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CardName: Violent Burglary Cost: 1r Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Destroy target Artifact. Draw a card. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Iscandar Lives Common

Violent Burglary
{1}{r}
 
 C 
Instant
Destroy target Artifact.
Draw a card.
Updated on 09 Sep 2013 by Patrik Andersson

Code: CR15

History: [-]

2013-09-09 15:32:24: Patrik Andersson created the card Violent Burglary
2013-09-09 16:01:11: Patrik Andersson edited Violent Burglary

­Shatter++? I guess I can see it - it's a fairly specialised niche. Artifact sets would hate you for all time, though.

Shatter has been obsoleted a few times - Smash to Smithereens, Smelt. So this is a corresponding upgrade to Smash. Seems very good, but I guess Aura Blast was never as good as it seemed, so fair enough.

­Aura Blast suffers from not being Disenchant.

I guess this is superior to smash in everything that isn't a red aggro deck; and red aggro will prefer smash (or, you know, run another goblin instead)

I'd have upcosted it, but I tend to overcost cantrips.

Er. This is a strict upgrade on Smash in every way. I don't see why an aggro deck would want to pay {1} more for the precise same effect?

It used to cost {2}{r} (on Smash), but that's not been printed for a while, during which time Shatter has been replaced by Smelt. So a corresponding discount on Smash seems fair to me.

(And yes, the problem with both Aura Blast and Smash is that they were just a bit too conditional to bother playing. Disenchant is flexible enough that I'll put it in casual decks happily, but I wouldn't normally run Smelt or Demystify, or even Oxidize.)

Sorry, when you said Smash I thought you meant Smash to Smithereens; didn't realise it was another card. That's the one I meant.

I think i could possibly make Violent Burglary a Sorcery. If you feel there is a power problem.

This is precisely Demystify : Aura Blast :: Smelt : this. So I think this is fine.

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