As an absolute lover of all your cards, my one issue with it is flavor @shadow123. Whilst it is mostly a great card, I feel like the "Add one mana" feels un-feral. I would suggest replacing it with something like "Put a haste counter on target creature" or "Add {r}". Besides that, great card as always!
@LordTachanka123 I suspect that you've missed one or more pages and forgotten to go to the most recent one. The most recent card-to-consider should currently be TerryTags' Levelling the Fields.
In all fairness to @LordTachanka123 he did comment on my "Leveling the Fields" on the card's page itself (and fav'd it), so I'm cool if we want to comment on his card next
@TerryTags Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I hadn't checked or realised because they were talking about a card that didn't seem to be right. That's my bad.
@fire12 I think it’s become a thing to tag me mistakenly in this thread even when I haven’t posted a card! It’s happened three or four times this month already ?
Oh sorry, haven't been on here in a while and was wondering why it said I had missed 100 posts and yet the last card I had put down was just before @shadow123s!
It was one of your songs I believe @shadow123...though I really was just criticizing for the sake of criticizing. It was more of a flavor thing than mechanical problem.
@TerryTags I can't see anything wrong with it, just not sure its something I'd use myself. Maybe "Leveling The FieldS" would work better, as its Plains-specific? Just a thought.
@JMGreer41 It's a little overpowered, I would've maybe made it cost {u} more to cast. The correct wording would be "Whenever Twister Maiden deals combat damage to a player, tap target land that player controls. That land doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Twister Maiden remains on the battlefield."
My card. It is my own art, I got bored last night and starting drawing Nicol Bolas, I messed up the eyes so I drew sunglasses and then decided to make it a parody of that famous Matrix scene. (Note: The art is kinda lame don't judge) Leave a fav and/or comment then post up to two of your own.
- In terms of power, this is probably totally fine. There aren't any cards that make perfect comparisons, but it's a small support creature with a demanding cost (in terms of color to amount) for an effect that can be good, but isn't terrifying. In an uncommon, that's completely acceptable.
- The tapping of a creature should probably be optional (either "tap up to one target creature", "you may tap target creature", or "tap target creature an opponent control"). This is intended to avoid it crippling your own strategies, and it's something that all real cards like this try to avoid.
- From a flavor perspective, this doesn't fit the name of Roc. The idea of a Roc in MTG (and on Tarkir, where this card's based according to the set symbol) is a giant bird, and as such a 1/1 shouldn't be one. That'd probably just take a minor name change (Frostbite Hawk or something) to fix.
- The flavor text is odd. If a card does a spoken thing like this, it should either be the quote of a specific person, or something like "Istvian Saying" to show that it isn't attributed to any one person. In addition, the idea of a child going "ooh, look, shiny thing" really doesn't seem to fit with what we know of Tarkir. It's the kind of thing where it probably needs rethinking or a total overhaul.
@MemoryHead Protection from players doesn't actually do anything. All real MTG cards have themselves dealing damage or destroying creatures. Players don't actually target anything, it's the cards that do. I am unsure of how you would word it to make it do something and still be the same card, though. Otherwise, its great! Here's my card:
Yes. but having protection from just auras and that small amount of other spells is not, I think, uncommon worthy, especially because there is another restriction to it.
@fire12 Oh, it does do something. See True-Name Nemesis, scourge of some parts of the Legacy format and ruiner of peoples' days. It's real card, and it isn't nice. Technically, the reminder text for Pious Devotee would read:
(This creature can’t be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything controlled by players with one or less devotion to colors.)
But I left it out because I was silly, overconfident in people knowing what it would do, and wanted the card to look nice and clean while still fitting in the full flavor text. Since I've had multiple people other than you (over on the Discord) also provide comments demonstrating confusion at the effect's function, I can tell I was wrong to leave it out. Hi ho, we live and learn. I won't repeat that assumed mistake. Here's the Nemesis, by the way:
For anybody with no idea what the heck I'm talking about, it's a reply to some feedback on one of my cards. The current card requiring feedback is Illcic, Artful Illusionist, and you can find it in a comment a little way above this one.
@shadow123, Love it. Always been a fan of the proliferate ability. The casting cost seems low to me, though. I probably would've got 4G or 3GG, myself.
Here's my latest attempt. I'm determined to get one, just one, without wording issue. lol
Edit: ironically, I overlooked a spacing issue. Since fixed. Corrected version below.
@JMGreer41 The wording, again, has some issues. It just has reach is not how you would put that, because that would mean it has reach for the rest of the game. Here's how I would put it:
"{2}: Slaadi Lookout gains reach until end of turn. Activate this ability only during your opponent's combat phase."
Power-wise, it isn't all that great, mostly because it is an uncommon. I would either make it a common or lower the cost down by 1. Also, it should probably be red and green, because reach isn't a common mechanic in red or black, and there are no black abilities on that card. Here's my card: (The name is a bit off, it should probably be Lasnik Loin the Fearful)
I like it, but it seems insanely powerful for 2. There's a lot of stuff that replicates instants that could have you taking and extra turn without much effort at all the way this is worded. Maybe put the extra turn bit in as part of the Overload?
I don't have an original prepared at the moment, so if it's okay, I'll post an older one.
@JMGreer41 Love the Studio Ghibli! One problem in the wording. You need to put the subtype and color of the creature it becomes. For example, you could put
"Howls Moving Castle becomes a 6/6 colorless Castle creature with trample and haste until end of turn."
@JMGreer41, copying the card would have multiple instances of the effect that would potentially trigger it, and since none of the instances of the spell would necessarily be dealing damage to 4 or more creatures, then that doesn't work by doing so. While I'm sure there is a way to change the number of targets without Overloading it, it certainly would be obscure and likely be difficult to pull off regularly. Thanks for the feedback, though!
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Besides that, great card as always!
Here's mine for today.
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/twister-maiden
It's a little overpowered, I would've maybe made it cost {u} more to cast. The correct wording would be "Whenever Twister Maiden deals combat damage to a player, tap target land that player controls. That land doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as Twister Maiden remains on the battlefield."
My card. It is my own art, I got bored last night and starting drawing Nicol Bolas, I messed up the eyes so I drew sunglasses and then decided to make it a parody of that famous Matrix scene. (Note: The art is kinda lame don't judge)
Leave a fav and/or comment then post up to two of your own.
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/nicol-bolas-the-agent
Here's my card:
Thoughts?
Very cool, probably should cost a little more but still, it's awesome. Faved.
My card, once again my art. Leave a fav and/or comment then post up to two of your own.
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/pray-for-your-enemies
- In terms of power, this is probably totally fine. There aren't any cards that make perfect comparisons, but it's a small support creature with a demanding cost (in terms of color to amount) for an effect that can be good, but isn't terrifying. In an uncommon, that's completely acceptable.
- The tapping of a creature should probably be optional (either "tap up to one target creature", "you may tap target creature", or "tap target creature an opponent control"). This is intended to avoid it crippling your own strategies, and it's something that all real cards like this try to avoid.
- From a flavor perspective, this doesn't fit the name of Roc. The idea of a Roc in MTG (and on Tarkir, where this card's based according to the set symbol) is a giant bird, and as such a 1/1 shouldn't be one. That'd probably just take a minor name change (Frostbite Hawk or something) to fix.
- The flavor text is odd. If a card does a spoken thing like this, it should either be the quote of a specific person, or something like "Istvian Saying" to show that it isn't attributed to any one person. In addition, the idea of a child going "ooh, look, shiny thing" really doesn't seem to fit with what we know of Tarkir. It's the kind of thing where it probably needs rethinking or a total overhaul.
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Next up is this. Give it a favorite and / or make a constructive comment about it, then post up to two cards of your own.
For anybody with no idea what the heck I'm talking about, it's a reply to some feedback on one of my cards. The current card requiring feedback is Illcic, Artful Illusionist, and you can find it in a comment a little way above this one.
My card:
Here's my latest attempt. I'm determined to get one, just one, without wording issue. lol
Edit: ironically, I overlooked a spacing issue. Since fixed. Corrected version below.
Edit 2: Fixed the missing "until end of turn"
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/slaadi-lookout-2
"{2}: Slaadi Lookout gains reach until end of turn. Activate this ability only during your opponent's combat phase."
Power-wise, it isn't all that great, mostly because it is an uncommon. I would either make it a common or lower the cost down by 1. Also, it should probably be red and green, because reach isn't a common mechanic in red or black, and there are no black abilities on that card. Here's my card:
(The name is a bit off, it should probably be Lasnik Loin the Fearful)
I like it, but it seems insanely powerful for 2. There's a lot of stuff that replicates instants that could have you taking and extra turn without much effort at all the way this is worded. Maybe put the extra turn bit in as part of the Overload?
I don't have an original prepared at the moment, so if it's okay, I'll post an older one.
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/howls-moving-castle-5
"Howls Moving Castle becomes a 6/6 colorless Castle creature with trample and haste until end of turn."
Here's my probably incorrectly worded card: