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CardName: Ulterior Motive Cost: 1B Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Target creature gains +3/+0 and Mindstrike until end of turn. (If a creature with Mindstrike would deal damage to a player, instead that player puts that many cards from the top of his or her library into their graveyard.) Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Soradyne Laboratories v1.2 Common |
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Does this need "unblocked" in there?
At first I thought it was because black didn't deserve a +3/+0 combat boost, but then I remember they get that a lot. (Vampire's Bite)
So, I don't really know why it's there. In most scenarios, you could probably cast this on something pre-combat, and your opponent just won't block it. Because who cares about being milled?
Call it ham-handed, but I wanted this card to specifically be something that only the Mindstrike/mill player would grab. It's a last-pick card in a draft, but if you happen to be going mill, it's a last pick that you probably don't mind.
Besides, the name suggests an intention other than a straight-up fight. Letting it affect a fistfight isn't very "ulterior".
Eh, I guess I look at it like Mindstrike is enough to dissuade non-Mill decks from caring about this, as the effect without Mindstrike is a very low pick anyway. And that one extra word, which people aren't going to expect, will probably just get ignored by a lot of folks.
And after weeks of finding this card generally unexciting, I’ll drop that one word to make it slightly more appealing.