So I already have an idea for the story of this block, but only a full story for the first set. Post ideas for cards below, and I put some of them in. Most of it will be created by me, though.
The one planeswalker on Earth, Rizyx, found a contraption (not yet decided) that allowed him to create a new plane. He starts creating his perfect world, but discovers 10 divine beings on it, just after he finished placing creatures throughout the plane- Chaos, Disease, Greed, Dictatorship, and MAdness (BAD) + Zeal, Growth, Ambition, Order, and Knowlede (GOOD). I haven't decided on much more, other than that in this set, they aren't very powerful, but in the next set, they are huge and fight for control. I suck at creating not-big-effect cards (or "good" cards), so I need iMtg to help me with commons and uncommons- I'll do the more important stuff to the story.
Tell me if you like it, and post suggestions for Commons and Uncommons below.
Thanks,
Isaac
EDIT: I changed what Adapt does, I found this seems more fitting to the story.
Adapt X (When ~ enters the battlefield, choose a Habitat you control at random. ~ inhabits it. ~ gets +X/+X for each Change counter on its Habitat.)
[\i] Habitat (At the beginning of your upkeep, take of all counters from ~. Roll a 3 sided die, then put that many Change counters on ~.)
Creating Commons and Uncommons can be hard, it took me an entire year to get to where I am today. I might throw down on a few cards for you though, I got really good with wording, I'd like I see what I can do with a card that has no limitations (I.E. A nonOoT card)
Is the Plane itself a newborn? Is there still seismic activity and volcanic eruptions, semi-warm waters? And can the Plane itself create it's own creatures or is the PW the only one with the power or creation?
Quote from: InfinitiveDivinity on January 25, 2013, 02:04:49 PM
Is the Plane itself a newborn? Is there still seismic activity and volcanic eruptions, semi-warm waters? And can the Plane itself create it's own creatures or is the PW the only one with the power or creation?
good question, didn't think of that. and thanks ^ by the way. i think it would be with volcanic stuff like you said, but creatures would kinda adapt as the environment of a specific spot settled, and then once that spot got to "cooled off point" then the creatures would stop changing. (i'll need to think of a mechanic for that) i think creatures should just kinda pop up when the enviroment is ready, so no, the planewalker isnt the only one who can create.
Ok the main mechanic is Adapt. 1st off, all basic lands are labeled habitat in this set. Adapt: When this creature enters the battlefield, put one Change counter on every Habitat you control. Then "Pair" this creature to target Habitat you control. Remove one counter from each Habitat on each of your upkeeps. This creature gets -1/-1 for each Change counter on its land.
Every basic land in the set is labelled habitat, no multicolor lands are going to me made until the next one, and Adapt probably isnt going into that.
Create a theme. Write down. How many cards? What do you want them to do? Ever see how MaRo develops? Check it out.
I'm using his skeleton thing for the commons:
60 Commons
30 Uncommons
15 Rares
6 Mythics
Quote from: Dudecore on January 25, 2013, 02:58:34 PM
Create a theme. Write down. How many cards? What do you want them to do? Ever see how MaRo develops? Check it out.
Have a link by any chance?
Here's an idea for the device
Plane forger
Artifact
{3}
{T}, discard a card from your hand: search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and add it to your hand. Shuffle your library afterward.
{T}: add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Draw a card, discard a card.
I just felt like adding Card Editor to main menu.
Quote from: Piotr on January 25, 2013, 05:45:54 PM
I just felt like adding Card Editor to main menu.
Could be cool
Would be ;)
Quote from: Piotr on January 25, 2013, 05:52:55 PM
Would be ;)
I want to see this feature. I like designing cards
Quote from: InfinitiveDivinity on January 25, 2013, 05:28:18 PM
Quote from: Dudecore on January 25, 2013, 02:58:34 PM
Create a theme. Write down. How many cards? What do you want them to do? Ever see how MaRo develops? Check it out.
Have a link by any chance?
http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/mm/78
Quote from: Birdbrain on January 25, 2013, 05:38:42 PM
Here's an idea for the device
Plane forger
Artifact
{3}
{T}, discard a card from your hand: search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and add it to your hand. Shuffle your library afterward.
{T}: add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Draw a card, discard a card.
I"m gonna use that., Thanks!
Quote from: izik99 on January 25, 2013, 06:06:17 PM
Quote from: Birdbrain on January 25, 2013, 05:38:42 PM
Here's an idea for the device
Plane forger
Artifact
{3}
{T}, discard a card from your hand: search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and add it to your hand. Shuffle your library afterward.
{T}: add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Draw a card, discard a card.
I"m gonna use that., Thanks!
I was just trying to think of a top down view of the device
Quote from: Birdbrain on January 25, 2013, 06:40:56 PM
Quote from: izik99 on January 25, 2013, 06:06:17 PM
Quote from: Birdbrain on January 25, 2013, 05:38:42 PM
Here's an idea for the device
Plane forger
Artifact
{3}
{T}, discard a card from your hand: search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, and add it to your hand. Shuffle your library afterward.
{T}: add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Draw a card, discard a card.
I"m gonna use that., Thanks!
I was just trying to think of a top down view of the device
Yeah its perfect, I just changed the cost to {4}. It "makes terrain" and it "makes magical energy" without being to broken. Awesome. +1 fo you
Another nerf it could have is being a legendary artifact. That was the original intent. But I forgot to specify
Quote from: Birdbrain on January 25, 2013, 07:12:03 PM
Another nerf it could have is being a legendary artifact. That was the original intent. But I forgot to specify
Yep, I did that. I'm gonna try to upload pics of the first few cards, but i dont know how.
Can you make a giant crow that is a wise sage-like figure in this world? It would have to be {U} since crows are the smartest bird
I'm thinking there could be an elder for each color in this world. Each created from a different aspect of this humans mind/personality/issues and baggege ect...
But this is only an idea. Do what you want
Quote from: Birdbrain on January 25, 2013, 07:18:58 PM
Can you make a giant crow that is a wise sage-like figure in this world? It would have to be {U} since crows are the smartest bird
I'm thinking there could be an elder for each color in this world. Each created from a different aspect of this humans mind/personality/issues and baggege ect...
But this is only an idea. Do what you want
Yeah! I was thinking another legendary spirit (Maybe crow spirits lol) for each color. OMG check the edit its not life and death anymore i cant make up my mind lol but this is an awesome idea
Quote from: Piotr on January 25, 2013, 05:45:54 PM
I just felt like adding Card Editor to main menu.
That would be cool...
I didn't mean crows for each color. I meant a crow for blue derived from his intelligence; Black could be derived (unintentinaly) from there emotional baggage, fears, darker side; The red elder from there emotions, what drives them and there goals; still thinking on green; the white elder from there since of justice, and social side. There desire to create a world that works together.
Also, don't ditch the life and death thing just because of this. You can do both
As long as {Storm Crow} is a Planeswalker, I'd be happy.
{Storm Crow, the Infinite} {1}{U}
+1 You may cast nonland cards from your hand without paying their mana costs.
0 Return all permanents not named Storm Crow, the Infinite to their owners hands.
-3 Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your library, then put a card from your hand on top of your library. You have no maximum hand size until your next turn.
3
Quote from: Birdbrain on January 25, 2013, 07:56:38 PM
I didn't mean crows for each color. I meant a crow for blue derived from his intelligence; Black could be derived (unintentinaly) from there emotional baggage, fears, darker side; The red elder from there emotions, what drives them and there goals; still thinking on green; the white elder from there since of justice, and social side. There desire to create a world that works together.
Also, don't ditch the life and death thing just because of this. You can do both
im doing two "values" for each color, because i dont want the whole set to be based on w and b. one is good, one is evil.
One should be blue, one should be red. Play on some kind of elemental good vs. evil. Yin vs. yang. Fire vs. water. Passion vs. Intellect. Blue and Black are allied colors anyway, they get along just fine.
Quote from: Piotr on January 25, 2013, 05:45:54 PM
I just felt like adding Card Editor to main menu.
Do it!!!!!
Black being the "evil" color is played out, and red being burn spells is boring too. Make red an passionate color that doesn't think out its choices, make black a good guy.
Cool. Like the "scars of mirrodin" block. I guess the good quality for black could be ambition and the bad quality selfishness. If you use my idea. And let me know so i can come up with good and bad qualities for each color that define its elder if you want to use my idea. And I will stop talking about it now if you don't
Quote from: Birdbrain on January 25, 2013, 08:17:00 PM
Cool. Like the "scars of mirrodin" block. I guess the good quality for black could be ambition and the bad quality selfishness. If you use my idea. And let me know so i can come up with good and bad qualities for each color that define its elder if you want to use my idea. And I will stop talking about it now if you don't
yeah greed was bad but i couldnt find a good so ill use that.
Ok. I'll contribute just one more card. This is the benevolent blue elder crow
{U}{U}{3}
Ka, the crow sage
Legendary creature-bird
Flying
Whenever you play a instant or sorcery, put a +1/+1 counter on CARDNAME.
When CARDNAME deals combat damage to a player, you may look at the top X cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery from among that and add it to your hand. Put the rest at the bottom of your library. X equals the number of +1/+1 counters on CARDNAME.
2/2
Blue doesn't get +1/+1 counters, that is green. They get +0/+1, and red gets +1/+0.
{cosi's trickster} {draining welk} {dralnu's pet} {enclave elite} {faerie squadron} {flood chaser} {sage fables}. I understand that +1/+1 counters might not be blues main thing. But from a top down perspective this is a knowledge is power kind of thing. The more knowlage it has, the more power it has. And I didn't want it to be unstable in power like {stergmist}...come to think of it. It should probably cost six? No, it starts out relatively small
True those cards all have +1/+1 counters, but they probably shouldn't. It's a good card, probably raise the cost a bit. Design the red crow so that they're equally matched.
I said the idea wasn't each one was a crow. Just the blue. But if he wants to do all crow's he can. Its his set. I've thought about it, and crows (to me) only fit in azoirious colors. They are smart, and they work together, protecting each other. Have you ever seen how they deal with predatory birds? The whole flock works together to chase the predator away. So the only other color in my mind they make sense in is white
I'm going to put "powerful versions" of the "divines" and "profanes" in the next set, so remind me to use that Birdbrain. Right now, they are all good, but good meaning good for a 3 cost. if i can figure out how to post a pic, then ill spoil the one that a *kinda* used the crow idea in.
Quote from: Birdbrain on January 25, 2013, 08:51:06 PM
Ok. I'll contribute just one more card. This is the benevolent blue elder crow
{U}{U}{3}
Ka, the crow sage
Legendary creature-bird
Flying
Whenever you play a instant or sorcery, put a +1/+1 counter on CARDNAME.
When CARDNAME deals combat damage to a player, you may look at the top X cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery from among that and add it to your hand. Put the rest at the bottom of your library. X equals the number of +1/+1 counters on CARDNAME.
2/2
do you want me to make a 3 cost version of this with a lesser ability?
Quote from: Birdbrain on January 25, 2013, 10:07:30 PM
Quote from: Birdbrain on January 25, 2013, 08:51:06 PM
Ok. I'll contribute just one more card. This is the benevolent blue elder crow
{U}{U}{3}
Ka, the crow sage
Legendary creature-bird
Flying
Whenever you play a instant or sorcery, put a +1/+1 counter on CARDNAME.
When CARDNAME deals combat damage to a player, you may look at the top X cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery from among that and add it to your hand. Put the rest at the bottom of your library. X equals the number of +1/+1 counters on CARDNAME.
2/2
do you want me to make a 3 cost version of this with a lesser ability?
nah, i was trying to make the "weaker" versions as vanilla as i could. im actually almost done rares+mythics i need five more rares, so maybe ill maybe Knowledge a crow companion. ill definetely add something like that in Divines of Ryn'an (next set) sorry. i like building up to the big things.
Ok. I wish more people would throw in there ideas
Oh. And one more thing. If you want, you can take the looting part out of the second ability of the artifact so it's cheaper. Because the first one requires you to discard a card from your hand which could make the ability balanced. I put a lot of thought into this card, so please play test it before you make a final desicion on its costing.
Also if you notice. The lands go to your hand, not the battlefield. Which is a 1 cost ability in an instant or sorcery. And with the added discard to get it...
Quote from: Birdbrain on January 25, 2013, 10:22:30 PM
Ok. I wish more people would throw in there ideas
Oh. And one more thing. If you want, you can take the looting part out of the second ability of the artifact so it's cheaper. Because the first one requires you to discard a card from your hand which could make the ability balanced. I put a lot of thought into this card, so please play test it before you make a final desicion on its costing.
Also if you notice. The lands go to your hand, not the battlefield. Which is a 1 cost ability in an instant or sorcery. And with the added discard to get it...
I see your point. I'll test it out to see if its too overpowered, if not, then ill change it.
BIrdbrain! Spoiler alert! lol. It's probably not what you were thinking, but, like I said, I'll do that in the next set. So Knowledge, the "good" blue value, has a companion- Ka, the Crow. He doesn't have a card yet- maybe I'll make him an uncommon because I don't have a lot of rare space- but he will definitely have a bigger version in Divines of Ryn'an. (Maybe an effect that pumps him if you have Knowledge out?...) Here's the link.
http://statigr.am/p/377431768268837120_211646827
Love the art. Not so much the flavor text. It's an ok ability that subtlety supports the legendary I posted.
Although its most definitely a rare if it's a three cost with that ability
Quote from: Birdbrain on January 26, 2013, 10:38:21 AM
Love the art. Not so much the flavor text. It's an ok ability that subtlety supports the legendary I posted.
Although its most definitely a rare if it's a three cost with that ability
Yeah, I just realized how much more powerful that is than the others. Blue always wins! I'll try to change up the others before I get all the art.
So... DeviantArt, where I got all the art for the cards, does not allow me to use the art. So I'm going to post the cards when I'm done, but without the art. Sorry guys.