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CardName: Shock Troops Cost: 2R Type: Creature - Human Soldier Pow/Tgh: 4/1 Rules Text: Trample, Haste Sacrifice Shock Troops at the beginning of the end step. Flavour Text: "Join the army, see foreign countries" they'd said. Set/Rarity: Community Mashup Set Common |
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Mashup of Border Guard and Sulfur Vent.
Border guard was a standard common with a nice flavour text. So I added "sacrifice" from sulfur vent, which meant flipping it into red, and reversing the P/T, but keeping the same flavour text :)
Hee. A larger Spark Elemental. Or an Arc Runner giving up 1 power to gain trample. Or a more splashable but smaller Ball Lightning. Yep, seems reasonable.
Amusing place to end up with the mash, but I can see how you got there.
Thank you.
I was honestly surprised there wasn't a straight-forward trample-haste-sac at common I could just copy. I'm not sure if trample+haste is too good for common at a cheap price, or if "sac at end of turn" is too disappointing.
Or it's just that at common you'd basically have "1R 3/1 trample haste sac" and that compares unfavourably to the uncommon versions with upsides.
Spark Elemental was common originally.
Good point. I guess it's hard for it to be better than Lava Spike. But something pushed it up to uncommon later. In fact, I wonder if it's not rarity, but that wizards have been reducing the number of these.
Btw, Shock Troops is taken. They even cast Shock!