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Rezatta, the Renaissance plane — Vision Design Part 2
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I found this on an auction site btw, $425.00
That ability actually exists, it's called changeling, but it's not really worth bringing up unless the set has a really strong tribal theme and that's not shaping to be the case. It it flavourful but it would increase complexity too much for what it brings to the set. We could consider it as a one-of though ^^
Changelings *ARE* art creatures
@Lujikul I mean, kinda, but the mana could be used for some cool things like abilities, maybe it can only be used by beings that can use pure psylian mana instead of the regular mana, possibly allowing there to be creatures that can use it, it doesn't even have to be used by powerful people, as in maybe some creatures can utilise and tap into the pure mana of Rezatta, kinda like how Appa from Avatar: The Last Airbender could use the power of air to fly even though he was just an animal
It's great! I love it! Thanks for making it.
The mechanic to collect the Psyllian mana would be similar to the snow mana mechanic in where instead of something like Snow Covered Plains, we would have Mirage Plains that would dispense Psyllian mana
For me the way you can tell whether something is just simply an art land rather than a mirage land is if say the mirage land looks like reality is bending, while normal lands look, normal
Mirage
Regular
But if that mechanic doesn't work out well then it can still be used to represent the psyllian life total
1) About the Psylian life symbol:
It looks good but there are a bunch of parameters you probably don't know about that factors in about psylian life:
- Psylian life is still a concept name, while everyone has getting pretty used to it xD Ideally, we'd have another name that conveys the concept of Renaissance itself in that slot. We could theoretically keep that name but, if we put things in their broader context, that means we lock the fourth mechanic on the concept of Renaissance itself then, we don't do scientific progress in this case. (Which is totally acceptable, scientific progress is easy to convey through a lot of staple effects anyways.)
- Psylian life is not mana
- The concept name psylian life comes from phyrexian mana, because phyrexian mana is mana that you can pay with life, while psylian life is life that gives you mana. As such, if we used that name, I think it'd be more suiting to base ourselves on the greek letter psy (Ψ) fore the symbol rather than the roman letter P, so we mirror phyrexian mana.
2) On the Mirage Lands mecanic:
Psylian life can produce mana, so we won't make costs that can only be paid with psylian life because it defeats the point of the mechanic which is supposed to be compatible with any spell. Also that would be horribly parasitic
I believe Art cards are in all colors, if I'm not mistaken.