Tuesday, March 10, 2015

CCDD 031015—Morning Mist

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3/10/2015 - Morning Mist is a Fog variant. It doesn't prevent as much damage—on paper—but being one-sided might prevent one or more creatures from attacking for several turns.


Playtesting might even show that it doesn't need to cantrip to be worth running in the right decks.

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  1. This is a Soul Parry which is guaranteed to never hit anything good. Your opponent will throw her 1/1 into this, let it die, and then go right back to beating your face in next turn.

    Fog effects are already pretty weak; single target fogs are even weaker; forcing you to telegraph it ahead of time and giving your opponent an out makes them essentially unplayable. Is this card intended to be a trap for new players?

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    1. My thought exactly. Would be stronger if it was a 'may.' Also noteworthy in that it can't stop shrouded creatures, the way actual Fog can.

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  2. Actually, drawing a card and stopping your opponent's attack for a turn (and possibly forcing them to suicide a creature) seems pretty strong to me.

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    1. Exactly. In Evan's example, I've stopped an entire round of attacks just as Fog would have, but I'm up a card.

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    2. It'd be interesting to test this with the draw on the sacrifice, rather than an ETB. Hard to guess whether that makes more of a standstill or more of an incentive to use some Goblin Diplomats.

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