The Great Designer Search 2, Challenge 4: Jonathon Louck’s Penumbria

My first batch of ideas for Jon Louck’s Penumbria. My priorities while engineering this booster:

**Make the light/dark dichotomy a central focus, featuring it on the rares, on the kind-of-exciting ritual variant, and even having the one drop commons kind of mirror each other.

**Show off dig. I originally had Bottomless Shaft digging as well, but that ability is only so eye-catching.

**Putting morph through it’s paces without doing anything overly complex with it.

Originally had this digging at common, but liked the blue enchantment more for that.

The cleanest and most well-received of Ethan’s dig cycle.

Picturing a head being dripped on and sand crumbling away; using the masked face from compulsion would be awesome. Expanded Dig’s functionality so it could be used from play.

This land should come into play tapped. Thought about making it 2g and gain 3, but I don’t think players would like that as much at first blush.

Yep. It can output 4-mana. 5 if Trinisphere is involved.

Almost wanted to make it non-white, non-plains permanents. Would probably have to cost 8+ then and have a cast from hand restriction.

After some discussion, this seems better as a 5/4 for 4 with the text the same. Gives the drawback a little more oomph, makes the guy a little less dominating, but still a very powerful common creature.

Feel okay stealing the rootwalla ability to serve the flavor here. Had it as W for +1/+1, but white gets 2/1′s all the time so that would feel lame.

Had it at uncommon as a 2-for-1 “destroy non-black, non-colorless creature. it comes into play under your control eot.” moved it to make room for another uncommon. and i think i find this version more striking.

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