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CardName: Barrier Blaster Cost: 2R Type: Creature - Human Shaman Pow/Tgh: 2/2 Rules Text: {R}, {T}, Discard a card: Destroy target creature with defender Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Misc Design for future sets. Common

Barrier Blaster
{2}{r}
 
 C 
Creature – Human Shaman
{r}, {t}, Discard a card: Destroy target creature with defender
2/2
Updated on 17 Dec 2014 by Vonmarcus

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2014-12-17 01:36:32: Vonmarcus created the card Barrier Blaster

Just felt like a more modern template for Blaster Mage?

In fact it is just that. But it can hit a lot more things since only about 1/5 or less of creatures with defender are walls.

I make it more than 50% of defenders being Walls: 109 Walls with defender, 94 non-Wall creatures with defender (and that list has quite a lot of a few false positives like Defender en-Vec, Grotag Siege-Runner and Jungle Patrol).

But nonetheless, sure, the other 50% are worth destroying too.

I took your search and resorted to see what the stats are like in the modern environment And got roughly 86 non-wall defenders vs. 46 wall defenders. So in terms of modern/current design environment it's closer to 1/3. Either way I made this card and several others I've done recently by using the random button on gatherer and making anything that comes to mind. I think that this is a decent update to an old card that would not likely see any play today.

Also I apologize for my error in the of the top of my head stat. I should have tried to look into it before using the stat.

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