Friendship is Card Games: Dragonshy · 1:08pm Jun 15th, 2014
Firstly, happy Father's Day to all and sundry.
Now then. "Dragonshy." Dovahfaas. The episode that established that Fluttershy is a badass, Lyra is a biped, and Equestria uses the same horse physics as Skyrim. Oh, and Rarity has moments of staggering idiocy. Don't get me wrong, we all do, but stealing from a dragon is never a good idea. Not unless it's asleep and will be for the rest of your life.
Also, when Applejack shushes Fluttershy just before the avalanche, the sound effect is a squish. I suspect that's where the "marshmallow ponies" meme came from. The general one, not the Rarity-specific one.
Fluttershy and the dragon nicely demonstrate how the red-white conflict resolves in both directions. Red dominates white emotionally, overwhelming it so it can't do anything constructive. White dominates red authoritatively, constraining it so it can't do anything it wants.
And on that note, cards:
Chicken Waggle W
Instant
As an additional cost to cast Chicken Waggle, tap an untapped creature you control or pay X.
Prevent the next X damage each creature would deal this turn. If you tapped a creature to cast Chicken Waggle, X is that creature's power.
"I… I don't… What?"
—Rarity, Bearer of Generosity
Indignant Righteousness 2W
Instant
Exile target creature. If that creature isn't black or red, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
"You do not, I repeat, you do not hurt my friends!"
—Fluttershy, Bearer of Kindness
"A Hop, Skip, and Jump" U
Enchantment — Song
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a verse counter on "A Hop, Skip, and Jump".
Sacrifice "A Hop, Skip, and Jump": Up to X target creatures gain flying until end of turn, where X is the number of verse counters on "A Hop, Skip, and Jump". Untap those creatures.
Choking Smoke 2B
Instant
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Anything draconic is dangerous.
Rainbow War Paint 1R
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has first strike and gets +1/+0 for each of its colors.
"Just don't get any in your eyes. Trust me, not fun."
—Rainbow Dash, Bearer of Loyalty
Ruinous Avalanche 1RR
Instant
Ruinous Avalanche deals damage to target creature you don't control equal to the number of Mountains you control.
Overload 3RRRR (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")
Frightful Presence 2RR
Enchantment
Non-Dragon creatures can't block Dragons.
"We call the other races of this world 'lesser' not out of scorn, but as a statement of fact. One need only see their reaction to our majesty to see that."
—Fankraxynox, warden of the Drakenridge
Smoglung Dragon 4RR
Creature — Dragon
Flying
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if Smoglung Dragon is on the battlefield, that player exiles a land he or she controls.
When Smoglung Dragon leaves the battlefield, return all cards exiled with it to the battlefield tapped and under their owners' control.
5/4
Dragon Snore XR
Sorcery
Creatures with power X or less can't block this turn.
Draw a card.
"If the epicenter of a quake is above the surface, it's either an error or a dragon."
—Fault Line, seismologist
Fluttershy's Ferrets 1G
Creature — Ferret
Protection from blue
"Just because I don't eat fish doesn't mean I begrudge those who do."
—Fluttershy, Bearer of Kindness
2/2
Appleshot 2G
Sorcery
Appleshot deals 1 damage to each creature with flying and each player.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)
An earth pony army fights with its stomach.
Feeding the Critters 2G
Enchantment
At the beginning of your end step, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature that dealt combat damage to a player this turn.
"Managing so many different diets can be tricky, but seeing my friends happy makes it well worth the effort."
—Fluttershy, Bearer of Kindness
Party Suit 2
Artifact — Equipment
Whenever equipped creature attacks, roll a six-sided die. You gain life equal to the die roll.
Equip 2
"Making one's easy. Just put on everything fun you have on hoof. And a little silver lace."
—Pinkie Pie, Bearer of Laughter
Twilight's Saddlebags 2
Artifact — Equipment
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
Equip 1
"Information is the greatest weapon in any arsenal."
—Twilight Sparkle, Bearer of Magic
Safety Padding 3
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature has absorb 2. (If a source would deal damage to that creature, prevent 2 of that damage.)
Equip 4
Some of the greatest advancements in armor are made with completely different intentions.
Scared Stiff 1(wu)
Instant
Tap target creature. That creature loses all abilities until end of turn.
There are many reactions to fear. Total paralysis is just one of the less helpful ones.
Impatient Pegasus 1(rw)G
Creature — Pegasus Warrior
Impatient Pegasus can't be countered.
Flying, first strike
Whenever a spell is countered, put a +1/+1 counter on Impatient Pegasus. (A spell with no legal targets is countered on resolution.)
1/1
Shadow Self 3UB
Creature — Shapeshifter Shade
You may have Shadow Self enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield except it's still a black Shade in addition to its other colors and types and gains "1B: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn."
Some fears are justified.
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Unless there's something really weird going in Equestria at the time of the episode, you've misidentified Pinkie's Element in Party Suit. Thought I ought to let you know.
Aside from that, great work with this episode. Can't wait to see how you portray the rest of the season.
Also, I find it kinda unnerving that we both made very similar cards for Hop, Skip, and Jump. I guess there just weren't that many other ways to interpret such a flight-styled song.
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Fixed. Thanks. The L-ements start to blend together after a while. Black and red do have a lot in common, after all.
Great job as usual.
And since the other journal page kept crashing on me, yes I'd love to read a high school crossover! Also you mentioned a Hasbro School District. Does this mean there is a Cybertron Technical School?
Great Job. Also,
and then all dragon tribal decks become OP as fuck
Fun with Dragon tribal support! (I want to suggest making Choking Smoke and Frightful Presence actual Dragon tribals, but that's almost purely flavour and so wouldn't happen unless they were in a tribal-heavy set.) Also, "a little silver lace", very clever. A little odd that Impatient Pegasus doesn't have haste, but avoiding ability bloat is a valid reason. I don't recall anything like Shadow Self from the episode, but I love the card. In fact, I love all the cards; Shadow Self just got singled out for its slight left-field feel. (If it were white, Shade of Trokair style, it would be perfect for "Fluttershy pushed too far", but without dipping into Planar Chaos weirdness, it doesn't seem to come from the episode.)
Smoglung Dragon seems like he should be white and red to me, simply because his ability is very O-Ring-ish.
2208460 I would totally attend Cybertron Technical School, but for the fact that it would be even harder to stay out of the politics there than at Ravnica High
2208941 More to the point, it's very Realm Razer-ish. Accumulating every upkeep instead of simultaneous on ETB, but very similar indeed. Red-Green, maybe?
2209293 I was actually thinking it should be red black because it reminds me of Herald of Leshrac and its generalized land hate
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Ah, good old Cybertron Polytechnical University. CPU's been around for a long time. It's seen a lot of strife, from race riots to eco-terrorism to attacks from Unicronian extremists, but it's still here. Given its tenure policy, so is most of the faculty.
Go Dinobots! Him Grimlock am king of mascots!
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I think Dragonstorm beat me to it.
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Fluttershy's afraid of her own shadow. For good reason.
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Realm Razer was a consideration, as were Petradon and Petravark. Really, I just wanted to include the threat presented by the dragon in its card form. Flavor can trump the color pie to an extent, and the alternative, actually destroying the lands, is tremendously unfun.
I think with "Smoglung Dragon" you'd need the full "when <name> leaves the battlefield" text, like Realm Razer does. I'm not sure if "Cards exiled with Smoglung Dragon enter the battlefield tapped." would work after it leaves the battlefield, because it is no longer on the battlefield to have any affect on other cards coming in. Yay timing.
Unless you are going more for a counter on Riftsweeper-ish type cards, but ones that put things into play instead of back into the deck. Then it would work.
"Scared Stiff" goatbleat.wav
So "Shadow Self" doesn't stay Blue as well? No other Clone-llikes change color so this one keeping Black but not Blue just seems odd. Even flavor wise, wince Blue is all about knowledge control and pretending to be someone else is a good means of control knowledge.
I think indignant righteousness and twilights saddle bags are a bit op as well as fluttershy's ferret. Maybe make indignant only black bags equip 3 and ferret 1 toughness and they might be fixed.
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I've reworded Smoglung Dragon, including a clause to prevent the usual O-Ring shenanigans.
As for Shadow Self, well, it's a shadow. It's going to be black. The blue is just there for the Clone effect.
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Indignant Righteousness: Compare with Celestial Purge and Turn to Mist.
Fluttershy's Ferrets: Compare with Bloated Toad and Humble Budoka.
Twilight's Saddlebags: Compare with Mask of Memory and Mask of Riddles.
2209600 C...P...U...*slow clap* Well played sir, well played. I had not thought of that pun, I was too proud of my Technical school idea and the obvious references there.
So, any truth to the rumors about a romance between Principles Prime and Celestia?
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They had a fling once, but that was a long time ago. Right now, both are mired in their jobs and the attendant shenanigans, but they're still friends.
(Both have agreed that the Internet Fame Crusaders must never know about their past.
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2211877 Ahh good to know. So, are they excited for their big game with their rivals, Kayon Military Academy? (In Transformer's lore, Kayon is where Megatron first rose to power and the seat/home of the deception faction.)
2209782 I suppose it's just the content of what standard, I was thinking about the current standard where white would be to good with another purge effect and mono blue would love another draw affect. Ferret would be fine also my bad.
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Statues have already been disfigured. I'll let you imagine which, where, and how.