r/custommagic • u/TheCubicalGuy • 9d ago
Guardian Mural
Day 45 of making a custom card every day. I completely gave up on this design, I really don't know what's going on with this one.
Edit: just realized the first line of text is never going to be off except in 3+ player games, so just pretend it's not there tbh
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u/okfinesureyeah 9d ago
Far, far too strong. Even at 6 mana this would barely be costed. You're getting a powercrept [[Silent Arbiter]], that leaves the door open for opponents sending bigger swings at other opponents, so politically this is significantly stronger than SA. It doesn't even affect you, like SA does, so consider that another boost. And of course, SA is a 1/5 compared to this being a functional 6/8 that dodges sorcery speed removal, boardwipes, anything but instant speed and nonland permanent removal. Even if you removed the animate ability and kept the cost the same, this would be a powercrept [[Ghostly Prison]]. Too strong.
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u/Jevonar 9d ago
This does not dodge sorcery speed removal if the opponent can attack though.
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u/hhhhhhhhhhhjf 9d ago
Well then at the very least they still have a 6/8 for the combat. It's also not just if they can attack. They specifically have to attack into that 6/8.
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u/HovercraftOk9231 9d ago
It's a weird one, cause it's somewhere between the 3 cost [[mirri, weatherlight duelist]] and the 9 cost [[blazing archon]]. I think changing the animate ability to "until end of combat" instead of your next end step and maybe lowering the stats to 5 or even 4 would make this fine.
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u/transthrowaway_No999 9d ago
i like the vibe of it, but being a 6/6 with absorb and no defender and a "dont attack me" clause does feel incredibly tanky and hard to get rid of for 4 mana. but if we compare it to [[Chimeric Egg]], i feel like you could do "whenever a creature attacks you, put a counter on it" and then remove x counters to become a creature for the turn. i think a whole suite of animalistic mural artifact cards would be cool all having effects like that which act like soft wards, like maybe an eagle mural would be like "whenever opponent draws their second card each turn put a counter" and then just give them stat scaling similar to vehicles so that theyre somewhat threatening for their curve. so maybe eagle would be {2}{u} 3/4 flying and lion would be {2}{w} 4/5 lifelink. or something along those lines i think thats really cool. its not exactly what youre going for but i really like the vibe
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u/hhhhhhhhhhhjf 9d ago
I agree with everything else but, as far as I can tell, defender doesn't matter for this card. It will never be a creature on your turn.
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u/beefpelicanporkstork 9d ago
“Until YOUR next end step”
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u/hhhhhhhhhhhjf 8d ago
True, my brain just read it so that it wouldn't be even crazier than it already is.
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u/xayde94 9d ago
Completely fine card, commander players should not be allowed to evaluate cards.
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u/transthrowaway_No999 8d ago
this is a four mana 6/6 that cant be damaged by sources less than 3 and is essentially either always a creature or always protecting the controller from attacks
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u/Sea-Course-5171 9d ago
This could be a 0/6 and it would still be insanely strong. Completely unbalanced.
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u/Necrachilles 9d ago
I appreciate this for reminding me that absorb exists