"Enhanced" Creatures

[Marco]

My set has a cycle of 10 "enhanced" creatures (some monocolored creatures in my set have a bigger effect if mana of a specific color was used to pay their costs). Here's what I have so far:

Borderland Zealot
3W
Creature – Human Soldier (Common)
2/4
When Borderland Zealot enters the battlefield, if B was spent to cast Borderland Zealot, target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Exotic Weapon Master
3W
Creature - Human Soldier (Common)
2/2
Flash
When Exotic Weapon Master enters the battlefield, if R was spent to cast Exotic Weapon Master, it gains haste until end of turn.
T: Tap target creature.

Crosswind Drake
3U
Creature – Drake (Common)
3/1
Flash
Flying
When Crosswind Drake enters the battlefield, if G was spent to cast Crosswind Drake, regenerate it.

Dwarven Pioneer
3R
Creature – Dwarf Nomad (Common)
2/4
When Dwarven Pioneer enters the battlefield, if W was spent to cast Dwarven Pioneer, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Streetwise Scoundrels
3R
Creature – Human Rogue (Common)
3/1
First strike
When Streetwise Scoundrels enters the battlefield, if U was spent to play Streetwise Scoundrels, each opponent sacrifices a permanent unless he or she pays 1.

[Marco]

Dwarven Pioneer is being changed to:

Wandering Giant
3R
Creature – Giant Nomad (Common)
3/3
When Wandering Giant enters the battlefield, if W was spent to cast Wandering Giant, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.

Seems more appropriate...

[Marco]

New:

Scyphozoa
3U
Creature – Jellyfish (Common)
2/2
Scyphozoa can't be blocked except by blue creatures.
When Scyphozoa enters the battlefield, if R was spent to cast Scyphozoa, return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Centaur Stargazer
3G
Creature – Centaur Archer (Common)
2/3
Reach
When Centaur Stargazer enters the battlefield, if U was spent to cast Centaur Stargazer, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

[Delha]

New:

Scyphozoa
3U
Creature – Jellyfish (Common)
2/2
Scyphozoa can't be blocked except by blue creatures.
When Scyphozoa enters the battlefield, if R was spent to cast Scyphozoa, return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Centaur Stargazer
3G
Creature – Centaur Archer (Common)
2/3
Reach
When Centaur Stargazer enters the battlefield, if U was spent to cast Centaur Stargazer, look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

I like both of these quite a bit.

[Marco]

Thanks!

There was some concern over bounce if you spent red. (That this only appeared in red in Planar Chaos.) I think red can have a small amount of "return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand", plus you need to spend blue to cast Scyphozoa.

* As a Goblins player, one of my happiest days was when WoTC printed Stingscourger for my Goblin deck. It gave me a way to deal with Darksteel Colossus...

[Delha]

Thanks!

There was some concern over bounce if you spent red. (That this only appeared in red in Planar Chaos.) I think red can have a small amount of "return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand", plus you need to spend blue to cast Scyphozoa.

* As a Goblins player, one of my happiest days was when WoTC printed Stingscourger for my Goblin deck. It gave me a way to deal with Darksteel Colossus...

I understand that it's not traditional, and would have questioned your color assignment if the card were monored. As an add-on to a creature you're always paying blue for, it doesn't really bother me. Feels a little weird, but I'd consider easily within the established boundaries. In both cases, we're talking about abilities that have overlapped between those two colors in the past, which I assume is why you chose them.
Ditto for the Centaur.