My Fictional Set

[Puberty Dragon]

These are a few cards on which I've been working. They're part of a fictional set that may or may not be part of the traditional Magiverse.
The story lacks detail so far, but I've worked out some basic framework. As a breakaway from Ravnica's multicolor load, this set will definitely bring out the hatred the factions have toward each other, in favor of self-dependence. The set will feature the best and worst of each color.
For the plot, and correct me if I'm being too generic, a horrid tyrant has emerged, and due to its ostensible invulnerability, has grown to be fearfully revered by its followers and dreaded by all others. A godlike nature is often implied in flavor text.
Anyhow, black takes reign as the other slices of the pie scramble into hidden corners of the plane, seeking refuge with strange, new creatures known as the Tal'den, who are rumored to have some connection with the reigning power. It needs more explanation, I know, but I hope I've sewn some potentially intriguing seeds here.

Here are some cards of the set I have so far:


Black:


Haunting Nighstalker - 4BB
Creature - Nighstalker
When Haunting Nighstalker goes to the graveyard from play, target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.
4/4

Rogue Assassin - 1B
Creature - Mutant
Fear
Skip your main phases.
3/2

Absence of Grace - 5BB
Sorcery
Target player sacrifices all creatures he or she controls.
Children danced, flowers bloomed. All was well, until He came.

White:

Salvation - 2W
Instant
Stampede (This spell costs 1 less for each creature that came into play this turn. )
Prevent the next 4 damage that would be dealt to target creature or player this turn.

Stalwart Blessings WW
Enchantment - Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has protection from instants.
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil.


Green:


Fang and Claw - 4GG
Sorcery
Reveal the top five cards of your library and choose a creature card among them. If you do, put that creature into play. Then remove the rest from the game.

War Boar - 2GG
Creature - Beast
Stampede (This creature costs 1 less for each creature that came into play this turn. )
You may play War Boar any time you could play an instant.
2/2


One of the new mechanics on which I'm working: Auxiliary - You may sacrifice a permanent of this card's type with the same converted mana cost as this card when you play this instead of paying this card's mana cost.
It may seem hairy, but here's an example:

Tending Automaton - 3

Artifact Creature - Shepherd

Auxiliary(When you play this, you may sacrifice an artifact with converted mana cost 3. If you do, you may play this without paying its mana cost.)
Whenever a nontoken creature comes into play, put a 0/1 colorless sheep artifact creature token into play.
When He took power, the automatons were left to govern themselves.
1/2


As you can see, there is a lot of interaction between creatures and spells, mainly with the Stampede mechanic - This costs 1 less to play for each creature that came into play this turn.


Thanks for looking, please give comments/criticism.

Puberty Dragon.

[Maleficent]

W000 Stampede! More fun with [card:467e15355b]Cloudstone Curio[/card:467e15355b] and Kobolds! I don't see why white should have it though.. more green with a hint of red.

You may want to look at other cards to base the power of yours on.

Haunting Nightstalker: um this one demon that costs 5BB, has flying, is 5/5, and when it dies all creatures get -5/-5. Forget the name :? that could cost less though.

Rogue Assassin: Seems too weak, not being able to play anything? That guy should be plain unblockable or something.

Absence of Grace: [card:467e15355b]Plague Wind[/card:467e15355b] (and that doesn't work against indestructibles).

I like both of your mechanics. Haha Auxiliary looks like one I made up, except more balanced (mine is kinda really broken :|). I could see making some nice combos with that :twisted:

[Puberty Dragon]

Cool, thanks! I'll look into modifying stuff.

[Tynion]

Stampede Driver
GG2
Creature - Human BeastLord
Sacrifice Stampede Driver: Remove X creatures in play from the game. Return those creatures into play at the beginning of your next main phase.

1/1

[Camlost]

I actually think Haunting Nightstalker is great as a common or even uncommon. Nice balance, elegant and simple. As a rare you do have something to compare against as Maleficent stated.

I see what you're trying for with the Rogue Assassin, but I think it needs more work. I would agree that unblockability would seem better for the cost involved. as long as you're dipping into blue abilities you might as well add something like "Skip your next turn: Rogue Assassin may be blocked as normal. Any player may play this ability." And at that point you might as well make the casting cost UB instead of 1B. See what I mean about more work?

Absence of Grace is too powerful as written. I agree that you need to do some comparisons to Plague Winds there to help get the balance right.

I like Stampede. the only thing lacking is the flavor of the word being so heavily green. A different name might suit. Otherwise there's some really interesting interactions possible. Watch out for multiple token generating cards, though. I have no problem with the thought of rallying a bunch of white dorks and getting some benefit, so white seems like a fine color to see it used in.

Stalwart Blessings might be pushing the color pie a little, otherwise it's good. Of course, being a huge fan of shelter, I would be tempted to make it an instant and add the cantrip at a cost of 1W. Again, only because Shelter has me wrapped around her, er, I mean it's little finger.

I like Tooth and Na....er, I mean Fang and Claw. I assume uncommon at least, probably rare?

Wild Boar has a wonderful feel to it with Stampede. I might even go so far as to go with a CC of 3G (for a common) or up the P/T for the current cost (for an uncommon).

Auxillary has promise and has some interesting interactions with Stampede when Stampede is on a creature card.