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Jasmine Boreal of the Seven
Legendary Creature — Human Druid
: Add . Spend this mana only to cast creature spells with no abilities.
Creatures you control with no abilities can't be blocked by creatures with abilities.
legendofa on Meek’s Inheritance
1 month ago
The thing here is that as soon as a creature gains landwalk, it has an ability, so it can't get anything from Ruxa, Patient Professor, or Jasmine Boreal of the Seven, or Muraganda Petroglyphs, which are the biggest reasons to use vanilla creatures. If you want these bonuses to be usable together, they can't actually be granted abilities.
May I suggest rewarding casting vanilla creature spells, or giving them some benefit? Something like "Whenever a nontoken creature with no abilities enters, draw a card." or "Creature spells with no abilities cost less." or something.
legendofa on Is this the end of …
2 months ago
Apologies for the clickbaity title, but this is a milestone in creature complexity. Right now, there's exactly one vanilla creature in Standard, and it's the very unorthodox Yargle and Multani. When March of the Machines rotates out next year, unless something unusual happens, that will be the first ever Standard season with no vanilla creatures.
Nobody really gets excited for another 2/2 for 2 mana or 3/6 for 4 or whatever, and French vanilla creatures still have lots of room for flavor text. Ankle Biter, Bolrac-Clan Basher, and Timberland Ancient show this pretty well.
https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/679207540942356480/there-havent-been-any-vanilla-creatures-printed#notes
But vanilla creatures apparently aren't a fully essential part of the game, and complexity creep is absolutely a real thing. Bloomburrow doesn't appear to have any, and I'm skeptical for Duskmourn having any. If nothing else, this is going to drive Jasmine Boreal of the Seven and Ruxa, Patient Professor into near stasis. They won't be getting any new tools besides maybe token generators, and there are better support options for token strategies.
Is it worth keeping vanilla creatures around? Do they serve any role in the game anymore, or should French vanilla be the baseline going forward?
TijuanaBachelorParty on
Vanilla is a Good Flavor
7 months ago
Thanks, glad you like the deck xram666.
I plan to keep the text boxes completely empty so that does restrict the use of cards like Ruxa, Patient Professor or Jasmine Boreal of the Seven. Perhaps someday we can get these effects on an artifact or enchantment!
Rhadamanthus on Kemba's Banner + Jasmine Boreal …
1 year ago
You can use double square brackets around a card's name to create a reference link. It's the best way to help everyone understand what's going on in your question: Kemba's Banner, Jasmine Boreal of the Seven, Glimmer Lens
The Banner doesn't interfere with Jasmine's effect. It isn't giving the equipped creature an ability, rather it's just doing something to the equipped creature with its own ability just like Glimmer Lens does. A card like Hexgold Hoverwings does interfere with Jasmine's effect because it specifically gives the equipped creature the "flying" ability.