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CardName: Martial Command Cost: RW Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Choose two -- • Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains haste until end of turn. • Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains lifelink until end of turn. • Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. • Target creature blocks target creature this turn if able. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Rare |
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Created for Challenge # 123.
As with all entries to this challenge, the first question is, is that last ability gold? I think it'd be odd to see "target creature blocks target creature" in any single colour. (Green and sometimes blue get "target creature blocks this turn if able", but this is more specific and more powerful.) You could defend it in a wide variety of colour combinations but I think RW is as good as any.
I wasn't sure if all of the first three modes should have +1/+0 in them, but given Swift Justice, Rise to the Challenge/Skillful Lunge, Uncanny Speed and suchlike, I think it needs it if this is to be worth the 2 mana.
It's still arguable that this should actually be uncommon rather than rare. Power-level-wise this would probably even be fine at common (all the abovementioned cards are common), but I think the complexity means it should be at least uncommon. I've only put it at rare because all the other commands are.
I like the symmetry of each of the first three abilities giving +1/+0.
I think we've seen "target blocks target" in green, eg. Hunt Down, Feral Contest, but that's probably been eclipsed by fight now. It maybe makes sense in RW (especially on a card which gives first strike), I'm not certain.
It definitely makes sense, since
gets things like Boros Battleshaper, Odric, and Master Warcraft.
Mmm. My first thought on that fourth ability was "Perhaps this should say 'you choose how target creature attacks or blocks this turn' just to keep it in line with the other spells." But that Battleshaper seems to not care about all that goofiness.