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Make a new "Keyword Action" !!!
This challenge is for you to create a new Keyword Action, and make a card with it.
http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/Keyword_action
If you don't know what Keyword Action is, check this out ^
My homemade example:
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/dryad-of-spring-2?list=user
This challenge ends on October 26th.
Top 3 winning cards will get a super amazing http://mtgcardsmith.com/user/-TROPHY-
*Also, if you don't mind, I might want to add some of your custom keywords created for this challenge to Mechanic Encyclopedia for ALL.
http://forums.mtgcardsmith.com/discussion/225/mechanic-encyclopedia-for-all/p1
Keywords added to Mechanic Encyclopedia can be used in Corwinnn's Community Mechanics Challenge.
If you don't like to share your custom keyword, please let me know.
http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/Keyword_action
If you don't know what Keyword Action is, check this out ^
My homemade example:
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/dryad-of-spring-2?list=user
This challenge ends on October 26th.
Top 3 winning cards will get a super amazing http://mtgcardsmith.com/user/-TROPHY-
*Also, if you don't mind, I might want to add some of your custom keywords created for this challenge to Mechanic Encyclopedia for ALL.
http://forums.mtgcardsmith.com/discussion/225/mechanic-encyclopedia-for-all/p1
Keywords added to Mechanic Encyclopedia can be used in Corwinnn's Community Mechanics Challenge.
If you don't like to share your custom keyword, please let me know.
This discussion has been closed.
Comments
Common:
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/reconnaissance-drone-6?list=set&set=2105
Uncommon:
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/data-collector-drone?list=set&set=2105
Rare:
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/mobile-frontline-artillery?list=set&set=2105
Your ability can be worded more simply. I commented on your common one. Please check it out!
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/crystalline-sprite-2?list=user
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/blinding-battlemage-1?list=user
Scry, proliferate, and discard were actions.
Scry N: Look at the top N cards of your library,
put any number of them on the bottom of your library, and the rest on top in any order.
Proliferate: For each permanent or player without counter on it, you may put one more counter of a type already there onto that permanent or player.
Discard: Put a card from your hand into your graveyard.
Keyword actions are terms that describe ACTIONS. Actions are things that players do. If a keyword has you use another keyword, it is an ability, since the card does the ability. Dealing damage is something that players do, via controlling sources that deal damage. Players don't deal damage. Therefore, dealing damage is not an action.
Delightful Discovery
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/delightful-discovery
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/internalize-the-agony
'Cause keywords are created to simplify convoluted actions anyway! I realize I probably shouldn't have posted 4 times in a row, but I'm on a phone, and I can only paste things at the top of a text box, and editing sometimes breaks my browser, so sue me. I'm lazy.
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/vicious-sewer-crawler-2?list=user
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/agent-of-thanatos-1?list=set&set=2239
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/ilmgart-the-wrathful-one
Thanks @CrucibleOfHate , I think requirements of the challenge wasn't described clearly enough. Sorry about that. But you are already doing it right!
The challenge is to make a wording that can be replaced with a verb, and make a card that uses it. That verb is called keyword action. Keywords are created to make the card's text shorter, so you don't need to write reminder in the card. If you don't, be sure to write it in the comment.
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Some of the non-evergreen keyword actions Wizards printed :
Proliferate, Transform, Detain, Populate, Monstrosity, Vote, Bolster, Manifest
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@AlphaOmega @citizen66 @theimmortaldeath
Good works! but those are not "Keyword Actions". Those are "Keyword Abilities". Hahaha! I know it's confusing.
theimmortaldeath's Vicious is static ability, and citizen66's Affliction and Wrath are triggered abilities.
Checkout Jace, the Mind Sculptor.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=195297
His 1st ability has the same wording as the reminder of fateseal 1.
His 2nd ability has the same wording as Brainstorm.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=382224
His 3rd ability has the same wording as Unsummon.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=265715
So if we give a name to each ability, the card's texts can be shorten like this.
[+2] : Fateseal 1.
[0] : Brainstorm.
[-1] : Unsummon.
Those are named as Keyword Actions.
They can be used like "draw", "destroy", "tap",,, (They are all keyword actions as well.)
Example of use;
"Whenever you cast a spell, target player may brainstorm."
"At the beginning of your upkeep, you may unsummon up to two times."
If you still don't get it, please check out my example and other smith's entry(Teacup, CrucibleOfHate). And gamepedia is very helpful! There's a link to my first comment.
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The challenge is not to make a keyword ability. I want you to make a Keyword Action.
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/darkened-extraction
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/angel-of-might
And I wasn't sure quite how else to word the "Converge" reminder text.
Me three!
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/amalia-the-mind-ablaze-2?list=set&set=1897
but I have a whole set of them.
http://mtgcardsmith.com/user/Beeswax/sets/1897
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/hyperbase-scourer
Cyclemill N (At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player puts the top N cards of their library into their graveyard.)
FYI feel free to use any of my custom abilities, so long as you give credit.
Sorry that my first comment didn't explain the concept of the challenge clearly enough. Please check out my other comment!
Cathedral of war's counterpart!
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/ursine-polymorph-1
Understand now?
...that... didn't work did it?
False Spark
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/false-spark?list=user