CardName: Artic Pup Cost: 1G Type: Creature - Wolf Pow/Tgh: 2/2 Rules Text: Ambush (When this creature attacks and is unblocked, you may tap any number of untapped Wolf creatures you control. Those creatures are now attacking.) Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Common |
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For Challenge # 083. Something tribal and linear. Wolves, as a tribe, are woefully under-explored in Magic. I kept trying to mess with an 'alpha dog' mechanic, where all the other creatures gave credence to the wolf with the higest power... but this seemed more appropriate. I wish I could have added this line:
(When this creature becomes blocked, you may tap any number of untapped wolf creatures. Those wolves fight all creatures blocking this creature.)
But, obviously, I only had enough space for one or the other.
woefully? we just had a block with wolf tribal.
Werewolf tribal. They didn't really do anything with the wolves, though. Just gave them very generic abilities.
There's also Master of the Wild Hunt and Wren's Run Packmaster (which incidentally work very nicely together).
But yes, I like this idea quite a lot. It's an interesting way to do a "You need to block me" mechanic.
Problem is the keyword "Ambush" really doesn't sound like it's anything to do with wolves. Existing cards with "ambush" in the name include snakes, elves, human rogues, insects, and even elephants. Wizards did do that anyway with "prowl", but I'm not sure if they would again.