Friendship is Card Games: Somepony to Watch Over Me · 9:44pm Mar 9th, 2014
If I want to offer piecemeal thoughts about the episode, I can!
That was unexpectedly world-buildy. Which is one of the better kinds of world-buildy, not that there are many bad ones. Chimerae, fire swamps, Cajuns, and refrigerators (albeit one that appears to be a modified, uninsulated cabinet. It has a shelf that's the perfect height for apple storage. You can't tell me that that's not a custom job.)
It's always interesting to see an episode about the characters aging and maturing. Cartoons can easily fall into a time abyss, and with the Crusaders, it could be argued that this one already has. Still, here we see irrefutable proof of someone taking another step on life's journey. As was noted on one of the streams, "I can barely hear the audio over the sound of Applejack's biological clock."
What? What did you think I was talking about?
I liked that Applejack explicitly said she called Rarity in to watch over the other Crusaders. Would've been awfully hypocritical of her to go full helicopter mom on Apple Bloom then leave two fillies of the same age unsupervised.
Oh, and this episode also saw the return of the horribly literal idiom. There haven't been many after Season 1, with its judging a book by its cover, getting up on a soapbox, and taking a leap of faith. But no, now we have someone who's literally always looking over someone else's shoulder. Hooray. 
Lastly, Granny Smith wasn't sure which of the two routes was worse. What did Big Mac encounter? My money's on shrieking eels. Or shrieking fangirls. Maybe shrieking fan-eels.
Good. That was enough time to finish applying the last of the foam rubber. The cards should be safe to read.
Friends' Support 1W
Instant
Creatures you control get +0/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.
Friendship is a tangible force in Ungula, one that works to preserve those who exert it.
Childproof 2W
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant permanent
Prevent all damage that would be dealt by enchanted permanent.
A farm can be a dangerous place. But then, so can everywhere else.
Pie Delivery 3W
Instant
Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.
Draw a card.
Sweet Apple Acres proudly serves all of Equestria. Even when there's another Apple family farm much closer.
Startle 1U
Instant
Counter target spell if a creature entered the battlefield this turn.
"How long were you standing there?"
Jumpstarter 1R
Creature — Pony
T: Target creature gains haste until end of turn.
One good push from an earth pony can get just about anything moving.
2/1
Pump the Bellows 1RR
Instant
If a red source would deal damage to a permanent or player this turn, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.
Keep the home fires burning and you may not have a home to come back to.
Apple Family Meeting 1G
Sorcery
Choose a permanent type. Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a card of the chosen type from among them into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Empty the Fridge 1G
Instant
Destroy target artifact. You gain life equal to its converted mana cost.
"Anyone who thinks the denizens of Jund are the hungriest creatures in the Multiverse has never raised an adolescent pony."
—Ditzy Doo
Safety Helmet 1
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature has absorb 1.
Equip 2
"You can never be too careful. Never."
—Applejack, Element of Honesty
Flameproof Boots 2
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature has mountainwalk and protection from red.
Equip 1
Ungula is a strange plane, and requires strange safety gear.
Hypnotic Flute 3
Artifact
2, T: Tap target creature. If that creature is a Snake, it doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Deafness offers no protection. Its song drifts on the Æther itself.
Smothering Supervisor (gu)W
Creature — Pony Advisor
Smothering Supervisor's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control.
Other creatures you control have hexproof, can't attack, and their activated abilities can't be activated.
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Blown Cover 2(wu)
Instant
If W was spent to cast Blown Cover, each unblocked creature becomes blocked. If U was spent to cast Blown Cover, creatures lose hexproof until end of turn. (Do both if WU was spent to cast it.)
"At least I didn't sing."
—Scootaloo
Redundant Backups 2WU
Sorcery
For each Equipment attached to target creature, put a token that's a copy of that Equipment onto the battlefield attached to that creature. Exile those tokens at the beginning of the next end step.
"You can never have too many hats."
—Applejack, Bearer of Honesty
Bayou Settlers 2(bg)(bg)
Creature — Pony
Swampwalk, forestwalk
It is equally in the nature of earth ponies to adapt themselves to the land and to adapt the land to themselves.
3/2
Ravenous Chimera 4BR
Creature — Chimera
Haste
Devour 1
Provoke
3/3
Pyre Mire
Land
Pyre Mire enters the battlefield tapped.
T: Add B or R to your mana pool.
XXBR, T: Pyre Mire deals X damage to each creature without swampwalk or mountainwalk.
"One thing I'll say for the place: it definitely keeps you on your hooves."
—Applejack, Bearer of Honesty
I've always been of the opinion that absorb is a kind of OP mechanic, but at the same time I kind of want them to bring it back for something.
So no card for destroying target song? Cause this gives a good excuse for one.
1913987
I considered it, but that was clearly a counterspell, and anything I could think of was a more awkward version of Annul or Nullify. I did give a nod to No-singaloo in Blown Cover, though.
1914839 Hmmm, what about a version where you gain one life for each verse counter on it? The flavor text could be something like "The song was going to be how long? Glad I stopped it when I did."
1915050
Did that already. See Luminous Resonance.
Oh, design space. You seem so wide open until I step on my own heels...
1915099 Hmmm, okay then how about one that damages the owner with the destruction? You haven't one that yet, and it would make a nice black spell, Snuff Song.
Ricotta Charm - 1(w/r)
Instant
Choose one: Target creature can't attack this turn; or target creature can't block this turn; or prevent all damage that would be dealt by target creature this turn.
Lion Tamer's Chair - 2
Artifact
2, Sacrifice Lion Tamer's Chair: Target attacking creature becomes blocked. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.