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CardName: Chittering Replica Cost: 3 Type: Artifact Creature - Rat Pow/Tgh: 2/2 Rules Text: {1}{B}, Sacrifice Chittering Replica: Target opponent puts a card from his or her hand on top of his or her library. Flavour Text: "What's a society without a few rats?" -Thendris, Moriok Doctor Set/Rarity: New Mirrodin Common |
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, Sacrifice Chittering Replica: Target opponent puts a card from his or her hand on top of his or her library.
Part of the replica cycle. This one is based off of Chittering Rats. I'll have to confront why someone would bother to make this replica in the first place when I come back to fill in the flavor text. Also, I really wanted to make a Chimney Imp homage, but I got enough small flyers kicking around, thought it would be silly if it was a huge flyer, and really needed to fill in converted mana cost 3 anyway. The only other real choice for this spot was Blistergrub (Mirrodin sure has a lot of zombies...), which would have been a fine card, but maybe a bit too close to source. I think I like this one better anyway.
Oh, there was one other spicy card I could have made:
Disciple Replica
, Sacrifice ~: Until end of turn, whenever an artifact is put into the graveyard from the battlefield, target opponent loses one life.
Artifact Creature - Cleric
1/1
As I said before, though, this isn't really an artifact set, so a Disciple of the Vault homage would be inappropriate. The replica's a funny card, though. There's an argument that could be made that the replica would have been more powerful than the Disciple back when affinity was at its heyday... what with it being a 1-cost artifact and all.
Added flavor. Thank you Thendrix for making everything worse for everybody.
It's all in aid of his "Playing records on the moon" project; which we should fully support.
Anyway; I like this one. It's not a bad size penalty; and it's at least "Skip your next draw". Although it's better than chittering rats later on in the game, since it's an instant speed trigger rather than an ETB creature. Maybe it should at least be summoning sick prone, to stop a recurring lock?
It's a pretty expensive recurring lock, so its probably fine. Besides... You could just activate the rat, then return it to play. You aren't doing it during your opponent's draw step, but if your opponent can't play that spell, its the same effect.
Though, I must admit I find it odd that I've never heard of attaching Chittering Rats to the Aluren/Cavern Harpy deck. Seems legit.