Edit: here's the suggestion in card form. I'm not sure if -X is ok for 0 mana, but he's pretty fragile, so it's probably fine.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Card of the Day - Marduk the Merciless
Edit: here's the suggestion in card form. I'm not sure if -X is ok for 0 mana, but he's pretty fragile, so it's probably fine.
his second ability should be -x. the colorless control is an extremely limited ability against most decks, and without use of that all he can ever be is an easily destroyable land
ReplyDeleteI see your point, but I don't want him to be too powerful for the 0 cost. Sometimes he just a colorless lotus petal, but he can be so much more.
Deletemaybe you could stretch the planeswalker bounds and make all his abilities take away loyalty counters (at activation). tack a -1 on his first ability and he can only grow on certain turns. he'd still effective as a single mana boost early on, but there'd be a big incentive to play him later when your defenses are set up and you can actually cast enough spells to have him grow
Deletethen the minus -x wouldn't be unreasonable at all. it would require finesse to execute properly but still be super useful against non-artifact heavy decks
DeleteThe problem with making the first ability a -1 is that he would die before you could put other counters on him. I like that he's almost "just" a fragile mana source for 0. It puts him in a unique position to be played as such.
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