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I do love the thief though.
sorry, caps lock.
You have 5 different art creatures on the battlefield.
Then, you cast 5 different masterwork choosers. You now have a bunch of REALLY powerful masterworks.
Other problem.
Lets say you have a card that says:
When you cast CN, you gain life equal to your masterworks cmc.
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN @The_DM??
At the beginning of your upkeep, choose a new masterwork.
Second:
@LordTachanka123
You do realize how powerful that would be with AM plus another card alone?
IN A LIFE MATTERS SET.
@The-DM
@ningyounk, please correct all my mistakes
@The-DM, feel free to call this card s***
@ningyounk
Flavor text:
"She has a smile of knowing, and of mourning. But the land surrounding her is what scares me."-Vanezio Manchali, Art Historian
Sorcery
Switch target creature you control with target creature you don't control until end of turn.
Creatures in play have haste and get +1/-1 until end of turn.
@ningyounk?
Sorcery
Exchange control of
target creature you control
with target creature you
don't control until end of turn.
Creatures get +1/-1 until
end of turn.
"Maybe some flavor here..."
@LordTachanka123
Please be nice in your replies
@The-DM
On Avinzi's Freebooter:
In my opinion, it's a bit awkward that the first ability cannot synergise with the second, since if you cast an Art spell from the first ability, the creature will be unblockable for the turn but doesn't have haste. I also think the second ability is a bit too restrictive for the card to work. It's already quite difficult to cast a spell you discover as you need 1) to have a card that tells you to discover 2) find a nonland card on top of your library 3 have the mana to cast it. Adding an additional restriction of the card being an Art means this ability is probably going to trigger very rarely.
That being said, I really like the idea of caring about the nature of the spell you discover. But I think you need a bigger reward as this is very difficult to do, and I'd rather have it as an additional rider. Here's an example:
Whenever you discover, CARDNAME can't be blocked until end of turn.
Whenever you cast a discovered spell, put a +1/+1 counter on CARDNAME. Then, if it was an Art spell, double the number of counters on CARDNAME.
On Avinzi's Masterpieces:
I usually am not a fan of creating a mechanic and then making a card that says "ignore the rules we just made". However, you're not the first one to propose an idea such as this one, so I do think we need a card that will allow you to have more than one masterwork because it seems to be something that people expect when they see the mechanic.
I don't think "You can have more than one masterwork" is the best way to do it though because I think it's a bit confusing. I see two ways of doing this properly:
1) We create a card that acts as your second masterwork. Either it says straight-up "CARDNAME is a copy of your masterwork", or we find a way to say that all bonuses granted to your masterwork are also granted to CARDNAME. E.g:
2) We create a card that says that the masterwork bonuses apply to all your creatures. For instance something like this:
DrakeGladis
About Serran life, you can picture it as a shield in about any other game, like Hearthstone (except you can exchange 2 serran life at any time for a mana, that's a little bonus). So your opponent's stuff is going to reduce your serran life, and once you don't have serran life anymore it just makes you lose life like normal.
Serran life is part of your life total, so if you have 5 serran life but not normal life, your life total is still 5 (congratulations, you're not dead xD)!
In addition, if your own stuff makes you lose life, you lose non-serran life before serran life because serran life is more useful than regular life (which is a way you can end up with 5 serran life but no normal life).
Here are a few example:
#1:
I have 20 normal life and 2 serran life. My life total is 22.
My opponent's 4/4 attacks me, I lose 4 life (serran life first).
I now have 18 normal life and 0 serran life. My life total is 18.
#2:
I have 20 normal life and 2 serran life. My life total is 22.
I pay 4 life as a cost for one of my cards, I lose normal life first.
I now have 16 normal life and 2 serran life. My life total is 18 but, unlike example 1, I still have the option to pay 2 serran life to add of mana of any color.
#3:
I have 1 life and 4 serran life. My life total is 5.
I pay 4 life as a cost for one of my cards, I lose normal life first.
I now have 0 normal life and 1 serran life. My life total is 1 (I'm still alive.)
No problem ^^ I just don't want anyone to feel harassed but I know you don't mean to be mean, we all can come up a little harsh by accident sometimes, it's the difficulty of communicating by text without seeing each other's faces =D
By the way, I think there are issues with the images again, here's what I see: