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CardName: Refuting Blaze Cost: 1U Type: Creature - Elemental Pow/Tgh: 0/3 Rules Text: {2}{U}, Sacrifice Refuting Blaze: Counter target spell unless it's controller pays {3} for each card named Refuting Blaze that died this turn. Flavour Text: And in ancient halls, wise old men made hot debate, setting things ablaze. Set/Rarity: Mashup: the Gathering Alpha Common |
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for each card named Refuting Blaze that died this turn.
Due to hole-filling, I chose Cancel, and random generator gave me Blazing Effigy. Then I cheated... it's one of the rare times I've ever done that... I changed Cancel to Mana Leak. The more I tried to force it to be Cancel, the more the card spitted and shrieked. It just didn't want to be a hard counter, plus do something that cared about the number of cards with the same name plus remain a common. I fear I might need to make a few more compromises when hole-filling, which kind of bothers me.
I think that's fine, and doesn't even count as cheating. You don't have to take Cancel as absolutely enforcing "hard counter". This is a very plausible mashup, in that I wouldn't have been surprised to see it printed in Time Spiral.
Thanks Alex. I can be my own worst critic at times. The occasional "Dude. Lighten up." helps.
It's so weird to see "Blaze" on a blue card. I like the card, though.
On the wording, rather than "for each card named ~ that went to the graveyard from the battlefield this turn", how about "for each creature named ~ that died this turn"? Creature cards on the battlefield are more normally called "nontoken creatures", and I figure you may as well let Johnny make and sac token copies of this if he really wants to... at least, it's not worth adding the word "nontoken" to stop him.
And in the halls, wise old men entered into meaningful studious debate.
By setting fire to one another.
I wasn't sure if 'died' covered sacrifice... which it has to... otherwise Morbid wouldn't make much sense. Thanks Alex. I also flipped and snipped at Vitenka's comment, turning it into a false haiku (ablaze sounds like one syllable, and works better than cutting another one) and making it the flavor text, now that I've saved a few words. I assume Vitenka is referencing something that I don't know, or slipped my mind... yes?
You could say "burning each other" or "burning everything." (Or even "burning all the things.")
Nope, no reference I'm aware of. I just found the imagery incredibly amusing.
I think it's important to use "ablaze" or "burning" as the last word, for punchline purposes. Changed the preposition to 'them', which doesn't tell you if they set the halls, or themselves on fire... but that doesn't really matter, eh?