Humongous green spells

[Matt]

Version 1:

Spring Forth, Burly Protector!
4GG
Instant
Until end of turn, each noncreature, nonland permanent is a creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost.
Until end of turn, each land is a 1/1 creature.

Version 2:

The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Music
4GG
Enchantment
Each noncreature, nonland permanent other than ~this~ is a creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost.
Each land is a 1/1 creature.

Both are pretty cool, I think, but they overlap a lot. Which would be cooler?

[Matt]

Current wording:

Day of Creation
{4}{G}{G}
Legendary Enchantment
Each noncreature artifact and global enchantment other than ~this~ is a creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost.
Each land is a 1/1 creature.
And God said, "Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." -Genesis 1:20

[Jacob Orlove]

Those names are hilarious. I'd lean towards the second one, but we should make sure it doesn't cause any kind of rules implosion.

[Matt]

I don't think it would cause any rules nonsense that March of the Machines didn't. I put the "other than this" clause in so it's not just a 6/6 for 6.

I could make it a Legendary Enchantment, so that a second one of these is truly redundant (can't make each other 6/6s). It's a huge enough effect to warrant that, surely.

[Jacob Orlove]

Well, it does weird things to local enchantments.

[Ephraim]

I like the first one just because it doesn't feel like an Opalesence+. Instead of the wording you're using now, you could have it not do weird things with local enchantments and instead say...

Until end of turn, each artifact and global enchantment is a creature with power and toughness equal to its converted mana cost and each land is a 1/1 creature.

That gets all noncreature permanents, doesn't do weird things with local enchantments, and uses the positive instead of the negative (since artifacts and enchantments cover all non-land, non-creature permanents)

[Matt]

I hadn't thought of local enchantments. Changes made to reflect this. I still have to say "noncreature artifact" though.

[MrZuccinniHead]

you could also say non-local enchantments.

How bout this for a name...

Aura of Animation

or

Nature's Response

[Matt]

Bump. I'm going to go with the Enchantment one, so that the fact that it affects your opponent's stuff is more relevant. It also makes the land clause more relevant, so you don't just have a bunch of tapped 1/1s.

Also, I'm going with Legendary Enchantment. Now I just need a suitably legendary name.

[dandan]

How about

Will of Gaea

The Life Within

Ecosystem

[Ephraim]

It occurs to me that this card is stepping on a lot of toes. Although it is very green to animate enchantments, March of the Machines clearly gives the old Titania's Song ability to blue. This also takes the white ability of Opalescence. If this were unifying a white and a red ability, I would say it's all right in green, the intersection of the two. As it is, there's no colour that can really rightfully claim a unity of a white card and a blue card. I like the idea, but I just feel as though there's something very wrong with this execution of it. Maybe this could instead be turned into an artifact that activates or triggers to turn target noncreature artifact, global enchantment, or land into a creature until end of turn.

[Matt]

It brings everything to life. If that's not green, nothing is.

[Jacob Orlove]

Yeah, this is very green. Too bad "living plane" is taken.

[Matt]

Is there some mythical event, like the Day of Creation, that would fit here? The flavor is that everything in the whole plane is suddenly infused with an abundance of life-energy and gets up to shake its groove thang.

I know we only have one card - Night of Souls' Betrayal - to go on, but it seems to me that the flavor behind legendary enchantments is that they are specific events (but also with a longer duration than, say, the 'event' of an assassin's bullet killing someone). I could always make this a world enchantment but I don't really want to for this card, partly because the ideal name - Living Plane - is already taken.

[Matt]

Whoops, actually there are like seven legendary enchantments, although discounting the Hondens for obvious reasons, the flavor stands as "big events" ([card]Night of Souls' Betrayal[/card] and [card]Day of Destiny[/card]).

Name?

[Matt]

Current wording:

Day of Creation
{G}{G}
Legendary Enchantment
Each noncreature artifact and global enchantment other than Day of Creation is a creature with power and toughness each equal to its converted mana cost.
Each land is a 1/1 creature.
And God said, "Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." -Genesis 1:20

[Jacob Orlove]

I think that'd be fine. Something astrological for the white one, maybe, to tie into Vedalken Orrery and Vernal Equinox.

Edit: and obviously we'd change the flavor text too.

[Matt]

Wouldn't we have to also alter the white card's flavor text?

[Matt]

Bump0la.

[Matt]

24 hour clock. Also, I need to know what to rename the white card as.

[Matt]

Closed and added.[/color]