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Soul Pittance BBBBB
Enchantment

For every spell you cast, every other player that casts an Instant or activates a creature ability in response to it pays 5 life.

(Is it any obvious that I hate Blue?)

edited 13th Feb '15 5:05:51 AM by Nitramy

I would change that to "Whenever an opponent casts a spell or activates an ability, if it's not that player's main phase, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays 5 life."

Or to avoid giving them an easy way to dump cards into their graveyard (which could be beneficial to them), "Whenever it's not an opponent's main phase, that player must pay 5 life as an additional cost to cast a spell or activate an ability."

Wording might be wonky.

edited 13th Feb '15 7:58:54 AM by SolipSchism

That's what it looks like. Tabak mentioned something about it on his blog.

From what it looks like, they could make Basic creatures if they really, really wanted to, but it has too many problems with it for them to want to.

And the wording on Relentless Rats worked well enough.

Fair enough. Given the shenanigans that already happen with having more than four of a given card in your deck (aside from the obvious ones, of course!), if they need the space that would be used for the 'any number of this card' wording for something else, odds are the card's going to have other, bigger problems.

Basically the card's intent is, "if you want to Counter my spells, pay five life each time."

I think you want something like this.

Nether Sphere - 3BX
Artifact
~ enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it.
Whenever a player casts a spell, counter that spell unless it's owner pays {X}, where X is the number of charge counters on ~.
Designed to repress entire empires, but used to torture mind mages for a chuckle.

• Varancain's Purge URG
• Instant
• Deal 7 Damage to target creature.
• Ferocious - if you control a creature with Power 4 or greater, exile that creature instead of sending it to the graveyard. Then exile all cards from that graveyard with the same color as that creature.

• Cruelty of the Dragon God 6RRGG
• Sorcery
• Destroy all creatures, artifacts and enchantments your opponent controls. Put an X/X Dragon Horror token into play with Power and Toughness equal to the number of cards destroyed in this way +2.
• My wrath pours out upon a world that deserves Dragon's Fire.-Varancain

• Course of Brutal Nature RRRGG
• Instant
• Deal 5 damage to each creature and Planeswalker in play. Put 2 basic land cards from your library into play tapped.
• Be grateful I gave you cinders.-Varancain

• Deceptive Denial UUG
• Instant
• Counter target creature or enchantment spell.
• Ferocious - if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, put an X/X Dragon Horror token into play with Power and Toughness equal to the Countered card's cCMC +1.

edited 14th Feb '15 8:36:05 PM by NickTheSwing

Pretty sure the convention is to put the X first in costs like that.

None of the colors Blue, Green, or Red get direct creature destruction. Blue can bounce and polymorph, Green can destroy any non-creature permanents and creatures with flying, red does get creature destruction, but only in board wipes

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=389638

Direct Creature Destruction is Destroy Target Creature. So, blue has that.

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=159147

And Red.

http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=289227

Oh look, green has it too. But Green is the only one with a limiting factor to what kind of creature it can destroy.

You say they can't do it and then go around and say that they can do it but with limiting factors. That still means they can do it

edited 14th Feb '15 6:30:54 AM by StephanReiken

1 is a Polymorph

2 is an Old card

3: Flying

edited 14th Feb '15 6:46:44 AM by Elfive

Pongify is a polymorph spell. Blue can destroy, but only if it gives you something in return (and to be frank I think Ma Ro is hypocritical in his belief that those don't break the color pie and Beast Within does). There are three non-conditional Destroy target creature spells ever printed none printed after tempest. All other require the creature to have defender, be an artifact, or have power under a certain number (usually 2).

Conditionals are interesting, but meaningless when it comes to whether or not they have direct creature destruction. The answer is yes.

It is when you are combining the colors that only get polymorph and conditional destruction to create a spell with unconditional creature destruction.

Sunbeam of Spite (XW)
Instant
Deal X damage to target creature.

Found Guilty (1WW)
Instant
Destroy target creature.

Meditate (3WW)
Instant
Draw three cards.

By your argument, these are all totally okay white cards, because white has conditional direct damage, conditional creature destruction, and conditional card draw, therefore it is totally okay to give them cards that completely ignore the word "conditional".

Edit: Card tax: Cheaty permanent removal spells that technically obey the colour pie but break the spirit (Maro has said they try not to do cards like this).

Decapitate (2WW)
Sorcery
Tap target creature, then destroy target tapped creature.

Revise History (2UU)
Instant
Exile target creature. Its controller puts a 3/3 green Beast creature onto the battlefield. Then return target creature to its owner's hand.

Scorpion Brawl (1GG)
Instant
Put a 1/1 green Scorpion creature token with deathtouch onto the battlefield. That token fights target creature.

edited 14th Feb '15 11:24:03 AM by CountDorku

Raise Tempers - 2RG
Instant
Two target creatures with the same controller get +2/+0 until end of turn. Those creatures fight each other.
With a few choice words, even the closest brothers can be turned against one another.

That could probably be done in mono-red, although probably not that cheaply.

Card tax:

Bumbling Fool (U)
Creature - Human
0/1
~ can't attack or block.
T: Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
"You are so stupid I think I'm going crazy!" - Archmage Veletor the Arrogant

edited 14th Feb '15 4:17:40 PM by CountDorku

Chega de Saudade (4RR)

Gain control of target creature your opponent controls. It and one other creature you control gain Soulbond and "As long as this creature is paired with another creature, both creatures get +2/+2 and control of both creatures cannot switch."

~~~~~

This makes more sense if you read the translated lyrics, but basically, True Love.

There, I changed the card. Damn but it caused a stir.

• Silverine Inquisitor 7
• Artifact Creature - Golem
• Causality 5 (1) - you can cast ~ for its causality cost. If you do, exile it and put 5 existence counters on it. When your opponent draws a card outside their draw step, remove an existence counter from ~. When the last counter is removed, put ~ into play
• Protection from Blue, Hexproof
• When this creature deals combat damage to a player, discard 2 cards from that player's hand.
• 6/6
• No amount of guile will save you from the ravages of causality.-Daeth

• Golden Paragon 10
• Artifact Creature - Angel
• Causality 3 (0) - (you may cast ~ for its Causality cost. If you do, put 3 Existence counters on it. During each of your upkeeps, remove an Existence counter from ~. When the last counter is removed, put ~ into play)
• Flying, Trample, Hexproof
• Your opponent may pay 3 life or discard 2 cards from their hand to put 1 Existence counter on this card.
• 10/10
• Expect no mercy or grace from this being. It discarded those ideas when it ascended into Daeth's favor.

Masked Jungle Warrior, Odolwa WBG
Legendary Creature - Human Warrior
First Strike
When Odolwa enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 green black insect creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.
"If you get close to him, you'll be beaten!" - Tatl
3/1

Masked Mechanical Monster, Goht 2UR
Legendary Artifact Creature - Beast
Haste
Goht attacks each turn if able.
Tap: Goht deals 1 damage to target creature.
4/3

Gargantuan Masked Fish, Gyorg 2UG
Legendary Creature - Fish
Hexproof
When Gyorg attacks, it loses hexproof until end of turn.
1U, Tap: Put a 1/1 blue fish token onto the battlefield.
3/3

Giant Masked Insect, Twinmold 5GG
Legendary Creature - Insect
Trample, Indestructible
If Twinmold is targeted, Twinmold loses indestructible until end of turn.
When Twinmold enters the battlefield, put a 4/8 green legendary insect token called "Twinmold II" with trample, indestructible and "If Twinmold II is targeted, Twinmold II loses indestructible until end of turn" onto the battlefield.
4/8

Majora's Mask 2UBR
Legendary Artifact Creature - Horror
Flying
When Majora's Mask dies, you may search your library for Majora's Incarnation and put it onto the battlefield.
"A puppet that can no longer be used is mere garbage. This puppet's role has just ended..."
2/2

Majora's Incarnation 6RR
Legendary Creature - Incarnation
Haste, Trample
Whenever a creature you don't control is tapped as part of the cost of an activated ability, Majora's Incarnation deals 1 damage to that creature.
When Majora's Incarnation dies, you may search your library for Majora's Wrath and put it onto the battlefield.
8/3

Majora's Wrath 8RB
Legendary Creature - God
Double Strike
Pay 2 life: deal 2 damage to a creature chosen at random.
6/6

edited 15th Feb '15 2:21:56 PM by ImperialSunlight

You need to specify the colour of tokens that cards produce, and there are a couple of issues with Goht:

A) The abilities don't play nicely together. Why force it to attack every turn if you can just ping something to tap it and keep it from attacking?

B) Is it blue just to bring down the cost? Because nothing about that card is blue. Coloured artifacts have appeared at least occasionally in all colours on the two occasions we've had them (their concentration in WUB in Shards of Alara was more because of Esper), and all the abilities are red.

I would probably replace the ping ability with "Whenever ~ becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to target creature" and cost it at 3RR. If it has to be blue-red, I'd give it a blue ability such as a milling or card draw saboteur ability, tapping creatures, or "this creature is hexproof when attacking".

Card tax:

Gorblat the Cunning (3UBR)
Legendary Creature - Human Barbarian
5/4
Haste, trample
Whenever ~ deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card and that player discards a card.
"Fighting barbarians is hard enough when they're stupid. Angels save me from smart ones." - General Thola of Karrenbridge

Odolwa always struck me as more of a Jund character, tbh. His usage of fire and the gigantic insects kind of cemented it there.

Winsome Urchin (1R)

Creature - Human Rogue

2/1

When this creature inflicts combat damage to an opponent, you may discard one card. If you do, draw one card.

One has to pick a pocket or two. Regrettably.