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[VoidSlayer]

Prison Recruitment
Black
Type: Tactic
Effect: Summon a unit from an enemy graveyard to the battlefield under your control. (raise dead from enemy graveyard)

A pardon and an explosive collar make great recruitment tools.

[Failbird105]

Action 1
Armed Tax Collector ():
Recon Drone ():
Gang Recruiter (2): Frostgiant, Failbird105
Police Checkpoint ():
Police Officer ():
Police Certification & Armification ():
Prison Recruitment ():

Action 2
Armed Tax Collector ():
Recon Drone (1): Failbird105
Gang Recruiter ():
Police Checkpoint ():
Police Officer ():
Police Certification & Armification ():
Prison Recruitment ():

Votes and new design both added. Ganglord name changed.

[frostgiant]

Action 1
Armed Tax Collector ():
Recon Drone ():
Gang Recruiter (2): Frostgiant, Failbird105
Police Checkpoint ():
Police Officer ():
Police Certification & Armification ():
Prison Recruitment ():

Action 2
Armed Tax Collector ():
Recon Drone (1): Failbird105
Gang Recruiter ():
Police Checkpoint ():
Police Officer (1): Frostgiant.
Police Certification & Armification ():
Prison Recruitment ():

Decided to go for  Police officer. The first strike is pretty good.

[NUKE9.13]

Action 1
Armed Tax Collector ():
Recon Drone ():
Gang Recruiter (3): Frostgiant, Failbird105, NUKE9.13
Police Checkpoint ():
Police Officer ():
Police Certification & Armification ():
Prison Recruitment ():

Action 2
Armed Tax Collector ():
Recon Drone (1): Failbird105
Gang Recruiter ():
Police Checkpoint ():
Police Officer (2): Frostgiant, NUKE9.13
Police Certification & Armification ():
Prison Recruitment ():

I've changed the name to Gang Recruiter. Also voted for it.
For my second vote, I'm going with Police Officer. A 2/1 first strike would be a good asset.

Incidentally, why don't we consolidate Action 1 and Action 2, and just do the two most popular?

[Failbird105]

Armed Tax Collector ():
Recon Drone ():
Gang Recruiter (3): Frostgiant, Failbird105, NUKE9.13
Police Checkpoint ():
Police Officer (3): Frostgiant, NUKE9.13, Failbird105
Police Certification & Armification ():
Prison Recruitment ():

Hmm... yeah, I suppose.

As for not consolidating, well, I guess I just did it that way because it was more orderly, we can do this though.

Also, you lost the link for prison recruitment.

[OceanSoul]

Armed Tax Collector ():
Recon Drone ():
Gang Recruiter (3): Frostgiant, Failbird105, NUKE9.13
Police Checkpoint ():
Police Officer (3): Frostgiant, NUKE9.13, Failbird105
Police Certification & Armification ():
Prison Recruitment ():

Seems like a solid first turn of design. I agree with the concept of Police Officer, but it doesn't really have the flavor I'd hope for, especially a justification for having first strike. Maybe call it "First Responder"? It would be a solid 2-mana card, so it could easily be the first police creature we cast, but the possibility of playing it later in the game sorta opposes the concept.

Eh, I'll still throw some ideas down for next turn.

Spoiler: Card Ideas (click to show/hide)

Abandoned Complex(Land): Uncommon, no mana cost; Enters battlefield tapped; Taps for one White or Black mana.
     Obligatory unoriginal suggestion.

APB (Strategy): Rare, 2WW; Name a Legendary nonwhite creature. When a creature with that name that you do not control enters the battlefield, attacks, or uses an activated ability, create a 1/1 white Police token. When a creature with that name leaves the battlefield, sacrifice APB.
     White's known for going wide with tokens, as well as a handful of enchantments that restrain a particular creature or other permanent. This seems like a decent balance of them.

Tranquilizer Pistol(Gun Equipment): Uncommon, 1W; Equipped creature gets +1/+0.  Creatures that battle with it don't untap during their controller's next untap step. Equip 1.
Some would call it ethical. Others call it costly.
     A piece of equipment, to start us off. Mostly to start us off thinking about equipments.

Underhanded Detective(Cop Creature): Rare, 1WB; 1/2. When a creature you control with Slick deals combat damage to an opponent: Investigate (Put a colorless Clue artifact token onto the battlefield with " 2 , Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card."). You can sacrifice a Clue: Tap target Creature.
"In a city like this, you're either dirtied with misdemeanors like this, or dirtied with your own blood. Guess how many people choose the latter" -Amadeus, Private Eye
     We're casting cops, we Have to consider Investigate. Decent card draw for later stages, and extra artifacts for cards that consider them.

Suicide Vest(Explosive Equipment): Uncommon, 1(B/R); Equipped creature gets +3/+0. If equipped creature would be dealt damage, destroy Suicide Vest. If equipped creature deals direct damage to an opponent, destroy a land they control and Suicide Vest. If Suicide Vest would be destroyed, destroy equipped creature. Equip 1.
     Land destruction would be more useful if they started off with any nonbasic lands, but it would still hold them back. Besides, if we get cards to temporarily take rebel units, this could kill them before they got them back. I'm not sure if the red color is allowed, though, since, while we do have a commander, this isn't "Commander". Only added it as an either-or mana since it just seemed appropriate for the card.

Sanctioned Arms Smuggling(Strategy): Rare, 2BB; Pay 2 life: Search your library for a black Equipment, shuffle your library, and put it on top of your library. Once per turn, you can tap a criminal you control; reveal the top card of your library, and if it is an Equipment, add it to your hand.
     I was inspired. We probably won't use it, but I still wanted to put it down.

[IronyOwl]

I'd like to point out two things.

One, we're not just designing a pile of stuff. We're designing an ideal hand. Thus, we should be sure to think about what exactly a proposed card is supposed to do for our deck, and- crucially- what we think it's going to replace.

Two, we have a very low mana curve at the moment. This isn't a tremendous concern, because we'll have ample time to design more advanced cards as we ramp up, and because we'll want our heavier investments to be better tailored to what we're fighting. But bear in mind that we can't swap cards out of our hand, so if we wait until Turn 5 to make a 5-mana creature, we're guaranteed not to have any until we get lucky enough to draw one.

[NUKE9.13]

I figure the Gang Recruiter would be a four-drop, so that's something. I think whilst we shouldn't wait until turn 5 to design a 5-drop, we should wait until turn 1 or 2. Knowing that our opening hand will all be early plays is good, and we can tailor the top end of our curve to synergise with what we actually have in hand. Like if we draw 3 Metropolises and no Slums, we probably don't want to design something that's gonna cost 2BBB.

What we want to replace right now is easy: all 10 Hired Thugs (1/1s for 1 are garbage), and a good number of Weapon Scans and Sanctioned Raids.

For our grand strategy, I'm thinking we can try going wide, with tokens and anthems (an anthem is a Strategy that buffs all your creatures). The Gang Recruiter obviously plays into this, and the Police Officer- which I agree should be renamed First Responder- is just a good early creature, which works well in most strategies.

[Failbird105]

So uh, would anybody else like to vote? I've counted, and we have seven players on our team, that means that the majority of our team hasn't actually voted yet.

[Draignean]

We're actually waiting on the Resistance at the moment, but more voting is always welcome.

[Failbird105]

I only really ask because if the rest of our team were to come in and vote they could potentially either overturn or tie the votes.

[Failbird105]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

An image for the police officer

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And one for the Recruiter.


I didn't make either of these cards so I have no real input on what their intent was, but these are the best images I could find that wouldn't better fit a different character.

I did, however, get an idea for a card that I think would be very useful.

Police Quartermaster
Colour: White
art:

Spoiler: Option 1(fits the setting more) (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Option 2(fits the idea behind the card more) (click to show/hide)

Type: Creature - Human Police
Effect:
This creature cannot use Keyword effects.
Other Human Police creatures you control gain any keywords given to this card.
P/T: 1/2

[Draignean]

Police Officer
Roll: 5

Spoiler: Card (click to show/hide)

Gang Recruiter
Roll: 3

Spoiler: Card (click to show/hide)

Alright, so now you'll also be deciding exactly what to shuffle into your deck, and what to pop out.

[Failbird105]

Glad these did as well as they did. So we're moving onto the next cards, or do we have to swap out before we can do that?

As for what to swap out, definitely some of the thugs. Maybe six less thugs for three of each new card? I don't know.

[Draignean]

Glad these did as well as they did. So we're moving onto the next cards, or do we have to swap out before we can do that?

Simultaneous. Make the new cards and decide what to swap in and out.