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CardName: Silver Gilded Road Cost: 3 Type: Artifact Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Whenever creatures attack, their controller chooses an attacking creature they control, then puts a -1/-1 counter on all other attacking creatures. Flavour Text: Penny, farthing, half-a-pence; Never look beyond the fence. Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Uncommon |
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For Challenge # 079 and inspired by The Yellow Brick Road (and possibly from an old Super Friends cartoon where Superman and company end up in Oz and inexplicably decide to not follow the yellow brick road, and end up at a witch's house. Seriously, Batman, you should be better than that).
The idea here is that only one creature can walk the road at a time, and is safe, but all other attacking creatures will be exposed to the wilderness and suffer. I'm not sure how well that comes across... but I'm thinking that artwork would help.
Silver was chosen, since that's the original color of Dorothy's shoes in Baum's story... not ruby like the movie. The fact that it has protective qualities against werewolves and maybe fairies doesn't hurt. The nursery rhyme is a nursery rhyme. I tried not to think about it too hard.
Ooh, this could be a terrain. "Only one creature may attack in ~. other attacking creatures get..."