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Fleet-Footed Monk
Creature — Human Monk
Fleet-Footed Monk can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or greater.
DreadKhan on I think this is the …
6 months ago
I'd like to leave Preacher here, and for people talking about monks, the old Magic settings had religious orders based on Western ones, not so much Eastern, I can't decide if Fleet-Footed Monk is supposed to be a Western or Eastern figure, earlier stuff was heavily European. Aysen Abbey is pretty prominent in Homelands at least, and the set features figures related to that Abbey, culminating in Ol Sideways Finger-Gun-Nun. The Order of the Ebon Hand is a Western inspired (Un)Holy Order IMHO, they even have Ebon Praetor in charge. I'm just saying it's funny, not that at this point a Monk in Magic isn't more likely Shaolin inspired than Hospitaller, the default has moved East it seems.
I do think it's quite possible to do a respectful 'lift' of an idea/concept when writing fantasy/scifi, but I think you do need to use the term in a respectful manner. The term should be tied to it's 'real world' use, and I think if the overwhelming majority of people who collectively identify as such aren't bothered it's probably fine? I mean, they can change their mind later I guess? Anyways, I don't know how I feel about the term 'shaman' specifically because it is afaik non-denominational, it's not tied to it's actual origins and is mostly used by Western powers to denigrate indigenous faiths. Maybe it's good if it goes then, because of the heaps of negative associations? I'm not sure what you could legitimately replace shaman with, maybe 'priest'? That's loaded AF at this point, but even Druid isn't a direct pathway, most shamans are closer to spirit guides than anything Druidic.
Tzefick on Evergreen keywords becomes Skills
4 years ago
Getting back to responding to comments here;
- "This is design space that evergreen keywords are actually trying to avoid. There are only a few rares and mythics that have the "list of keywords" ability. Not only is to complicating the intentionally simplistic evergreen keywords, it is also design space that had to be there at the start and cannot be reimplemented into game at any point. The list of words is not really available on the card, and that list can change."
Yeah, there is an issue with trying to pull together a group of mechanics that wasn't designed from the get-go to be a group of mechanics.
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"Your reminder text:
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(A Skill is a static keyword ability that applies to creatures, such as Flying, First Strike, Double Strike, Deathtouch, Lifelink, Haste, Hexproof, Indestructible, Trample, Menace, Defender, Vigilance, Reach, Flash, Protection, Landwalk, Fear, Intimidate, Shroud, and any Skill introduced at a later time)
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Is increblity hard to parse and essentially just puts the text on something like Cairn Wanderer in parenthesis, while also making it somehow even longer. And you cannot put "and any skill introduced at a later time" as part of the rules or even the reminder text, because it says nothing."
Well a reminder text is always going to be a bit extensively worded. And this is meant to gather the lot.
If we look at the reminder text for flying for instance; "This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying and/or reach."
You omit the wording that creatures with flying can block creatures with flying, by implying the text on the opponent's flier.
Double Strike however is a little less elegant if you're going to be really explicit; "This creature deals both first-strike and regular combat damage."
In the context of a new player, what is first-strike combat damage? You have a reminder text that refers to another set of rule text. If you had to put it all out you would need to write;
"This creature deals damage before creatures without first strike or double strike, in addition to regular combat damage."
Caerwen's comment on rules needing to be consistent makes it more likely that this type of mechanic will only ever get greenlit if you parse it as Skill = static keyword ability. There are very few static keyword abilities that are not evergreeen that actually does something on the board, it's mostly evasive abilities such as Shadow, Horsemanship and stuff that happens while entering the battlefield like Amplify.
- "Lets take a close look at Rayami. First of the Fallen . He lists specific abilities, because those are the keyword abilities the Sultai colors have access to:"
Well except first strike is only a tertiary ability for black and double strike being non existent in the strict Sultai color composition. Haste is also only a tertiary ability for black. So Rayami doesn't really adhere to what the color combination is strongest in and borrows abilities the color combination is not particularly good at.
- "Odric, Lunarch Marshal intentionally list skulk, a blue-black abilility to both reference the set he is from and for flavor. So, while those abilities are listed in huge block of text, this is rarely used on a handful of cards."
From what I've read, Skulk initially started out differently as an experiment in Shadowmoor that WotC wasn't happy about, mainly due to the issues around Protection. There have been many variations of this type of mechanic even as old as Amrou Kithkin , Fleet-Footed Monk but back then it wasn't meant as a staple mechanic but as a simple ability. We have seen similar with Daxos of Meletis . Mistmeadow Skulk was the first experiment on creating that mechanic but was scrapped. Daxos may have been the second. Then it was revised to a dynamic evasive mechanic that was reintroduced and keyworded as Skulk in Shadows over Innistrad and aligned under Blue-Black.
While I agree that Ordric in principle shouldn't have Skulk, it may be a nod to both the mechanic from his plane and the initial experiment for the new evasive mechanic.
There are many abilities on Ordric that a strictly white creature shouldn't normally have; Deathtouch, Haste, Menace, Reach, Trample. Neither of them are white's abilities. Trample are featured on a few old cards and very few Keyword hoarders like Akroma and Ol' Winged-Dino as are Reach but they are not White's abilities.
- "Finally, the large block of text is actually extremely appealing to any Timmy, so getting rid of it can disappoint pdemographics of players."
Fair point. I guess I would agree.
- It seems a bit silly to use "this has never been done before" on a thread where you're proposing "let's do something that has never been done before."
What I meant by your point falling flat was because you proposed to replace one choice of term (skill) with another term (keyword ability). Neither have been used before in oracle text and both would be equally new as a term in oracle text. Therefore it seemed silly to me to propose one would be better than the other. So while you indeed could replace Skill with Keyword Ability, I don't see the point you're trying to make, as Keyword Ability is not a term used outside the comprehensive rules.
As a final underline, I think your point on arbitrary distinction hits home. If Skills would ever have a chance to become a term it would be under a broader distinction:
Skill (Static Keyword Ability)
However then presents the next issue; while keyword abilities are neatly classified and Static Abilities being defined under the rules, I think it would still be a mouthful to cement that distinction in the players' minds. The players know what a keyword ability is when presented with one. However classifying them as Static or not is likely a bit too much.
So while it could basically be done, I doubt it will sound appealing enough to implement.
It was fun toying with the idea of grouping Evergreens under one banner and utilize it as design space, but points have been made that this ground work needed to have been done way in advance to make it function.
