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CardName: Elusive Thylacine Cost: g/wg/w Type: Creature - Beast Pow/Tgh: 2/2 Rules Text: Flash Whenever Elusive Thylacine becomes the target of a spell or ability, exile it and then return it to the battlefield. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Paleolitheka Rare

Elusive Thylacine
{g/w}{g/w}
 
 R 
Creature – Beast
Flash
Whenever Elusive Thylacine becomes the target of a spell or ability, exile it and then return it to the battlefield.
2/2
Updated on 01 Jan 2013 by Camruth

History: [-]

2012-12-10 10:44:26: Camruth created the card Elusive Thylacine

Am... odd restriction. Effectiveley means it can't attack the turn you draw it and nothing else? Oh wait - it doesn't have haste; so it couldn't anyway. So just cast it in your combat phase.

And kinda sorta "Hexproof but all its equipment falls off"? Fiddly.

Seems like a lot of fiddliness to me. Why not just knock off all the text after "Flash", and add "Hexproof"? Or is that too good?

You're unlikely to get any equipment to stick to it anyway, for making it fall off the next time it's targeted by something.

On the other hand, it's pretty good with Nomads en-Kor and one of the many soul sisters, even the green one!

Urk! Yeah, that's a bit horrible, isn't it? Didn't realise damage would fall off too.

Really, I can't see how that drawback is a drawback... it does seem to just be extra words, which may have made sense if the card screamed for some top down flavor... but it just looks like a flashing beast on this side of the table.

2012-12-11 13:56:14: Camruth edited Elusive Thylacine

You're all right - was trying to be too tricky and ended up with a weird card, Flash and Hexproof suit it much better.

(Preserving history, was "When targeted, flickers" and "Flash, Cannot be cast during your main phase")

Hmm. Obsoletes a few things including Ashcoat Bear and Humble Budoka. Which isn't to say it's unprintable, of course; it's still basically just a bear.

Awww, I liked it the way it was.

2012-12-11 23:14:55: Camruth edited Elusive Thylacine
2012-12-13 23:31:20: Camruth edited Elusive Thylacine

Returned it to it's original targeted blink, could have given it Shroud (as that was closer to this ability than Hexproof) but that took too much interaction out of the card.

2013-01-01 11:42:45: Camruth edited Elusive Thylacine

I've decided I really like this. I guess its now being HH cost helps.

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