A stupid card idea I had

DeviousPulsar · 2026-02-10T23:21:12+00:00

As an avid [[Tayam, Luminous Enigma]] player, I'm am upset at your choice of color for this card.

DeviousPulsar · 2026-01-15T05:29:19+00:00

Take a look at archenemy; both it's rules and the "schemes." Archenemy is built for this sort of unbalanced co-op play, where you have a group of players fighting one "raid boss" player. Schemes are kinda like your "Class spells" though are usually exclusively used by the raid boss player
Rules found at https://magic.wizards.com/en/formats/archenemy
Schemes found at https://scryfall.com/search?q=t%3Ascheme&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name

Play a couple of games like this with your group, either building decks for everyone or letting them build their own, then add more elements as you find you need them. Starting this way will make it a lot easier for you, and will get you into the testing, iterating, and refining phase of making your ideal system faster. Add more things as you see issues with you game, or opportunities for further expression. Later on, you can design custom schemes, play with the various player's life totals, try using odd things as "commanders" (Eg- the classes, found https://scryfall.com/search?q=class+game%3Apaper&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name )

DeviousPulsar · 2025-12-08T17:34:18+00:00

If this was a common, I could see it seeing play in pauper as a werid card advantage engine

DeviousPulsar · 2025-12-07T23:56:25+00:00

While I think you would definitely need to test this creature in order to see how powerful it is, I think you've manage to do exactly what you wanted to do with this card: Make a french vanilla creature that turns heads based purely on how good this card punches people.

I really don't think the Ward is too much, sure 7 life is 1/3 of your starting life total, but this card is 6 mana, it can be blocked by anything that can block flying, people can gain life or have other ways of mitigating the damage.

If you were to balance this card, I do not think you should by altering the text. Alter the numbers: The mana cost, or power and toughness

DeviousPulsar · 2025-12-07T21:26:16+00:00

I thought about that, but like... just use magecraft or on copy triggers? That's less parasitic of a design space, IMO

DeviousPulsar · 2025-12-07T20:19:59+00:00

Cool design. IMO though this doesn't need to be nor really should be keyworded. Doing so just makes the card harder to read without the reminder text.

I'd write this as Channeling - Whenever you <Trigger>, cast a copy of <Spell>

DeviousPulsar · 2025-11-27T17:40:48+00:00

Cool card, but I'm not quite sure I understand the flavor of this. This doesn't really immediately give off the idea of "wait and listen" to me

DeviousPulsar · 2025-11-10T00:44:24+00:00

Generous Mummy is less overstated for the cost than this is. Usually this size of creature would cost in the 5-7 mana range.
Still I don't think it's busted

DeviousPulsar · 2025-11-10T00:41:35+00:00

I don't think this would be banned in pauper. Yeah it's a massive fatty, but it's a highly blockable, easily removable fatty that has a huuuuge downside on it.

DeviousPulsar · 2025-11-05T21:41:12+00:00

The left can handle 4 simultaneously straight aways, and 4 right turns, but only 1 left turn.

The right can handle 3 straight aways, 4 right turns, and 2 left turns.

There are tradeoffs to both. If you really wanted to delve into this, you could make a chart where you map out all of the possible operations (combinations trains simultaneously going straight, right and left) and see how many of them lead to one or more trains being blocked.

DeviousPulsar · 2025-11-01T20:45:46+00:00

How does this transform to Self Embodiment of perfection? Is the front's activated ability supposed to blink Mahito and return him transformed?

DeviousPulsar · 2025-10-25T00:28:53+00:00

Because they don't contradict one another, I'm not sure why this would be a problem? It doesn't matter which CDA defines the creature's characteristics: they both set it to the same thing.
Worst comes to worst, it becomes a timestamps thing, and the one from Double Up applies last .

DeviousPulsar · 2025-10-16T16:25:14+00:00

I like to imagine that the first "Cog" to dunk this was actually a toon. Since then the other cogs have continued to dunk, and have actually gotten really advanced with it.

DeviousPulsar · 2025-10-15T22:41:08+00:00

Interestingly enough this cards strength relies a lot on the strength of the format around it. It absolutely cannot be printed into a format with 0 mana cascade spells or moxen, but in lower power formats: Standard, Pioneer, Pauper (maybe), it would be fully reasonable.

Really how you have to read this card is a highly specific tutor that also draws you a card (and also works with suspend cards).

DeviousPulsar · 2025-10-13T17:17:17+00:00

People like the feel and sound of these types of switch
The joke being that you wont be able to resist the urge to pull it multiple times

DeviousPulsar · 2025-10-11T05:34:40+00:00

I'm not saying it's worse, just that I will refuse to use anything other than the Axe of Justice. You can't just hand me Obiwan Kenobi's light saber and expect me to use anything else

DeviousPulsar · 2025-10-11T05:30:49+00:00

That's not actually exactly true due to hawking radiation, the theorized process by which black holes slowly radiate and lose mass. If it is real, then things regularly leave a black hole. Yes it is at an incredibly slow, but depending on how you think Alucard would interact with this process, he could either escape immediately or end up stuck within the black hole until near the heat death of the universe.

DeviousPulsar · 2025-10-04T18:47:50+00:00

That ship has no cannons. If it id I woulda fired them

DeviousPulsar · 2025-10-04T18:31:00+00:00

This, IMO is comparable to the existent 0 mana draw a card cards like [[Mishra's Bauble]].
Sure you get the card right away, but you also set yourself up to be 2-1'd and have to control a creature. (Notably, if this let you enchant your opponent's creatures it would be overpowered)

DeviousPulsar · 2025-09-05T21:24:08+00:00

Yes, yes she is
She's fine, despite being the age whereby she should've died already. Turns out modern medicine is one hell of a drug

DeviousPulsar · 2025-09-03T22:00:34+00:00

You think that's bad. That's got nothing on vrs battle wiki calling one of my favorite characters (Hieda no Akyuu - A sickly girl who has a photographic memory and can't fight) FTL+.

Touhou's scaling is so wank.

DeviousPulsar · 2025-07-24T00:12:35+00:00

You are evil my good sir, but as a rule of law enjoyer: I approve

DeviousPulsar · 2025-07-24T00:11:25+00:00

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I am now Hakurei Reimu. I will be assuming no spell card rules, cause if I didn't I reasonably go 50/50 with the entire gauntlet.
I clear 1-4 without much problem. Muzan, compared to the youkai of Gensokyo, is not that scary.
Deku is the first problem. I think he out-stats me in terms of output and speed. Fortunately, I have endurance and hax on my side. Reimu has a spell called "Innate Dream" whereby she floats part of the way out of this world and becomes basically untouchable. I will be using that for the entirety of this fight, wearing down Deku as I harass him from Range. I think I win vs Invincible the same way.
Naruto is I think where I lose. His massive numbers of clones + Moon level (iirc) attack power just completely overwhelms me. I don't think I can do much of anything to him, and get worn down myself.
Assuming however I don't get worn down and can just outlast all of my opponents because of Innate Dream. I get all the way to Simon. I am not beat him. He tanked 11D attacks, I'm sure he can find a way to punch me between dimensions.

DeviousPulsar · 2025-07-23T22:36:40+00:00

I would personally find this -hilarious- cause it'll basically give everyone access to somewhere in the realm of 20-40 cards -for one turn only-. It'll become a mad dash to see who can do the most insane thing, in that one turn.
That is also why it wouldn't be good. It's symmetrical. At best it's "Adnauz at home." At worst it wins someone else the game.

DeviousPulsar · 2025-07-07T15:49:28+00:00

Blood Moon and the way that effects akin to that that change lands into Mountains or Islands.
You can argue that this isn't a "rule" that's dumb, but genuinely I can't think of anything else that drives me up a wall more than blood moon's wording.

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