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CardName: Dense Mist Cost: 1g Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: _Steam powered_ - If {C} was spent to cast Dense Mist, choose a creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures not chosen with Dense Mist. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Archester Revival Common |
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was spent to cast Dense Mist, choose a creature.
Clunky wording, but I think the SP line needs to be separate from the rest of the test to read correctly.
Terrifying Presence is a perfect template example
Beginner mistake : Cast 2 Dense Mist on 2 different creatures and expect both to be able to deal damage. I know this adds more clunkiness to the wording, but "not chosen by cards named Dense Mist"? Is this too situational to be worth the strange wording?
[Nevermind]
I don't think it's worth it, grim. I would prefer red flagging this as a 'edge case creator' than making it clunky.
Here's wording that makes the card not clunky:
Target creature deals no combat damage this turn. If only colorless mana was spent to cast Dense Mist, instead prevent all combat damage that would be dealt by creatures other than target creature this turn.
That wording doesn't work. It would be impossible for that wording to work b/c the card requires you to pay a
to cast if.
I believe he meant "If
was spent to cast ~, ..."
Still, I do not like the complete 180˚ shift from preventing only one target creature, to preventing all but that target creature. Beginners may inadvertently pay 
to cast Dense mist with one intention, only to realize that the card no longer works the way they believed it to.