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CardName: Arrest Cost: 2W Type: Enchantment - Aura Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Enchant Creature Enchanted creature can’t attack or block, and its activated abilities can’t be activated. Flavour Text: “It keeps some in, yes. It also keeps others out.” —Baris, Serra Inquisitor Set/Rarity: Homelands Restored Common |
Code: CW06 History: [-] Add your comments: |
Original Card: Serra Bestiary
Changed the card into a 'pre-print' of Arrest. For the record, I:
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Changed the name
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Changed the casting cost from

to 
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Removed the upkeep cost.
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Changed the activation being prevented from tap abilities to all activated abilities.
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Added Flavor text.
I was wondering if a pre-print would ever end up happening. Arrest works really well here. The artwork doesn't match what a Serra Bestiary should look like... clearly whatever menagerie Serra has, it should be tranquil like Serra Aviary. Arrest fits this flavor much better, and does everything this card wish it did. I did think of making a functional reprint of Arrest that cost
... but there doesn't seem to be much reason for that... especially considering I'd need to change the name anyway.
I knew, when I made this card, that I should add flavor text. I just couldn't think of what to add at the time. It occurred to me that flipping Grandmother Sengir's quote from Cemetery Gate is a fun choice, so assume this card says:
"It keeps some in, yes. It also keeps others out." -- Baris, Serra Inquisitor
Oh, also missing 'Enchant Creature'. Whoops. To be added.
Yeah, seems a really good choice.
Absolutely, this is spot on :)
Since you're going for full technical accuracy on this set, I'll point out that the second word of "Enchant creature" shouldn't be capitalised.