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CardName: Mirror Guardian Cost: W Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Put a 0/X white Reflection creature token on the battlefield, where X is equal to the highest toughness among creatures you control. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Homelands Restored Uncommon |
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Alright, back to work. In the last of the Uncommon white slots, I'm slipping in a 'toughness matters' theme. Partly because it goes so well with Abbey Matron and Mesa Falcon.
I did a quick check to look through all the Magic cards that include the words toughness, but not power, with a focus on white. Far too many of them make you gain life equal to a creature's toughness. Not that that's a bad ability, but some other abilities need representing too. Creature tokens were definitely underrepresented, so I made this one, and got another in the wings.
In most decks, this shouldn't be much better than a flashing 0/4 wall for
. Activate an Abbey Matron, and you got a bonus 0/8 wall for 
. Not shabby.
Oh, yes, also the Reflection token was chosen because Broken Visage is in the set, and it seemed kind of lonely.
I like this; it's nifty. Not sure it really makes toughness matter - since it just makes toughness make more toughness, but it's a decent enough wall and white likes those too.
Does mean, what with the aforementioned toughness pumpers, that white has a lot of stall going on; which I know is its thing, but might need an eye keeping on.
yeah cards like this don't seem like a recipe for fun interactions. toughness matters decks need a way to break through stalls, and this isn't it
I've been watching this problem all throughout the set, sometimes giving random defensive creatures a power boost, like Aysen Bureaucrats, and sometimes changing a blocking-only restriction, to an attacking only restriction, like on Serra Inquisitor.
Still, it seems pretty obvious that white wants to do a lot of blocking in this set. So I'm throwing it a bone in the end. I suppose I'll have to wait for playtesting to come through to see if I accidentaly reset the needle to 'boring' mode.
Also I'm aware this doesn't break the stalls, it just reinforces the theme. I got cards that break the stalls coming. But I figured there should be at least one card that reinforces stalling while using 'touhgness matters' tech, and this is that slot.