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dravidious · 6 months ago

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White commons! Enchantments aplenty!

To be clear, the cards with capitalized names are existing cards that I'm using as reprints. Some, like Karametra's Blessing, will get new names eventually.

Also, using Elemental as a creature type was mostly just a placeholder, and now that I'm settling on the flavor I'm looking for a better subtype. The flavor is that they're spawned from human emotion, like faith, hope, or devotion for the enchantments, or passion or creativity for the artifacts. I scrolled through the creature types, but none really stuck out to me as a solid fit. The best I could come up with was spirit, but I figured I'd ask for ideas before committing to changing every instance of the Elemental type. I could even go with a totally new subtype, but I couldn't think of any good names.

#asks #custom cards #i think i previewed Bestow Bird earlier. it got changed to Bestow Doctor because i wanted blue to have a bestow flier #and then i needed to move other stuff around because i already had a lifelink creature but i couldn't just swap it with flying #it was a whole thing but now blue has a bestow flier so it's all good #speaking of blue i finished the blue commons this morning!#i am On Pace to just have all of this done #also apparently even though affinity is getting used in modern sets it doesn't appear at common #but there's fairly modern commons like Brine Giant that basically have affinity and it's super simple so i think it's fine #i've heard the new design philosophy at wotc is “if a card is using an old mechanic then just put the mechanic on the card”#they even do it on commons like Final Flourish #so as long as the reminder text fits comfortably it's fine #oh yeah Dutiful Spirit is a weird one #before it just said “as long as blah blah blah this gets +1/+1”#but then i realized “what if it takes 1 damage and your only other elemental dies during combat?”#Dutiful Spirit would lose the +1 toughness and die. and that's dumb. so i fixed it with the Burning Sun Cavalry template #oh fuck i made two 3-drop fliers #eh it's fine as long as they have different powers

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