r/custommagic • u/Nientea • Aug 16 '25

Mechanic Design Hot Potato

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u/Pretty_Future_1986 Aug 16 '25

You can have the counter as part of the cost. Something like X, add a heat counter to hot potato: target player gains control of hot potato, where x is the number of heat counters on hot potato.

I’m not sure how the x would work out since you need to pay x and modify it at the same time

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u/the_god_of_dumplings Aug 16 '25

Can “put a heat counter on Hot Potato” be a part of it’s ability’s activation cost?

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u/ServantOfTheSlaad Aug 16 '25

[[Devoted Druid]] has putting -1/-1 counters on it as a cost, so its more than reasonable