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CardName: Amblyn Flickerer Cost: 2W Type: Creature - Spirit Griffin Pow/Tgh: 2/1 Rules Text: Flying {W}: Exile Amblyn Flickerer and return it to the battlefield under your control. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Uncommon

Amblyn Flickerer
{2}{w}
 
 U 
Creature – Spirit Griffin
Flying
{w}: Exile Amblyn Flickerer and return it to the battlefield under your control.
2/1
Created on 02 May 2012 by Jack V

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2012-05-02 10:12:18: Jack V created the card Amblyn Flickerer

For Challenge # 037

As on Amblyn Protector, a version of hexproof that's not called "hexproof". Also, it's able to repeatedly attack or block and flicker itself out of combat.

In fact, it's almost certainly too good, especially as a blocker, but I'm not sure how to tweak it so it can still play the "anti-boney aggro" role.

on 02 May 2012 by Mollusk:

Huh; my reasoning didn't go in this direction at all! Like it. Doesn't help much against knight of the foam (hey! I can.. pay {w} to avoid paying {1}! Handy!), though it does against the rest of the bounce. Seems likely to disrupt the deck, whilst not being horribly disruptive to anyone who can just attack a bit. (Worried the opposition deck could just run a couple of critters to add to the punch though)

0/1 flyer for {w}? This makes an interesting alternative to Will-o'-the-Wisp... and knowing white, it shouldn't be hard for this thing to get aggressive.

Yeah, I expected everyone to think the answer was obvious, but to suggest a different answer was obvious :)

Good point that this doesn't really help with Knight, although it dodges the effect of Anemic Rod or whatever original targetted spell as well. I hope you can just live through that, although I'm not sure.

Hm. A 0/1 flier is probably more appropriate to white. And honestly, pseudo-regeneration, pseudo-hexproof, pseudo-vigilance and pseudo-stitcher's-apprentice is almost certainly too good, I hadn't realised how good repeatable flickering is.

And yet, as an answer to this deck, it would probably be more useful to have aggressive stats, even if it can't block. I'm not sure where the right balance between "a card true to itself" and "fulfilling the necessary role" is.

Jack, there's a damn article series hidden in that last sentence of yours. A goddamn article series.

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