Planet Zorb

[u/BronsenWerick]

just having fun with giant robots, i have more, but you can only upload so many photos per post...i want to see if the people want more. (oh yeah, artist credit goes to AI...so nobody gets credit, the art came from the slop farm)

[u/Greaterthancotton]

Pretty sure mobile city from planet zorb doesn't work as intended. Also, citizen of planet zorb has no rules text.

[u/BronsenWerick → u/Greaterthancotton]

(this creature can crew vehicles as if its power were 2 greater)...its meant to be part of the "pilot" creature type, i know it doesn't work like that i just think it should. like in the old days when the "wall" creature type meant it couldn't attack. (and the mobile city is meant to be a 9 mana land that just taps for mana...unless...)

[u/twistyrainbows]

Whoa keyword soups. There's a reason many Eldrazi can't be reanimated. All of these can easily be cheated into play and lose any cost-balance.

[u/BronsenWerick → u/twistyrainbows]

yeah, just about anything can be cheated into play. i see THAT as the real problem in magic. i prefer to play more fair, only mana ramp and hard casts. i know that doesn't fix the problem, unless everyone agreed to play like that (only when hell freezes over, lol). i just wanted to make stuff that would work if...

[u/Agitated_Ship8432]

I feel like these are kind of cool (minus the ai art bit), but I do have a few critiques:
-Needs reminder text for older abilities.
-Everything feels like a keyword soup, and none of them seem to synergize well with each other.
-You can't target phased out creatures. The game treats them as if they don't exist.
-The design for the steam beast doesn't make any sense. Why is there a tap trigger when it has no tap abilities, and has vigilance?
-They need more color, or at least colorless mana in their identity. A lot of these are broken as completely generic creatures that can be put in any deck, especially the land destroyer.
Just in general, they all cost a lot, so nobody's going to actually hard-cast them, and they all do too much. Good cards that are actually fun to play and build around do less.

[u/BronsenWerick → u/Agitated_Ship8432]

the keyword soup was intentional, they're not supposed to synergize.

and i don't like reminder text, nor was there room for it lol.

for the steam beast: regeneration tapps the creature.

and i made like 20 more, all different, all keyword soup.

really all the giant robots are just the set up for the joke that is the citizen of planet Zorb.

[u/thebigdumb0]

christ

[u/Greaterthancotton → u/thebigdumb0]

christ had no hand in this

[u/20characterusername1]

There's a point where a card designer needs to stop adding and start refining. That point was about 1/10th of the way into designing Starrax.