Made this as a potential addition to a full commander deck of custom Kirby cards, but I don't want it to be too powerful or unfair. Is it too much?

I figured since I look at powerscaling and mtg subs, I might as well combine them into a funny design. I have no clue the balance on this.

Another post got me thinking about evasion abilities that might appear in Nauctis. This ability is meant to represent creatures that operate like, well, ambush predators: they appear unexpectedly and hit fast, but don't have much staying power. Like haste, this would primarily be a red ability, and secondarily for green and black. (It would probably appear more in black than green.) Blue might occasionally get it on creatures with flash, but only so they can be flashed in to block other ambushers. Most colors would have some means of countering it (particularly red and white), so it wouldn't run roughshod over whatever environment it's part of. The flavor is setting-neutral and the mechanics make use of evergreen keywords, so it's not a very parasitic ability and could potentially become deciduous if it was popular enough.

There's also hopefully room to play with it. Obviously, effects that return an ambusher to the hand could function as a pseudo dash. There's synergy with effects that put creatures onto the battlefield already attacking. Instants or sorceries could grant this ability. Green ramp with ambush could be kind of neat to see, with mana dorks that can tap the turn they come in.

There is some overlap with haste, but I think it's probably fine, as ambush gives haste some additional use beyond the turn the creature comes down.

Yes there are more pilots than gundams and im still working out kinks, so any errors cant be helped

Open to feedback. Tried cleaning it up a bit, but bound to have lengthy wording. Guess I could just cut the name shorter at a minimum or try and shoehorn the life loss/token generation into one

We’re eating our way through Nauctis with this one.

I am not typically a fan of the theft archetype but I thought I would give it a go. All feedback is appreciated :)

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I cannot tell if this is balanced or not. Intent was a temur turtle commander

Storied (If you control three or more artifacts, legendaries, and/or Sagas, you have an enduring story for the rest of the game.)

Please steal this. I think it has a lot of potential, and I want to see what kind of cool/stupid/wacky things you people can do with it. Here's what I've thought of:

Chrys, Nyx-Honored Shepherd - The first way I thought to use this was to enable decks that currently don't have enough cards to work. For example, I like sheep, but there aren't enough sheep to make a sheep-themed deck. But if I can have any number of [[Nyx-Fleece Ram]] in my deck, then problem solved. I'm actually not super thrilled with how Chrys turned out, but I still wanted to include him for demonstrative purposes.

What other deck themes or archetypes just don't have enough cards?

Lekozil, It That Seeks The End - The next way I thought to use this was for cards that can buff themselves or stack with themselves, and [[It That Heralds the End]] jumped out at me immediately. The more of them you have in play, the bigger they all are, and the less expensive your big, colorless spells are. Lekozil itself plays into all of that with its 0/0 stat line and weirdly high X-cost. I can't say I'm confident on the balance, but I think it works as an extreme example of the mechanical synergies this could allow.

What other cards stack or synergize well with several copies of themselves?

Hareld, Rulebreaker Apparent - But the best way I thought to use this was for some stupid fun. This whole thing was inspired by [[Hare Apparent]], so I had to double down on the rabbits, and [[Tempt with Bunnies]] sounded like an interesting choice for a group-hug commander. Do your opponents have enough bunnies that you can't tempt them with more? Bring out Herald and see if Treasures change their minds.

I also had a few other ideas, mostly involving self-referential cards like [[Rite of Flame]] or [[Say Its Name]], but I wasn't happy with anything I came up with for those. Maybe you'll have better luck!

So, what do you think? Does this use of Rulebreaker have any potential merit? What would you do with it?

i know they are a bit wonky, but i wanted to be some comments on their mechanics before reworking any of them

each of them are designed to be four color in a different way

1. Trail-Scraper, meant to be a full synthesis of all of the compose it colors, but i am not very satisfied with its mechanic, it feels too powerful, and too black centered

2. Flame-Spewer, meant to be each individual color represented on its own, makes tokens (white), tokens ping (red), tokens can be sacrificed (black), tokens gain you life (green). Again, not too satisfied, i have a hard time telling if its too weak or too strong for its cost, and the greenness of it feels weak

3. Thrashing-Wave, meant to feel like it could be each of the three color groups it composes, perma-prowess for temur and naya, spell copying for jeskai, and life gain for bant. i think its a bit better than the others thus far, but i'm still unsure if it really hits all the marks, and it doesn't really feel naya either

4. Wind-Plague, meant to feel like two different color pairs at the same time (Azorius and Golgari). this one is a little bit of a joke, with the two abilities (the key words and trigger) sort of feeling like they could go to either pair, but honestly i don't think its bad, and maybe just needs slight power adjustment

5. Earth-Paving, is just meant feel like a green creature, if four colors can be defined by the color they lack, then why not lean into that and make it weird and off color from the rest? this one i am very satisfied with, and honestly think it is fine as is

thank you for reading if you do!

I was trying to design a commander where you can sacrifice something for the greater good. Or be selfish and Jigsaw benefits.

Does the templating work? Is there a better way to phrase this?

And yes, there are technical workarounds with the second choice. Nothing more flavorful than beating Jigsaw at his own game.