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Post by EnvyReaper on Apr 25, 2019 21:56:43 GMT
Now, if you are all familiar with how devotion works, then you will understand this, but for people who do not know, here is the low-down:Devotion is a mechanic where the amount of say, Green mana in the CMC of all permanents you control, when you cast a spell having to do with this, it may for example say "Deal X damage to target creature, where X is your devotion to BlackBut with THIS kind of devotion it is played a little differently, instead of it being to amount of color, it is instead dependent on the amount of permanents you control that share the same country, but you also need to have said permanents outweigh any other type of country or faction in your side of the battlefield, so for example you have 80% Feld permanents, 10% Rakdos permanents, and 10% Simic permanents, that means you have Feldish Devotion as most of your permanents belong to Feld. Here is some links to the finished Devotion cards: Feld: mtg.design/i/cred16Corrizan: mtg.design/i/tame53
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Post by EnvyReaper on Apr 25, 2019 21:59:20 GMT
{RED}
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Post by EnvyReaper on Apr 25, 2019 22:08:19 GMT
{PLACEHOLDER}
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Memoryhead
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Post by Memoryhead on Apr 26, 2019 16:38:06 GMT
*Immediately has a mild design-based stroke*
First off, I'd recommend that we don't use these fancy names and instead have something like "As long as your greatest devotions are to red and black" or something like that. Second, are you saying that you want this to be based off of card colours instead of colour symbols? That might just be me misreading / you miswriting but it looks like it at the moment. If that's the plan, we should call it something other than devotion.
The main thing is that we need to specify colours. |
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Post by Tigersol on Apr 28, 2019 2:16:12 GMT
Okay, this is interesting.
- Since the actual mechanic devotion is, at its core, a counting mechanic involving mana, I believe naming this mechanic after it will cause a great deal of confusion, for it is not a counting mechanic, nor does it involve mana.
- What classifies as a "Feld" permanent?
- The largest issue I have with this is that this, in its current state, is not mentioned on cards. The closest mechanic to this I know of was Ascend, but that was mentioned on all the cards that cared about the "City's Blessing." The problem with a mechanic like this is that it is an augment to the rules that does not involve cards, something that has never been done before. A new player opening a pack would have no clue that this mechanic existed.
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Memoryhead
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Post by Memoryhead on Apr 28, 2019 11:53:19 GMT
Feld is white-blue-green, commonly called Bant (but it's got a different name here because faction originality or whatever). I can guess at some of the answers to the questions about the mechanic, but they're only guesses so I'll leave them to EnvyReaper. |
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Post by EnvyReaper on Apr 30, 2019 10:40:56 GMT
@tigersol
Basically we haven't started rolling out the sets and all of that, we will have it in future iterations set to uncommon and common only
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Post by EnvyReaper on Apr 30, 2019 11:22:26 GMT
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Post by monkeypirate2002 on Apr 30, 2019 18:54:59 GMT
Here’s an alternate name for the mechanic: Fealty to {BLANK}
Also, Niv-mizzet Reborn is a good reference card for wording this mechanic, as it is an official Mtg card after all
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Post by monkeypirate2002 on May 18, 2019 15:31:46 GMT
I decided to try and make an example of a card that uses devotion, or "fealty" as I called it: mtg.design/i/geld71 |
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Memoryhead
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Post by Memoryhead on May 20, 2019 20:29:57 GMT
For anybody who cares and isn't following the discussion (probably not the right word) on the Cardsmith Forums, this mechanic has been cut from the set. It might resurface as a single cycle of cards or something, but the idea of devotion / fealty as being a big part of the set is no longer a thing.
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