While designing Orzhov Extort-like mechanics for the other nine guilds of Ravnica, I tried very hard to focus on the motivations of each guild. However, looking back, I’ve realized that I didn’t pay enough attention to something very important about this kind of mechanic--repeatable use.
Some of these abilities I feel I did great on like Legislate, Delude, Germinate and Rally. However, others ended up being too close to each other. Maim and Brawl serve very much the same purpose. And Fertilize is very much a once-per-turn sort of ability.
Maybe I’ll revisit this keyword experiment another day and try to do better on the abilities I’m not so proud of. Another shout-out to sgt-failure who designed Flux and gave me the idea to make a whole ten-card cycle of these keywords.
