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CardName: Sponge Foamcaster Cost: U Type: Creature - Sponge Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Rules Text: {U}, {T}: Target creature with flying loses flying until end of turn and target creature without flying gains flying until end of turn. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Community Set Common

Sponge Foamcaster
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Creature – Sponge
{u}, {t}: Target creature with flying loses flying until end of turn and target creature without flying gains flying until end of turn.
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Updated on 16 Mar 2012 by jmgariepy

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2011-09-04 20:43:00: jmgariepy created the card Sponge Foamcaster
on 04 Sep 2011 by jmgariepy:

Part of my Blue Commons Submissions which will be up shortly.

on 04 Sep 2011 by Link:

Wizard?

2011-09-05 02:17:27: jmgariepy edited Sponge Foamcaster
2012-01-20 05:49:10: jmgariepy edited Sponge Foamcaster
on 20 Jan 2012 by Alex:

May I suggest templating similar to Phyrexian Splicer: "Target creature with flying loses flying UEOT and target creature without flying gains flying UEOT."

2012-01-20 10:47:16: jmgariepy edited Sponge Foamcaster
on 20 Jan 2012 by jmgariepy:

Hmm. That's interesting. It's better mechanically, but loses some points on flavor. It seems odd that the non-flying creature still gets flying if I Doom Bladed the flying creature in response. I'm changing it over, but if anyone else has an opinion, feel free to say so.

on 20 Jan 2012 by Jack V:

I like the "stealing flying" flavour, but it wasn't really clear to me even from the previous version of the card. Perhaps make an uncommon or rare version that could suck multiple abilities?

If terms of templating simplicitly, could we even go to "target creature loses flying UEOT and target creature gains flying UEOT"? That loses more of the flavour, but shouldn't work the same way with fewer words?

on 20 Jan 2012 by Alex:

Jack: Problem with that is that you can activate it if there are no flyers on the board, just three ground-pounders. "This Grizzly Bears loses flying and that one gains flying! Haha!" I think that'd make quite a large percentage of the actual activations that happen in-game feel just wrong.

on 21 Jan 2012 by jmgariepy:

I'm earmarking this for a potential move to uncommon. Though, if we did that, I'd want a different answer for flying in blue... and I'd prefer it be a creature. Since I don't have one right now, the sponge is keeping the spot warm.

It's possible we don't need an answer to flying in every color, but, then again, maybe we do. I think I'd rather see a common answer in every color for now, unless limited tells us otherwise.

on 21 Jan 2012 by Jack V:

­Not a Drop to Drink is also an answer, but I agree it makes sense to have "lose flying" or similar at common as well if we can.

2012-03-16 03:56:49: jmgariepy edited Sponge Foamcaster

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