CardName: Frantic Deactivation
Cost: R
Type: Instant
Pow/Tgh: /
Rules Text: Destroy target artifact. If it's a creature, it deals damage
equal to its power to you.
Flavour Text:
Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None
Frantic Deactivation
Instant
Destroy target artifact. If it's a creature, it deals damage equal to its power to you.
I imagine a highly-strung Rohn sculptor suddenly deciding their masterpiece was flawed, and going berserk on it with a crowbar before the city can swoop in and install it somewhere. The art would be something like, a golem just waking up, and an eccentric robed Rohn sculptor ducking under its fists and trying to smash it with a crowbar :)
Mechanically, it's halfway between Crush and Smelt, which seems appropriate to common: Smelt is ok for common, but sometimes limited needs a weaker artifact destruction spell and they still print something like Shatter instead.
I started with the concept of "sculptor's regret", the original name, and wanted smelt-with-drawback or shatter-with-an-upside, and iterated several times before I found something plausible. I thought it was a bit contrived, and wasn't sure if the name was enough to tie it all together, but the more I look at it, the more I like it :)
See Challenge # 112.
I imagine a highly-strung Rohn sculptor suddenly deciding their masterpiece was flawed, and going berserk on it with a crowbar before the city can swoop in and install it somewhere. The art would be something like, a golem just waking up, and an eccentric robed Rohn sculptor ducking under its fists and trying to smash it with a crowbar :)
Mechanically, it's halfway between Crush and Smelt, which seems appropriate to common: Smelt is ok for common, but sometimes limited needs a weaker artifact destruction spell and they still print something like Shatter instead.
Fantastic link between flavour and mechanics :)
Thank you!
I started with the concept of "sculptor's regret", the original name, and wanted smelt-with-drawback or shatter-with-an-upside, and iterated several times before I found something plausible. I thought it was a bit contrived, and wasn't sure if the name was enough to tie it all together, but the more I look at it, the more I like it :)
Haha. Great job. :-D