CardName: Ricochet Shield Cost: 3 Type: Artifact - Equipment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Equip {3} Equipped creature gets +0/+3. {T}, Unattach Ricochet Shield: Deal 2 damage to target creature. If that damage is lethal, reattach Ricochet Shield to the creature it was last attached to. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Uncommon |
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For Challenge # 133. Obviously, this is an homage to Captain Americas shield. But this could have easily been Nightwing's Escrima sticks (with a +1/+1 bonus instead.) I'm sure I could think of a few more bouncing weapons if I wracked my brain for them.
I can see that it will be difficult for many people to not overload these cards with more than the card needs to be an interesting card. Missing from this card: The shield could have been indestructible. The shield could have given the wielder of the shield indestructible sometimes. The card could have split the damage among a number of creatures... in fact not including that last point still kind of bugs me.
Originally, this put up an 'until end of turn' trigger to return the shield if the creature died, but that didn't seem right. Talking about Lethal damage on a Magic card is very weird. The only creature that's ever done it is Ogre Enforcer, and that's an old card. But it seems obvious enough that even new players would get the gist of what this card is asking for. I find it odd that more cards haven't requested this... I know it gets strange with indestructible and regeneration... but they just seem like odd and explainable corner cases.
"When that creature dies this turn" is the way it's normally done.