New mechanic for creatures - Disregard
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Posted on March 20, 2015, 1:08 p.m. by square711
Disregard (during your declare blockers step, if this creature is untapped, you may have it deal combat damage to attacking player as if it were attacking. If you do, that player may have any number of non-attacking creatures block this creature.)
The wording kinda sucks, but the idea is you can attack the opponent during their own combat phase, completely ignoring their attackers. Obviously meant to be a red ability, but could be R/B or R/G. Thoughts? Suggestions to improve wording? Glaring flaws I failed to see that would make this too powerful?
alexthegreat38 says... #3
I'd say you might want to make it tap the creature, just like a normal attack.
March 20, 2015 1:15 p.m.
Servo_Token says... #4
This is like, the opposite of new-player friendly. Also, just have them deal damage equal to their power. It saves the headache of attacking triggers like on Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury, and doesn't just blow the opponent out in a clogged boardstate, making it a bit more fair in my opinion.
March 20, 2015 1:22 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #5
Why not just use a tap damage effect? Some things don't need to be more complicated.
March 20, 2015 1:43 p.m.
alexthegreat38: yes, I forgot to include "instead" in the rules text. And it does require you to tap (at least it was supposed to).
ThatJunkMage: good point. But while having it deal damage directly to the player makes it simpler and less susceptible to trigger abuse, it also means the opponent won't be able to block in response. So it reads like "whenever you attack, if defending player controls an untapped 3/3 creature with Disregard, he or she taps that creature and you take a Lava Spike to the face", which... doesn't sound too overpowered at all. That might work.
Disregard (If this creature would block another creature, you may tap it and remove it from combat. If you do, it deals damage equal to its power to attacking player, and the creature it was blocking deals combat damage to you as if it were unblocked. Do this only before combat damage is assigned.)
...or something like that.
March 20, 2015 1:49 p.m.
Epochalyptik: because...
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...damn. scratches head
The whole point of this idea was to create a way to damage the opponent even when you're supposed to only block, but somehow I forgot this has been possible since Prodigal Sorcerer was printed. sigh
March 20, 2015 1:55 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #8
I mean, the furthest I would go with it would maybe be a triggered ability that says "Whenever you are dealt combat damage, ~ deals damage equal to its power to target attacking player."
March 20, 2015 2:15 p.m.
Hmm. Here's what I've got.
Aggressor (This creature may tap to attack during another player's combat phase as if it were your combat phase).
March 20, 2015 5:02 p.m.
DERPLINGSUPREME says... #11
the name doent make sense, and overall its just REALLY wierd.
March 20, 2015 9:06 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #12
@Egann: No.
It's improper wording and there's no reasonable rules infrastructure to even support that ability.
alexthegreat38 says... #2
I can't think immediately of anything that completely breaks it, but doesn't that mean a creature could be attacking and blocking at the same time? It might be interesting and possible to make it balanced depending on how it's incorporated into the cards, but rules-wise it'd be a mess.
March 20, 2015 1:14 p.m.