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CardName: Barjian, Grasper at the Sands Cost: 1BG Type: Legendary Creature - Human Shaman Pow/Tgh: 2/2 Rules Text: Protection from creatures {R}{w}{u},{q}: Put target creature card in a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control, then each player puts a creature with converted mana cost cost equal to that creature's on the bottom of its owner's library unless he or she pays {3}. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Link's Unplaced Cards Mythic

Barjian, Grasper at the Sands
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Legendary Creature – Human Shaman
Protection from creatures
{r}{w}{u},{q}: Put target creature card in a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control, then each player puts a creature with converted mana cost cost equal to that creature's on the bottom of its owner's library unless he or she pays {3}.
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Updated on 20 Apr 2012 by Link

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2012-03-13 06:01:50: Link created the card Barjian, Grasper at the Sands

Interesting "Graveyard to bottom of deck, or maybe I can swap it form one of my creatures" abiity; that is going to be massively overshadowed by being a "And I equip it and smash your face in, or heck, don't bother and have a perfect defence" unblockable 2 drop.

Funky! And prot-creatures isn't excessive on a legend. Beloved Chaplain was useful but didn't break anything; even Commander Eesha didn't make many waves.

Amusing that this is a 5-colour commander (presumably deliberately).

Yeah, this is meant to be a commander. It sprung from me contemplating a cycle with Harsel, Dawn Harbinger, with enemy-colored creatures that have wedge abilities. Both of these need more thought put into them: although I like their abilities, I'm not sure if it feel like the "right" fusion of the colors. I think this one comes closer than Harsel, perhaps, though the protection from creatures is subject to change. As Alex has shown, it's mostly a white ability.

Someone told me that the target of the second part of the ability has to already be on the battlefield. Is that right? If so, this doesn't work the way I want it to, which makes me sad.

Well, it does because you are targeting it, and targets are chosen before the ability before the ability is even on the stack. You could remove the targeting restriction in the second part to get around it, but being able to do things to your opponent's creatures without targeting them is a big no-no. You could restrict the ability to not target, but only creatures you control, which does the trick, but may not be the droid you're looking for.

What if it said "Put target creature card in a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control, then choose target creature with CMC = to that creature's CMC. Put that creature on the bottom of its owner's library?"

I got to be honest. If I didn't know you designed the card, and it popped up in a new set, I'd call BS. Almost every card that can adversely affect your opponent targets something, unless it hits everything. If Wizards did that, it would create a precedent, and, in 10 years, half the game wouldn't target anymore. That's the way developers work, unfortunately. They cite a card like Unyaro Bee Sting and say "Hey! Green gets direct damage! How about if card X does direct damage! How about we flavor it as a bee sting?"

Though, now that I think about it, you can target a player without ruffling any feathers. If you let that player choose, even if it's a very restrictive choice, like a creature with the same CMC, then you should be fine. It won't always hit the right thing... but that probably gives the card charm.

All targets have to be around before the ability can even be activated. That's what the word target means. You can choose targets based on another target ("target player and target creature that player controls", or "target creature and another target creature with the same CMC controlled by a different player"), but never based on anything that's determined on resolution ("reveal the top card of target player's library, and ~ deals damage to target creature that shares a colour with that card").

Jmgariepy, I still used the word target, but, as Alex points out, I used it incorrectly.
I'm going to changed that second effect, because it won't work right. Let's try something slightly different.

2012-03-14 13:22:24: Link edited Barjian, Grasper at the Sands:

Made tuck effect globale and avoidable.

2012-04-20 22:08:55: Link edited Barjian, Grasper at the Sands
2012-04-20 22:09:27: Link edited Barjian, Grasper at the Sands:

The wording on this was terrible... oops.

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