I love how you brought flavor to the card's use of affinity through the card name. Both the mechanic and the card name connected together make for a flavor-dripping overall card.
I was torn on the ability to follow Affinity for Goats. Considered something actually usable like "When ~ ETB, gain 1 life for each creature you control" but since the card was already going to be silly, I just went for the most literal top-down effect I could find.
if you wanted to go a darker rout, but still kept the humor, you could have done something like:
Lonely Goatherd 3W Creature - Human Shepherd Affinity for goats Sacrifice a goat: prevent all damage that would be dealt to CARDNAME this turn. Goats you control have hexproof. 1/3
haha
but seriously thats a great idea Jay, i love to see other designers making "silly" cards, as magic, at the end of the day, is supposed to be fun. :)
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I love how you brought flavor to the card's use of affinity through the card name. Both the mechanic and the card name connected together make for a flavor-dripping overall card.
ReplyDeleteI was torn on the ability to follow Affinity for Goats. Considered something actually usable like "When ~ ETB, gain 1 life for each creature you control" but since the card was already going to be silly, I just went for the most literal top-down effect I could find.
ReplyDeleteBroken with Mirror Entity, obviously.
ReplyDeleteAlways good to see resonant cards, silly or not.
if you wanted to go a darker rout, but still kept the humor, you could have done something like:
ReplyDeleteLonely Goatherd 3W
Creature - Human Shepherd
Affinity for goats
Sacrifice a goat: prevent all damage that would be dealt to CARDNAME this turn.
Goats you control have hexproof.
1/3
haha
but seriously thats a great idea Jay, i love to see other designers making "silly" cards, as magic, at the end of the day, is supposed to be fun. :)
Classic Card.
ReplyDeleteA new version I might now prefer:
ReplyDeleteLonely Goatherd {X}{W}
Creature-Human (cmn)
Affinity for Goats
When ~ ETB, gain X life.
1/1