Original Card Reveka, Wizard Savant

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• Changed casting cost from to .
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• Now 'freezes' creatures being targeted.
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• Increased toughness from 1 to 3.

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Even at rare or mythic, I couldn't let Reveka get away with dealing damage in blue. Save that for the Timespiral sets, but not normal Magic. But the fact that Reveka doesn't untap as normal, and that very blue artwork would suggest Reveka should be blue/red. And we needed to make this card a little better, so I added the bit about pinning creatures that Reveka can't kill.

Suggested wording for the new clause: "That creature and Reveka don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps."

Stunning the target is very sensible if you're keeping the stun on Reveka herself. (Which is sensible, as dealing 2 damage to any target without a drawback is better than has been available at 4 mana before: Hatchet Bully, Tar Pitcher, and Heavy Arbalest all have some significant drawback.)

I have fond memories of Reveka in my Thousand-Year Elixir / Fatestitcher / Mangara of Corondor deck, but you're right that she shouldn't be monoblue.

Edit: Whoops, I almost forgot why I did what I did. Doubling back.

The reason why I have it written the way I currently have it, is because I wanted to make sure that people understood Reveka stayed tapped for a turn no matter how you use her. Your suggestion, Alex, technically requires more than words than what you wrote. Something along the line of "If you targeted a creature, that creature doesn't untap during its controller's next upkeep. Either way, Reveka doesn't untap during your next upkeep."

Seems wordy. Maybe their's an easier way of saying it. I admit, I'm too tired right now to think about it. To bed!

Oh, right, yes, I forgot that pingers can be used to target players... when there aren't any creatures left on their side of the board...

My phrasing would technically work, but it does fail to spell out the thing you wanted to make very clear.