Friendship is Card Games: A Bird in the Hoof · 2:35pm Sep 28th, 2014
First off, an administrative matter. Future readers diving through the archives, please direct your mind-machine interfaces lower down this laughably primitive sheet of text.
Now, one way or another, I'd like to see Rainbow Rocks before the "trimmed for commercial" version on whatever they'll be calling the Hub at that point. (Remember, the TV version of Equestria Girls cut out Trixie's vending machine scene. Utterly unforgivable.) However, it doesn't make much sense to do the sequel before the original, and that's a lot of footage for a double feature FiCG.
I'm thinking that if I can see the movie this week, I'll do Equestria Girls next week and Rainbow Rocks the one after. Does that work for everyone?
Now, as for the episode that gave us canon Trollestia:
I have to love Angel as the White Rabbit. Sadly, the episode did not premiere in March, though it missed the double pun by only a week. In any case, the opening scene here is Angel at his best, actively helping Fluttershy as best he can. This is the kind of Angel I had in mind when I came up with Archon of Virtue, and it's one I wish we could see more of.
The characterization of the main cast is great here. Fluttershy shrinking from any conflict, Dash trying to mess with the guards, Spike so used to the princess that it's not a big deal for him, Twilight twitching in her need for Celestia's approval, Rarity at STAINCON 1, Applejack desperately trying to recall her Manehattan etiquette lessons… and then there's Pinkie, who could not even begin to give a crap. Also, between this and "Pinkie Pride," I think we have confirmation that planeswalkers can't resist chocolate fountains.
Darn. Now I wish I could draw, because that is a fantastic mental image.
Anyway, I have to feel for Celestia. Everypony's being so anxious about not upsetting her (especially Twilight,) and she just wants them to enjoy themselves (especially Twilight.) Really, it's no wonder she pulled that little "Gotcha."
I suspect that Celestia's just making polite conversation with Fluttershy at the party. In all likelihood, the Royal Intelligence Agency has complete dossiers and personality profiles for the Bearers. Assuming the RIA exist, which the RIA denies. (Though it would explain how the guards knew Twilight would be at Fluttershy's cottage about a minute after she went there.)
I probably enjoyed the Yakety Ersatz more than I should've.
"Young lady," Celestia says. How many centuries do you think those two have spent together? Still, when Philomena acts like a child, she gets treated like one. (And I suppose she's relatively young at the time, what with just having renewed herself.)
And now cards:
Medicinal Ointment W
Instant
Choose one —
• Regenerate target white creature.
• Tap target black or red creature.
"I'm so sorry. I didn't even know creatures could be allergic to that."
—Fluttershy, Bearer of Kindness
Wingblade Technique 1W
Instant
Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. If that creature has flying, it gains double strike until end of turn.
Through will and magic, feathers can gain the strength of steel.
Royal Treatment 3W
Enchantment
During your turn, spells your opponents cast cost 2 more to cast and abilities those players activate cost 2 more to activate unless they're mana abilities.
"I try to tell them it's all unnecessary, but they insist."
—Princess Celestia
Recursive Banishment 3WW
Enchantment
When Recursive Banishment enters the battlefield, exile target creature and put two time counters on it. If that card doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, remove a time counter from that card. When the last is removed, the player casts it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
Time counters can't be removed from the exiled card.
Critter Convalescence 4W
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay 2W. If you do, return target creature card with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
"Fitness shouldn't have to be a requirement for survival."
—Fluttershy, Bearer of Kindness
Stoic Guardstallions 4W
Creature — Pegasus Soldier
Flying, vigilance
Unblinking. Unbowed. Unbreachable.
2/5
Backup Hummer U
Creature — Bird
Flying
Whenever Backup Hummer deals combat damage to a player, you may put a verse counter on target Song you control.
If a plane can love anything, then Ungula loves music.
1/1
Senescence U
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
At the beginning of each upkeep, put an age counter on Senescence.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0 for each age counter on Senescence.
"My body gave out before my mind did, and I call that lucky."
—Granny Smith
Delicate Couture UU
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+3.
Whenever enchanted creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice Delicate Couture.
"Nopony move, and my dress won't get hurt!"
—Rarity, Bearer of Generosity
Bloat 1U
Instant
Target creature gets -4/+4 until end of turn.
"In theory, blue magic can affect most living tissue, given the water content. In practice, there's not much it can do with it."
—Ditzy Doo
Runneth Over 1U
Instant
Tap up to two target lands.
Gotcha — Whenever an opponent eats or drinks, you may say "Gotcha!" If you do, return Runneth Over from your graveyard to your hand.
Our lawyers ask that you cross-reference Fat Ass.
Snack Snatch B
Instant
The next time target player would gain life this turn, you gain that much life instead.
Draw a card.
"You gonna eat that?"
—Pinkie Pie, Bearer of Laughter
Last Second 1RR
Sorcery
Fateful hour — Take an extra turn after this one. At the beginning of that turn's end step, if you have 6 or more life, you lose the game.
"Time dislikes being toyed with, but it can show mercy to those in great need."
—Star Swirl the Bearded, journal
Tough Love 2R
Enchantment
1R: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. Tough Love deals 2 damage to that creature.
"Love can hurt ten times worse than hatred."
—Cadence, Princess of Serenity
Solar Phoenix 3RR
Creature — Phoenix
Flying
Whenever Solar Phoenix becomes the target of a spell or ability, you may sacrifice it. If you do, it deals damage equal to its power to that spell or ability's controller.
When Solar Phoenix dies, put it on top of its owner's library at the beginning of the next end step. If it was sacrificed, return it to that player's hand at the beginning of the next end step instead.
3/3
Megavitamins 1G
Instant
Regenerate target creature. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.
They'll cure all your ills.
Aromatherapy Candle 2
Artifact
Aromatherapy Candle enters the battlefield with three charge counters on it.
2, T, Remove a charge counter from Aromatherapy Candle: Regenerate target creature.
Its smoke soothes body and soul alike.
Irrepressible Glee RW
Sorcery
Target player sacrifices an artifact and an enchantment.
"You keep talking, and all I hear is, 'No fun allowed.' I respectfully disagree."
—Pinkie Pie, Bearer of Laughter
Seek Out 3GUB
Sorcery
Name a creature card. Reveal cards from the top of your library until the named card is revealed. If it is, put the rest of the revealed cards into your graveyard and put the named card onto the battlefield. Otherwise, shuffle your library.
I feel like Last Second should havesomenominal non-Fateful Hour effect, even if it only amounts to cycling Last Second away ("Draw a card. Fateful Hour –" etc.)Wait, never mind, it doesn't care what your current life total is, it just kills you at the end of your extra turn if you don't meet Fateful Hour conditions. Kind of like how Chroma-flagged abilities can count things other than devotion. That works!
Have you made a princess cadence, if not what about a soul bond mechanic.
Who can resist chocolate fountains?
Noticed an error:
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I can, quite easily. I don't like chocolate.
Now, a cheese fountain on the other hand...
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See Sideboard of Harmony, "Wedding Bells of Velis Vel."
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There's resisting the opportunity to coat something in liquid chocolate, and then there's resisting the urge to plunge your entire face into the cascade. Pinkie and Ditzy have both failed to do the latter. I am now convinced that no chocolate fountain is safe from planeswalkers... except Karn, but he doesn't eat.
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Argh, and I forgot the enchant ability too. Thanks. Delicate Couture was briefly (as in for about a minute) a Vulshok Battlegear that unattached itself when the equipped creature was targeted. I decided to go for the traditional illusion effect instead.
Interestingly, if they somehow make you lose double strike, you still have first strike.
Last Second is a very very nice way to give a color other than blue extra turn shennanigans, and a very unique take on the fateful hour mechanic.
And as for Runneth Over? Excuse me, I will get back to you on that once I finish dying from laughter.
2493095 I'm pretty sure I meant the same thing.
Yeah, I'm not allowed at Golden Corral anymore...
This page marks the third time I've been forced to change the border color by unzipping the set file and hand-editing the YAML in emacs. (Runneth Over)
Oi. Also, there have been three times so far I've had to change the card color and add a color indicator. This has to be done by hand because MSE doesn't work perfectly in wine. And the five-color indicator is striped, which I think is uglier than if it were wedges. Oi.