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« on: February 17, 2005, 12:05:15 pm »
Cloak of Ants
{B}{B}
Enchant Creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and fear.

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It is a little bit better than Dragon Shadow, but not much, so I costed it just a wee bit more. In truth, I just wanted to create a card with the name "Cloak of Ants," so if anybody has a better idea what it could do, feel free to speak up! I'm not tied to this particular mechanic.
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« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2005, 12:05:44 pm »
Current Wording:

Cloak of Ants
{R}{R}
Enchant Creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+0.
{R}: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
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« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2005, 01:34:10 pm »
I allways figured ants would be red ... or green ...
How about,

Cloak of Ants {R}{R}
Enchant Creature

Enchanted Creature gets +0/+1 and "Sacrifice a land: Destroy target non-basic land".
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« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2005, 01:42:15 pm »
It is out of character for red to give creatures toughness bonuses without power bonuses. Also, the second ability on your suggestion doesn't involve the enchanted creature at all -- it might as well be a global enchantment, in that case. Also, black has had a handful of ants in the past. It shared Army Ants with red and had Carrion Ants all to itself. It also has its share of insects, even though some/most of them are not ants, per se.

If I were to make this red, I think it would be something like a better firebreathing:

Cloak of Ants
{R}{R}
Enchant Creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+0.
{R}: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.

If I were to make this green, it might be something like this:

Cloak of Ants
{G}{G}
Enchant Creature

Enchanted creature gets +2/+0.
Sacrifice Cloak of Ants: Regenerate enchanted creature

(the gren variant is a much better [card]Carapace[/card])
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« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2005, 09:33:11 am »
I think I like the red variant of this the best. It sort of obsoletes [card]Flowstone Blade[/card], but it's comparable to stuff like [card]Giant Strength[/card], [card]Maniacal Rage[/card], and [card]Arcane Teachings[/card]. I'd still like other opinions though -- does anybody prefer the black or green variants? Does anybody have other ideas for what this ought to do? If it isn't clear by this point, I'm pretty sure I'd like it to grant +2/+0. That just seems appropriate for a cloak of ants. It's really the second ability that I'm trying to nail down.
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« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2005, 10:52:00 pm »
The red one is pretty cool, and at RR it hardly obsoletes anything.
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« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2005, 03:13:37 am »
Red ants it is. 24 Hour Clock.
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« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2005, 01:02:50 pm »
Closed and added.[/color]
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