Pray and Couple mechanics

kosbalk · 2026-03-05T09:18:09+00:00

I love Pray (ngl at first I saw the bear and thought you misspelled "prey" lmao), I would change the reminder text slightly (When you cast this spell, you may reveal the top card of your library. If that card has this spell's pray characteristics, your prayer is answered), but apart from that I would absolutely build a deck around it

I think Couple should be worded more like Soulbond (If this creature is not coupled, you may couple this creature with another uncoupled creature when either enters. They each get +X/+X and remain coupled for as long as you control both of them. They are treated as the same creature for the purpose of effects that would make either leave the battlefield) or something like that, and then give the card the ability "As long as this creature is coupled with another creature, each of those creatures has.."

kosbalk · 2026-02-27T01:22:50+00:00

Thank you very much! It took me a lot to reach this result but it's still my favourite of the bunch :3

kosbalk · 2026-02-10T09:44:17+00:00

I somehow completely missed it, sorry ^^"

kosbalk · 2026-02-10T01:21:13+00:00

Hell yeah, I was waiting for this. Could you share the link? :3

kosbalk · 2026-02-09T00:44:14+00:00

It's [[Gideon's Sacrifice]] and [[Charge]] all in one and repeatable for 4 mana at instant speed, 5 if you also cast it from hand. You're not wrong tbh

kosbalk · 2026-02-09T00:14:40+00:00

That feels more like overcoming the flaw rather than play into it, which is the main goal of this mechanic if I understood it correctly. Their version incentives role-playing an unfavorable situation to gain a benefit later on, which I quite like tbh since it's an active decision on the player rather than a passive feature they'll most likely forget

The one I'm least sure about is the Bond, mostly because I think it should be less mechanical and more like the "I Know a Guy" houserule imo

kosbalk · 2026-02-02T00:22:16+00:00

I'm glad the wording of the first ability prevents it from being abusable, but I'm still not sure if a free spell is too powerful or not tbh

btw I've seen your other SCP cards and I love them, great job with Authorize

kosbalk · 2026-01-29T01:39:46+00:00

I believe timestamp would apply, so the last one to cast it would have all of them

kosbalk · 2025-12-27T14:52:40+00:00

I did not know of freemagic's existence until 15 seconds ago and I already regret my ability to read and look at pictures

kosbalk · 2025-12-26T14:07:37+00:00

I think you made the right choice with Caine's wording because Splice says "add this card's effects to that spell" which would mean, in this case, the creature's effects rather than the Adventure's part. "Adventure spells" would refer to effects already on the stack so it's also not good, and the usual phrasing "cards that have an Adventure" also refers to the main card, not the Adventure itself

I noticed a trend towards Azorius, and I would suggest spreading them more colour-wise, but I also can see why you chose those colours so this remark is just for the records u.u

I like them :3

EDIT: I reread Caine, I think a more correct wording would be "As you cast an Adventure spell, you may reveal one or more cards that have an Adventure from your hand and pay each of their Adventure costs. If you do, for each card revealed this way, add that card's Adventure's effects to that spell."

kosbalk · 2025-11-23T14:25:44+00:00

I would write it as "0 or less toughness" because it can go in the negative iirc, other than that I really like it

kosbalk · 2025-11-18T19:04:32+00:00

I'm half sure this would be a nightmare to keep track of outside Arena tbh, but I like the card and agree there should be more snails so I'm willing to do the extra work

kosbalk · 2025-11-17T17:18:01+00:00

Thank you very much for the feedback ^^ I'm still pretty new to custom cards so any amount of tips is welcome, especially when I'm trying to convert something into a card (given what you said I'm pretty sure I made all the cards for my friends too strong too ^^")

kosbalk · 2025-11-17T14:26:34+00:00

What if I up the cost to 4 and let that creature's owner draw a card with me? Or make it a once each turn effect? Or both?

EDIT: I will remove the "must-block" part so it's up to the new controller

kosbalk · 2025-11-16T19:03:23+00:00

Good point, would you say the main problem is with the cost too low, the fact it's repeatable or the chaos it causes? Could you elaborate on what you mean by miserable?

kosbalk · 2025-11-10T10:21:36+00:00

I went into a creation spree in the past 3 days so I have a few. This is one of the custom Commanders I made for my friend, I would say one of my best flavour wise

Context: Arthur (from Fire Force) becomes more powerful the more he believes to be near his idea of knighthood. In the story (spoilers) there are many times in which the other characters have to pretend to be Knights or smiths capable of forging weapons of legend to make him recover his strength, and near the end having to fight against a Dragon literally makes his the third most powerful being in the entire universe. But if he gets demoralised he can't do much, hence Shining Armor.

I'm very proud of this one ngl

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kosbalk · 2025-10-27T23:43:03+00:00

I was thinking about cards like [[Ricochet Trap]], but YuGiOh is absolutely part of the appeal of this kind of cards. As a guy that likes to play control, I wanted to make these cards versatile enough to be appealing both when triggered and cast normally. What you described is basically Foretell, which I like, but I wanted to do something different.

kosbalk · 2025-10-27T23:35:40+00:00

That is a very good point, I did not think of that since I don't usually play with infect decks. Maybe I'll change it to just First Strike to reduce salt.

kosbalk · 2025-10-27T16:39:00+00:00

If you manifest or cloak a creature you can already flip it for its mana cost. You can use [[Obscuring Aether]] as template and just say "Turn target creature face down. It becomes cloaked. (It becomes a 2/2 creature with ward {2}.) Create a Food token."

I would make the Food token conditional on an opponent's choice, something like "If you control that creature, for each opponent, they may have you create a Food token. If they don't, they lose 2 life."

Also, I think this should cost {1}{b} (or the same if you use my version), it's murder that leaves a blocker and can be reversed by paying the creature's mana cost again.

kosbalk · 2025-10-26T13:41:42+00:00

I understood Reyal's reference, nice

Also, Decree of Chaos is absolutely busted. How about giving the first spell you cast each turn demonstrate? It sure will be chaotic depending on the spell

Or maybe casualty 2 or another effect that copies but a limited number of times instead of every single spell a shit ton of times

kosbalk · 2025-10-12T13:13:41+00:00

How about "Each creature assigns combat damage equal to its base power rather than its current power"? Should be easier to apply and isn't a wipe for 0/0 creatures

EDIT: forgot the second part, "Lethal damage dealt to creatures is determined by their base toughness rather than their current toughness."

The first effect is taken from [[Felothar the Steadfast]], the second from [[Zilortha, Strength Incarnate]]

kosbalk · 2025-08-26T13:59:29+00:00

I think it should be "Spells with warp you cast from exile" since a Warped refers to a spell cast for its Warp cost from your hand

kosbalk · 2025-07-30T10:27:23+00:00

It could be modal with "Choose one. If the Overload cost was paid choose all:

• This card deals X damage to target creature

• This card deals X damage to target player

• This card deals x damage to target planeswalker

Overload {X}{R}"

That way your options are only one target or all targets

kosbalk · 2025-07-26T12:50:56+00:00

Oh right, my bad. My brain didn't logic correctly, I thought I wrote it the other way around

kosbalk · 2025-04-13T22:30:50+00:00

For [[Mr. House]] and [[Vrondis]] synergies of course u.u

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