quarta-feira, 28 de setembro de 2022

Tap Abilities Matters Legend

Type: Legendary Creature
Subtype: Shaman Spellshaper
Card text:
"Haste, Vigilance.

Other creatures you control with {T} abilities get +1/+1 and have haste and vigilance.

{3}{T}, discard a card: Copy target activated ability that isn't a mana ability. If it costed {T} to activate that ability, you may pay{3}. If you do, copy it twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copy"

Expected rarity: Rare(R) or Mythic(M)
Rarity Reasoning:
- Complexity.
- {T} abilities matter.
- Copying activated abilities.
- Gives creatures you control of a kind +1/+1, haste and vigilance.
- Heavily rewards linear gameplay.
- Wordy.
- 3 color.
- Hightens board complexity.
- Splashy.

Inspiration: Zirda and Trigger Happy.
Innovation: Static ability that ares about creatures with {T} abilities without being cost manipulation.
Choice of effects:
- Giving haste allows for the abilities to be activated the turn the creatures entered the battlefield.
- Giving vigilance helps incentivising creatures with {T} abilities to attack.
- Having haste and vigilance for same reasons Dragonlord Kolaghan has haste.
- +1/+1 rounds up the card to make it more suitable for 3 colors (RGW).
- Copying activated abilities makes the card more relevant even without {T} abilities to copy.
- Not able to copy mana abilities due to power level concerns and timing concerns.
- Ability to copy ability again if it is a {T} ability to reinforce the theme.
- Cost to copy ability again to have more knobs for play design to tweak.
- All abilities focus in helping {T} abilities without directly interfering with the cost to activate those abilities.


Tentative cost 1: {2}{R}{G}{W}
Tentative cost 2: {R/G}{G}{R}{R/W}{W}
Tentative cost 3: {1}{G}{R}{W}{U}
Costs Reasonings:
- All Costs:
- W and R provide respectively vigilance and haste.
- G also has haste and vigilance in it's pie, despite not giving haste to multiple creatures
- G also gives vigilance to creatures under a specification vigilance on ocasion.
- Land creatures have, as a rule, {T} abilities, so ot falls partially in G's pie.
- All 3 colors have signature {T} abilities: Pingers in R, Tappers in W and Mana Dorks in G;
- Cost (1):
- Simple, direct and basic option.
- Cost (2):
- Larger focus on red due to the copy ability.
- Not yet experimented card costing (Hybrid mana in which the color in common is always placed to one side).
- Helps regulate the card by making it more expensive.
- Cost (3).
- Four color design that makes sense as non-black.
- U is justified by the copy ability.
- Relevant color due to tapping synergy and untap abilities.
- U also has vigilance.
- Can strenghen flavor related to knowledge pursuit or magic and {T} abilities.
- Helps address the card's strengh.
- Could help justify other abilities to experiment with as a knob for play design (such as giving or having Ward).
- Also has signature {T} ability with looters.

Possible alterations:
- 3 aproaches to cost and 2 to color.
- If card ends up to much weaker, viable in only 2 colors (albeit unrecomended)
- Posibility to make the activated ability cost colored mana (preferably U or R, but U/R and G/U hybrid also could be doable)
- Anthem effect could be removed or changed.
- Other abilities could be provided to the creatures (although it's recomended keeping vigilance and haste).
- Could provide abilities such as Ward to permanents other than creatures with {T} abilities.
- Activated ability could be changed or removed (although removing isn't recommended as keeping a {T} ability would be better for the overall design).
- Price of the ability could be adjusted.
- Price within the ability could be adjusted.
- If the wording "Other creatures you control with {T}" doesn't work, other options are "Other creatures you control with tap abilities" or "Other creatures you control with activated abilities with {T} in its cost".

Innitial Name: "Takpi, Trickshaper Mentor"

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