Learn all about the newest set from the dynamic duo of Redbay and MonoWhiteBorder! Heavy creature focus, lots of combat rewards, and a free spirit of rebellion. Cyberpunk minus the artifact theme! Lots of fun things to learn about their new project.
Browse the cards from the set: https://rrredbay.github.io/sets/NRC
Some sample cards
Topics and Tidbits:
- cyberpunk, stick it to the man, streetkid set
- started as “rebels”
- the challenge of finding art for a custom set… need to pre-scope your flavor to see if you can find stuff
- set also started as a music theme
- pushing past neon kamigawa for more brightness
- even tried color-matters (“number of blue cards”)
- surprise tweaks from your partner
- heavy commons playtest, faster moving unc+ designs
- skipping mythics
- a multicolor set but not heavily factional set
- adding battles??
- “take to the streets” – a mix of battles, teamwork, crew, and more
- attacking an emblem
- costing an ability that is roughly as valuable as surveil 1
- needs a super creature-dense deck
- more ways to encourage tapping down creatures is great for gameplay movement
- is “raid” more of a rebels attacking the corpos, or corpos attacking the rebels?
- joel schumacher
- army-typed creature cards in addition to regular tokens
- design space for amass
- “Threshold one” mechanics where you just need one other thing
- creature type matters for jobs vs races… harder to know what a “rebel” is by the art
- the “ally” problem from Battle for Zendikar
- an unradicalized ape
- sharing abilities between enchantments
- making cycling/discard fun
- a punk city set without an artifact theme!
- multicolor-matters without being multicolor centric