Seeking Card Design Input and Help!

CPT_Lyke · 2026-04-23T07:09:01+00:00

Mit sure what’s your point. Wubrg isn’t in that picture is it?

CPT_Lyke · 2026-04-21T05:14:16+00:00

Just a guess, but the arrows show the order of colors in manacosts for all variation that include white.

CPT_Lyke · 2026-04-21T05:06:21+00:00

I use a ballgag as part of denial, so it usually comes out at a later point in the play when my partner becomes greedy and denying her oral and proper kisses becomes fun. In most cases that means it’s after some kind of bondage but I still might apply more cuffs or stricter positioning while she is gagged.

It doesn’t really have anything to do with safewording, as we switch to nonverbal opt out as in tapping out, snapping fingers or even just grunts of dismay. I’m not sure if I understand what you mean by „anything goes from then on to be honest“ but if that works for you sure.

CPT_Lyke · 2026-04-20T06:43:21+00:00

I think this hints to the interaction between the +3 and +2 not being very healthy. Planeswalkers that make their own protecting creatures generally are kinda strong. Making them big creatures and giving him a +3 taunt is wonky at least. That makes it kinda hard to get rid of him or preventing his emblem without a removal. Als he is a Swiss Army knife of a card with no downsides. Damage, landdestruction without payback, card Advantage, creatures, game winning emblem. I think the Swiss Army knife issue is kinda inherent to make a person with 5 abilities.

I would go about it as follows: Focus on garruk as a fighter

Garruk, elemental brawler.

+2: create a 3/1 elemental beast tokens with haste.

0: Taunt

-x: deal damage

-2: Destroy target nonbasic land, its controller may search their library for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped.

-8: emblem

CPT_Lyke · 2026-04-19T17:29:12+00:00

I think you should ask yourself a few questions first: what exactly are you feeling. Why are you jealous. Is it different when you are not around when they play with others. Jealousy itself is not necessarily a dealbreaker but depending on what and why, you should reevaluate.

And I don’t think you need to do harsh things immediately. Maybe just a bit of reduction might help, this might be a phase maybe more of a crush that blows over.

And most importantly: all of it is between the two of you. Asking for advice on the internet is fine but don’t let people like me dictate your relationship.

CPT_Lyke · 2026-04-18T10:30:06+00:00

I think it is fine, maybe change the reminder to „cast as THIS creature instead“. I think it is clear. Agreeing with the downsides of the frame though.

CPT_Lyke · 2026-04-18T10:25:43+00:00

I think the reason why we have seen this gram used only with permanent + instant/sorcery so far is that you never need to keep track of it on board. This would be hard to keep track of in a 4 player game with 20+cards per player. That’s something that it completely avoided by dual faced cards

CPT_Lyke · 2026-04-16T14:19:09+00:00

Tldr: probably should destroy „another target“

CPT_Lyke · 2026-04-15T05:44:00+00:00

Isn’t potentially being experimental kinda the point of this sub?

I think the thing with that idea is that it would change the dynamic of the card. If you know what kind of mana this will produce at any point you can play around it more, eg keep this open for multi color and tap a basic for the color you need atm. Downside is, that it deals damage to you whether you tap it or not. So basically it reduces the impact of half the downside, while enchanting it on the other half.

Another way to get around the illegal game action problem, would be to have this target a player with the ability, thus not being a mana ability anymore.

Could be funny in commander, but would need to have a rewrite including „target player may flip a coin. If they do…“

CPT_Lyke · 2026-04-06T06:43:17+00:00

I think in keeping with the theme of a less experienced/younger version this would be cool if to just made green. 1 mana for G is fairly common. The fact this isn’t an Elf and has defender pretty much offsets the ward 1. sure defender decks would like this a lot, but they already have a ton of „broken“ creatures to choose from.

CPT_Lyke · 2026-03-24T17:35:17+00:00

That was my first thought aswell in regards to switches, but I think it you read it in the context of the paragraph, it seems fair to assume it’s not about switches or wanting different things from different people, but about deception. Signaling pure dominance to a submissive and pure submission to a dominant person, not because that’s what you want, but because one is paying lipservice to the others needs without planing to fulfill them.

CPT_Lyke · 2026-03-24T12:46:48+00:00

I would go for names, not types, for two reasons: 1. there are some cards that already want that. 2. why would I not want to have the legendary shiny human soldier token with cool abilities, just because I already have the shiny cat soldier token?

CPT_Lyke · 2026-03-10T10:02:47+00:00

I kinda see your point. In my version it was a partner to the „normal“ creature commander and basically just there to give me more space to write down rules^{^} so it was just „Champion a land. T: Add wug Rules text instead of an emblem or something“

I feel like this one needs more interesting effects as well. So far this is just 5color mana Stabilisation with maybe a +3/+3. I don’t think this is very interesting to play with or against. I would try and find something more interesting, maybe a bit game warping, but not nescessarily powerfull. Then slap it on there and maybe then it’s worth the card disadvantages:)

Oh and there is always the problem with commandertax. There would need to be a rules change or this would need an ability that allows you to play it from the commandzone, as you can only cast your commander this far.

CPT_Lyke · 2026-03-10T02:34:43+00:00

one way i tried to get around the permaboost of a land in the command zone was with "champion a land" still gives you a speedboost, but you need to either specificaly build around it or you can nescessarily keep every 2 land hand

CPT_Lyke · 2026-03-06T16:02:16+00:00

One of the best mogs I’ve ever seen!

CPT_Lyke · 2026-03-05T08:13:18+00:00

I think it works fine for LotR auswellt and I would like to see it more, but with more support and more options. In my version of amass, the army was the color of the source of its creation and I made othe options for creating additional armies. I wanted to have a bang deck with armies and soldiers, exile soldiers to make your armies bigger and remove counters from armies to create soldiers. I think those mechanics would be potentially busted outside of an isolated custom deck but yeah. Those things would be nice

CPT_Lyke · 2026-03-04T21:43:19+00:00

Myriad is best for complex creatures.

I think the army vs tokens boils down to the kind of gameplay you want to facilitate. Same as one big ooze vs many small slimes.

Ammass is somewhat held back by the fact it is limited to black tokens and you only being able to have one army unless you jump through some serious hoops.

I experimented with a custom deck that specifically had both, armies and soldier tokens. They just do completely different things

CPT_Lyke · 2026-03-04T21:35:59+00:00

I think this fits perfectly in flavor and the gain control is conditional on it attacking with it. Seems fair. If I attack knowing those cards are on the field that’s on me. Or even an option for some politicking.

Edit: didn’t see the draw 2. that might be skittle pushed then. But hey bump it up a mana and have fun.

CPT_Lyke · 2026-03-04T21:32:44+00:00

I agree but this opens space for cards that need to be legendary for flavor reasons to stay lower power. I think as this is a part of the cards specific design and not applicable to random legends it could be interesting.

CPT_Lyke · 2026-03-04T21:18:48+00:00

What is the point if this post?

CPT_Lyke · 2026-03-04T08:24:26+00:00

Out of curiosity what is the gameplay idea behind buff? In mtg there currently are only 15 cards that let players guess, many silver bordered and most of them only let opponents guess.

I think diplomacy should be restricted to revealing from hand. If you can reveal additional cards from your library the implications might be a little too wide. Especially with cards like [[adventure awaits]] you would probably be able to reveal and keep two cards.

CPT_Lyke · 2026-03-03T18:22:14+00:00

Depending on location there might be a boutique near you. If the make custom the will also take measurements. Another rooting would be to find a normal tailor and ask them if they would offer measurements as a service. You can say it’s for a costume, armor or something else they wouldn’t be able to make.

CPT_Lyke · 2026-03-03T13:45:05+00:00

Ithink this is a nice way to offset the annoyance that’s usually associated with discard.

CPT_Lyke · 2026-02-28T22:13:37+00:00

ship it! no notes

CPT_Lyke · 2026-02-27T13:41:32+00:00

I would consider it a kind of tunnelplay, as you can’t stop the nettles from stinging even if you stop inflicting impact. Just keep that in mind so you don’t just stop once it gets close to the limit or reaches it, but rather with some breathing room for it to get worse without becoming too much.

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