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CardName: Varda's Progeny Cost: 1W Type: Creature - Elf Lord Pow/Tgh: 2/1 Rules Text: Distinguished (This creature is legendary if no other permanent has the same name.) As long as Varda's Progeny is legendary, whenever it blocks a creature, untap that creature and remove it from combat. Flavour Text: Too great is her beauty to be declared in the words of Men or of Elves; for the light of Ilúvatar lives still in her face. Set/Rarity: Silmarillion: The War of the Jewels Uncommon
Varda's Progeny
  Distinguished (This creature is legendary if no other permanent has the same name.)
As long as Varda's Progeny is legendary, whenever it blocks a creature, untap that creature and remove it from combat. Too great is her beauty to be declared in the words of Men or of Elves; for the light of Ilúvatar lives still in her face.
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Could have "Lord" type maybe if that type was more utilized (like "Minion" type is supposed to).
testing out a non-distinguished version
2/2 to 2/1
The art makes this creature look like it has flying, but it doesn't.
It does remind me a bit of Defy Gravity so I can see what you mean. A minor convenience and so far, nobody has automatically assumed this to have flying. I'm quite fond of the art so I doubt I'll change it unless I find a really good replacement.
> Nobody has told you they assumed it has flying, you mean.
How you solicit feedback affects the type of feedback you get. Players are very cautious to be candid and explain something that makes you look stupid, or worse makes them look stupid. Or you just aren't around when something comes to the user's mind. Or they don't want to share certain opinions with the game maker (I frequently don't tell my playtesters that I designed the game so get different feedback), or any number of other things.
There's a Making Magic (or some other official WotC collumn) article entirely about how a creature that looks like it has flying in the art needs to have flying or players have confusion.
An easy fix is to change the art, or give it flying for it's Distinguished ability.
This is no Whippoorwill. It's not like it's hovering in the air with wings on its back.
After some though, if I did give this flying, it would most actually result in the hypothetical problem you assume it now has. As in "Wait, that has flying?" (ie. older versions of Fallen Angel) I doubt levitating elves is one of the first things that pop into people's mind.
From what we can gather, this might as well as be standing on solid ground. IMO those 'clouds' could be mist so it could be on water or whatever.