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Make a new "Keyword Action" !!!
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The card for the entry:
Gaea's Confidant - 1G Creature
Some additional cache cards to better understand & flesh out the mechanic
See Another Day - 1W Instant
Archive 1UU Cache-themed counterspell
Prisoner #3507 - 1B runt that can recur himself via cache
Pilfer the Vaults - Kind of like an ill-gotten gains for the cache
@michaelmvm It is keyword action!
@JBYT_LoadedTommy
Keyword action is used in the sentence of effect.
Examples;
"Whenever enchanted creature attacks, scry 1."
"Destroy target artifact or enchantment, then scry 2. "
"{t} : Scry 1."
If those "Scry N" are replace with your "Cyclemill N", none of them make sense. See?
@fabiocbinbutter Cool flavor! But the mechanic isn't explained clearly enough. You can ask other people for help, but not judge
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/technofuse-1?list=user
As far as rules go, that fully specifies the mechanic. As far as understanding it better, it's like a separate pile of cards, that you can draw from instead of your library. So, when you cache something from your graveyard, it allows you to recur it at the expense of a draw. When you cache something from your library, it's like card selection (similar to scrying). When you cache something on the stack/battlefield, it's like a Memory Lapse / Temporal Spring, except its owner has the option to draw it at any time instead of necessarily being the next card they draw.
So…cards are piled in cache zone in order they are cached? If so, from where you draw? Top or bottom?
But you say "draw from among cached cards". Then maybe "choose a card in your cache zone at random and put it into your hand" is good?
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/snake-trap
Basically, it's played face-down and is turned face up and becomes an instant when its trigger is met. The secret card costs less mana than the effect normally would. To make it less OP, when the trigger is met you MUST activate the effect no matter what.
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/ashelia-queen-of-the-high-sea
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/faithless-looting-3?list=user (already a card, i know)
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/merfolk-looter-1 (also already a card)
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/dack-fayden-1 (same)
~ {cost}
Sorcery/Instant (doesn't matter)
(Insert mechanic here)
and NO other text
If that works (Scry, Bolster, destroy, poliferate, draw, etc), it is an action. If not, (lifelink, trample, infect, ingest, or spellshape) then it is not an action, but a keyword.
According to the Comprehensive Rules (July 17, 2015)),
"120.1. A player draws a card by putting the top card of his or her library into his or her hand."…. so player can't select the card he or she draws.
As long as I can understand the mechanic, the submission is valid. But I encourage you to write the new reminder text in the way wizards likely to print. It' a cool concept. If you don't, I'll do. Lol.
I think there are many ways to explain the mechanic!
@King_Devil_II @Siege728 yours are not keyword actions.
I'll put a link to gamepedia again. That page explains what keyword action is.
http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/Keyword_action
Although your ideas are not following the concept of the challenge, they are very unique and intriguing!
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/nazgul-dark-rider?list=user
Rix Maadi Sadist (Reave)
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/rix-maadi-sadist?list=user
Morin the Prudent (Withdraw)
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/morin-the-prudent?list=user
@mrransom I made that too, lol!
There we go! Consume!
What about Rummaging Goblin's ability?
@MrRansom your Walkabout is so cool! But it's not a keyword action. It is written in the form of keyword ability. And it was categorized in triggered keyword ability.
Walkabout {2}{g}{g}{g} (At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay the walkabout cost and exile this creature until your next upkeep. It gains haste.)
If it written like this, it's an keyword action;
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {2}{g}{g}{g}. If you do, walkabout this creature. (But it's a weird because walkabout isn't a verb, right..?)
I don't want you to change the mechanic for this contest unless you want to do so. This mechanic is cool as is!
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I'll put the concept of the challenge again:
The challenge is to make a wording that can be replaced with a verb, and make a card that uses that verb in the effect. That verb is called keyword action.
Some of the non-evergreen keyword actions Wizards printed :
Scry, Fateseal, Proliferate, Transform, Detain, Populate, Monstrosity, Vote, Bolster, Manifest
Please check out how they are written on cards!
And gamepedia also helps a lot : http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/Keyword_action
Another thing I have been thinking of, is somehow allowing the controller of the creature (on walkabout) to bring it back from Walkabout at any time rather than only on the next turn, for the element of surprise. This option would make the Walkabout cost expensive, I think.
Sorry for messing up your challenge. I was trying to make it like Monstrous. I'll do a redesign.
Here's the card that used it. Mind you, it's from an old set, and I don't plan on using the mechanic, so it'll be rusty.
http://mtgcardsmith.com/view/myrona-the-divine
It could be made more explicit like this I guess:
To Cache a card means to exile it face-down as cached. Players may look at any cached cards they own at any time. If a player would draw a card, they may instead choose a card from among cached cards they own and draw that card instead of drawing from the top of their library.