Friendship is Card Games: Stare Master · 12:41pm Aug 24th, 2014
Also known as "Fluttershy is Awesome 2: Fluttershy is a Freaking Badass." When Fluttershy Stares into the abyss, the abyss apologizes.
This episode reinforces my belief that the feline behavioral axis has endpoints at Evil and Stupid. And Opalescence isn't stupid.
Ponies have the concept of angels. I have actually done something with this, but I think it's a matter for another blog. They also have the concept of faeries, but we've already seen those. (And I still don't trust them. "Pollen." I suppose that's what they're calling the dreams of the innocent these days…)
It's kind of tragic; if Apple Bloom had been allowed to reconstruct that table on her own, she probably would've done it quite well.
While looking up the technical term for the fear of the dark, I was amused to see one possibility is "scotophobia." Add another o and there's a story in there somewhere. 
Of course the Crusaders didn't get cutie marks in arguing. An argument is more than just contradiction.
(No it isn't.)
Shush, you. I haven't even paid for a session. Besides, it's time for cards:
Lionhearted Chicken W
Creature — Bird
"Praise unto Elizabeak!
Great explorer Forest delver
She who sought And dared to find
Accepting risk And welcoming it."
—Rooster Saga
1/2
Spoiled Longhair W
Creature — Cat
Spoiled Longhair can't attack or block unless you control an enchantment.
"Is it wrong for a pet to expect the finest things in life if her owner is willing to give them to her? I think not."
—Rarity, Bearer of Generosity
2/2
Quiet Game 1W
Enchantment
When a player casts a spell, sacrifice Quiet Game. If you do, each of that player's opponents gains 10 life.
Depending on who you ask, "Shh" tournaments are either incredibly suspenseful or mind-numbingly boring.
Unbreakable Will 2W
Instant
Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains indestructible until end of turn.
The worst horrors of the Everfree cannot stand against true courage.
Poultrify U
Instant
Until end of turn, target creature gains flying and becomes a Bird with base power and toughness 1/1.
"Now I know how to call a chicken!"
—Apple Bloom
"Hush Now, Quiet Now" 1U
Enchantment — Song
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a verse counter on "Hush Now, Quiet Now".
Sacrifice "Hush Now, Quiet Now": Creatures you don't control get -X/-0 until end of turn, where X is the number of verse counters on "Hush Now, Quiet Now".
Overreach 2U
Instant
Counter target spell if its converted mana cost is greater than the highest converted mana cost among permanents its controller controls.
"The study of magic takes time and patience. Just diving in to the big stuff will have you biting off more than you can chew."
—Twilight Sparkle, Bearer of Magic
Panic Response 2U
Instant
Creatures target player controls get -X/-0 until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures that player controls.
Rational thought doesn't hold up well against everyone you know and love screaming in terror.
Stare Mastery 2U
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature's controller may choose not to untap it during his or her untap step.
Enchanted creature has "U, T: Tap target creature. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as this creature remains tapped."
Sincere Flattery 3U
Instant
When you cast Sincere Flattery, you may have it become a copy of any instant or sorcery card in a graveyard. If you do, you may choose new targets for it.
Sometimes there's no way to improve on someone else's good idea.
Creature Catchers 3UU
Creature — Pony Rogue
When Creature Catchers enters the battlefield, gain control of target creature for as long as Creature Catchers remains on the battlefield.
Some look at the Everfree Forest and see only opportunity.
3/3
Nyctophobia 2B
Sorcery
Black creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain intimidate until end of turn.
"It saddens me that my ponies still fear the night. It means that my task remains incomplete."
—Princess Luna
Ruinous Restoration 1R
Sorcery
Exile target artifact card from a graveyard. Ruinous Restoration deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to its owner.
"We are definitely not Cutie Mark Crusader Carpenters."
—Scootaloo
Fortissimo 2R
Sorcery
Double the number of verse counters on target Song you control. At the beginning of the next end step, that Song's controller sacrifices it.
Just before the tune is reduced to meaningless noise, the chords come together as they never had before.
Hyperactive Fillies 2RR
Creature — Pony Child
Haste
Whenever Hyperactive Fillies attacks, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
"Ooh!" "What's that?" "What's over there?" "What are those?" "What are these?"
2/2
Booming War Cry XRR
Instant
Up to X target creatures get +X/+0 until end of turn.
"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS! YAY!"
Everfree Cockatrice 2G
Creature — Cockatrice
Reach, deathtouch
"Its wings don't take it very high. With gaze alone it hunt the skies."
—Zecora, zebra shaman
1/3
Dangerous Creature 3G
Creature — Beast
Intimidate
Some ponies fear the Everfree's appearance. Some fear its unnatural nature. Some just worry about all the things with big teeth, sharp claws, and a taste for horseflesh.
3/2
Crusader's Cape 2
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature attacks each turn if able.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each attacking creature.
Equip 1
A symbol of conviction, hope, and never learning from your mistakes.
Innocent Halo 1(gu)W
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature you control
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has hexproof.
"Nothing that cute could possibly be dangerous."
—Fluttershy, Bearer of Kindness
Cascading Calamity 1BRG
Sorcery
Destroy a permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of ruin counters on Cascading Calamity. If you do, put a ruin counter on Cascading Calamity, then repeat this process. (This effect doesn't target.)
"Oops."
—Sweetie Belle
Bucky needs a card. I have no idea what it would be, but I suspect that a series of Chase based cards would be hilarious.
Exile target artifact card from a graveyard. Ruinous Restoration deals damage equal to that card's converted mana cost to its controller.
Controller should be owner here.
Is Cascading Calamity supposed to start at CMC 0 and go to 1, 2, 3, and so on until there's no longer a choice? I don't think the spell as written does that. I think that concept would be hard to write up.
And when creating cards here, CMC should be written
.
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Ruinous Restoration is fixed. And yeah, Cascading Calamity is ambitious to the point of near impossibility. Not really sure how to better phrase it.
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Dude, don't even get me started. I've already come up with color assignments for the entire herd and a good half-dozen cards since I read your comment. Bucky alone could fuel about that many different interpretations of him. Here's one:
Bucky, Shadows' Bane 2WUB
Legendary Creature — Unicorn Wizard
Prevent all damage Bucky, Shadows' Bane would deal to other Pony, Pegasus, and Unicorn creatures.
1B: Bucky deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
Hoofcraft — Bucky has hexproof as long as you control three or more Ponies, Pegasi, and/or Unicorns.
2/4
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I don't know enough about the cards or the rules to understand.
But it sounds awesome.
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Basically, this version of Bucky has "kill everything" magic that explicitly excludes other ponies... but not himself. Also, if there are enough ponies standing with him, your opponent's nasty spells won't work on him, thanks to the Power of Love and Friendship.
**eagerly awaits other entries, most notably Loch Skimmer and or Ripple**
Shouldn't Elizabeak be "Summon Chicken"? Or are we ignoring the Un- sets?
2396869 For Ruinous Calamity, try:
Destroy a permanent with converted mana cost 0. Put a charge counter on Ruinous Calamity.
Destroy a permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Ruinous Calamity. If you do, put a charge counter on Ruinous Calamity and repeat this process.
If a card like this would see print, it would probably start at CMC 1, since Wizards of the Coast doesn't like land destruction anymore.
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Given how Falcons were folded into the general Bird type, it seems safe to assume that Chickens would as well. Clamfolk, of course, would remain a distinct creature type.
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That's brilliant! I'd completely forgotten about Lightning Storm! Still, I'm leaving in the land-kill functionality. There's no guarantee of there being a CMC 1 permanent on the battlefield. At least this way the card can act as a harder-to-cast Craterize. Plus, remember that it can also hit Moxen, tokens, and other such annoyances.
2397108 I'm still upset Noggles got their own creature type, instead of being donkeys (for tribal synergies with Unhinged's donkeyfolk).
Since you're not using charge counters with the new Cascading Calamity, the spell needs a better counter name. How about "Cutie Mark Crusader counter"?
2U for a counter that can only occasionally fire? Just how badly have they nerfed counterspell effects since the good ol' days of 3rd Ed UU "Counterspell"?
/has barely played since the 1990s
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Well, nowadays, they decided to tack an extra mana on the end of Counterspell. There's been an effort to make creatures worth playing, which sometimes means the removal has to be a little worse.
Still, you may be right about Overreach. It's intended as a sort of bizarro Dispersal Shield. On the other hand, it does automatically stop virtually any spell as long as the caster only has lands out, and that perpetuates a state of not-fun...
Yeah, this sort of thing can be surprisingly tricky.
No, Opal definitely isn't stupid
Sweetie Belle said "oops," and all experienced wizards fled.
2396869 Who is Buckey?
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The OC protagonist of kudzuhaiku's The Chase. Yes, that word count is accurate. The man is a freaking machine.
I now cannot unthink this.
Fortissimo and Booming War Cry both seems quite strong. And Fortissimo really makes we want to play a song deck.