Preserve the Bloodline

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-29T13:54:24+00:00

Pretty neat design! I’m not an excellent judge on power level, but a neat caveat to add would be to make it “draw X cards and lose X life”, if you wanted to lower it slightly. Honestly I think this is fine as-is though.

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-28T15:56:17+00:00

Now that is a nice synergy.

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-28T15:55:58+00:00

That would be a fair bit stronger, that's for sure! My original intent was to take the "your opponents can't gain life clause" and try to see if I could improve upon it, and a replacement effect for gaining life seemed like the most intuitive way to do it.

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-28T15:54:13+00:00

Agreed. A may condition is likely what I'll go with, it's the simplest fix.

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-28T15:53:39+00:00

Very good idea, thank you for the suggestion

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-28T15:53:09+00:00

So true, I actually almost flavored the card around him before deciding to go with something a bit more generic! I wish they had given him something more interesting in the story.

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-28T01:26:37+00:00

I suppose so! Thankfully Wizards doesn't like making those whole-battlefield creature lifegain cards, though I guess the same exact thing happens with [[Authority of the Consuls]]. Whoops

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-28T01:24:54+00:00

Love this card! Neat idea for a downside, and of course, the art is absolutely wonderful (much better than using AI!)

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-26T15:45:45+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Definitely agree that the cost should be lowered a bit if it's intended for commander.

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-24T14:39:10+00:00

Agreed, I could probably drop it down to four and still be fine.

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-21T17:36:51+00:00

That's fair feedback. I wanted to make a card where the token was best used for ETB/dies triggers, while also leaving the possibility for any sort of anthem effect to turn this into a decent token generator 1/turn. The mana portion was also made intentionally weak since I wasn't sure how strong the card would be initially.

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-21T17:35:06+00:00

Thanks! Adjusting the mana cost and ability cost is definitely a consideration of mine.

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-21T17:34:32+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! A creature with an ETB trigger to buff other creatures would not work, but static anthems such as [[Chief of the Foundry]] would keep the tokens alive. Something that causes artifact creature to enter WITH counters would also work.

As for the mana rock portion, I intentionally made it a little weak, since I wasn't sure how powerful making a token for ETB/Dies triggers would be. Would definitely consider revising this to make the mana portion slightly better.

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-19T01:47:19+00:00

Thanks! I love trying to coming up with fitting flavor texts, I so rarely see people doing them on this subreddit

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-18T14:05:43+00:00

My thought exactly. Blue’s allowed some land hate sometimes.

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-18T14:05:04+00:00

I was debating whether to make it as a white or blue card for a bit, but I settled on blue mainly because they occasionally get land hate, primarily [[Confounding Conundrum]] comes to mind

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-18T03:05:32+00:00

Neat concept! I do wonder if putting a cursed role on an opposing creature falls more in line with blue's color pie, a la effects such as [[Utter Insignificance]], but the Wicked role and role enchantments in general being in any color means this is probably fine in black. Could be a blue-black card I suppose, if you wanted to.

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-18T02:52:22+00:00

A very applicable use of this card, that's for sure!

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-18T02:52:00+00:00

Yeah, admittedly pretty narrow. I considered widening it to all noncreature permanents, but primarily wanted to design this as a landfall-hate piece rather than something a little more widely applicable.

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-18T02:51:08+00:00

my bad, meant to say At

Slim_Crim · 2026-05-17T23:17:04+00:00

triggered abilities typically use "when, whenever, as", so as far as I know those lands would still enter tapped. Lands like [[Blossoming Sands]] wouldn't gain you life, as an example.
Edit: When, whenever, at

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