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CardName: Twiddled Growth Cost: B Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Kicker {U} Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. If the kicker cost was paid, switch its power and toughness until end of turn. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Community Mashup Set Uncommon |
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Inspired as a mash-up of Twiddle and Stunted growth. Making it a meta-mash-up, except that I knocked it around so much getting something I was happy printing it's not recognisable any more.
I liked Stunted Growth and wanted to add a twiddle effect to it. I felt the +1/+1 or -1/-1 feeling could be captured by an asymetrical boost with a switch. And switching P/T feels like twiddling.
But it didn't really feel like it came to any colour, so I came back to black, with an optional blue for switch. I wanted to make a simpler version that was just "-1/-1, switch", but -1/-1 could only be in black (or just possibly red) and switching could only be in blue (or possibly red). But it always felt like a two-colour spell. Except -- UB is too expensive for a -1/-1 effect. And if it gave a bigger shrink, the switching would normally be superfluous. So I reluctantly reintroduced kicker.
It's surprisingly close to Peculiar Distortion :)