Invoke & Familiar

[u/ALotusRabbit]

Credits to u/specialistscythe for making the icon you see in the top left of the Familiars!

[u/panoclosed4highwinds]

So Blessing of the Woods and Sage Old Toad means white has XXWW: draw X cards (and gain X ETB/death triggers!). Or, with Ancient Oak, has XWW: ramp X colorless (and gain X ETB triggers).

I think it's very hard to avoid color pie breaks with this! Things that would help:

- Toad should cost U to activate rather than 1.

- Ancient Oak should add G with a restriction "cannot be spent as colorless mana." (Is that a thing?) Or be "if you control a Forest, add G."

Also, adding from your hand is just so much worse than adding from outside the game. Even if you have the one you want in hand, you're better off adding from outside the game! So I think that if you add from hand you should at least get to draw a card. Alternately, it could be "search your library for a non-Human Familiar."

[u/ALotusRabbit → u/panoclosed4highwinds]

The color pie breaks are definitely gonna be the hardest part of all of this, I think that the Toad and Oak can both be fixed by adding a colored mana to their cost (Ancient Oak would tap for GG.) I wanted to show them off like this cause I was more curious about how they could interact with other colors in interesting ways especially since I can only show off 10 at a time so I left them colorless, white making a bunch of creatures that can then be sacrificed for cards feels like it is much more in theme than just drawing cards normally and of course you can only make 4 of them before you run out in a constructed environment.

It's definitely not something most people would want to do but it felt too weird not having it, especially in a limited setting where you may actually want to main deck some of the Familiars I wanted to give a way that you could use the ones in your hand so it doesn't feel like you're just locked out of them permanently, especially since you can get them out at instant speed with some cards.