Foundation (card submission)

Foundation
Action

+1 stealth action
Requires a laibon vampire
Put this card in play. If the acting laibon vampire is a magaji untap him or her if this action is successful. All Laibon vampires are considered as having one additional Aye and one Orun. Any titled vampire can burn this card as a D action.

Compelling game need: Aye and Orun decks are choked on masters. The mechanic can be interesting, but dedicating 8+ cards to make the Aye and Orun cards do anything is very discouraging. They also tend to lend themselves to star vampire decks because it is unrealistic to have more than 1 vampire with 3+ Aye or Orun. That limits the Aye or Orun mechanic and makes for Pentex bait.

Game reference: none

Maybe make it so that this card goes on a vampire, and a vampire can have only one?

self wrote:

Maybe make it so that this card goes on a vampire, and a vampire can have only one?

Nope, It should be very strong to compensate for how weak the Aye and Orun mechanic is currently. It still makes sense to use Aye and Orun master cards because they have abilities that can trigger in and of themselves, but this would help for a for non- "tap x aye or orun to y" abilities. The card may need to be ironed out because Aye and Orun is normally on a vampire.

Maybe something like this:

Foundation
+1 stealth action
Requires a laibom
Put this card on the acting vampire and untap him or her. This card is considered an Aye and an Orun. Other laibon vampires are considered to have an additional Aye and an additional Orun. This card can be burned by a titled vampire as a D action.

Well, I've never played with Laibon, so I don't really understand either mechanic, but what if you just had an action like Epiphany that allowed you to search through your deck for an Aye or Orun card and put it on the acting minion (followed by an untap). You could even include the option of taking one of these cards from hand and/or ash heap. This way, you would still need to have plenty of Aye and Orun in your deck (which is a downside all by itself), but now you have a way to thin your deck while also getting your Aye / Orun set up.

While that does help the Aye/Orun mechanic some, I feel like it doesn't do nearly enough. For the reasons I mentioned before the mechanic is weak and no half measures will really significantly improve things.