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CardName: ('Assist Counterspell') Cost: Xu Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Assist (Another player can pay up to {X} of this spell's cost.) Counter target spell unless it's controller pays {X}. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: 25th Anniversary Cube Common

('Assist Counterspell')

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Assist (Another player can pay up to of this spell's cost.)
Counter target spell unless it's controller pays {x}

Updated on 13 Sep 2018 by KeresAcheron

Code: CU10

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2018-03-23 06:39:24: KeresAcheron created the card ('Assist Counterspell')

2018-03-23 06:42:05: KeresAcheron edited ('Assist Counterspell')

2018-08-31 10:42:38: KeresAcheron edited ('Assist Counterspell'):

Changed fro a Join Forces X counter spell to an assist counter spell.

2018-08-31 10:52:35: KeresAcheron edited ('Assist Counterspell')

by Tahazzar:

You don't find Out of Bounds satisfactory?

Using variable X makes this questionable at common. Whatever I guess - the set has already so many mechanics that it can't really meet any NWO standards. It's a cube after all.

by SecretInfiltrator:

I wonder why the reminder text changed from the original version - the new reminder text is ambiguous. It sounds like some additional cost.

Why use worse eminder text over the existing reminder text?

2018-09-13 01:38:22: KeresAcheron edited ('Assist Counterspell'):

Altered this card's remainder text to match other Assist cards.

by KeresAcheron:

This was originally a Join Forces Clash of Wills, and predated the Join Forces mechanic. After that mechanic was released I eventually changed it to the closer Join Forces mechanic. It was never designed as a Out of Bounds variant, since it's a supposed to be a Clash of Wills with upside.

X is not NWO for beginner reasons, and those are ignored because of the cube's premise. Discounting player unfamiliarity with X and Assist, this card is mechanically fine as a common under NWO, for the same reason Cancel is. It doesn't make the board more complex, doesn't create card advantage, and can be ignored after resolving.

I tried a new variant on the Assist remained text I thought it would be clearer and less ambitious, and since it wasn't I have changed this to matched to the remainder text of the other Assist cards.

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