Ikanaf, Risen
Custom Cards forum
Posted on Nov. 5, 2014, 5:17 p.m. by Sparda1127
Some friends and I are throwing together ideas to make a custom set for casual play. Being a huge fan of black, I decided I'd do as many of the black cards as I could. I started with a planeswalker that I had a fun idea for.
I sorta based him off of Liliana Vess and Butcher of the Horde. I feel like I'm comfortable with his loyalty and CMC, but I'm not sure if I balanced the last two abilities correctly.
What are your guys' suggestions?
julianjmoss says... #3
I worry that infect is a little strong. That being said, he costs 7 mana so I wouldn't call him over powered. His plus ability protects him, his 2nd ability does relevant things and his third color is rise of the dark realms four turns after casting him so he seems decent. Honestly I feel like you could drop his cmc by one colorless
November 5, 2014 5:46 p.m.
mathimus55 says... #4
Giving all your guys infect seems like something that Would never be allowed. Insta-win
November 5, 2014 5:47 p.m.
Giving all your creatures infect for 7 mana is fair. Look at Triumph of the Hordes - it gives infect AND trample AND a buff for 4 mana.
November 5, 2014 6 p.m.
Giving infect but no trample for 7 mana is like totally balanced.
November 5, 2014 6:01 p.m.
But the effect is only repeatable like every..... 3 turns? And also costs nearly double the mana and also doesn't give the creatures a way to go around blockers.
November 5, 2014 6:07 p.m.
asasinater13 says... #10
I think he seems fair. the middle ability might be off color for black though, granting a temporary ability to your team isn't the most black thing outside of tribal.
same with granting haste being off-color for mono-Black.
other than that I like him
November 5, 2014 6:10 p.m.
Programmer_112 says... #11
I think maybe the Zombie should enter tapped. It would require you to tweak abilities to keep him at this power level, but blacks 2/2 Zombie tokens enter tapped. That's just what they do.
November 5, 2014 6:16 p.m.
asasinater13 says... #12
the tokens don't always enter tapped, things like Cemetery Reaper come to mind. Untapped zombie is on-flavor black.
November 5, 2014 6:17 p.m.
julianjmoss says... #13
One can come in untapped but if you generate several of them they come in tapped. Empty the pits vs grave Titan.
November 5, 2014 6:23 p.m.
.......Grave Titan generates multiple tokens that come in untapped.
November 5, 2014 6:25 p.m.
julianjmoss says... #15
Like 2, I was trying to get at the point that making little amounts of zombies makes them untapped but an army of the damned has them come in tapped
November 5, 2014 6:34 p.m.
lemmingllama says... #17
I'd probably do him as
Ikanaf, Reworked
4BBB
+2 : Put two 1/1 Thrull tokens onto the battlefield
-4 : Creatures you control gain lifelink and deathtouch until end of turn.
-11 : Return all creatures from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control. They gain haste and deathtouch until end of turn.
Starting loyalty - 5
You could maybe add first strike onto the -4 ability. I changed the costs so it might actually be possible to use his minus abilities more than once, and people wouldn't immediately hate it off the board due to infect. Also I wasn't sure if spawning two 2/2 Zombies would be too powerful or not, but having more than one means he might actually live longer than one turn.
November 5, 2014 8:34 p.m.
I wouldn't pay 7 mana for a zombie, therefore it's fair.
Maybe 5BB as the manacost. Sorin Markov is famously despised for broken Gray Merchant of Asphodel reanimating.
November 5, 2014 9:19 p.m.
Hickorysbane says... #19
So much more balanced than a lot of custom cards, I'd +1 that
TheNinjaJesus says... #2
Infect? Overpowered.
November 5, 2014 5:44 p.m.