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CardName: Treva's Insult Cost: 1W Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Enchantments you control and creatures you control have protection from blue spells. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None

Treva's Insult
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Enchantment
Enchantments you control and creatures you control have protection from blue spells.
Created on 26 Jun 2014 by Jack V

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2014-06-26 08:47:31: Jack V created the card Treva's Insult

For Challenge # 105. An answer to Treva's Charm.

I can't decide if "Treva" makes me think of "Trevor" or "Tevya" :)

I considered hosing cheap multicolour spells, eg. a B/R enchantment with "Whenever an opponent casts a white spell, ~ deals 1 damage to them. Whenever an opponent casts a blue spell, ~ deals 1 damage to them. Whenever an opponent casts a green spell, ~ deals 1 damage to them." But I decided this was funnier, because protection from blue spells doesn't normally do much :)

I'm not sure if this would be worth playing against an unsummon deck. It probably should be costed at "nearly but not quite".

Mm, nice. Does protect against most bounce as well, but it doesn't shut down most other blue effects. An appealingly sideways answer.

You could alternatively say "Enchantments you control have protection from blue spells. // Creatures you control have protection from green spells."

I originally envisaged a round-robin of protection-that's-usually-useless, but it didn't work because white can target everything. You're right, maybe blue/green against enchantments/creatures is plausible. Although it feels like an anti-blue-green enchantment should be red-black? I guess a white anti-blue enchantment doesn't make much more sense.

I also considered "enchantments and attacking creatures you control have protection from blue", but it was a bit wordy.

That becomes a lot more broad in application, though. For one thing it means your creatures are unblockable by blue creatures.

Oops! I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. I didn't print the full text of the card. I meant "Enchantments you control and attacking creatures you control have protection from blue spells," but I typo'd the end and assumed the intent was obvious :(

I feel like such a narrow ability would fit a lot better on a creature.

Is no one going to mention Absolute Law and/or Absolute Grace? No?

Okay, then I will, I guess. The insult seems fine, even if it is technically more efficient than both those cards (You know... because of Blue). Though, to be honest, I'd rather have the Absolute versions in a group game. It really messes with the red/black player there.

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