The first time I ever drafted, I had no idea what I was doing. I some how managed to draft 4 Snapping Drakes in M10 and won my first ever draft without losing even once. It was such an amazing feeling that I fell in love with drafting and have been doing it almost exclusively ever since.
Edit: P.S. Would it be possible to get some of the newer suggested cards over on the multiverse set? I think we can hash out a lot of the overall issues with a more succinct discussion format. Mtgs is awesome for overall set development but is lacking when it comes to individual cards and concepts.
The traditional antics of Grimlins fall into two categories:
1) Mischievous annoyance and chaos (red)
&
2) Malicious destruction and a masochistic streak (black)
Which color they belong in depends on which version we want to go with.
On that note, I like to see Gremlins Tokens make an appearance even if nothing else does, whether they should be Red or black is another discussion, but the flavor is pretty perfect for Grimlins in the set.
I'm ok with Thopters in
Edit: Just realized tokens will be awesome with Exploit, Upgrade, and Windup (if they're artifact tokens) too. We definitely need more tokens.
Where Cohort was it's best was when it was used at the Opponent's EoT. Most of them weren't very aggressive to start with but that changed after a couple of support cards (which bodes well for our Windup stuff as they are combinations of the two abilities.) I never lost a game if I untapped with Drana's Chosen, Munda's Vanguard never lived to untap and Ondu War Cleric/Vampire Envoy are one hell of a life gain combo.
Overall, If the Cohort abilities had been Sorcery speed, I'd have been screwed. It was hard enough stabIlizing when I had things to defend myself with, if I'd needed to tap them on my turn I wouldn't have gotten past the 3rd round.
As far as
Overall, Oath made me excited for both its draft format and Archester. I'm looking forward to playing with both.
Crazied Frontiersman 1R
Creature - Human [C]
Exploit (reminder text)
~ may exploit a land as though it were a creature.
When ~ exploits a creature, add RRR to your mana pool.
He'll throw anything on his campfire.
2/1
What's the point of using exploit as a jumping off point if we just throw it out in favor of a strictly better mechanic?
I'm ok with Modification/Modify.
The reason I don't really like SP.2 is that, when Steampowered can be as little as a single :symc:, those SP cards operate in a very similar design space to the kozilek brood Eldrazi do in Oath (eg. you can splash for
As to the number of twobrids and their commonality with regards to SP, 5 is probably fine since it will allow us a little design space to work with and I believe that the SP twobrid commons should be limited to
On the topic of SP:
I feel like SP.0 is still the best of the three suggestions even if it does eat up our Twobrid cards. SP.0 is splashy, grokable, and, most importantly, simple. The variable cost of SP.1 adds substantial complexity to an already complicated set and SP.2 falls a little to close to Oath's C for my tastes.
On Trash:
It's current wording works well with the set, it interacts well with Exploit and artifact creatures and it's quite a bit more flavorful as it is over tarmo-Trash (how would and instant or sorcery windup as trash?)
On Windup:
I was particularly impressed with Cohort during the Oath Prerelease and I believe Windup has the same potential for awesomeness. I'd like to keep it in its current form and perhaps add some Artifacts (and possibly Artifact Creatures) that generate small effects when they are tapped (similar to Vampire Envoy from Oath) to increase the incentive to use windup rather than simply being aggressive since windup is weaker than Cohort since its restricted not only to artifact creatures (of which there will no doubt be plenty, but it is still a restriction) and at sorcery speeds.
On Exploit:
I love the idea of adding a rider to some of the exploit cards to let them sac lands. I think they should be in black though, not red since, while it makes sense in the shortsighted thinking of red, the Depletion/lands in graveyard sub-theme in (U/B) would work better mechanically. Who knows maybe it would be interesting in both colors.
On Upgrade:
While I agree the disconnect between Upgrade and Component is a little jarring, I think we're sort of stuck. Component is and awesome name for these artifacts, because that's exactly what the Components you assemble (I'm sad that assemble is already linked to Contraption, it'd have fit really well) to create a larger machine. Most of the words that mean what we want simply don't work for one reason or another and we've sort of been left with choosing between less than optimal words. Aside from the word names, we don't have to worry Components. They are going to be awesome, we just haven't worked on them much because they're at the end of the commons. Their day in the sun is coming.
Tl;Dr:
Steampower: #SP.0FTW
Trash: awesome as it is.
Windup: Semi-Cohort = Awesome
Exploit: sounds great
Component/Upgrade: Words not ideal but we're limited in options for good names.
True, I was simply pointing out that the concentration of C wasn't as high as it seemed, especially taking the fact that it's a large set rather than a small set into consideration.
What are our thoughts on "Wastes"?
Should we include it in the set? It would substaintially improve Steampowered and our other colorless mana matters cards.
Would it bring us too close to OGW & BFZ?
I love your reworked version of "Sheriff's Warning", it fits the flavor perfectly and doesn't have the same wonky wording of the original. Good job.
Overall I think the white commons are awesome.
Must have missed that, I'll start thinking about various colors then.
Like many of you, I'm excited about the potential ✧ has in the set. I agree with Moon-E that I think the set can support itself on it's own with out ✧ in the costs of cards (aside from the previously mentioned "Steelforged Golem".)
Have we nailed down the white commons we want yet? Or are they still up in the air?