Mechanics Encyclopedia - Activated Mechanics

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• Corwinnn

  August 2015 edited October 2015

  Ambush {cost} - RekasorusRex - Ambush {cost} ({cost}You may cast this card for its ambush cost and as though it had flash as long as a creature is attacking you. If you do, it enters the battlefield blocking that creature.)
  
  Augury {cost} - Beeswax - Augury {cost} ({cost}: Turn this card face up, then turn it face down. Activate this ability no more than once per turn.)
  
  Betrayal {cost} - Aasehdd - Betrayal {cost} (If this creature would die, instead, any opponent may pay {cost} and return this creature to the battlefield under his/her control.)
  
  Charge {X} - DeepSky - Charge {X}: (Put X charge counters on this creature.)
  
  Companionship {cost} - RekasorusRex - Companionship {cost} (Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may pay {cost}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature, and a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
  
  {Creature type} Hex {X}- Suicidal_Deity - {Creature type} Hex {X} (Whenever an opponent taps a {creature type} you may pay {X}. If you do, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.)
  
  Dissipate X {cost}Damnation - Dissipate X {cost} (When this permanent would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {cost}. If you do, exile this card instead of putting it into your graveyard and it deals X damage to target creature or player.)
  
  Dive {cost} - cadstar369 - Dive {cost} ({cost}: {creature name} loses flying and gains hexproof until end of turn.)
  
  Entomb {X} - liftinggravity - Entomb {X} (Exile target creature from a graveyard until X cards have entered graveyards from anywhere)
  
  Equilibrium N {cost} - Suicidal_Deity - Equilibrium N {cost} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay {cost} and exile it with N time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. As long as there are no time counters on this card, you may cast it without paying its mana cost and at anytime you could cast an instant.)
  
  Impart {cost} - Suicidal_Deity - Impart [cost] (If you cast this card for its impart cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes an enchantment again if it's not attached to a creature.)
  
  Instability {X} - liftinggravity - Instability {X} (At the beginning of your upkeep, pay {X} amount of mana. This creature's power and toughness become equal to that amount. This creature cannot have counters placed on it.)
  
  Jujutsu {cost} - Tomigon - Jujutsu {cost} ({cost}: Remove target creature blocking or blocked by this creature from combat.)
  
  {Land type} Hex {X} - Suicidal_Deity - {Land type} Hex - (Whenever an opponent taps a {land type} you may pay {X}. If you do, that land deals 2 damage to that player.
  
  Oracle - Suicidal_Deity - Oracle (At the beginning of each player's upkeep, you may pay {1}. If you do, look at the top card of their library. You may put that card into their graveyard and they draw a card.)
  
  Outbreak {cost} - DeepSky - Outbreak {cost} ({cost}: Creatures with -1/-1 counters on them gain infect until end of turn.)
  
  Pact {cost} - Beeswax - Pact {cost} (You may cast this card without paying its mana cost and as though it had flash. If you do, you lose the game at the beginning of your next upkeep unless you pay {cost}.)
  
  Recycling {cost} - Crimson - Recycling {cost} (If this card is in your graveyard, you may pay {cost} and exile it. If you do, draw a card.)
  
  Repairs {cost} - Darkray - Repairs {cost} (At the beginning of your end step, pay {cost} or sacrifice it.)
  
  Scourge {cost} - Crimson - Scourge {cost} (If this creature would leave the battlefield, you may pay {cost}. If you do, exile this creature instead and return it to the battlefield under your control at the end of the turn.)
  
  Smite {cost} - RekasorusRex - Smite {cost} (Whenever this creature deals lethal combat damage to another creature, you may pay {cost}. If you do, exile that creature.)
  
  Sneak attack {cost} - Tomigon - Sneak attack {cost} ({cost}: You may cast this as though it had flash for its sneak attack cost. If you do, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn.)
  
  Versatility {cost} - Charging Badger - Versatility {cost} ({cost}: Switch this creature's power and toughness until end of turn.)
  
  Weave {cost} - strongbelieves - Weave {cost} ({cost}: Choose all if you pay the weave cost.)
  
  In order to make this easier to update and add mechanics in a limited space, Mechanics will be listed alphabetically and in groups of 25.
• Corwinnn

  August 2015 edited October 2015

  Channel {X} - Gelectrode - Channel {X} ({X}: You may exile this card from your hand. If you do, target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn.)
  
  Elemental {X} - TheCopyrightContinuum - Elemental {X} (When you cast this spell, you may pay an additional {X}. If you do, put a X/1 elemental token with haste onto the battlefield. Exile it at the next end step.)
  
  Feedback {cost} - fabiocbinbutter - Feedback {cost} (Opponents may cast this spell from your graveyard for its feedback cost. Then exile it.)
  
  Forge - Gelectrode - Forge - (Whenever you cast an artifact spell, you may pay {1}. If you do, [effect])
  
  Metamorphic - Gelectrode - Metamorphic (Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may exile it onto this creature. You may cast that creature at any time for {3}. If you do, sacrifice this creature.)
  
  Mining - Tomigon - Mining {cost} ({cost}: Put a mine counter on target mountain you control. It becomes mine in addition to its other types.)
  
  Rebirth {cost} - Suicidal_Deity - Rebirth {cost} (When this creature dies in combat, you may pay {cost}. If you do, return it to the battlefield tapped at the beginning of the next end step.
  
  Reminisce {cost} - JaceNalaar - Reminisce {cost} ({cost}, tap this creature: Search your graveyard for a {color} card and put it onto your hand.)
  
  Soul sibling {cost} - Latinas - Soul sibling {cost} (When this creature enters the battlefield you may pay {cost} if you do put a copy of this creature onto the battlefield without soul sibling.)
  
  Soulless {X} - JaceNalaar - Soulless {X} (Whenever a creature you control enters the battlefield, you may pay {X} to sacrifice it. If you do, {Effect})
  
  Switcharoo {cost} - fabiocbinbutter - Switcharoo {cost} ({cost}{t}: Remove target attacking creature you don't control from combat, and replace it with {this card}. You still control {this card}.)
  
  Temerity - Tomigon - Temerity {cost} (You may cast this card for its temerity cost. If you do, its target is chosen at random.)
  
  
  In order to make this easier to update and add mechanics in a limited space, Mechanics will be listed alphabetically and in groups of 25.
• Corwinnn

  October 2015

  Feel Free to add comments, corrections and suggestions! More will be added as I go through the rest of the mechanics that have been submitted.
• Tomigon

  October 2015 edited October 2015

  You took my impart ability wrong.
  You described the ability like this.
  Impart {cost} - Tomigon - Impart {cost} ({cost}: When this creature dies, you may pay its impart cost. If you do, target creature gains all activated abilities of this creature.)
  
  But original has no "{cost} :" in its reminder text.
  Check out my original :
  http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/scryer-adept-10?list=set&set=1178
  It is written as a triggered ability, which triggers on death.
  Similar example is this :
  http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=401804
  It also requires cost to gain effect, but it's a triggered ability that triggers whenever a land enters the battlefield.
  
  I know you are sorting abilities with your original definition. But speaking of my impart ability, the difference that it's an activated ability or not is very important. Because if impart is an activated ability, impart ability is also imparted. Then it causes memory issue. The more abilities are imparted, the harder it gets to remember which creatures have which abilities.
• Tomigon

  October 2015 edited October 2015

  Edit : Never mind this comment
• JRock

  October 2015

  I have a couple entries:
  
  Oracle, I felt like with this effect though, it was better as a card within itself
  http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/tapperwell?list=user
  
  Ambush
  http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/guardians-of-elders-path?list=user
  
  Companionship, courtesy of Dragon Age origins
  http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/mabari-warhound?list=user
  
  Dissipate
  http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/archonbred-elemental?list=user
  
  Dive, I felt that this was so weak an ability it didnt need a cost
  http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/sonikite?list=user
  
  Temerity, forgive me if I got this one wrong. I meant for it to either inflict the damage on you, or give the chance of it hitting another player and simply taking a chance for the effect.
  http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/archlords-ultimatum?list=user
  
  Pact, I chose life instead of mana because of the creature
  http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/archbond-demon?list=user
  
• Corwinnn

  October 2015 edited October 2015

  @Tomigon - Thank you! That's so helpful
  
  I did a lot of research just now and I think I have a better idea based on what you said and the information I found...
  
  602.1. Activated abilities have a cost and an effect. They are written as “[Cost]: [Effect.] [Activation instructions (if any).]”
  
  Impart, as you have written it, is not an "Activated" ability, even though it has a cost. I will put it in the triggered mechanics and fix any others that need to go over there.
  (by the end of this, I think I'll be an expert, but I have a ways to go!)
  
  
• Tomigon

  October 2015 edited October 2015

  @Corwinnn Glad that I could help!
  I really appreciate you are doing this works. And I'm enjoying your community mechanic challenges very much
  
  By the way, there's one more thing..
  You wrote my Bloom ability like this;
  Bloom {X} ({X}: Put X bloom counters on this permanent. As long as it has a bloom counter on it, it is bloomed.)
  
  But I wrote the ability in original Mechanics Encyclopedia for ALL like this;
  {Cost} : Bloom N(Put N bloom counters on this permanent. As long as it has a bloom counter on it, it is bloomed.)
  I meant {Cost} can include not only mana, but also tapping, sacrifice, paying life etc.. So it's a big difference. Hahaha.
  
  And strictly speaking, it's not an activated ability neither. Because there's no " : " in its reminder. It is categorized in "keyword action". Proliferate, populate, Detain.. etc are also keyword action.
  
  So I appreciate if you could fix that as well.
• Corwinnn

  October 2015

  Gotcha Thanks! If I butchered any others let me know... we'll get them fixed!