Friday, March 22, 2013

Daily Card Redesign #80: Brainstorm

Daily Card Redesign is a daily Magic: The Gathering design exercise where I randomly choose a card for the scenario of it being killed late during its own set's development. I design a replacement card that uses the same art, is the same color, is the same rarity, and has a name that, alphabetically, keeps it within the same collector number for the set.


Redesign:


There has never been a version of Frost Breath that is just for a single target. I mean, without additional effects on the card. Both Crippling Chill and Hands of Binding tap a single creature while keeping it tapped for its next untap step, but they both have an additional effect. Well, here was an opportunity to do so. 

Usually, when you make a spell a cantrip (a spell that has "Draw a card" as part of its effect), you must add 2 more colorless mana to whatever the spell would normally cost without it. So, when you look at Crippling Chill costing 2U, you just remove the "Draw a card" part, and you get a new cost: U. 

Note: I'm aware of Enervate existing in Ice Age, the same set as this redesigned card would be in. However, there aren't any tap effects at uncommon, and Enervate doesn't keep that creature/artifact/land it is tapping tapped down like this Body Shock effect does. So, I figured that this focused-on-creatures-only spell with an additional "skips its next untap" could coexist with the broader-but-less-harsher Enervate.

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