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CardName: Priest of Memories Cost: 2W Type: Creature - Human Cleric Pow/Tgh: 2/3 Rules Text: If a creature card you own in exile has Flying, Priest of Memories has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Archeia Rare |
Code: RW01 History: [-] |
added trample
you could just say:
"~ has keyword abilities of creature cards you own in exile"
Oddly, that's not how they usually template this stuff. See also Odric, Lunarch Marshal or Majestic Myriarch.
I'm not sure why, exactly. I'd say "maybe it has something to do with the color pie" because Odric doesn't grant haste, hexproof, or trample, like the Priest of Memories does. But I doubt it. It just seems that Wizards is allergic to using the word "keyword ability" on a card, in the same way none of the cards ever reference "the stack".
I'm sure a Wizards employee would tell you that every card is someone's first card, and so every card needs to read like one could comprehend it using plain English, and not some weird codespeak. Maybe they're right. Sure would make things easier, though, if we could use the word "zone" for example.
After a quick blogatog search:
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/158246443348/why-dont-you-use-some-word-to-refer-to-all
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/162726615993/could-the-rules-define-a-list-of-core-keywords
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/81716002136/do-you-think-there-is-a-way-to-future-proof