Magic Enemy George

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So it's trample week at mtg.design, and to me, trample means Colossal Dreadmaw.

This basically appeared fully formed as a design as soon as I thought about what I should make. The thought process was:

What if spells were Colossal Dreadmaw ⤵️
What if trample spells were Colossal Dreadmaw ⤵️
Wait... what if spells with trample in the text were Colossal Dreadmaw? ⤵️
What is CARDS with trample in the text were Colossal Dreadmaw?? ⤵️
What if the card itself can be Colossal Dreadmaw?????

So the whole design appeared. It's common because Colossal Dreadmaw is common. It costs 4GG because Colossal Dreadmaw costs 4GG. Why is it named Colossal Dread Maw? I dunno, sounded cool I guess

The flavour text is, of course, a nod to Colossal Dreadmaw.

mtg.design is doing a Destruction Week, so I made a card.

Nothing complex, I just wanted to give Black a destroy effect for something that isn't normally destroyed. Originally, it was destroy target spell, but I felt that was branching too far away from black's part of the colour pie. Don't wanna give it a staright-up Counterspell! Black destroys creatures, so it got narrowed to creature spells. There was a brief period where this also could destroy creature permanents, but I felt that diluted what I wanted this card to be.

The final tweak was to mana cost. When it was a modal spell that did both things, it cost 2BB. Reduced to 1B when it became basically a black Essence Scatter or Remove Soul, but again I felt that nudging into blue's part of the pie justified a more difficult cost, so BB.

mtg.design is doing as Rogue week, so I decided to make a Rogue legendary, and for rakdos colours! Robber of the Rich, my beloved

Right away I decided this would also be a Rebel legend, as I instantly had an image of an angry, normal guy sparking a revolution. While searching for art, I found this art from Gwent, and my previous mucking about with names had Drudger as a surname, and with this art Idecided on the name. The subtitle took longer, but that was just trying words that fit my concept until I found something that sounded good and made sense.

Also, Rebels are also underrepresented in this colour combination. There are black Rebels! Honest!

What's more red than Haste? Not much. Also there appeared a common theme in Red Rogues making stuff unblockable if power 2 or less, so I made that a static buff.

Now I straight up stole Lin-Sivvi's ability but for Rogues, to add more Rebel mechanical flavour. Also, added some red/black into the mix by making you discard to achieve this. Yes, it makes it more awkward to use, but this is red/black, not white or green.

The power/toughness was always 2/3 throughout design, as I wanted them to benefit from their own ability (which can be thwarted by your opponent by buffing them! :P), and 3 toughness was a slight buff to mitigate chances of them trading down. I mean, imagine a 4-mana 2/2! Ugh, no. Additionally, there are prior Rogues in these colours that are 2/3s! So it's fine!

I did toy with making them WBR instead for colour pie reasons, but thought about it and I think there's no pie breaks here. But to add more black into it, I gave hexproof from white, the colour most associated with ordered tyranny. It also made the mana value easier to stomach.

So this is he, the angry old man who ferments a rebellion against the state, and no white mana to be found!

Tribal has officially been renamed as Kindred, so here's my first Kindred card!

...and it's goddamn Slivers.

This started very similar to how it turned out, as a sorcery that made Sliver cards in the graveyard affect the battlefield, but it was priced as 2B, and called Slivers' Will, and it didn't have that final line. Then my brain went, "well, if i'm just referring to Yawgmoth's Will why don't I just make that but only for slivers? So I typed it up, then realised I hated that because then was I really designing anything?

So I scrapped that. Went back to the earlier idea, but kept the exiling the cards thing. It had to be all the Slivers in the yard exiled. I also added a black pip to the cost, as I thought that wouldn't hurt it much and would avoid it being potentially too cheap for this kind of thing.

Side note: I originally had 'At the end of turn' as the wording, but upon checking the only card now written that way on Oracle is Shichifukujin Dragon, because it looks like that's never been updated ever. So I changed it to more modern and wordier wording.