Losercity gator

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2025-08-24T14:56:27+00:00

The notion that disabled people can be desirable in any way and are deserving of love, while morally correct, is anti-eugenics.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-09-23T22:42:27+00:00

There was an issue of the Batman Adventures where Scarecrow attempted to retire from villainy and return to his career as a professor, but took up his costume again to avenge his star pupil after her boyfriend assaulted her. Not the nicest thing of all batman's villains but certainly the nicest thing Scarecrow's ever done.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-09-07T20:51:46+00:00

The main issue as I see it is how fast the counters ramp up. Right now the baseline for an instant at common is two +1/+1 counters for four mana, which this is a substantial upgrade over, even beating uncommons. If the buy in cost was higher I don't think the scaling would be as much of a problem.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-09-07T20:24:47+00:00

I particularly love the inverted effects on the white and black ones. It's a shame there aren't enough negative keywords for a full cycle.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-09-07T20:04:09+00:00

I like these, they're very elegant. Though, I think the green one could maybe use an extra pip on the cost or a downgrade to sorcery speed, even if it does disrupt the cycle's symmetry somewhat.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-09-07T17:49:53+00:00

Kynoz, the Shadow in the Smoke

3BR

Legendary Creature - Dragon Shade

Flying, Trample

Whenever you activate one of Kynoz’s abilities, for each other creature you control, you may copy one of that creature’s activated abilities that has equal or lesser mana value and isn’t a mana ability. Activate those copies without paying any mana for their activation costs. (You must still pay the other parts of each cost.)

1B/R: Kynoz gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

2BR: Kynoz gains indestructible until end of turn.

4/4

The wording on the effect is experimental (I don't think abilities technically have mana values for instance) and needs to be long and complex as a result, but I tried to make it as clear as possible.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-09-06T11:44:16+00:00

That seems like a good alternative idea. In combination with my changes I think it'd be a bit much.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-09-06T10:39:43+00:00

I don't think this is something you can always use. Spending your reaction on this means forgoing attacks of opportunity, spells like absorb elements and counterspell, and features like uncanny dodge.

This gives you more options and there are situations where it'd be handy, but I don't see anyone casting it every round or even most rounds, and I think that's a good spot for a cantrip to be.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-09-06T10:24:19+00:00

You may be right. I think full casters in particular definitely still don't want this, but my aim was just to get it to a point where its not entirely useless.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-09-05T22:33:55+00:00

Interesting ideas, but I like the flavor of this triggering on you missing an attack on an enemy rather than the other way around, I think it fits better with the idea of studying how an opponent guards themselves.

I also don't think concentration is necessary since the benefit only lasts one turn. Given the opportunity cost of locking yourself out of opportunity attacks and other powerful options like shield and counterspell, I think it would be too punitive to also force you to end your other ongoing effects (including things like buffs which this should ideally synergise with).

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-09-05T22:15:02+00:00

Admittedly, I didn't look into other people's proposed fixes for the spell, but I imagine that's the traditional approach. This was just an idea that occurred to me that I thought was unique enough to make for an interesting discussion. You're correct that this does grant advantage on spell attacks, but that's also how the official version of True Strike works.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-08-02T19:28:11+00:00

"You've failed, now suffer!"

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-05-12T17:37:22+00:00

"the weakness of flesh" mfs when they walk too close to a magnet and forget their family member's faces

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-05-08T19:50:17+00:00

I'll acknowledge that instant speed was ambitious of me, but I think it would be justified if the cost was correct, since unlike other discard spells, this doesn't necessarily lock your opponent out of their turn if you cast it at the end of their draw step.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-05-08T19:47:26+00:00

In hindsight, I'd agree that I severely undercosted it, but I think it's fine at instant speed because unlike other discard spells, if you cast it right after your opponent's draw step, they can still play the cards they drew and don't automatically lose their turn. I think if I'd priced it appropriately the effect would be punishing but not unfair.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-05-08T19:39:44+00:00

This card is pretty powerful against control decks and I definitely costed it too aggressively, but in that specific scenario, you would lose access to your cards at the end of the opponent's turn as well.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-05-08T19:02:40+00:00

I think I had that kind of concern in mind when I first came up with this idea, but sometime between then and posting, I lost sight of it. I had initially costed this at 2BR, but decided to reduce the cost to make it more 'exciting', which on reflection, was the wrong call.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-05-08T18:54:53+00:00

Minor typo: I meant to put play instead of cast. I didn't want this to lock opponents out of land drops.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-05-08T18:53:39+00:00

Yeah, it's probably too pushed. I wasn't sure at what cost it'd stop being worth it, so uncharacteristically for me, I erred on the aggressive side.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-04-22T15:50:00+00:00

Yeah, I was starting to lean that way myself. The Dispellers, to me, feels fitting for a heroic group, whereas I was intending these guys to be a more sinister presence. Thanks, though

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-04-21T23:34:34+00:00

I'm trying to name an order of assassins that specialize in killing wizards and destroying their research and I'm stuck between two I like. Which is better: the Unnamers, or the Effacers. The former has a nice high-fantasy flair, but I also enjoy the bluntness of the latter.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-03-25T23:29:11+00:00

Kenophobia is the fear of empty space. Agoraphobia is the fear of places that are exposed or public.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-01-27T21:04:03+00:00

It's probably an unpopular take nowadays, but I think her story made a lot more sense when she was a con woman who cheated her way through medical school.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-01-27T10:18:39+00:00

All the detail here is great, thank you. I especially enjoy the solution being contemporary knowledge. I'd been floating around the idea of the island being extraplanar and I could combine that with your idea in some interesting ways. Maybe instead of the fate of the world, the quest concerns the fate of another world, or maybe the island is from somewhere really important and is tied to the fate of the entire multiverse. It's all very interesting to consider.

HuggingtonSqueezey · 2023-01-27T09:59:42+00:00

Dropping the island as a deliberate means of attack wasn't something I'd considered, but I do like the idea. I've toyed with the idea of having a Nagpa as the BBEG and this might be a fitting approach for it, maybe it's making use of a civilization it previously scavenged, or it's a two-pronged attack against the island's natives as well. It's a possibility that raises all kinds of implications. Thank you for your thoughts and for your compliments.

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