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CardName: Knight of Clarity Cost: {2}{B} Type: Creature - Human Wizard Pow/Tgh: 4/1 Rules Text: Incorruptible (you cannot lose control of Knight of Clarity) When Knight of Clarity enters the battlefield, name a creature type. As long as your opponent controls a creature of that type, Knight of Clarity is unblockable. Flavour Text: Lenticular! Set/Rarity: Community Mashup Set Rare |
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Silver Knight + Lens of Clarity
A classic White Knight variant. And.. an anti-morph card that also does yummy things to scry and other top-of-deck things.
Knight of clarity would probably be a blue knight? Or maybe anti-blue?
Or lens-knight. I could do a doc-smith and use the word 'lenticular' until it loses all meaning. Actually; how would you transpose a lensman into mtg?
Hmmm. Lensmen (and this is old enough that it's a major plot point when you gain a femal one; in a later book than you have lens-aliens...) are psychic (telepathy, astral scrying, some compulsion), pilots, inventors (macguyver ultra-spaceships), inspirational leaders, incorruptible... Ok; how did I fail to notice how few serial numbers the jedi had filed off? Maybe because the Jedi don't throw anti-matter planets at people. They are also founded as a foil in a universal war between two giant mental powers (the other side uses moriarty-like figures who recruit crime organisations).
So a foil for moriarty. I'm making psychic-sherlock holmes? That's a thing that can fit into mtg! "Incorruptible" can be a keyword easily enough; though it would be an unusual set where turncoats were common enough to deserve one.
Protection against (tribe) or (colour) might work; but Holmes isn't really invulnerable. Just a step ahead - unblockable by maybe? Ah; maybe unblockable as long as the opponent controls (mastermind). That can work; and provides some odd posibilities for interaction.
So having settled on a sometimes-unblockable creature, we come to stats. High power, low toughness - to encourage attacks. Colour... Grumble. Almost wants to be red; stats tell me it really shouldn't be blue; but flavour and unblockable does. White for the stability of control?
... No. Huh. I've made a black-holmes. How odd to end up there from here.