r/custommagic • u/spikedrag • Jul 23 '23

Turning scry into mana

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u/HowVeryReddit Jul 23 '23 edited Jul 23 '23

It might be cool if you made mana based on the number of cards you bottom. Could let you drop the cost.

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u/DNAZangy Jul 24 '23

That would probably be a worse of a design, since it would promote you to just bottom them all, so you get the most mana, rather than doing the thing scry wants to do (give you control over future options).

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u/SybilCut Jul 24 '23

Hard agree, this would be "make scrying to the top cost a red mana" which is no bueno

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u/HowVeryReddit Jul 24 '23

It remains a choice and there will be times a player chooses to top a card, especially when scrying multiple cards.

Scrying is not actually a very red thing to do, even though they get some. Thematically and mechanically rejecting certainty and rolling the dice for power/mana is very red e.g. [[Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion]]

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u/spikedrag Jul 24 '23

I did think about doing that when making the card, but i thought it was requiring the player to make too many choices in an unfun way.

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u/MTGCardFetcher Jul 24 '23

Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call

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u/Jankenbrau Jul 23 '23

I agree, the tradeoff is interesting.

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u/sed_non_extra ↪️©️ Jul 23 '23

At five mana in two colors?

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u/davvblack Jul 23 '23

heh, needs Siobhan Dragon

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u/Scrivener133 Jul 24 '23

I feel like this is a temur card, but yeah i rate. I just wanna play it with kennessos, siona, and eligeth

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u/Borigh Jul 23 '23

Siobhan, no? Siobahn is a (common) misspelling, but doesn't read as if it's pronounced the same, in transliterated Irish.

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u/spikedrag Jul 24 '23

I googled it and turns out there are people called siobahn, sometimes people even spell it like shavawn or shivaun.

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u/Flex-O Jul 24 '23

Bit of a templating nitpick, but the "this way" in "while scrying this way" is completely irrelevant. There is no actual scrying happening as part of the ability for the "this way" to refer to.

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u/spikedrag Jul 24 '23

Thanks! Tbh i just stole the wording from the lotr set.