So, it's time I started talking about Mystic (Lion). It got a point from someone that wasn't me!
It was ultimately, submitted in the wrong contest. I should have submitted it in the curser contest, but I missed it and was past deadline when I saw it. I wanted to submit another card here, but too often it doesn't actually increase your handsize by three. Hopefully I've have a contest that one fits in later. So here, I submitted the only other card from my fan set that fit here.
So a few things. Firstly, I designed this card
months ago. And I've played it. And it's much weaker than the other cursing attacks currently at $5, but with the somewhat recent addition of +buy, it's still a power $5. Probably a bit weaker than Torturer. It wasn't supposed to be a copy of the cursing contest winner, it doesn't even seem like it'd play anything like it, just, it has a mat and gives out curses. But somehow people thought it was a copy
. I guess the similarity and the fact it looks like it's primarily a curser put people off, most likely.
It's a fun card, I find, one of my favourite cursers, because it's difficult to actually run as a curser. It takes three plays to throw curses into your opponents decks. Well after three plays of a $5 card, even if you pick up multiples and don't collide, you're comfortably into the midgame, and by that point sure, your opponent has two curses, but they've built their deck up pretty well before that (well, they've had the chance). And that I feel makes it very interesting to play.
I voted for Okapi, and I'm glad to see it win. It seems like generally a very interesting card. Congratulations to andwilk for it.