Magic: The Scattering - Forever Alone

Card 4 - Forever Alone

7th Sep 2014, 11:13 AM

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7th Sep 2014, 11:36 AM

Trotsky

Poll: which rage face do you live in? Mine is the one in question:

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13th Sep 2014, 2:04 PM

Xenocartographer

Why is this black? Black doesn't get this kind of control - it gets kill, -X/-Y, and discard, not interfering with abilities. That's white and sometimes blue.

Also, removing all abilities from a creature can have... Interesting side-effects, because some creatures have undefined P/T. Consider Pack Rat. (Otoh, if a card that removed abilities without setting P/T were printed, they'd add a rule saying that undefined P/T is 0, so maybe it's not worth worrying about.)

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13th Sep 2014, 9:13 PM

Trotsky

Sometimes flavor gets over me. But if I'm going to do a top-down design, then I should pick the right mechanics. I wouldn't like forever alone not to be black, but in that case it would need some tweaking. Thanks for posting!

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14th Sep 2014, 12:40 PM

Xenocartographer

Could easily be white. The "forever alone" mentality is the sort of fatalism white sometimes succumbs to - and this fits white mechanically.

It's actually the exact opposite of black. A mono-black character who felt that way would probably go and do something about it - black is the color of ambition, y'know?

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15th Sep 2014, 1:26 AM

Trotsky

But black DOES induce misery. A handful of examples:

Despondency
Terror
Dread
Melancholy
Weakness
Induce Despair
Away
Fill with Fright
Dregs of Sorrow
Drown in Sorrow

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15th Sep 2014, 8:43 AM

Xenocartographer

True, but those are all acute emotions with the intent of causing death. This does the exact opposite of causing death. Mechanically it's very white, and flavor-wise it's not the kind of emotion black likes to instill.

We are nerds.

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16th Sep 2014, 3:04 AM

Trotsky

And proudly so. :P

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