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CardName: Civic Obedience Cost: 1WW Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: If a creature would fight, detain it instead. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.) Flavour Text: "Pursuant to legal code 701.10d, the initiation of combat is not permitted without proper authorization. Desist your aggravation immediately." Set/Rarity: Infinite Potential Well Uncommon
Civic Obedience
  If a creature would fight, detain it instead. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)
"Pursuant to legal code 701.10d, the initiation of combat is not permitted without proper authorization. Desist your aggravation immediately."
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I like it. But why no reminder text for detain? I played with RTR a fair amount, but I still forget the precise details sometimes; I'm sure many other players would too.
It's a good word; it should be a keyword.
But yeah; no exact idea what it does. Hmm, if you fight a creature; is that creature also fighting and detained?
Because otherwise this seems not so useful - they make it fight; and then it can't fight (or do anything else) until, um, the next time it would want to fight anyway.
Ummm... Vitenka, did you see my reply to you over on Dirty Cop? I explained Detain there.
Vitenka, I take it you don't keep up with recent Magic sets?
reminder text
Vitenka is right in that it's unlikely to fight more than once per turn anyway, not that many cards actually allow creatures to fight multiple times. 6 cards have repeatable fight abilities and 9 have one-off abilities.
Indeed he doesn't. He's still pestering me to arrange a draft of something from RtR block so he can see some of the cards printed in the last year :)
Love the flavor on this card!
Oh yes; I should have said that. The flavour is delicious. It's just unfortunate that it doesn't really work as often as you'd like. Could it somehow be worded to detain the creature before it fights, so that the fight is prevented?
I think this wording works, although replacing one keyword action with another seems weird. Speaking of flavor, there's an Easter egg hidden on the card, if anyone can find it. (It's not that hard.)
Mmm, yeah - that's probably working. Makes a lot more sense now - "Don't fight after all"
Still pretty narrow in usability, but a lot less than it was.
And methinks the easter egg is it not being combat damage?
Yep. Azorius law prohibits combat outside of the red zone.
I thought it was the reference to rule 701.10d, the inspiration for Yes. It. Is..
That was my point, yeah. Was trying to be more subtle in referencing it than that though.
Really like what this does. Wizard's should print more 'fight' cards.
^That was by me, lol, wasn't signed at the time.