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RowanKeltizar — Gelboros, the Golden
Published: 2013-01-28 20:21:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 3093; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 0
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EDIT 2: Completely revamped this card. Now it's a Dream Halls for artifacts XDEDIT 1: Changed things around a bit. Added undying and changed from tap to ETB with a pseudo kicker cost. Also changed colors to Esper. Instead of cards in your hand, you draw cards equal to artifacts and no discard as that's more of a red effect.
The name isn't original. I decided to keep the name of the original artwork since it seemed to fit so well.
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My approach to card making is art oriented more than anything else because that's what first drew me to the game. When designing a card, my objective is to balance flavor and utility in such a way that it fits into the game seamlessly and would be fun to actually play with.
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Comments: 26
This is really awesome. I love artifacts. Esper all day!!
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Seeing as dream halls was completely broken, might it be a good idea to make this a bit harder to use?
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The colored cost is considerably harder to pay. Bc it's artifacts only, it's pretty niche. Dream Halls is broken but it's still legal in Commander unlike some other things XD
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Ok. For some reason I thought that Dream Halls was available in other formats and was banned in most of them. I was apparently wrong. Still seems very broken. VERY broken. At least you could naturalize a dream halls. So I would suggest adding a life payment to the dream halls effect. I think that would make it harder to use and then you can't enter the infinite into most of your deck.
Also you can toss the artifact lands from mirrodin, which seems like a big step up from dream halls to me. Especially if people use this in a casual format that isn't commander, where you could potentially turn every extra land you have into a free spell.
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Maybe I'll just take the indestructibility away. I hadn't considered the artifact land issue.
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Also consider that dream halls could potentially be used by either player without building around it, so your opponent could benefit. With this, unless your opponent is also running esper you can dump your hand for free with the extra card draw or keep a few counter spells in hand to respond to you opponent.
The dream halls effect has no way to be non-game-breaking other than players trying to hold back and be fair. All I can see is a guy powering this out to drop a few blightsteel colosi and lightning greaves all at once. Is there any situation where letting someone play a blightsteel (or similarly evil giant robot) turn 6 or earlier fair?
So in summary I think the card draw is powerful, the indestructibility is powerful, but free spells to me is game breaking.
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ok, nerfed it substantially
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I think this works well. Kind of like a transmute artifact from your hand. It would be hilarious in casual play to see some one toss a Gleemax for this. Needs testing like how powerful it is when you toss something big for a lot of little things, but I think this should be reasonably powerful.
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might I suggest, That the sacrifice Meet some extra requirement's... Mainly "sacrifice Artifacts whose combined converted mana cost is greater than or equal to Gelboros converted mana cost. You may sacrifice 2 Artifacts, with (0) or no casting cost, to per one mana of said cost."
#2: "Can't be sacrificed."
#3 "Is indestructible until end of your 2nd turn after played from hand."
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I decided to completely revamp this guy
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should be two or three artifacts sacrificed- god know that is broken enough
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Undying? On an Artifact?
Flavor aside, really abusable here. I'd suggest pitching the undying for a different sort of recursion. Maybe "If Gelboros would enter the graveyard from anywhere, you may sacrifice an artifact. If you do, return Gelboros, the Golden to it's owner's hand"?
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I like this one quite a bit ^_^
Ties into Esper quite well.
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Maybe a translucid creature will be better since it combine all the elements and gold is more related with white and red IMHO
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translucid? I'm unsure what you mean here. That's not an existing creature type. Are saying to change the name?
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Beyond the material world, something that is made of a essence beyond the five mana elements, because of emergent properties (for example we are more than the sum of our parts )
Mhhh the name is even harder to decide... sorry i don't have a good one yet
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oh, I see. well I try to stick to existing creature types, keywords, etc... so that's why I chose homunculus. It's alchemy related. I was trying to preserve the original concept by the artist.
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So, its awesome. But. Isn't there a card for three mana that does this? I mean, not on a stick, of course. But. Its red, I believe, from innistrad.
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Your thinking of shattered perception. but that's a bit different: [link] I will say that I'm not completely happy with this card and would appreciate hearing any ideas.
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If you were to say, give it undying, wouldn't that just stall the game? You would just end up with an infinite pile of legendary creatures triggering each other, and that wouldn't go anywhere fast.
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I actually just changed it so he had undying. That works I think with no infinite copies.
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*Or really even if any other copies of him entered the battlefield from anywhere.
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you give it like when it dies it enters tapped with double power and toughtness
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it can't attack or block so that wouldn't be very helpful.
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it would, it would live stuff like burn. and they would only want to exile it or return it to your hand/library
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