Cool Card Design of the Day8/13/2015 - Arms of Justice looks to reprise Gaze of Justice without flashback. It still expresses the idea that multiple creatures are working together to bring a wanted criminal to justice, but in a slightly different way that will sometimes be better and sometimes worse.
This is much better than Prey Upon in most ways except for the tapping.
ReplyDeleteI like this a lot. Could see it being a Sorcery if it tests to be too powerful, but at the moment I wouldn't change a thing
ReplyDeleteI like the idea, but somehow it reads very horrible. I had to read it 3 times to fully understand it. But i do not have any suggestions of how to do it better.
ReplyDeleteAn idea: As aditional cost tap any amount of creatures you control. Exile target creature if the power is equel or less the amount of creatures you tapped?
DeleteA lot weaker, but simpler and still resonant.
DeleteOr:
DeleteAs an additional cost to cast ~, tap any number of untapped creatures you control.
Exile target creature if its power is equal or less than the total power of creatures you tapped this way.
It could also be tweaked to play during combat. Or after combat, if you make it a sorcery.
ReplyDelete"Exile target creature if its power is less than the total power of tapped creatures you control."
I'm pretty sure you can't have targets in an additional cost clause
ReplyDeleteWhy is that?
DeleteNot a judge so take my answer with a grain of salt.
DeleteI believe it is because of the order that costs and targets are declared to cast a spell as well as ambiguity over what happens if a replacement or state based effect causes the target in the additional cost to become invalid.
I know that there has never been a card in magic's past that has had a target in its additional cost.
Also the fix is fairly easy:
DeleteAs an additional cost to cast CARDNAME, tap any number of untapped creatures you control.
Exile target creature if it's power is less that the total power of each creature tapped this way.
ok I asked judge chat and this is what they told me:
DeleteOnly an object that can exist on the stack can have a target
A spell, an activated ability or a triggered ability
The point of choosing targets is that players may respond to the spell or ability knowing what the targets are, costs don't use the stack and are designed to not be able to be responded to so using a target would create confusion.
Interesting. Thanks, Reuben!
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