Great Tower Bat

Perhaps put the card on top of your library? Then it works as a free Portent enabler of sorts

Kieran Symington · 2012-05-26 16:30:41

Discarding a card to regen a 2/1 seems like it will never happen, so making it a 3/1 for 4

Simon O'Keeffe · 2012-05-28 16:56:38

Just had an epic Great Tower Bat fight with Simon with Great Tower Bats on both sides. I don't care what I'm drawing, I'm going to discard it in a bat-fight!

Thomas Baker · 2012-06-01 15:34:13

Yes that was pretty cool! Some nice tension on whether to be aggressive, defend, discard or not. All moot if I had just remembered to unearth my Geistflame zombie!

Simon O'Keeffe · 2012-06-01 17:15:00

Notes from testing: "AWESOME!" His vulnerability to one damage removal coupled with regen makes for great gameplay.

Thomas Baker · 2012-06-03 22:43:04

Do we still need the additional cost now this is at uncommon? I guess leave it for now and we will playtest it.

Simon O'Keeffe · 2012-06-10 11:49:58

I'd be tempted to lose the mana cost on regen, a card is pretty expensive already

Paul Hodgson · 2012-06-11 09:25:36

Since the mana cost is so pitiful and you're unlikely to be casting much if you want to regenerate him anyway it seems a bit pointless. It will look much better without it, and it even lets you build up Mindstorm for free!

Kieran Symington · 2012-06-11 09:55:28

aaand done

Simon O'Keeffe · 2012-06-11 10:01:54

this was totally sweet

Paul Hodgson · 2012-06-14 08:26:33

But was it too good? Pretty sure Jim described this as, "obnoxious".

Thomas Baker · 2012-06-14 10:20:18

It was a bit obnoxious, as late game you can hold back lands and essentially trade a land for their dude. Maybe lose flying?

Paul Hodgson · 2012-06-14 11:30:26

We could also make him a 2/1, or add a mana cost, or both. We can't make him a rare because the possibility of bat versus bat battle has to exist!

Thomas Baker · 2012-06-14 12:51:44

So we have a few options to fix this: 1. add a mana cost to the regen 2. make the cost discard 2 cards 3. change the p/t 4. introduce more answers through other cards

Simon O'Keeffe · 2012-06-14 14:13:52

Discard a card, pay 1 life or pay 2 life?

Thomas Baker · 2012-06-14 15:35:55

If you discard a land take 3 damage?

Kieran Symington · 2012-06-14 15:46:59

I think adding a life cost would be best. The AVR one is 4 life, so maybe 1 life and a card?

Paul Hodgson · 2012-06-14 16:05:06

In my limited experience 2 life is the least amount you can use because 1 life is basically negligible. But this is in addition to another real cost so maybe.

Thomas Baker · 2012-06-14 17:14:30

Try it like this?

Thomas Baker · 2012-06-14 17:33:08

OK that just reads terribly! Trying it with 1 life.

Thomas Baker · 2012-06-14 17:42:40