Face Down + Hidden Mana

Dav1000 Wrote:

webrunner Wrote:There wouldn't be a way to have, say, the pirate crusier and the pirate fighter to be the same cost and still retain the flavor.

I certainly haven't seen the whole set yet, so I'm not sure exactly how many facedown cards there are and at what costs/colors, but if, for example, we decide facedown is primarily a grey ability then we basically have 2 color combinations, so we could have, say, 3 "levels" of mana cost for each with 2-3 cards in each for a total of 12-18 cards, with 2-3 possibilities for any individual facedown card played. Depending on how different those cards are in abilities and stats that could be more than enough to be strategically interesting. Again, it may be too late in the process to do this, but at least in theory I think it's quite possible, and it's my preferred solution.

Right now face down monsters run the entire gamut of cards and there's ones on all three colors, PLUS there are cards that turn -any- card into Face Down.

Dav1000 Wrote:

webrunner Wrote:It'd be extremly hard to keep track of what could be possible. I'd have to have seperate mana totals and stuff and right now it's just "hidden" or "not hidden".

Which brings me back to my pencil and paper worry.

I might be able to swing it so that it shows the person's theoretical maximum, but it still won't be accurate (Warpwell, for instance, is a face down generator)