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CardName: Forge of Duty Cost: 4 Type: Artifact Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have three or fewer cards in hand, put a 1/1 white Knight token into play. {1}{W}, {T}: Redirect all combat damage that would be dealt to target creature this turn, to target Knight. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Mashup: the Gathering Alpha Uncommon |
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Scalding Tongs meets Errand of Duty. Man, that was a tough Mashup. Along with having nothing in common, really, Banding is one of the holy grail of designers. They keep slamming their heads against that one. Originally, I was aiming for:
Creature
Flash
Whenever you have 2 or less cards in hand, sacrifice ~, and deal 3 damage to your opponent.
1/2
But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't shoehorn banding into that. It's too confusing and different. This Tribal Artifact, though, does the trick in a much nicer way. And a person who played Scalding Tongs a lot might just recognize that influence.
Nice! I like it when people find a way to evoke a bit of banding without bringing in the whole hog.