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CardName: Upright Spear Cost: {B}{B} Type: Artifact Creature - Spike Wall Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Rules Text: Flash, Defender, First strike (Upright Spear can be cast at any time you could cast an instant, cannot attack, and hits first) Flavour Text: A surprisingly complex stick. Set/Rarity: Strike The Earth Common

Upright Spear
{b}{b}
 
 C 
Artifact Creature – Spike Wall
Flash, Defender, First strike (Upright Spear can be cast at any time you could cast an instant, cannot attack, and hits first)
A surprisingly complex stick.
1/1
Updated on 14 Jan 2016 by Vitenka

Code: CB04

History: [-]

2011-10-27 09:07:25: Vitenka created the card Upright Spear
2011-10-28 16:57:31: Vitenka edited Upright Spear:

creature type += spike

2011-10-30 14:29:10: Vitenka edited Upright Spear:

shorten flavour text

2011-11-03 09:20:24: Vitenka edited Upright Spear:

wither instead of infect, just in case

Everyone thought this has deathtouch. Should it have? It's pretty good as is, what with first strike.

If you give this deathtouch you definitely need to remove first strike. The pairing was too good on Voracious Cobra; they eventually brought it back on a mythic rare legend, Glissa, the Traitor, and she was still very good.

I think this is pretty good as it is. It's a great answer for the 1/N deathtoucher, CB03 Necrodwarf, and it trades with Porcelain Cat. Unfortunately wither is rather out of place: the set should either have lots of it or none of it, and it doesn't really feel like a set with lots of it.

2011-11-27 10:00:11: Vitenka edited Upright Spear:

make artifact creature

2014-07-28 10:12:01: Vitenka edited Upright Spear:

remove wither; it was mainly there as trinket for the reminder text/flavour text joke. But yeah, it doesn't belong in the set.

Why not just change the word 'Poisoned' to something like 'Hair-Trigger'?

Given I've removed wither, that would be sensible, yes :)

2016-01-12 16:28:18: Vitenka edited Upright Spear:

as suggested, rename; as a bonus - to a trap DF actually has.

(Without observing the rest of the set:) This is a white card, isn't it?

Damn; good catch.

It kinda is now. It used to be wither; which made it black enough. But now it's purely defensive trap, and not even a very good one. Needs a rethink.

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