A potential key word to allow for some minor recursion. Not having a remove from game zone makes this a bit awkward, so we could either put on the bottom of the library or maybe into the sideboard?
Simon O'Keeffe · 2014-03-17 22:06:31
Benevolent Spirit
Retired 2014-04-10 11:12:27
YMTS 8 · C
- Mana cost
- 1W
- Type
- Creature - Spirit
- Rules
- Flying When ~ enters the battlefield, gain 2 life. Liminal 1W (If ~ is exiled you may cast it for its Liminal cost. If you do, put it on the bottom of your library after it resolves)
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 1
- Latest votes
- +0 / −0
Comments (6)
Hmm, a kind of backwards Evoke is pretty cool, and if they go into the library they can always be transfigured back out again. As a 1/1 this is almost unplayable though.
Kieran Symington · 2014-03-17 22:41:40
Would this just be better if exile = graveyard.
Thomas Baker · 2014-03-18 00:55:19
If exile=graveyard then this is basically Unearth right? What I was going for was a Flashback from Exile basically. The obvious problem is you cant then exile the card afterwards. So we have three options of where to put it: graveyard, library, sideboard. Graveyard leads to the most danger of repeated recursion, library has some cool interactions with Transfigure, and sideboad is pretty interesting but possibly an annoying memory issue, where you have to rebuild your deck after every game. If are having other sideboard interactions then that is not an issue.
Simon O'Keeffe · 2014-03-18 08:09:55
The graveyard is the face up, not-in-play zone that you can interact with. Exile is the face up, not-in-play zone that you can't interact with. If we mess with that distinction don't we basically just have two graveyards? Do we want two graveyards? You could have an Unearth variant that instead evokes to the bottom of your library and get all of the things that are interesting about this card, no? And the card is much easier to "turn on" and thus all the rules on it are more relevant more often. I may be drinking too much Maro Kool-Aid about Exile ... he hates anything coming back from it except when it has been used as a temporary zone for a particular card's effect.
Thomas Baker · 2014-03-19 17:53:54
You are probably right. It is lazy design to just rehash Exile as a second graveyard. We already have sideboard as a new zone, no need to add another. If that is the case then I think we just kill these Liminal cards, or maybe give them a single playtest first.
Simon O'Keeffe · 2014-03-19 19:37:15
Revision history (2)
| Date | Person | Name | Cost | Type | Rules |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-03-24 12:12:04 | Simon O'Keeffe | Benevolent Spirit | 1W | Creature - Spirit | Flying When ~ enters the battlefield, gain 2 life. Liminal 1W (If ~ is exiled you may cast it for its Liminal cost. If you do, put it on the bottom of your library after it resolves) |
| 2014-03-17 22:06:31 | Simon O'Keeffe | Benevolent Spirit | 1W | Creature - Spirit | When ~ enters the battlefield, gain 2 life. Liminal 1W (If ~ is exiled you may cast it for its Liminal cost. If you do, put it on the bottom of your library after it resolves) |