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CardName: Faerie's Distraction Cost: U Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Counter target spell or ability that would put one or more counters on a permanent or player. Flavour Text: Pin forsook her ideals for the comfort of stable profession, but her young idols grew to keep The Stinger's ideals. Set/Rarity: temporary storage None

Faerie's Distraction
{u}
 
Instant
Counter target spell or ability that would put one or more counters on a permanent or player.
Pin forsook her ideals for the comfort of stable profession, but her young idols grew to keep The Stinger's ideals.
Updated on 14 Aug 2019 by Sorrow

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2019-08-14 03:06:57: Sorrow created and commented on the card Faerie's Distraction

I don't think the game can actually look forward into time to see whether that's true

The game actually cannot. Which is why we have a card with an Oracle working that technically does not work in the rules and tries exactly that.

The best I can offer that might work better is

> "If target spell or activated or triggered ability would put one or more counters on a permanent, instead exile it. (It stops resolving.)"

Now that would have interesting consequences for an effect that has the putting of counters somewhere in the middle, but I see the option of doing something amazing with this as a feature.

I don't think that's better. It's not the countering part that's the problem

The next time this turn counters would be put onto things, instead split-second ?

Yeah, that's the way to go. "If counters would be put on a permanent or player this turn, instead put no counters on instead"

Dude's suggestion probably best fixes this mess of a design while aligning for what I envisioned. Maybe I could include Vitenka's "The next time" part to keep this at {u}. Otherwise, I think if it stopped all counters for the turn I'd have to bump to the cost at least {2}{u} or probably {3}{u}.

It might need to be 1 or 2 mana more, but not that much, I don't think. Depends on the environment and how often you're putting counters on things.

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