Cool Card Design of the DayThis Prey Upon variant came top-down from the art. It's essentially a spell version of Polukranos, World Eater's monstrosity trigger, but using a very different template.
Thursday, August 16, 2018
CCDD 081618—Claim Dinner
Cool Card Design of the DayThis Prey Upon variant came top-down from the art. It's essentially a spell version of Polukranos, World Eater's monstrosity trigger, but using a very different template.
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I think copied spells actually don't count toward spells-cast counts, so you should be fine there.
ReplyDeletePondering other ways to execute the same idea with less copying shenanigans:
ReplyDeleteKnife and Fork
1G
Enchantment - Aura - Uncommon
Enchant creature
0: Enchanted creature fights target creature you don’t control. At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice Knife and Fork. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
Or:
DeleteClaim Dinner
1G
Sorcery
Target creature you control gains “0: This creature fights target creature you don’t control. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.” until end of turn.
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G
Sorcery
Target creature you control gains “1: As long as it is on the battlefield, this creature fights target creature you don’t control.” until end of turn.
Works too right?
If my templating doesn't cut it, we just use Polukranos', right?
DeleteDon't think I'm following Wobbles' template there.
ReplyDeletePolukranos' wording is slightly different than the proposed effect here, but probably not enough that confusing wording is worth it.
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DeleteThis is excellent. Prey Upon and friends have the problem that they're usually just worse than an unconditional removal spell. Claim Dinner solves that problem by promising oodles of card (and tempo) advantage if the fights are lopsided enough.
ReplyDeleteI like the template too. The reminder text may be slightly misleading, though. If your creature dies in the process of resolving copy N, I believe copy N+1 won't even be put on the stack. It won't have a legal set of targets.
DeleteDamage can't destroy a creature mid-spell, because dying to damage is a state-based effect.
DeleteOh, OK. Thanks for the correction!
DeleteI *thought* that you *could* copy a spell with illegal targets, but that fight specifically didn't have any effect unless it was between two creatures.
DeleteBut I'm really not sure -- I would rather avoid this rules-hooping for players and either spell out what should happen like Pulkronous or make them separate activations. Even "copy any number of times" might be better, not sure.
With an indestructible creature is it a one sided board wipe
ReplyDeleteWith one as large as all your opponents' creatures, yup.
DeleteI think even a 1/1 would do it? For example if my opponent has a Grizzly Bear and a Goblin Piker I use the first Claim Dinner on the Grizzly Bear, then it asks for a new target, and I choose the Goblin Piker. Then the copy of the copy doesn't know Grizzly Bear was a target, so I get to target Grizzly Bear again.
DeleteI think that's how it works as currently worded.
As soon as the first copy resolves, your 1/1 has lethal damage and dies. The copy targeting the Goblin Piker fizzles and you don't make a third copy.
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