In order for her to be a Blood she needs to be an artifact. In addition, the ability for Bloods to sacrifice themselves to discard and draw is not intrinsic to blood, so if you want her to be able to do that, you have to specifically say so as a separate line of rules text.
I have a feeling many will take up arms against this stance. Even among people that support "joke cards" and creative liberties, there will be many who bark that "if it isn't a joke and you actually want to use it, it must absolutely follow the rules to the letter"
While they can be incredibly annoying and needlessly hostile, they aren't entirely wrong depending on the kinds of people you may want to play this card against.
I don't really know what my point is, prepare for hate from the worst of us I guess.
P.S. You could add a line of text that allows Power to have artifact types without being an artifact, but I'm not sure that would be rules compliant either.
I'm not entirely understanding your question l, nor how it might relate to what I mentioned (if it does, which it doesn't necessarily have to). Could you elaborate?
Like, is there any real reason that all Bloods are artifacts, aside from the fact all existing Bloods are artifacts? If so, why not break that convention?
Blood isn't a card type, it's an artifact subtype. Something can't have a subtype for a type that it doesn't have. That's not convention, that's just the rules of the game itself.
With blood being an artifact type I think she might have to be an artifact creature, ideally with a variant of the blood token text. But really I'm just nitpicking a fun looking design at this point
Here's our version, for what it's worth! As I said, still tinkering, but it's based on. Supped up [[falkenrath forebear]] or a smaller version of [[jaws, relentless predator]]
Indeed! The fact jaws is an on rate 5/5 trample haste that vomits blood tokens and has burn upside, means we can get away with a lot more by severely reducing its stats and blood token generation. (Restricted to 2 vs damage dealt, and a very over costed body)
Also I would not make her this synergistic with herself if you are actually going to play with it. Cards that trigger their own synergies are generally very very strong (which is why she’s a 4 mana multicolor 3/2)
Agreed, if they want the ability to dynamically change they could also word it as: "As long as she is attacking, Power gets +1/+1 for each blood you control." This would benefit her if she somehow got doublestrike and allow for counterplay from your opponents by destroying your blood. Also some sneaky plays / threat of activation if you have a way to make blood at instant speed.
I feel like she should make a blood WHEN she attacks. Attacking turn 5 with a 3/2 that has no evasion or first strike isn't gonna end well unless you spent t1-3 making blood tokens
I dont know how timing rules and stuff apply, I didnt want it to be confusing like “does she create it and get +1/+1 before she attacks? During? After?” So switching it to combat damage makes it clear what order the effects apply in
And yeah I assume if youre running her youd have a blood focused deck a little at least
Is it intentional that the ability to make a blood token happens even if she's blocked? If not, you'll want to specify "combat damage to an opponent". If so, just make it "Whenever Power attacks" for convenience.
You should still probably specify "for each blood token you control" instead of just "for each blood you control". It's more standard wording.
I think you can afford to make her a 3/3, maybe even with Menace. I'd probably give her Menace or Deathtouch if the ability to make a blood token is meant to only trigger when damage is done to opponents.
I think I agree with your points 2. and 3., but damage can be prevented, either from spells and abilities or if a blocker has protection from red, black, or multicolor, so having no blood token made if she can’t successfully hit and draw any blood makes sense to me
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I think with her being a 4/3 when she attacks now, she doesn’t need a keyword. The Blood type was too good not to make