Loyalty Gem card series

ErikInVegas

There are many cards that increase mana and gem matches that are quite popular.

https://mtgpq.info/cards/ShrineOfTheForsakenGods = rare support = At the beginning of your turn, gain 3 mana. Activate 3: The first colorless card in your hand gains 2 mana

https://mtgpq.info/cards/DrownyardTemple = rare support = At the beginning of your turn, gain 3 mana. Landfall: If this Support was Destroyed this game, Return it to the battlefield.

https://mtgpq.info/cards/CorruptedGrafstone = rare support = convert 2 gems to your PW color

also various color bound supports & spells.


I propose a series of cards that increase the Loyalty attribute & gems:

uncommon colorless support = gain 1 loyalty at start of turn
uncommon colorless support = convert 1 enemy gem to loyalty (Loyalty Gems are neutral not colored)

rare colorless support = gain 2 loyalty
rare colorless support = convert 2 enemy gems to loyalty gems

mythic colorless support = gain 3 loyalty
mythic colorless support = convert 3 enemy gems to loyalty gems

masterpiece support = gain 4 loyalty
masterpiece support =  convert 4 enemy gems to loyalty gems

I expect these cards to be popular and increase the value of PW powers.

Blorbleflorp

I love this idea, specifically for my Tezz fabricate deck. Only question, what cards from paper mtg would you place this functionality on? It isn't really a paper magic mechanic at all, so implementation would be difficult!

ErikInVegas

I'm not sure it fits any paper MTG cards because in the PWs are not the player characters in paper MTG.

I just saw a void in the cards and was hoping it would open up new strategies so that people don't cram the same 10 cards into every red deck, the same 10 cards into every white deck and the same 10 cards into every blue deck.

Amplifying the differences between PWs would help sell more of them and make play more diverse.

GregDreher

Some of the artifacts in Amonkhet could be used for this purpose, particularly the building ones.  But they'll probably be something different.

ErikInVegas

All these permutations should have been introduced at higher manna costs and then walked down until people used them proportional to rate/rarity.