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CardName: Muscle Flare Cost: 2G Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Whenever a creature taps to attack, it gains +X/+X until end of turn, where X is equal to that creature's power. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Rare

Muscle Flare
{2}{g}
 
 R 
Enchantment
Whenever a creature taps to attack, it gains +X/+X until end of turn, where X is equal to that creature's power.
Created on 26 Nov 2011 by jmgariepy

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2011-11-26 05:17:45: jmgariepy created the card Muscle Flare

For Challenge # 023. What I want this card to say is "Whenever a creature taps to attack, put a token creature into play that is a copy of that creature, tapped and attacking. At end of combat, sacrifice that creature", but I can't. This challenge has a casting cost requirement, and that card is just too good for Mana Flare's converted mana cost.

I thought this would be simply "All creatures get +1/+1". It's not great compared to Gaea's Anthem; perhaps it could be +2/+2. Thran Weaponry is the only real precedent (apart from Vitenka's Rock of Might, which may manage to be undercosted or at least overly-common). I suppose that doesn't actually double things though.

Why "taps to attack" rather than just "attacks"? Is it deliberately excluding vigilant creatures?

Amusing anti-combo with vigilance. Which puts this in an odd place; since normally you'd hose an enemy colour, rather than white. But I like this - attackers get doubled is a very green thing.

The taps to attack is more accident than meant to hose vigilance, but I'm cool with it hosing vigilance. Since Mana Flare and Performance Flare talk about needing things to tap, I figured I just slap it on here. 9 out of 10 Magic players probably wouldn't notice it, and those that do are probably steeped enough in the game to take advantage of it. Giving your opponent's creature vigilance somehow is kind of funny...

I agree, Gaea's Anthem is probably more universally useful. But when you start attacking with 5/2 Tramplers, this thing starts to go nuts. Definitely a "Build around Me".

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