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CardName: Spock Cost: 2U Type: Creature - Elf Warrior Pow/Tgh: 2/2 Rules Text: At the beginning of each opponent's combat phase, you may pay {2}{U}. If you do, tap target creature they control. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Cards With No Home None

Spock

Creature – Elf Warrior

At the beginning of each opponent's combat phase, you may pay {2}

. If you do, tap target creature they control.

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Updated on 12 Jan 2015 by Jack V

History:

2015-01-12 11:05:38: Jack V created and commented on the card Spock

by Jack V:

I started thinking about this on Challenge # 115 but it ended up not really being related to Sphinxes: could I model Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock on magic? http://www.samkass.com/theories/RPSSL.html

Obviously there are lots of cards that accidentally form this pattern, but can I make some specific ones, after Paper Tiger, Scissors Lizard, and Rock Lobster? I can't extend that cycle as it conflates lizard and scissors :) I aimed for cards that would fit in normal magic apart from using the proprietary name "Spock" :) Unfortunately, I couldn't make the names map onto the cards in the right order, so I changed what trumps what... :)

The idea is that each member of the cycle should trump two others, and be trumped by two others. I decided in this context "trump" means "can safely attack into, forcing a race you're winning, or safely block, forcing a stall".

The cycle is Spock->Rock-Thrower Goblin->Scissor-Claw Scorpions->(Leaping Lizard (Not that one)->Paperwing Flitters->Spock.

It should also obey the cycle Sp->LL->R->P->Sc->Sp.

by Jack V:

The text on Spock isn't perfect. Tap represents vulcan-nerve-pinch. But it needs to trump any one opposing creature, allowing attack, but not two, so neither "T:tap" or "T:detain" were quite right.

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