Saturday, March 30, 2013

Daily Card Redesign #88: Quicksilver Geyser

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:


So. That name amuses me. I love when there's an organic way to refer to a seemingly-arbitrary chosen number. The word "pair" and other such words referring to a "couple" of things, which comes in handy for flavor when you're designing cards.

There's never been a spell like this one, and this would be the set to do it. I figure that, within the art, the creature in the foreground is getting the brunt of this magical spray of nonexistence-induction while the one in the background suffers "splash damage."
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2 comments:

  1. P for PizzaApril 2, 2013 at 10:38 AM

    This breaks the color pie. Blue shouldn't absolutely be able to destroy X/1 creatures at all.

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    1. bradleyroseApril 2, 2013 at 11:07 AM

      Yep! Those Phyrexians sure do violate the color pie. Blue shouldn't kill X/1 creatures. Yet, tell that to Vedalken Anatomist! http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=222861

      Actually, I had a discussion with Jules Robins on Twitter about this card. And the consensus was that the -1/-1 not being a part of the effect itself was too much of a stretch. If it was more like Vedalken Anatomist or Choking Fumes, it would be O.K. http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=213808

      Lastly, another reason why this design is not O.K.: The card has a Mirran watermark. There was an even split of Mirran and Phyrexian watermarks in Mirrodin Besieged, so I should have made sure it was still "Mirran-like."

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