cancel sucks, and besides, counterspell does the very same thing for less. or was that replaced? I dunno, I haven't played MTG in ages.

unsummon is pretty great. you'll fuck up your opponent's mana gain if you unsummon his big expensive shit, probably before it even attacks.

ghoulcaller's chant is pretty sweet too, and the rest is okay. we just need some creatures and artifacts and lands, somehow. oh, and the protagonist needs to learn how to summon things.

how do minions, their abilities and loyalty costs work?

>>358173
Well, Cancel does stink, and it'll be replaced once you level up, there is loads of things better than it, but on other matters...

Some of these mechanic will be different depending on what exactly we go for; Less or more rules.

On Minions
Some Minions will give you access to nice spells, others will just have uber personal card effects.

Now on the Loyality cost of Minions, some will want mana, others want riches, basically they want paid.

This cost can dissappear and a Minion can become a [Follower]

Followers have their cost replaced by a [reason]
For example a follow could have thrown thier lot in due to wanting to see other planes. Often a follower's reason is hidden.

Minion, Servant and Follower are for representing the beings that can be willingly summoned/ Npcs

Not all sentient beings will be Minions etc...

On the note of Summoning;
The protagonist is a "neo-planeswalker" which simply means he or she can be killed and isn't a hax-deity level being that old planeswalkers(the ones that didn't have cards, look up Urza) had.

I'm taking the stance that a in terms of summoning things, you need to be more powerful than them/or you need a contract with them/or they are willing, and need to have seen them.

This would be part of my reasoning for planeswalkers well, planeswalking.

They can only summon things they've seen.

As for Lands, well you've already got one connection but in a plane other than innistrad you'll need to "summon" the mana from the lands you've connected to.

You basically, first time you enter a plane you get a powerdown and native creatures have the advantage in that they don't get pulled back to thier homeplane.

Am I making sense here, or am I failing to explain things?

>>358175

I lost you. don't worry, it's probably because I'm kinda baked.

>>358175
I think the first time we fight someone we'll figure what to do. No better teacher than experience, I always say.

So, about the mechanics question;
I am undecided on the question of freeform vs deck, but if we do freeform we need some mechanism to limit the protagonist's ability to spam a single card.
Unsummon, for example, would be utterly OP if it was only limited by its tiny mana cost.

>>358187
Well, one solution to the freeform idea would be to invoke the highlander rule, that is to say:
There can be only one of each card.

Another idea would be having a limited number of slots for active spells, basically make the protagonist like a D&D wizard, having to remember spells before a conflict rather than during. This would be a bit more blue flavour too.

Of course a limit of sixty spells and only four of any given spell would work nicely.

or we could just roll a dice to see if the spell works or fail

A question: What would happen if we were to meet a multicoloured creature, say a Blue/Green Mystic Snake? Can we possess it or is it neutral?

>>358217

okay, this is just my personal opinion but FUCK NO

>>358251
You could possess it, but it'd be without ease.
Fine once inside.

On the whole rolling idea... it can clutter up a quest, and I'm even considering hiding mana costs and getting rid of the power/toughness.

An obvious flaw that the Quest doesn't need to tie itsself to is:

Huge Bat Monster: 1/1
Small little human or something: 1/1

Fine on the cards, annoying on Quest.

>>358260

I wouldn't mind.