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CardName: Strategic Withdrawal Cost: w Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Remove target attacking or blocking creature you control or target planeswalker you control from combat. Draw a card. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Cards With No Home Uncommon

Strategic Withdrawal
{w}
 
 U 
Instant
Remove target attacking or blocking creature you control or target planeswalker you control from combat.
Draw a card.
Updated on 18 Feb 2015 by Link

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2015-02-17 22:16:08: Link created the card Strategic Withdrawal

Why not just "remove target creature or planeswalker you control from combat"? You don't need to clarify that creatures in combat are attacking or blocking.

I felt it was better to be more clear than I needed to be than less.

Why would someone want to remove a non-attacking, non-blocking creature from combat though? I think it being too wordy just makes it harder to parse.

Second question: When would a Planeswalker ever be involved in combat when it wasn't already a creature?

When it's being attacked.

Not sure such a planeswalker is technically in the combat under current rules; but the meaning is certainly clear.

Well, "If a planeswalker is removed from combat, it stops being attacked" is explicitly the line in the comp rules that inspired this.

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