CardName: Elspeth's Escape
Cost: WW
Type: Enchantment
Pow/Tgh: /
Rules Text: Flash
{2}: Destroy target attacking creature. If that creature is
black or has infect, draw a card and roll the planar die.
Otherwise, sacrifice Elspeth's Escape.
Flavour Text:
Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Rare
Elspeth's Escape
R
Enchantment
Flash
: Destroy target attacking creature. If that creature is black or has infect, draw a card and roll the planar die. Otherwise, sacrifice Elspeth's Escape.
The odd terminology is matching Fractured Powerstone. This card is certainly usable outside of Planechase games though. I was after some "trinket text" (rules text that's unlikely to do anything, like on Vindictive Mob or Baneslayer Angel) that'd help this appeal to Vorthos.
With 4 mana up, this is a Rebuke overcosted by 1. With 6 mana up, though, it's a Wing Shards that doesn't need another spell. Or you can just cast it sometime you have spare, and then it's a Soul Snare with up, and a massive deterrent with or more up.
I hope the flavour would speak for itself to those who know Elspeth's story. For those who don't: Elspeth Tirel's original home plane was devastated by Phyrexians. Her planeswalker spark awoke in response to a Phyrexian jailer coming to take her away to be tortured.
Ha! I knew exactly who this card was for as soon as I saw the words 'planar die'. This almost reads a bit random, but I'm guessing that any Vorthos worth their salt would know that story. It doesn't really matter if the rest of us don't get it, eh?
: Destroy target attacking creature. If that creature is black or has infect, draw a card and roll the planar die. Otherwise, sacrifice Elspeth's Escape.
The Vorthos element of my cycle for Challenge # 093.
The odd terminology is matching Fractured Powerstone. This card is certainly usable outside of Planechase games though. I was after some "trinket text" (rules text that's unlikely to do anything, like on Vindictive Mob or Baneslayer Angel) that'd help this appeal to Vorthos.
With 4 mana up, this is a Rebuke overcosted by 1. With 6 mana up, though, it's a Wing Shards that doesn't need another spell. Or you can just cast it sometime you have
spare, and then it's a Soul Snare with 
up, and a massive deterrent with 
or more up.
I hope the flavour would speak for itself to those who know Elspeth's story. For those who don't: Elspeth Tirel's original home plane was devastated by Phyrexians. Her planeswalker spark awoke in response to a Phyrexian jailer coming to take her away to be tortured.
Ha! I knew exactly who this card was for as soon as I saw the words 'planar die'. This almost reads a bit random, but I'm guessing that any Vorthos worth their salt would know that story. It doesn't really matter if the rest of us don't get it, eh?