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CardName: Prepared Guardian Cost: 3W Type: Creature - Human Soldier Pow/Tgh: 3/3 Rules Text: Prepare {2}{W} ({2} as a sorcery: Exile this face down from your hand. On future turns you may cast it from exile for its prepare cost as if it had flash.) As long as you're being attacked by a creature with toughness 2 or less, Prepared Guardian has lifelink. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Code Geass Common

Prepared Guardian
{3}{w}
 
 C 
Creature – Human Soldier
Prepare {2}{w} ({2} as a sorcery: Exile this face down from your hand. On future turns you may cast it from exile for its prepare cost as if it had flash.)
As long as you're being attacked by a creature with toughness 2 or less, Prepared Guardian has lifelink.
3/3
Updated on 06 Mar 2021 by Alex

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2014-10-09 11:40:09: Alex created and commented on the card Prepared Guardian

The Prepare mechanic is nifty because it can go on permanents of any type. The conditional lifelink is inspired by the discussion on Prepare for Ambush about making all preparations conditional on something.

2016-11-25 00:15:49: Alex edited Prepared Guardian:

Cost 2W->3W. Remove "when ~ ETBs"/"UEOT" as they add a lot of words.

2016-11-25 00:17:15: Alex edited Prepared Guardian:

Prepare 1W->2W so preparing isn't just strictly better than casting

Did you borrow this from Anydria, did I borrow it from you, or did we both just end up making a very similar mechanic?

The resemblance was noted earlier over on Prepare for Ambush :) I think it's just coincidence / convergent evolution.

The heritage of this cardset's Prepare can be traced on the discussion over on Prediction / planning mechanic. JackV proposed the first version, over on the cardset comments page: > Plan {r} ({2}: Exile this facedown from your hand. Until the end of your next turn you may turn it face up and cast it for {r}. If you don't, return it to your graveyard.)

Then me, Jack, and the Goblin Artisans (particularly Jenesis) riffed off each other as chronicled on Prediction / planning mechanic, to end up where we are now, > Prepare {r} ({2} as a sorcery: Exile this face down from your hand. On future turns you may cast it from exile for its prepare cost as if it had flash.)

I created the Prepare for Ambush cycle, playtested, concluded it's good, created a few more such as this card; then I did nothing for two years, then came back and started making more cards :)

2020-11-06 22:41:37: Alex edited Prepared Guardian
2021-03-06 14:44:08: Alex edited Prepared Guardian:

making some common creatures bigger. 2/3 -> 3/3

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