Monday, November 16, 2015

CCDD 111615—Nesting Baloth

Cool Card Design of the Day
11/16/2015 This is a Petravark unless you build a baloth-tribal deck, when it upgrades to Annex on a stick.

(This post was scheduled. Jay is in Poland pretending to be a Wizard just now.)


It might need to be rare or less efficient. It was totally top-down designed.

5 comments:

  1. Baloths typically have the Beast type, don't they? If this is a Beast and lets you cast Beasts, I'm totally on board.

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    1. That would help, since as it is it's very narrow.

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    2. Correct. Baloth is not its own creature type.

      That aside, I think the tribal ability is the least appealing part of this card. My reward for going into a narrow tribal theme is... to get conditional mana ramp from 5 to 6-7 lands?

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  2. A 5/5 that takes a land for {3}{G}{G} is very pushed, and not in a fun way, in my opinion.

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  3. As mentioned above efficient, uncommon land destruction is generally frowned upon. If you don't want to make the stats/cost worse, you could consider making it a drawback ability that must nest in one of your own lands, then you could probably reduce the cost by one and still have a powerful beast-matters card.

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