Hey everybody, welcome to episode 156 of Ominous Designs. This week we are going to emulate what Planar Chaos did back in the day, use known designs and twist them to fit in another color. Also well described as creating cousins for famous cards. Both our designs are inspired by powerful green creatures, so let’s see what their red and black counterparts are.
Tarmouth Managorger
Obviously enough inspired by Managorger Hydra, the horror cousin here is almost the entire opposite to the original design.
How big can you make a 3 drop, knowing that it will steadily diminish until it implodes? That is a tricky question, one to which I decided to give the answer of 5. With flying. Also deathtouch.
Flying is here to attempt making sure you get value until 5 spells are cast, and deathtouch is as well, so that even a 1/1 would be potentially useful.
Whisperwood Regent
This one is the also obvious relative to Whisperwood Elemental. I tried to stick close to the original design and create a new way to manifest cards and a new payoff when sacrificing the Regent.
This big guy gives you a new manifest creature every time one of your red sources deals damage, which could get out of hand for less than 6 manas.
When you sacrificing him though, you have the opportunity to wrath the board, given you own a couple of manifest creatures at this stage, close to the opposite to the Elemental version.
How do you like our cards? As per usual I don’t think they are quite perfected yet but they should give you some food for thoughts that you can use to tweak the version you would think is the best balanced, maybe even create your own inspired designs.
I hope you enjoyed this episode anyways, I do like color shifted cards myself. They satisfy that pattern matching itch in our creative brains. Now is time to say have a great week, I will see you next time for episode 157.
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