff to get some auras away, or safe them.
Seems like a crazy elegant card.