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CardName: Spirited Defense Cost: 3W Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: For each creature you control that blocked this turn, you may return a card that shares a name with it from your graveyard to the battlefield, except they're white Spirits in addition to their other colors and types. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Trivium Rare |
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I am terrible at wording these weird effects. Basically this effect is similar to Faith's Reward except:
-It can only return creatures that were declared as blockers.
-It can return a card that shares a name with a non-dead blocker.
-It can return artifacts and enchantments if you have another animated one on the battlefield blocking (particularly useful for Vehicles and Glint Hawk variants).
Slight memory issues here but they seem unlikely to matter... though this particular set does have a bunch of "if it's white" effects so it can become relevant whether the creatures remaining are the reanimated ones or not.
Any kind of counters would alleviate this issue. Currently the only kind of counters being used are "Coin" counters. Maybe those could be placed on them upon returning? It could mayhaps work as a strange reference to Charon's obol.
Oh wait, there's at least one card that uses +1/+1 counters. Pump up the mana cost and use those?
Might also be sensible to make it a sorcery; being instant isn't helping it and adds temptation to try to misuse it.
Oh, and rules manager will wibble at the prospect of potentially returning non-creatures that are also spirits. Personally, I think that's a dumb objection, but it is one.