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I've just made a first draft to implement cards like Armor Sliver. I used a reference to a SVar which contains the ability. The spellAbility granted has the type "Temporary" and will be removed every status check. Example:

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Name:Armor Sliver
ManaCost:2 W
Types:Creature Sliver
Text:no text
PT:2/2
K:stPumpAll:Creature.Sliver:0/0/SVar=Pump:no Condition:All Sliver creatures have "2 This creature gets +0/+1 until end of turn."
SVar:Pump:AB$Pump | Cost$ 2 | NumDef$ +1 | SpellDescription$ CARDNAME gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
SVar:Rarity:Uncommon
SVar:Picture:http://www.wizards.com/global/images/magic/general/armor_sliver.jpg
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The word "Pump" can be anything (just like for the Trigger and DB system).
Any comments or suggestions?

Precisely as I intended.

Looks good. I just checked and didn't notice any cards that grant abilities with limited uses (like Rootwalla) as a static effect which is the strangest interaction I can think of between the temporariness of the AB.

Not sure how to best phrase this... Is it recursive? I.e. can it grab eventual other SVars referenced by the ability, say for a subability?

Hellfish wrote:Not sure how to best phrase this... Is it recursive? I.e. can it grab eventual other SVars referenced by the ability, say for a subability?

I guess subabilities should work, since they are created together with the ability. XCount SVar's will not work, since they won't get copied onto the affected card.

Maybe being able to specify a list of SVars to "pump" as well would help that, both subabilities and Count$'s?

So even stuff like Necrotic Sliver would work now? Nice!

On a side note, this makes one step closer to Koth of the Hammer with triggers!

Hellfish wrote:Maybe being able to specify a list of SVars to "pump" as well would help that, both subabilities and Count$'s?

Yes that would be possible. I have some ideas how to handle that.

EDIT: This feature is also complete. If the SVar specified in the keyword section is no ability it will be copied as an SVar to the affected card.

Example:

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Name:Magma Sliver
ManaCost:3 R
Types:Creature Sliver
Text:no text
PT:3/3
K:stPumpAll:Sliver:0/0/SVar=Pump & SVar=SliversOnBattlefield:no Condition:All Slivers have "T: Target Sliver creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of Slivers on the battlefield."
SVar:Pump:AB$Pump | Cost$ T | ValidTgts$ Creature.Sliver | NumAtt$ +SliversOnBattlefield | SpellDescription$ Target Sliver creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of Slivers on the battlefield.
SVar:SliversOnBattlefield:Count$TypeOnBattlefield.Sliver
SVar:Rarity:Rare
SVar:Picture:http://www.wizards.com/global/images/magic/general/magma_slive.jpg
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Just be sure to give the SVar to copy a unique name not to overwrite other SVar's.

This is terrific. I had been looking longingly at Necrotic Sliver, but didn't see a way to make it work before now. Thanks to all involved!

-Zirbert

Now just need to make the same theory work for AB$Pump