So when it comes to this card I randomly got the idea of making a card that lets you take a loan, and then while working on it I got inspired and decided that I could make it a sort of spiritual successor of Black Lotus, where you get 3 mana for basically "free", but of course as black lotus proves that is way too broken so I added what I think is a pretty good downside. I did some calculations and this shouldn't be completely broken, but of course there are thousands of cards in this game so there is probably some combo out there to break it, or my math could be wrong. Still, I like to think it's pretty balanced, since it gives you an advantage at the start that quickly diminishes until you're worse off than you started, so you have to decide if you're going to get an overwhelming advantage or win in the next couple of turns if you use it and evaluate risk vs reward, with you getting more debt to pay off the interest on your debt if you miscalculate, quickly drowning in loans, which is fun lore wise I think. And the last line of text gives your opponent a way to interact with it by "removing" it, which just makes you pay more, while also making it so that you can't weasel your way out of not paying the price. So yeah, I hope you guys like it and feel free to give me feedback, I'd love to hear what you all think, even if you think it's bad!
Man, turn one, drop this, a land, use the loan to play solemnity, and the land to pay the 1, and voila you have a repeatable black lotus that doesn't even need lurrus...
Run some [[Thief of Blood]] for later turns to turn off the payment entirely, [[Copy Enchantment]] for copies 5-8 of the loan, [[Estrid's Invocation]] for 9-12.
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u/Skyler-The-Wise 8d ago
So when it comes to this card I randomly got the idea of making a card that lets you take a loan, and then while working on it I got inspired and decided that I could make it a sort of spiritual successor of Black Lotus, where you get 3 mana for basically "free", but of course as black lotus proves that is way too broken so I added what I think is a pretty good downside. I did some calculations and this shouldn't be completely broken, but of course there are thousands of cards in this game so there is probably some combo out there to break it, or my math could be wrong. Still, I like to think it's pretty balanced, since it gives you an advantage at the start that quickly diminishes until you're worse off than you started, so you have to decide if you're going to get an overwhelming advantage or win in the next couple of turns if you use it and evaluate risk vs reward, with you getting more debt to pay off the interest on your debt if you miscalculate, quickly drowning in loans, which is fun lore wise I think. And the last line of text gives your opponent a way to interact with it by "removing" it, which just makes you pay more, while also making it so that you can't weasel your way out of not paying the price. So yeah, I hope you guys like it and feel free to give me feedback, I'd love to hear what you all think, even if you think it's bad!