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CardName: Ambulatory Cremation Cost: {R}{R}{2} Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: As an additional cost to play Ambulatory Cremation, discard a card. Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains hast. Exile it at end of turn. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Community Mashup Set Rare |
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Breath of Life + Distortion Blast
So, reanimate. A nice simple effect. And; Discard a card, creature gets +CMC/+0 or deal CMC damage. ... does multiverse have ANY simple cards on it?
Fine; let's go with a pun in the name and shift the ressurect to red.
Ooh, awkward. Right now, you can't resurrect the creature you discarded, due to targeting timing issues. I'd suggest removing the word target. It's a bit sketchy, but the alternative is worse. That, and I like playing mind games with counterspell players. :)
Mmm, it's meant to be an extra cost; not "Hey, cast any creature you like for rr2" so no, I think this way round is right.
Fair enough, but then the card becomes... hmm. Well, let me put it this way: If Wizards had printed this card the way it is, and I happened to write an article, and this card happened to come up, I would have lambasted them for it.
For many players, a card like this is a gigantic disappointment. Every time they look at it, they imagine what they could do with it, if it was just printed 'the right way'. Those players would hate this card, not because it's a bad card, but because the card has 'lost potential'. Now, granted, the potential is only lost in one's imagination. But, to me, I can't help but look at this card and think of what I can't do with the card. That's rather distracting.
One way around that: make the discard say "discard a noncreature card".
Still awkward... but now it makes a few people less angry, yes.