Maroon

[Jacob Orlove]

And what happens when an island has "R: +1/+0" or "Tap: add one mana of the chosen color to your mana pool"?

You either keep all abilities, or none, and "all" has serious issues.

[asmoranomardicodais]

What the problem with either of those? Anyone knows an island with firebreathing is moot, so there's no problem with that unless you
genju it. And "add one mana of the chosen color" couldn't be an issue,because on something like quirion elves, the color was already chosen earlier, and it doesn't get unchosen just because the elves are now an island. I doubt there is any ability (other than maybe shapeshifter) that wouldcause a problem.

Besides, ninja islands are l33t (the pirates won't see 'em coming)

[dandan]

If leaving activated abilities alone is possible and means that this can cost 1UU then I'm for it!

Note that a Kobold would be a Red Island - Cuba!
Islandhome creatures would be safe from destruction from an opponent destroying their Islands, errr, sort of 
This card would unleash the might of Dandan on an unsuspecting opponent. Sending a Colossus on vacation is bad but then having 4/1 big fish attack you really hurts.

If StP sends a creature farming, this would send a creature on holiday.

[Jacob Orlove]

Well, then what happens if you enchant a Licid with one of these? It becomes a "Basic Enchantment Land -- Aura Island"?

[asmoranomardicodais]

  Yeah, it would. But so what? You use the licid ability, it turns itself into an aura, attaches to something, and then you pay the mana to end the effect. It still works just the same.

[SpencerForHire]

How about something like:

When Maroon comes into play, remove target creature from the game.
When Maroon leaves play, return that creature to play under its owner's control.

I know we are way past this but... [card]oubliette[/card].

[dandan]

The original idea was not to remove the creature but put it under nobody's control. That was a problem rules-wise. My idea was to take the creature out of the 'control' of its controller by putting it on an Island or technically putting an Island on it (sort of). This does a lot of things Oubliette doesn't, most of which are weird and therefore cool.

Although possibly the weirdest thing ever, I think we have avoided most rules issues and also as luck would have it, most power level and flavour issues too.

The fact that this makes Dandan even more powerful is entirely coincidental. Maybe.

[JAG]

I think it is in flavor for it to keep its abilities, but you should change the ability of Maroon a bit, since at no point do we say that the enchanted creature actually becomes a land.  as it stands, we're removing its Type and adding a Subtype, but not a type.  In MODO execution, it would look like:

- Island

not good.  I suggest something like:

"Enchant creature or Island.
Enchanted creature is a land.  (It's no longer a creature.)
Enchanted land is an Island in addition to its land types.  It does not lose its abilities."

Basically the same functionality, but i believe it works better with the rules.  In fact, although it looks like you can enchant a land that's not an island, the aura rules prevent that, so it's functionally the same as it was before.  I do love the "this man is an island" flavor.

-JM