The theme of this set is: different takes inspired by cards that already exist in the game.
I don't put a lot of thought into the stats or mana cost, they are just an approximation.
What Blade of the Creator could have been. Not as powerful, but probably wouldn't result in the disproportionate success of the toxic decks it is enabling right now. These versions would still allow the player to increase their God's maximum Health and hit the win conditions, but not immediately, thus allowing more effective counterplay from the opponent.
This is another take on a delayed board-wide buff with a massive potential payoff that could require careful planning from the opponent to mitigate its effect on a full board. The player could also maximize the outcome with a carefully planned order of operations. It's like a delayed one-time Sucella.
This card was inspired by Take Them All On, only a Deception version would of course subvert the concept and have one of the opponent's own creatures attack all other friendlies. The outcomes should vary wildly depending on which creature is summoned, but I expect this should cause significant disruption most of the time. Perhaps needs a higher mana cost?
If Scrappy is summoned like this, would it deal damage to the controller's own God? 🤔
This one was inspired by Transfer Beyond. I'm actually surprised we don't have a card like this in the game yet. Perhaps it's not technically possible to do something like this with the current code? This card could be too powerful in certain circumstances and to limit that, perhaps the creature in hand should also gain Soulless or Wither. Some really nutty creatures can be generated this way if the effect stacks, for example with multiple applications enabled by a second copy or Path of Death.
This is my attempt at a less disruptive but more insidious version of Replicating Ratification. I think 8 mana would be too late considering the delayed effect. There could be the need to exclude Legendary creatures from the spell's target list. I like how the card slowly wrecks the opponent's deck, instead of all at once, creating angst as to which card was hit each time 😁
This is an obvious pun on Best Friends, and a less disruptive version of Brainwashed Betrayer above, with an extra condition. So perhaps the mana cost should be different? On the other hand, this spell also has the potential of clearing the board more effectively, so perhaps there is a trade-off there.
With the Fallen Age set we got a new kind of Knight, the Lowborn Knight, with 8 arms and the most egregious-looking, in-your-face, blatantly obvious AI art.
So maybe we don't have enough Knights in the game yet? 🤷♂ Here are 2 more, and below why the Lowborn Knight with that art should've been called Mahakala Knight instead:
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| Lowborn Knight | Mahakala source | Mahakala Knight |
Card composition done via https://gucustom.cards/
AI art generated at https://creator.nightcafe.studio/, except for the Knights, which were generated via ChatGPT.
