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CardName: Merseine's Blessing Cost: {1}{G} Type: Enchantment - Aura Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Enchanted creature has +3/+3. If enchanted creature would die, Merseine's Blessing becomes an 1/1 merfolk creature. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Community Mashup Set Common

Merseine's Blessing
{1}{g}
 
 C 
Enchantment – Aura
Enchanted creature has +3/+3.
If enchanted creature would die, Merseine's Blessing becomes an 1/1 merfolk creature.
Updated on 08 Feb 2019 by Vitenka

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2019-02-08 10:31:27: Vitenka created and commented on the card Merseine's Blessing

­Octopus Umbra + Valory, Tinker Mage

"You are posessed by an octopus". Totem armour; and, oh, just incidentally "You're 8/8 and tap a creature when you attack"
But mainly the octopus thing.

And a named non-legend. Huh. And once it dies, when equipment falls off, it turns into a 3/3 rage golem for a while.

(And is ALREADY one of my mashes; from Valor and Id Bomb Huh.)

So, gosh. When dead, golems are octupi? When totem armour falls off, it becomes a golem?

A variant on totemic armour that animates when the wearer dies? That could work. We can flavour it as vampiric. The question then is, should it be dealing damage to the creature in some way? Or flat giving a toughness penalty? That would be black, vampiric flavour - but it will play as kinda just a kill-spell-with-attached-token.

Or we can have it pure boost, and be green - boost-spell-with-bennies-from-the-corpse. So let's do that. This could well be the giant-growth variant for a token-heavy set. (+3/+3, falls off to become a 3/3 golem)

The latter feels more totemy. But I guess the creature in quesiton shouldn't be a golem. And maybe the size of boost and creature should divorce from one another? Because otherwise this is just Bestow. So that lets me bring the octopus back in.

("Obligatory Octopus" +3/+3, becomes 8/8 octopus, flavour text: "This isn't event my final form". It was fun boss0fight flavour! But a rare.)

Which, ugh; now it's NOT a viable giant-growth variant, or even a common. Drat it. Ok, let's not make an octopus. I can justify a smaller creature and retain commonality. A 1/1 feels not very interesting - but it's actually really quite useful. "My creature is big, and you get a spare chump when it dies". I guess make a merfolk? Can it cost 2? For the 3/2/1 pattern? It's a bit of a stretch, but since it's not an instant, not a huge one.

Unfortunately SBAs are checked before the trigger goes off. You could even keep the same creative treatment and make a token instead

2019-02-08 16:45:15: Vitenka edited Merseine's Blessing:

Fine, move from when to if. Stupid templates.

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