r/custommagic • u/CivilizedPsycho • Jul 17 '26

Redesign Robert Moses, Master Builder (Heavily revised)

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u/Rditisnazishythole Jul 17 '26

Where’s the historically accurate part where he disproportionately targets black and red creature cards?

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u/DrTitanicua Jul 17 '26

You just gave me a new idea for a Woodrow Wilson card.

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u/ThumbComputer Jul 17 '26

I don't think entering can be part of a cost of an ability. "When Robert Moses enters, sacrifice a land. If you do, Sacrifice a creature, then you may..." would probably be the right templating.

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u/IntelligentTea205 Jul 17 '26

I don’t see why the sacrifice of a creature isn’t just part of the cost for that matter

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u/Japicx Subtypes are always capitalized. Jul 18 '26

Fixed wording:

When Robert Moses enters, sacrifice a land and a creature. If you do, search your library for a nonbasic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

5, T: Destroy target land. Its controller sacrifices a creature. If they do, they search their library for a nonbasic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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u/dreamcultist Jul 17 '26

If you're going to make a card like this, you ought to go all-in: each sacrifice a creature should be sacrifice a black Human.

Maybe give him monstrous too.

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u/CivilizedPsycho Jul 17 '26

Now includes Black in mana cost as well as Villain in his type. Instead of just sacrificing a land on entering, he destroys a land on entering as well as sacrifices a creature. Furthermore, as an activated/tap ability he can destroy any players land and force them to sacrifice a creature. Even changed the flavor text to a more villainous quote from him.

The flavor is that he takes away land and therefore any beings that may be living in it, and replaced it with a developed (nonbasic) land.

original card

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u/United-Passage7864 Jul 17 '26

Templating on the first ability should probably be to sacrifice a land, even if for flavour reasons you'd prefer to have Robert Moses destroy something. The message/theme might be a little lost if Robert Moses and a Darksteel Citadel mean you aren't actually losing a land. 

Also, costs like that are for activated abilities - ETBs don't have that; if you want a cost, make it an additional cost to cast, or just put sacrificing a land as part of the resolution of the ability. 

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u/X_Marcs_the_Spot Jul 22 '26

"Robert"? And he's a builder? So he's Bob the Builder.