>>> Small creatures adventuring across zones! <<< DESIGN PHILOSOPHY - High-synergy. - Low-cmc. - High-powered enablers to help players "do the thing". - Low-powered (or synergistic) pay-offs to avoid games of solitaire. - Thematic focus on moving cards through zones to accrue advantage over time, rather than massive card advantage swings. - Balanced interaction that allows for intriguing counterplay without making it impossible to enact synergistic game plans. - Enough fixing to allow for emergent archetypes through splashing, but at a low-enough power level to prevent 5-color soups. - Since synergistic gameplay necessarily wants "bigger" games, low amounts of life gain and decent amounts of evasion, life payments, and burn to encourage closing out games before they stall. FINDING EMERGENT ARCHETYPES BETWEEN MECHANICS SUCH AS: - Cycling - Multi-spelling / Second-spell - Discard - Self-Mill - Madness - Play from exile - Land sacrifice - Creature sacrifice - Creatures in graveyard / Delirium - Small creature reanimation - Alliance ("Whenever another creature enters...") - Dredge - Delve - Second-draw - Bounce to hand / Ninjitsu - Play off the top (Future Sight) - Zombie tribal. ARCHETYPES *NOT* INTENTIONALLY SUPPORTED: - Ramp - Artifacts-matter - Enchantments-matter - +1/+1 counters matter / Proliferate - Big creature reanimation - Lifegain SOME NOTABLE POCKETS OF SYNERGY INCLUDE (WIP) - <<[[!Nurturing Pixie]][[!Vesperlark]]>> - <<[[!Jackdaw Savior]][[!Vesperlark]][[!Reveillark]]>> - <<[[!Terminus]][[!Brainstorm]][[!Brainsurge]]>> - <<[[!Merfolk Secretkeeper]][[!Dour Port-Mage]]>> - <<[[!Accursed Marauder]][[!Chthonian Nightmare]]>> - <<[[!Gravecrawler]][[!Warren Soultrader]]>> - <<[[!Gravecrawler]][[!Geralf, the Fleshwright]]>> - <<[[!Vengevine]][[!Blazing Rootwalla]][[!Basking Rootwalla]]>>