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Posted on Jan. 15, 2015, 8:56 p.m. by Saoirseguita
The ability was hard to word, but hopefully it makes sense. Does this card seem at least reasonably fair?
Epochalyptik says... #3
The abilities should be worded like this:
When ~ enters the battlefield, if one or more creature cards were exiled with ~'s delve ability, distribute that many -1/-1 counters among any number of target creatures.
OR
When ~ enters the battlefield, if one or more creature cards were exiled with ~'s delve ability, put that many -1/-1 counters on target creature.
Whenever a creature dies, if it had one or more -1/-1 counters on it, put that many -1/-1 counters on target creature chosen at random.
OR
Whenever a creature dies, if it had one or more -1/-1 counters on it, distribute that many -1/-1 counters among any number of target creatures chosen at random.
January 15, 2015 9 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #4
For the first ability, I'm not sure without researching it if you can use "that many" to show a relation between dissimilar objects (in this case, cards and counters). But I didn't want to have an intervening "if" clause and a "for each" clause in the same ability.
January 15, 2015 9:04 p.m.
Saoirseguita says... #5
klone13, glad you like it! I'll think about the cost a little more.
Epochalyptik, that does sound much better, thank you! It will be "distributed among any number of target creatures" in each case. It's one of those cases where I know what I want to happen but it's hard to fit the idea to specific rules text. Thanks though, I appreciate your input and it will be changed accordingly :)
January 15, 2015 9:08 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #6
One of the tricks you can use to learn wording conventions is to research existing cards that have similar or the same text you want to use. The advanced search on Gatherer is very helpful in this process.
January 15, 2015 9:13 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #8
You would still need to define X with a line like "where X is the number of creature cards exiled with ~'s delve ability." It's not really worth it. You'd also have a weird condition where either one ability is using X and the other is using "that many" or both abilities are using X and the value of X is constantly changing.
January 16, 2015 12:28 a.m.
Is this card made for Grim Poppet ? I think it could be too strong in a wither or infect deck, able to kill every creature on the battlefield, every turn.
It would be more fair if the second ability sounded like: whenever a creature dies, if it has one or more -1/-1 counters on it, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature without a -1/-1 counter on it.
klone13 says... #2
i like it, i think its fair, you may even want to take away one B symbol
January 15, 2015 8:58 p.m.