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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
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Instant
Destroy target artifact. If it's a creature, it deals damage equal to its power to you.
Updated on 03 Oct 2014 by Jack V

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2014-10-02 11:38:33: Jack V created and commented on the card Frantic Deactivation

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

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