Bound to Slither
Enchantment
Creatures with hexproof or deathtouch lose all abilities and are green Snakes with base power and toughness 1/1.
Those who act like snakes are doomed to live as snakes.

My question: Does this work as worded? or would it need to be like

Bound to Slither
Enchantment
Creatures with hexproof or deathtouch lose all other abilities and are green Snakes with base power and toughness 1/1.
Those who act like snakes are doomed to live as snakes.

Ignore the goofy name, I thought it'd make for a cute placeholder since I couldn't come up with a name.

Could be an at the upkeep trigger.

Definitely a possibility if the current wording isn't rule-worthy. Thanks!

Phantom Dragon

Creature - Dragon Spirit

Flying, Double Strike

If damage would be dealt to Phantom Dragon, prevent that damage and put an apparition counter on Phantom Dragon. When Phantom Dragon has six apparition counters on it, sacrifice it.

4/4

BTW, yes I know they normally have 1/1 counters. I'm just trying something different. What do you guys think balance and word wise etc?

Why and not or ? Apart from that, I think it's a bit on the strong side: very few flying creatures can survive 8 combat damage, so either you use a hard removal (red gets basically shafted) or you have to let a lot of flying creatures die. Six counters make that ability more a buff than a penalty unless the opponent has very specific cards like Bitterblossom or a flying creature that is either massive or has indestructible/regeneration/damage prevention. A starting point could be lowering the counter cap to, say, four? Maybe someone else has more definite suggestions.

At one more than Phantom Nishoba for three less toughness this seems fine to me actually. I just dislike the disconnect of not using +1/+1 counters

I must have misread the cost, I could swear it was ...

Longstanding Growth
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature with toughness 4 or greater.
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.

Rules question: If I attach this to a 2/1 that was hit with Giant Growth, would this card stick at the end of the turn?

Yes because it'll still have toughness 4. If it is hit with so much as a Skulduggery though it'd fall off.

What's the best way to template the following?

[static ability]. At the beginning of your upkeep, [this permanent] loses this ability unless you pay [cost].

I might actually go with Aura tokens with Echo [cost].

Is this uncommon or rare?

Akroan Warsinger —
Creature — Human Warrior
Battle scars (This creature takes damage in the form of +1/-1 counters.)
As long as Akroan Warsinger has a counter on it, it has first strike.
3/3

I would say uncommon. If it survives the first combat, it becomes pretty hard to deal with in combat, but it doesn't have the extra push you typically see in rares.

I need help. For one reason or another, I wanted to make a mirror to a finisher card.



It needs to resurrect itself, and instead of being in it's , and has the same converted mana cost of 6. I am having problems trying to get some evocative way to mirror the original card's versatility but ultimate weakness of being slow to get out.

My annual resurgence in interest in making cards is back. Looking for help on the black mechanic I'm working on, Pact

Pact - You may cast this card from your graveyard or hand for its pact cost instead of its mana cost.

Example Card
Creature - Demon
Pact Lose 5 life
If you made a pact with ~ , when ~ enters the battlefield each player discards a card.
1/1

I'm hoping to make sure the mechanic works, as there are likely things specified that I am unaware of to cast from graveyard, but referenced the Flashback mechanic as a guide. I'm also looking to find a better way to specify the cost that triggers the conditional action. I referenced Kicker but it seems a bit strange to have "kicked" as a term to emulate on this mechanic.

There is actually nothing at all weird about casting cards from the graveyard (or anywhere else). So long as the card explicitly says you can do that (Gravecrawler) or has an ability that specifies the same thing (Flashback, Aftermath), there's no other niceties to worry about.

Two minor templating things: (1) Costs are things you pay, so "Pact Pay 5 life" would be the proper wording there; (2) the wording of the trigger is actually fine, but secondary ("if") trigger conditions go between a primary ("when"/"whenever"/"at") trigger condition and the effect. So

One gameplay note: do you want people to be able to cast this repeatedly from out of their graveyard? Right now every time it dies, they can just immediately recast it. If you want to avoid that, add a new ability:

or just throw that into the definition of Pact.

Cool. Thank you for the templating feedback. Yes the intent is to have things be playable repeatedly for now though not all things being as easy as dropping 5 life though.

Trap Soul —
Enchantment (U)
When Trap Soul enters the battlefield, put a repository counter on target creature. Then, exile target creature until there are no repository counters on the battlefield.
Your brother's soul is trapped within the body of another.

I need help with the wording. I want the creature to still come back if Trap Soul dies before the creature does.

this might work better as an aura

The counter is not strictly necessary, but I liked it as a memory aid. Regardless, because the effect doesn't reference Trap Soul in its ending condition, it will reverse only and exactly when the referenced creature leaves the battlefield whether Trap Soul is there or not.