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Polynesian Set - Design Phase
Hello everyone.
A while back I started a Polynesian themed set called La’akea, and the thread died fairly quickly.
However I still had a little idea in the back of my head for a Polynesian themed set, and now after seeing what @ningyounk has done with his Renaissance set, I’ve decided to start from scratch.
I intend to make this set a top-down Polynesian themed set, Polynesians meaning people who lived on islands in the Pacific, like Hawaiians. Notable examples of Polynesians in pop culture are “Moana” and “Lilo and Stitch.”
I DO NOT NEED CARDS OR CONCEPTS RIGHT NOW.
I need people who:
- want to make a set
- know how to make set skeletons
- have mechanic ideas
- can help with creating the world and finding (edit: OR CREATING (!)) art
- are good at building characters
- can help me think of a theme (e.g. land matters, multicolor matters, graveyard matters)
Themes and tropes I hope to explore:
- Surfing
- Volcanoes
- Sailing
- Exploring
Creature types I hope to integrate:
- Pirates
- Spirits
- Crabs and/or homarids (I like crab people and I love Tamatoa, so...)
- Warriors
- Shamans
- Gods / Demigods (I plan to use "Lesser" for "Lesser God" for a demigod, kind of like "Elder" for, say, "Elder Demon")
I plan to use a 263 card set skeleton - 15 basic lands, 101 common, 80 uncommon, 52 rare, 15 mythic.
I would appreciate any help with the set based on these tropes, but like I said, I don't need random card concepts.
If you can help me develop this set in any other way, I would greatly appreciate it!
EDIT:
Creature types from La'akea - credit to @NokiSkaur with a few edits:
W (Flying): Spirits, Elementals, Birds
W (Non-Flying): Cats, Dwarves
U (Flying): Spirits, Birds
U (Non-Flying): Elementals, Leviathans, Mystics, Homarids
B (Flying): Horrors
B (Non-Flying): Shamans, Scarecrows, Tiki, Pirates
R (Flying): Dragons, Elementals
R (Non-Flying): Tikis, Humans, Beasts, Dwarves
G (Flying): Insects
G (Non-Flying): Artisans, Cats, Beasts, Boars
Chrome: Humans, Gods, Lesser Gods (Demigods)
A while back I started a Polynesian themed set called La’akea, and the thread died fairly quickly.
However I still had a little idea in the back of my head for a Polynesian themed set, and now after seeing what @ningyounk has done with his Renaissance set, I’ve decided to start from scratch.
I intend to make this set a top-down Polynesian themed set, Polynesians meaning people who lived on islands in the Pacific, like Hawaiians. Notable examples of Polynesians in pop culture are “Moana” and “Lilo and Stitch.”
I DO NOT NEED CARDS OR CONCEPTS RIGHT NOW.
I need people who:
- want to make a set
- know how to make set skeletons
- have mechanic ideas
- can help with creating the world and finding (edit: OR CREATING (!)) art
- are good at building characters
- can help me think of a theme (e.g. land matters, multicolor matters, graveyard matters)
Themes and tropes I hope to explore:
- Surfing
- Volcanoes
- Sailing
- Exploring
Creature types I hope to integrate:
- Pirates
- Spirits
- Crabs and/or homarids (I like crab people and I love Tamatoa, so...)
- Warriors
- Shamans
- Gods / Demigods (I plan to use "Lesser" for "Lesser God" for a demigod, kind of like "Elder" for, say, "Elder Demon")
I plan to use a 263 card set skeleton - 15 basic lands, 101 common, 80 uncommon, 52 rare, 15 mythic.
I would appreciate any help with the set based on these tropes, but like I said, I don't need random card concepts.
If you can help me develop this set in any other way, I would greatly appreciate it!
EDIT:
Creature types from La'akea - credit to @NokiSkaur with a few edits:
W (Flying): Spirits, Elementals, Birds
W (Non-Flying): Cats, Dwarves
U (Flying): Spirits, Birds
U (Non-Flying): Elementals, Leviathans, Mystics, Homarids
B (Flying): Horrors
B (Non-Flying): Shamans, Scarecrows, Tiki, Pirates
R (Flying): Dragons, Elementals
R (Non-Flying): Tikis, Humans, Beasts, Dwarves
G (Flying): Insects
G (Non-Flying): Artisans, Cats, Beasts, Boars
Chrome: Humans, Gods, Lesser Gods (Demigods)
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Spirit talk N (you may reveal a (non-legendary ?) creature card from your hand with a converted mana cost equal to or lower than N. If you do, create a token that is a copy of it, except it is a spirit in addition to its other types, has haste and "sacrifice this permanent at end of turn/beginning of next turn")
It's an action keyword: when(ever) ____, spirit talk N; Or as part of a spell's effect.
A mechanic to capture the shaman-esque part, combined with spirit cards that would benefit from being revealed, through spirit talk or other means : shamans would commune with the unseen spirits (in hand), and the spirits would briefly express themselves.
I made that up in like 5 mins, so feel free to give your opinion.
My opinions on spirit talk: It’s a pretty good mechanic, though it might have to be really limited to prevent it being a pseudo-Sneak Attack that allows you to keep the creature in your hand. I like how it could involve shamans and spirits, but I’m not a hundred percent sure that it would fit with the Polynesian theme of the set. So spirit talk is a maybe.
Great. Like I said, I would up to 80 uncommons in the total and drop to 15 lands UNLESS you're doing full art lands, then you can keep it at 20.
I can help you build a set skeleton and design commons in particular, but I'd like to help design some higher rarities too, of course.
What platform are you designing this set on? MSE or MTGCS?
I can design the set to MSE when the time comes if you'd like that, but I don't want to steal your set from you.
Are you intending on following Hawaiian legends more closely in this? I'm fairly familiar with them (more general knowledge than specifics, but I could do some research) and could perhaps do a bit of character design if you need it. Usually I tend to keep back from that and let others do it, though.
Nahiri, Tibalt, Nixilis, Dovin, Saheeli, Kaya, Dack, Garruk, Daretti, Koth, Domri, Samut, Sarkhan, Narset, Kiora, Arlinn, Ashiok, Ral, Samut, Tamiyo, Ugin
Planeswalkers who would require a major plot twist: Xenagos, Elspeth, Sorin
Also, what is the basic story of the set? A war between tribes? Trying to prevent such a war? The gods are taking sides? Mortals vs. gods? Trying to save the gods? Trying to stop the end of the world? Divine War? (The legend of the Divine War involved the struggle of the divine sons of Papatūānuku, the earth goddess, and Ranginui the sky god, to separate their parents from their eternal embrace which threatened to crush all of the world. The god of storms, Tāwhirimātea, defeated all of his brothers except Tumatenga, god of humans and warfare, and their battle continues to this day. The massive storms that Tāwhirimātea unleashed during the war explains why so much of the world the Polynesians knew was water between islands.)
I know it's early in the set, but I have a Kiora design stowed away from a little while ago. Would you like to see it?
What if the set was tokens-matter?
By which I mean: lots of token-producing cards, "As long as you control a token, {effect}" stuff, mechanics that make tokens.
Weave (Create a colorless Basket artifact token with "Sacrifice this artifact: Add G.")
Another possible form:
Weave [color] (Create a colorless Basket artifact token with "Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of the woven color.)
Flavor is that you're "weaving" a basket with a certain color of mana so that the artifact can produce mana of that color.
What do you think?
Seaworthy {cost} ({cost}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It becomes seaworthy.)
Seaworthy should commonly be used with "As long as this creature is seaworthy, effect."
For instance:
Big Fisherman 1U
Creature - Human Pirate
Seaworthy {2}{U} ({2}{U}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. It becomes seaworthy.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this creature is seaworthy, create a 1/1 blue Fish creature token.
1/1