[R4]: CD task

[Espithel]

IDEA:

Espithel

NOTES:

Introducing caring about being targeted, the new invention by your favourite saltily demoralised corruption god! The idea is simple, of course. Something happens if you, or your opponent, targets the card. How it's targeted is irrelevant - Buff it, debuff it, blow it up! (AoE not withstanding.) The effect'll happen before the effect of the target takes place. For example, cockatrices petrify things when they look at them, and I'd think zapping them with a bolt of lightning would not go unnoticed. This card The beauty of this mechanic is how modifiable it is, as well as the fact it can self-insert into more complex mechanics. This is a negative effect, one that discourages targeting. You can easily make an effect that makes targeting it encouraged, stacking tons of buffs onto one creature and creating a twist on the "Buff a vampire stilleto to absurd proportions" deck, or big vag. However, you can still go a few layers deeper and create cards such as this one:

IDEA:

Espithel

NOTES:

My vanilla cards are designed to show you clean, simple cards that can get added into the game. My custom cards are designed to show you interesting explorations of this mechanic. This is a card that you can splash 1-3 of in a deck that wants to run a lot of PC in case they're scared of dims, or a lot that wants to run a lot of enchant artifact in case they're retarded. The drawing is the reward for targeting, and everything else is to try and stop from you not immediately using it and then targeting it; Look at all the earth it gives you! And if you try to enchant it to get all that earth and free cards, it caves in when targeted to give you the finger. That's not cool. You gotta play the risk, d00d. I would expect this to be a card played in war, giving earth a bit of a mind-game against annoying elements like or , which don't have PC (Traditionally). If you don't prepare for this and give it to them for free, you're going to cry at all that card advantage. But this is just a random strange permanent. How about something cleaner, simpler, and kinkier? Introducing:

IDEA:

Frozengaia

NOTES:

The momentum and undelaying riders are there to spice up the thing and make this worth targeting on its own. You have all the ways of buffing its ATK, and if you're to compare this to Big Vag, you just need special bonuses, like vampirism or momentum. The readying rider is there to give it in-element synergy with basilisk blood and the warden, whilst the momentum rider is there to not force you to combo this with gravity every single kekking time. Now, the upgraded card is strong on its own. to prevent it from being utterly silly silly with decks that don't care about targeting, I've removed the readying rider to make it less resiliant. You gotta build up those targets! But how do you get enough targeting cards? Are the wardens enough? But they only work on this card. Other cards we could make that beg to be the target of stuff probably don't want to be delayed, or lobotomised, or infected every shiva-damn turn. As a result, we could do with some more reliable targeting cards to make this work. Such as...

IDEA:

Myrmiredon

NOTES:

To stress: My vanilla cards are designed to show you clean, simple cards that can get added into the game. My custom cards are designed to show you interesting explorations of this mechanic. Here, we have a lobotomisable gravity pull for spells. The difference between the unupped and upped is that the unupped copies, whilst the upped redirects. That means double SoW, double blessing, double targeting. That's why it costs 2.5x more than the upped. Of course, it also opens you up for massive 2-for-1s with RT, freeze, and the ilk, something which the upped actively tries to prevent. The best part of this mechanic is how it can easily insert itself into other mechanics; I was planning to show you a divination card with the chaining being triggered by the targeting, not the usage of one of its abilities, but we all know how... Divisive divination cards are. I hope these four cards divide all the voters into two neat categories, though: People who vote for FHM, and people with no taste. Thanks and good night/day/afternoon/midnight/noon/bedtime/breakfast/super/grey goo!