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CardName: Silence Elemental Cost: G Type: Creature - Elemental Pow/Tgh: 2/3 Rules Text: Deathtouch Cumulative upkeep {1}{G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When Silence Elemental enters the battlefield, destroy up to one target enchantment. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: [Val] Valhar, the Dying Plane Common

Silence Elemental
{g}
 
 C 
Creature – Elemental
Deathtouch
Cumulative upkeep {1}{g} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
When Silence Elemental enters the battlefield, destroy up to one target enchantment.
2/3
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Updated on 28 Feb 2022 by SecretInfiltrator

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2017-05-23 09:23:25: SecretInfiltrator created and commented on the card Silence Elemental
on 23 May 2017 by SecretInfiltrator:

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  • added deathtouch
on 23 May 2017 by Alex:

I think "you may destroy target enchantment" would be more normal than "destroy up to one target enchantment", wouldn't it?

on 23 May 2017 by SecretInfiltrator:

It's the wording that has been used up until now, but I think it has a functionality that is a little bugged. You must choose a target and choose whether to destroy it on resolution.

I'm trying something new that works more consistently with how one might expect: You choose whether to target an enchantment or not as the ability goes on the stack. If you do, it gets destroyed on resolution. No taksies-backsies.

In the past I have avoided this wording simply because it was unusual, but thanks to planeswalkers we now see it more often and it might be worth turning it into the new standard.

on 26 May 2017 by SecretInfiltrator:

I have been watching Pro Tour Amonkhet lately and in a feature match (Chris Fennell vs. Eric Froehlich) one player played Cartouche of Strength's ETB trigger as though they did not have a choice to go back on their target during resolution.

I feel like this gives additional credit to the idea of phasing out the "you may" wording for targeted effects you would usually commit to e. g. targeted removal on an ETB trigger.

2020-01-13 17:45:13: SecretInfiltrator edited Silence Elemental:

suppressing deathtouch reminder text

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