Big spells with a backup plan! We’ve got all of your entries in our Four Weeks challenge, where designers had to make a spell you can cast for either 8 mana or 2 mana! We’ve got lots of Cleave and Prototype, some Spree, and plenty of other innovations. Yet another fun design deep-dive!
Juliet’s Bath & Butler Works pod on Moonshot: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bath-butler-3-of-122994563
Cards mentioned: Scryfall gallery
From CryptRat
From Craftedlavaistrue
From MonoWhiteBorder
From Khord
From vtbassmatt
From Qirn
From Gabe Lincoln
From Larcent
From Juliet
From Ash
From Xena
From SillyPhilly
From AuxilliaryOtter
From Alex | Datahack
From Redbay
From IgnitedxSoul
From JamesDaltonBell
Topics Include:
- prosody
- get out apollo
- just started the ep and already paradoxes
- prismari guild… no… school… no… college
- how strong do 8 mana spells get to be
- locking down the downside
- boardwipe that accelerates the rebuild
- magma opus
- sell outs
- cleave… maybe the least audio-compatible mechanic?
- plague wind
- white-black mill/ramp decks
- maddening cacophony
- gus
- being rewarded for being an early-game helper
- illegal submission
- this game’s appointed elder
- blinking prototypes
- strict adherence to bonus points
- accidental stone age
- modern playable
- better in stronger formats
- daybound/nightbound
- slant rhyme
- preferring the day side?
- stowing text on the back
- target vs choose
- 60/60 creatures
- wip submission warning
- revealing as a one-time cost
- milling as a cost (dredge?)
- three ways to spend four mana
- mercy killing
- not an old fogey
- night elves
- how to make big creatures have impact before being played
- overlord of the balemurk
- weakness of big impending numbers
- akroma, angel of fury
- sutured ghoul
- the sound of music
- singing attempts
- progenitus, sharuum
- minthara, kelsien, daxos and the children
- secret rhyming cards
- untapping everyone’s lands
- early harvest
- nature’s will
- sword of feast and famine
- wilderness reclamation
- supply with nerves
- gravecrawler
- second shadowmoor reference of the ep
- cinderbones
- most of the same rhyme
- capsize
- bible quote
- satoru umezawa
- why bother cheating blightsteel colossus
- march of otherworldly light
- snapcaster mage
- pitch black
- time walks episode!
- james too consistent
- tim picks: sirens and spearhead
- juliet pick: dromoka
- eating things and doomed journeys