Portal Invader

Spells still aren't actually a thing. Although the two mechanics this colour combination has are Resound and Twin which don't exactly have much in common!

Kieran Symington · 2014-05-26 17:12:19

It's not a wedge theme but these two colors still do have the most spells.

Thomas Baker · 2014-05-26 18:03:03

I think we really need this kind of thing. Whilst this guy isn't really build around me, as we don't have a lot of low mana cantrips, It does at least offer a non-wedge mechanic option. I would actually be tempted to push this guy a bit harder. Nivix Cyclops was probably better than this and was a common.

Simon O'Keeffe · 2014-05-26 19:06:10

The most fun ability to give these cards is first strike because it really changes combat. It is primary in R. There are loads of options for numbers here both in mana cost and bonus.

Thomas Baker · 2014-05-26 20:32:20

If it were uncommon i'd suggest giving it W : first strike until EOT, at common I'm not too sure

Paul Hodgson · 2014-05-26 20:47:13

Whilst I do love a good 'alternate strategy' card - and I definitely don't want us to end up with one deck only per wedge - doesn't this sort of trick people into thinking spells are a thing when really they aren't? We would need to seed more enablers to make a deck based around these guys work, and would that not deviate from our actual themes?

Kieran Symington · 2014-05-26 20:49:02

He's playable for his base stats, though? And every once in a blue moon he's a 6/3. Seems ok? I'm not super excited by him but I do like him and we do have to make a UR common creature according to our skeleton. Is there a better alternative?

Thomas Baker · 2014-05-26 21:25:14

As-fan of tricolored cards (including wedge lands and automatons) is currently 3 (plus some rares). As-fan of cares-about-spells cards is 1/10th-1/5th (1-2 commons). I don't think that creates much risk there?

Thomas Baker · 2014-05-26 21:29:04