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CardName: Soul Poppet Cost: {2} Type: Artifact Creature - Construct Pow/Tgh: 0/1 Rules Text: Fetish (Whenever a nontoken creature dies, if this card has no fetish, you may exile that card. ) Soul Poppet is indestructible. If Soul Poppet has a fetish, Soul Poppet gains all activated and triggered abilities of the exiled creature. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Okundwa Mythic

Soul Poppet
{2}
 
 M 
Artifact Creature – Construct
Fetish (Whenever a nontoken creature dies, if this card has no fetish, you may exile that card. )
Soul Poppet is indestructible.
If Soul Poppet has a fetish, Soul Poppet gains all activated and triggered abilities of the exiled creature.
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Updated on 12 Dec 2015 by Sorrow

Code: MA02

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2015-01-24 21:59:52: Sorrow created the card Soul Poppet
2015-01-27 23:39:10: Sorrow edited Soul Poppet
2015-01-28 00:13:52: Sorrow edited Soul Poppet
2015-04-11 23:41:39: Sorrow edited Soul Poppet

"Gaining all abilities" is a notorious design no-no that lots of custom designers tend to fall for You should probably change it to "all activated abilities." I think "All activated and triggered abilities" would also work. If you want keywords, you have to go with wording like that which appears on Soulflayer.

What is the error of giving a card "gain all abilities"? Is the problem that it essentially falls into blue's territory of cloning, save for the p/t portion? I'm not trying to contest what you're saying, I just want to know why such a design choice is a problem.

The problem is mainly with characteristic-defining abilities, which cause trouble when you attempt to steal them. I suppose that, since this can't exile two different creatures without a Strionic Resonator, it's not a huge problem. But it's still something that's generally avoided.

2015-12-12 03:43:49: Sorrow edited Soul Poppet

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