Community Set Project: Steelkin Mechanics

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This is the page for the Steelkin tribe for the T/O Community Set Project. Full description will be made momentarily.

The Steelkin are a successful tribe of self-sustaining automated lifeforms created by an artificer on his last breaths after coming to the island. The Steelkin know nothing of the reason for why they are created, and constantly attempt to find this answer, their reasoning for existing.

The Steelkin reuse the spare parts of their fallen members to create new ones. In this they are attempting to save the environment of the land from stripping away its resources en-mass. However, this seemingly positive venture has consequences on the newly created. Those that are newly created are stuck under the labels of the Steelkin that their parts are formed from, creating a self-identity crises. The Steelkin frequently have to deal with trying to overcome the labels of failures that befell the Steelkin that their parts are formed from, or having to deal with overly high expectations as their parts may have been formed from powerful leaders or heroes.

Mechanics Show

Here are some mechanics that are formed around the Steelkin. Recycle always has its cost and other parameters defined by the recycled cards mana cost.

• Piecewise Beast —
• Artifact Creature — Beast Construct
• Recycle (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Look at the top X cards of your library. You may reveal a card with converted mana cost 2 or less from among them and put it into your hand. If you do, put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.)
• 2/1

For the Post-War ability, deconstruct basically demonstrates how the Steelkin re-use whatever they have on the field in such an efficient way that all of the original artifact is present in the new creation. The colour/mana isn't transferred over, due to the fact that Steelkin's new forms can be nothing like the previous one.

• Destrautomaton —
• Artifact Creature — Golem Construct
• Deconstruct (As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice an artifact. If you do, reduce the cost of this spell by , where is the sacrificed artifact's converted mana cost.)
• 5/5

Throughout both sets, we will have a lot of cards that sacrifice and do things when cards are sacrificed. All of these cards will focus on any permanent so that these cards are not restricted to just the Steelkin. A problem I noticed that occurred with affinity in old sets.

Pre-War Cards Show

• Master Recycler —
• Artifact Creature — Artificer Construct
• You may pay an additional whenever you activate a recycle ability. If you do, and the card you revealed is a non-instant or sorcery card, it enters the battlefield instead.
• 2/3

• Metallic Blossom —
• Artifact
• Metallic Blossom enters the battlefield tapped.
• , sacrifice Metallic Blossom: Add 2 mana of any colour to your mana pool.
• Recycle (, Exile this card from your graveyard: Look at the top X cards of your library. You may reveal a card with converted mana cost 2 or less from among them and put it into your hand. If you do, put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.)

• Steelkin Meditator —
• Artifact Creature — Monk Construct
• Flying
• Sacrifice an artifact: Steelkin Meditator gains +1/+1 and has hexproof until end of turn.
• 2/2

• Steelkin Recycler —
• Artifact Creature ‐ Artificer Construct
• Activated abilities of recycle cost less to activate.
• 1/2

Post-War Cards: Show

• Steelkin Bruiser —
• Artifact Creature — Ogre Construct
• Sacrifice an artifact: Steelkin Bruiser gains +1/+1 and can only be blocked by 2 or more creatures until end of turn.
• 2/2

• Steelkin Hydra —
• Artifact Creature — Hydra Construct
• Steelkin Hydra enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
• Whenever an artifact enters or leaves the graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Steelkin Hydra.
• Whenever Steelkin are created or destroyed, a small burst of energy that was the Steelkin's entity escapes from the steel itself. The hydra feeds on this energy, and such, frequent sightings of them occur around battlefields, hazardous areas, or the molten-steel forges.
• 0/0

Changes I Thought Were Needed Show

I'm doing this "in secret" because I don't know if I'm actually going to be available for more discussion or not. I don't want to get people into this only to have the person who works on these displays to not be here.

I've also been doing a lot of cube and custom set analysis, so I have a much stronger grasp on card power level. Cards overall have been overpowered, most likely because of me, so I've been decreasing much of what I thought was too strong.

nighthawk101's suggestion of "salvage" for the war mechanic is really good. He also mentioned being nervous for tutoring, and I agree. The method of tutoring in recycle that tutors for a card lower than the converted mana cost of the recycled card feels too easy to break. In this, I sort of fused the two together, the converted mana cost requirement is still the same, however it only looks at the top X cards, where X is the amount of mana spent to activate the ability. The X activation cost is due to it being pointless to Recycle for 2 or 1 if you are only going to look at the top card, and the cost comes out to the same for cards of higher cmc. And it can take any card. I say any card, because in the past, WotC has failed when doing artifact themed sets or tribes in that they do not go well with the other cards in the set. Mirrodin in general and Esper from Alara are both good examples.

Doing this, also means that other mechanics are much better now. The "Deconstruct" ability has been changed to be for all artifacts (and only allows you to sacrifice one) and I feel is the best ability for the war mechanic. It goes so very well with the flavour of the tribe and the other mechanic, Reassemble, was tied too closely to the Thannalid's spores in the spores should be the only thing that grows/makes more of itself over time in terms of mechanics.

Reassemble basically put a charge counter on the card with this mechanic whenever you cast an artifact spell. At the beginning of your upkeep, you would remove a charge counter to put a 1/1 token onto the battlefield.

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Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is Unknown legal.
Cards	0
Folders	CDaSP Stuff