Aeromancy

[Marco]

Aeromancy

Enchantment
When Aeromancy comes into play, put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying into play.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no Angels in play, each opponent gains 1 life.

The card name is from the Master List (Ephraim's card).

Aeromancy (from Greek aero, "air", and manteia, "divination", is divination conducted by interpreting atmospheric conditions)

Aeromancy ties the card to Sarcomancy, on which Aeromancy is obviously based, but maybe a better/different card name is in order.

I'm thinking of making my set a tribal set with Angel and Human as the two white tribes. A possible revision is:

Aeromancy

Tribal Enchantment - Angel
When Aeromancy comes into play, put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying into play.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no Angel creatures in play, each opponent gains 1 life.

The tribal element of this card does nothing currently with no cards to support it (I had to specify "...if there are no Angel creatures in play..." so that it did not count the enchantment itself). I will have to build Angel tribal cards around it to make it functionally different than the first version.

[Marco]

Current Wording (post-M10):

Aeromancy
2WW
Enchantment (Rare)
When Aeromancy enters the battlefield, put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are no Angels on the battlefield, each opponent gains 1 life.

[Matt]

I like it! But don't make Human a specific color's tribe. :<

[Anusien]

I like it as a Tribal Enchantment, but can we really cost it at 2WW?  Even with the "drawback"?

[Matt]

Sure, why not?

Sarcomancy is a 2/2 token for B and a drawback, and we can all agree that a 2/2 creature for 1B would be fair.

This is a Serra Angel, minus the vigilance, for 1 less than an acceptably fair cost of 3WW, in exchange for a drawback. Sure the drawback isn't as bad as Sarcomancy's, but then the cost savings isn't as steep either - B is only half of 1B, where this is still 80% of the full cost.

[Hi-Val]

This looks like it would be really fun as an uncommon. I'd make the lifegain a "may" effect. It makes it easier if someone forgets to, and things that make opponents do something in their favor usually have a "may" clause on them. You wouldn't want some sort of brutal Isochron Scepter/False Cure kill with this card now, would you?

[Marco]

Updated current wording to M10 and looking for more feedback.

[Darkenslight]

Why not cost this as  , and have the drawback be each opponent may gain 2 life?  IT would fit the rarity more and add soemthing that's high risk for both Aggro and Control of the White flavour.

[jro]

I'm pretty sure this is a lot better than Sarcomancy.  4/4 fliers are much harder to kill than 2/2 non-fliers, so the chance of the drawback mattering seems pretty minimal, especially as part of a tribal set.  It also seems especially easy for an opponent to forget to gain the life (assuming it would be a may ability), since the condition is likely to vary from turn to turn.  I'd rather see just a 4/4 flier for 2WW that had "During your upkeep, each opponent gains 1 (or 2) life." or something like that.  It's not the same flavor at all, but it's much more likely to be played correctly, and the drawback is actually relevant.

[Anusien]

Losing 1 life is significantly different from giving each opponent 1 life, especially as this is more control oriented.  Up the drawback.  Or maybe 1WWW?

Then again, this looks a lot more fair in light of Baneslayer Angel.

[Marco]

This is not going to be tribal and it is not each opponent may gain 1 life. So they gain 1 life whether they want to or not. My set has plenty of ways for each colour to deal with 4/4 fliers.