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Reposting a reworked version of this to get the ball rolling.

I have been meditating on it for a total of 10 hours and I still can't think of an evergreen keyword for UB.

>>43732397
Flying.

>>43732411
That's WU.

>>43732427
Black has a lot of bats and familiars and stuff.

>>43732456
It's still not THE ub keyword because it's already the uw keyword.

>>43732493
How about Scry? Black and blue are big on deck manipulation.

>>43732840
Scry is already blue/red.

>>43732880
Make your own, then. Or use Delve.

thinking of abilities to put on WU villains is hard when you don't want to do already existing things.

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>>43732388
You want the number 1, not "one" on the life loss.
This seems mostly worse than mana confluence, but it works alright.

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>>43732940
You could use this keyword.

>>43733107
That's an ability word.

>>43733107
>>43733129
Well, the villains are sort of zombie-like things that sort of eat individuality, taking other creature's intelligence and leaving them blank slates, using said intelligence to fuel their gestalt hive mind. My original idea was that when they dealt damage to another creature, they lost all their abilities unless the owner paid a marginal cost, but I abandoned that for reasons that I'm not too sure why. Now it's "Whenever a player casts a spell but not on their turn, for every spell cast on that turn after the first, do X" (not worded exactly), but that doesn't feel like it matches flavor wise :<

>>43733161
I kinda like where that first ability is going, since it matches the flavor well. Although I can't really think of an elegant way to do it. You probably want to mark the effect with a counter/counters of some kind.

>>43733107
>B
That card is white as fuck

>>43733285
Well, I'm trying to avoid using counters because I just have a vehement, knee-jerk hatred of them unless I'm using them for a set-wide mechanic, and I'm not, it's just for this one little sliver. I don't feel like using them just for an occasional mechanic on like, 1/5 of 1/5 of the cards on the set.

>>43733329
Yeah, that's fair. Just, without counters it kinda rules out extending things like a humility effect until they pay mana.

>>43733099
How could I make it better without breaking it? Lands are really hard to balance.

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Also, who's up for some fun?

This isn't really a serious card, but I like cascade too much to not use it.

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I made some cards for a mock-up Commander set.

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>>43733558

I think there are a couple things off with the design. One, the effect really isn't colorless. Two, it should probably be a sorcery. The drawback is also kinda fake since you can wait to cast it for when they don't have mana to take advantage of the ability.

Cascade is pretty cool though.

>>43733605
Regrex seems pretty vanilla, but I like Lensia because of how her ability scales with the number of players.

Mental Coercion is dickery.

>>43733605
I'm not sure that red can reanimate stuff like that.

>>43733651
Mental Coercion v2

>>43733752
itried.jpg

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>>43733784
Naturally, I forget the image

>>43733792
This is just a bad time warp.

>>43733792
Abilities that counter the first spell a player would cast are the definition of unfun dicerky.

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>>43733823
v3

>>43733823
For five mana it's not really powerful though. Like, it's basically just making you skip your turn except that if you're going to win you can choose to give them the card. And you still get your upkeep draw and untap step and combat step.

Counterspell SEALS, now, those are the actual fuckers that just shouldn't exist.

>>43733846
You're just spitting out garbage now. Give it some time, man.

>>43733870
>>43733846
It was supposed to cost 3U...

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>>43733792
>dismiss is 4 mana

>>43733883

That's even worse. You don't have to IMMEDIATELY try think of a new version and post it right away. Give it some damn time to figure out a new one.

>>43733627
Here's a better attempt. The player doesn't get extra cascade on the "cascade, cascade" part because Cascade happens when cast and therefore before Unintended Results enters the battlefield.

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>>43733922
and the card

>>43733922
>>43733931
>and therefore before Unintended Results enters the battlefield.

Uh, sorceries never enter the battlefield.

>>43733971
Yeah, I meant before the card's ability resolves.

>>43733482
do you guys have an opinion on which mechanic I should go with (remove abilities on hit unless the controller pays a minor fee, or causing effects whenever a player casts more than one spell outside their turn), or should I just try my hardest to make a new one?

>>43734117
If you're dead set on a new ability, I'd say trying to make the first one work or thinking of something else.

>>43734136
I mean i feel it's good as is, but when I talked to other people about it, they said that it would just be hard to implement in a fun way since you can't target individual creatures.

Maybe make it a tap ability common to the villains?

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Would it be mechanically clear to use suspend like this? The long way is so wordy (i.e. "Return target other creature card from your graveyard to your hand and cast it as if it had Suspend 3--0").

>>43734759

>When ~ dies, exile target creature card from your graveyard with three time counters on it. That card has suspend 3.

Also, why is that blue black card a druid??

>>43734807
If it doesn't have suspend it gains suspend. Don't need the number unless you're casting it