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CardName: Preplanned Infanticide Cost: bb Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: If a player would create a token, instead that player loses 1 life. If a land would become a creature, instead tap and exert it. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Lorvynica Rare |
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Is exert now evergreen?
Ie:
Frost Breath: Tap up to two target creatures and exert them.
... ?
No. Exert is a block mechanic that triggers when you attack.
Ah, as I suspected. So this card doesn't really make sense...
lmao all you short-sighted fools that think exerted only works during an attack trigger.
as anticipated, the second set in the block where exert was introduced, they used exert in activation costs of activated abilities. which i expected when i made Overflowing Paddies, two months before they spoiled a cycle of exert-activators ala Hope Tender.
Good for you.
This expansion of exert is rather unexpected considering how over-indulgent (in a "Melvin" way) it can be seen as. It's certainly something I would do but coming from WotC...
The question comes up again though: Is it evergreen now? We obviously are aware that "(tap and) doesn't untap next time" has the flexibility for it, but the flavor of "exerting" might not be considered encompassing enough.
If it's not evergreen then the convention is that it shouldn't be used in one-ofs.
I wouldn't use it, but if amuseum wants to treat it as evergreen for this block, I think that's ok. It's sometimes confusing when you can't tell how designers are departing from orthodoxy, and it's too easy to throw in one random clever wording without regard to the block as a whole, but "I think mechanic X should be evergreen" seems like a reasonable design choice to make (like I usually template with "they" instead of "he or she").
OTOH, I agree that this works melvin-ly, but I think flavourwise "exert" is something a creature does itself. "Tap and doesn't tap" offensively is more like detain.
I'm all for using the mechanic in such a fashion. In fact I have been using "exhaust" privately to that effect. I am not certain yet whether the rules for exert are what I want to replace "exhaust" which works quite literally like "double-tapped".
I also don't like the term "exert", though it can be used this way if you apply the appropriate definition.
That said laughing at and insulting your fellow card creators is extremely low. You made a good call that a lot of other people did and you made another call that goes beyond that that a lot of other people are alright with.
Whatever gratification you get from belittling others about that hopefully outweighs the consequential way you are remembered by those you insulted - and still insult every time someone new comes to this site and reads that stuff.