MTG Salvation

Greetings!
This is an ability I came up with based on Conspire / Replicate
I think this effect could be in all colors, but primarily Blue and Red. So far I've only designed some blue cards with it.

Displacement 3U
Instant (U)
Recite (As you cast this spell, you may discard a card. If you do, copy this spell. You may choose new targets for it.)
Return target nonland permanent to its owner’s hand.

Grip of Inertia 1U
Instant (C)
Recite (As you cast this spell, you may discard a card. If you do, copy this spell. You may choose new targets for it.)
Tap or untap target permanent.

Insightful Incantation 1U
Instant {C}
Recite (As you cast this spell, you may discard a card. If you do, copy this spell. You may choose new targets for it.)
Target player draws a card.

Knowledge Rending U
Sorcery (C)
Recite (As you cast this spell, you may discard a card. If you do, copy this spell. You may choose new targets for it.)
Target player puts the top four cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.

Arbitrary Disdain 1UU
Instant (U)
Recite (As you cast this spell, you may discard a card. If you do, copy this spell. You may choose new targets for it.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 2.

Semblance Crafting 2UU
Instant (R)
Recite (As you cast this spell, you may discard a card. If you do, copy this spell. You may choose new targets for it.)
Create a token that’s a copy of target creature.

Questions, comments, concerns, criticisms, conundrums?

Hey all,
I'm trying to come up with a name for this keyword.

Keyword [cost] ([cost]: Exile this permanent. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of your next upkeep.)
I'm trying to 'redesign' Phasing, and using this mostly for Spirits and Wizards. White and Blue, maybe some black.

The flavor of it's use will be due to temporal rifts being ripped open in the plane and those who have the power to enter these rifts and return use them to their advantage.
Any suggestions are welcome.

Strike an Accord 2UBRG
Sorcery
Create six colorless artifact tokens named Gold. They have "Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool."
Distribute those tokens among any number of target players. Then for each player that gained control of two or more tokens named Gold this turn, gain control of target nonland permanent that player controls.

My question here is does it need to say to create the tokens or just "Distribute six colorless artifact tokens named Gold among any number of players. They have "Sacrifice this artifact:"

Thanks!

Hey all,

I need some help with this wording.

Diabolic Offering BR
Instant
Gain control of target creature until end of turn unless its owner sacrifices it. If it’s controller doesn’t, untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

It's trying to be a punishment card which gives your opponent the choice between Diabolic Edict and Act of Treason.

Would this wording be better?

Target creature's controller sacrifices it unless he or she has you gain control of that creature until end of turn. Untap that creature, it gains haste until end of turn.

Thanks in advance.

Pendulum of the Epoch 6
Legendary Artifact
~ can't be untapped.
5, : If this isn't an extra turn, take an extra turn after this one.

Just an idea I had for an extra turn card.

Thoughts?

Expose -- So what happens if all players are able to pay the cost to cast the spell? What happens? Who gets to cast the spell?? Would it be easier for the spell to be exiled and each player who payed the cost gets a copy?

Liberate -- Red doesn't get to tutor for cards anymore.

Commend -- This is interesting. It seems like Scavenge. I'd have to see some examples because right now I feel this doesn't really fit white and seems more Sultai colors.

Influence -- This ability definitely doesn't fit these colors. This seems more white/blue.

Cherish -- Needless shuffling, it should just go on the bottom of your library. It's kinda like Recover.

Respire -- So this basically replaces a card in your hand with a card in your graveyard. I see white and green here, but not Red.

Deprave -- Hey look, it's that ability from Prophecy! Scoria Cat, Keldon Berserker, Well of Discovery, et all.

Eavesdrop -- This seems far to complicated to do something so simple.

Augment -- I like this one, but it may be really good and definitely needs testing.

Spoil -- So... a player has to Annihilate permanents and lose life to get rid of it, and by the way it has two colors which have the most recursion spells for creatures?

Just a few quick comments.
First, Dredge is never seeing the light of day again as a mechanic. It's a 10 on the Storm Scale and Suspend is at 9.
Sudden -- Isn't this just Split Second?

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Greetings all!
Here are the last cards from this set.

Astral Monolith 6
Legendary Artifact (M)
Artifacts you control have “ : Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.”

Mask of Insanity 3
Artifact (R)
Madness costs you pay cost up to 2 less.
Discard a card: Add 1 to your mana pool. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Sanctum of Veknus 2
Artifact (R)
Players have no maximum hand size.
: Each player draws a card then discards a card.

Temple of Cahdaria 5
Artifact (R)
5, : Untap all other permanents you control. Activate this ability only once each turn.

Questions, comments, concerns, constructive criticisms, conundrums?

Æthershot - Seems good. It's along similar design as Aura Barbs and Starfall. It punishes players for having Enchantments.

Unhallowed Corpse -- This is odd in black. Anti-Magic Aura is in blue, and then there's Azorius First-Wing. In most cases this isn't a drawback, since it prevents white from putting Pacifism on this.

Aura Bomb -- This needs a color mana symbol in the activation cost. See Elf Replica.

Antimagic Cloak -- Free hexproof that's free to move around if you have Leonin Shikari? I think this is a bit pushed, maybe cost it at least 1, compared to Swiftfoot Boots.

Quote from saneatali »

The first version is definitely preferable. It may be hard to interact with directly, but as it's connecting to a creature, ordinary creature removal is sufficient to answer it. Along the lines of Cipher.

I suppose that's true enough, as long as you're careful about what effects you put on these cards. I.e. be leery of indestructible, hexproof, etc.

As a suggestion on the wording, you might want to try this:

Instill with Vigor 1W
Instant
Imbue- Exile this spell as it resolves imbued on target creature. As long as that creature is imbued by ~, it gets +1/+1 and has vigilance.

The first version is definitely preferable. It may be hard to interact with directly, but as it's connecting to a creature, ordinary creature removal is sufficient to answer it. Along the lines of Cipher.

The second version appears to just be Haunt. People didn't like Haunt.

There's nothing wrong with this mechanic and I think that, in isolation, "Harmony" is roughly as evocative as "Delirium".

Some pros and cons vs Delirium:

-Requires less speciality cards to enable, since you can just play/cast permanents.
-Won't go as high as Tarmy numbers, since you won't be able to count instants or sorceries.
-Static abilities that depend on Harmony, such p/t boosts, can be disrupted with removal.

None of these things are deal breakers and can be designed around easily enough.

It would probably be easier to grok and give you more design space to work with if you choose a flat number, like 3 or 4, instead of X.

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I assume you mean First spell for his first ability.

No "next spell" is correct - the "next spell" is the first dprll since activating the ability. "On the other hand "first spell" could mean... anything really first spell of the turn? First spell of the game? There is even an important distinction between "nest spell" and "first spell in a turn": Since the ability covers multiple turns there will be multiple "first spells this turn" but only one "next spell". For a +ability to even counter the next spell is a lot of power, but each "first spell"?


I assume the ultimate is missing "without paying its mana cost"?

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Quote from user_938036 »

There was no problem(admittedly some confusion though) with bestow creatures being creatures in your hands but not when you cast them as an aura.

Bestow says what it becomes if it's no longer an Aura. (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.)
This doesn't say that it becomes a Sorcery again when you cast it from the battlefield. It's still a creature and all the rules of it being a creature apply to it.
It either needs to say that you cast it 'as a sorcery' or perhaps even exile it and cast it without paying it's mana cost. It needs to stop being a creature for it to become a sorcery again. I think there just needs to be wording making it obvious that you're casting it as a Sorcery and not a Creature.

The reason bestow needed to say it became a creature again after being an aura was because the rules put auras into the graveyard if they aren't attached and they didn't want that. For Incarnate there is no such problem, by changing zones the animation effect of the incarnate ability stops functioning so it is only what is printed on it, a sorcery. Reminder text might be helpful to make this obvious but it isn't 'needed'.

Quote from BlackTempleGaurdian »

Taunting Elf so... Taunt?

The Taunting Elf ability is better known as Lure, and is, in fact, different than this.

Do it need to be so explicitly tied to being blocked or unblocked? How about trying out "Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, [effect]." ? That is an ability that players are already comfortable with and other than trample and Lone Wolf-like abilities (or maybe any 0 power creatures like Guiltfeeder), that has the same larger-scale desired mechanical interactions between the two abilities.

I think you misunderstood. Yes, it will wait around to see if something becomes blocked, but only for the duration of the trigger; not all of combat. Triggers happen, and resolve, in the same step, so there is nothing for it to wait around for, which is what we are trying to get across. Yes, you can put a creature onto the battlefield blocking it in the middle of the trigger, but since your current wording of "Whenever ~ attacks, if it isn't blocked, [effect or ability]" is still triggering during the Declare Attackers step, Flash Foliage can't be cast in response to the trigger. Your current wording of Ambush lets it be cast here, so maybe you are getting closer but again, doing it before Blockers are declared introduces other problems which is why Flash Foliage makes you wait until Blockers have been declared.

Spiny Starfish isn't a great example. I think there may be some confusion on "interviening if" in general, so let's break down the example of Spiny Starfish:

This trigger happens at the End Step because the card specifically says to trigger in the end step. There is nothing on your card that says to trigger in any case other than when it is declared as an attacker so that is when it will happen. Spiny Starfish is not "waiting around" to see what happens in the future. Instead, it is looking back into the past to see if it should trigger. If the creature has not regenerated at all (meaning it was never dealt lethal damage or nothing tried to destroy it after the Regeneration ability resolved) the trigger won't be put onto the stack at all. This is one of the defining features of an "intervening if" clause. They don' automatically go onto the stack. If, however, the creature has regenerated, the trigger will go on the stack and then resolve. You can't "unregenerate" a creature so there is nothing here that can interrupt the if clause.

To mimic the way the Starfish trigger works, you would need to re-word Infiltrate to something like this:

"At the end of combat, if this creature was not blocked this turn, [do something]". It does take away the ability to just pump it up for Combat Damage, but it illustrates the key difference between your example of the Starfish and your Inflitrate mechanic.

Or maybe...

Choose target creature an opponent controls. That player may sacrifice that creature. If the player doesn't, gain control of it until end of turn, untap it, and it gains haste until end of turn.

No, it's just an "at the beginning of the end step" trigger, with an intervening-if clause. So you cannot wait till the end step for destroying/regenerating the Starfish, you have to do that before the end step begins or the trigger doesn't go off.

A delayed trigger is a trigger that is created by a resolving spell or ability and will go off at a later time if its trigger condition is met. That can be a specific point of the turn ("at the begining of the end step", etc.), or it can trigger several times if it was given a duration ("until end of turn, whenever ...", etc.)