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dravidious · 5 months

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You're more amazing than noodles

That, my good friend, is a matter of taste.

Anyway, vehicle crew costs are too low so I made big ones

The vast majority of crew costs are 3 or less. I'm pretty sure the reason why crew costs are so low is because a vehicle would have to be really good to justify a high crew cost, but making a vehicle significantly stronger than its mana cost would normally allow probably causes gameplay problems or something idk, so vehicles typically end up in a middle zone where they have low crew costs and are somewhat stronger than their mana cost would allow.

My way of making higher crew costs was to add enters-the-battlefield effects to the vehicles; by giving them extra value outside of their use as a creature, it justifies giving the creature part a worse cost-benefit ratio. Thus, a high crew cost for a creature that's only somewhat stronger than its mana cost would allow.

Honestly giving a vehicle a high crew cost is also dangerous just because the player might be totally unable to pay it. Especially since by spending mana and a card playing a vehicle, they DIDN'T get to spend that on a real creature. That's why I stuck to crew 4-5. Except for the Excavator Dreadnought, where I just went all-out.

#asks #custom cards #low crew costs are fine i guess #forcing you to tap even just 1 creature can be significant #and if you try to use 1/1 tokens to trivialize the crew cost? crew 2 and crew 3 force you to invest a decent amount of power #but god damn i want some WEIGHT in my games #related: i like reloading with gunlance in monster hunter #a hefty cost makes the payoff feel more satisfying #it's not even about getting a big payoff #a big 7/7 trample haste Thundersteel Colossus with crew 2 just. feels wrong #so give that colossus a noncreature ability and pump up that crew cost! give crewing that thing some WEIGHT!#ironically i didn't make an actual literal dreadnought boat #speaking of literal dreadnoughts Consulate Dreadnought actually has a crew cost of 6!#but a mana cost of 1.#give me WEIGHT damn you!#honestly having vehicles be cards with no mana cost but instead have a crew cost could be really neat #but that's not what they are so having a low mana cost on a big damn creature feels wrong #oh yeah also ticket tokens #you know like. train tickets or plane tickets #inspired by that one SoNC train that crews itself with treasure tokens #i always spell that set name “cappena” but it's “capenna” which feels weird because it looks like “cape” but it's not pronounced like that #wait is it? i'm pretty sure but i don't actually know #anyway i don't actually like ticket tokens as an idea that much because cheating on costs is dumb and boring #like i said: a big cost gives weight to the payoff. cheating away the cost takes away the weight #WAIT FUCK I FORGOT TO MAKE THE TOKEN SACRIFICE ITSELF #lol whoops whatever

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