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CardName: Command: Obstruct Cost: U/W Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: As an additional cost to cast Command: Obstruct, you may tap an Assembly-Worker you control. Tap target creature. If you tapped an Assembly-Worker you control as you cast this spell, copy Command: Obstruct. You may choose a new target for the copy. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: GDS3 Challenge 1: Assembly-Worker Uncommon

Command: Obstruct
{u/w}
 
 U 
Instant
As an additional cost to cast Command: Obstruct, you may tap an Assembly-Worker you control.
Tap target creature. If you tapped an Assembly-Worker you control as you cast this spell, copy Command: Obstruct. You may choose a new target for the copy.
Updated on 22 May 2018 by jemengeff

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2018-05-18 02:41:56: jemengeff created the card Command: Obstruct
2018-05-18 02:42:19: jemengeff edited Command: Obstruct
2018-05-18 17:58:46: jemengeff edited Command: Obstruct:

Do I need to add Assembly-Worker creature as a qualifier?

If you want to restrict it to creatures and disallow noncreature permanents (and tribal ones with changeling only exist in custom cards) to tap for this you'll need to add "creature" - otherwise you're fine.

It's really a bad idea to add a colon to a card name since now every mention of the card name makes it look like you have an activated ability. Magic-players are specifically trained to make that connection.

The ability seems like a good keyword candidate, but on this card it looks just too wordy for a marginal effect.

I'm aware you aren't allowed to make upa new keyword for the challenge, but that makes this effect a suboptimal choice for the parameters given.

I don't see why the copy effect is so far separated from the additional cost. This isn't kicker, you don't have to keep the cost entirely separate because it's a keyword on its own.

This is basically tribal one-creature conspire. Putting the cost and effect closer together like in that reminder text seems preferable to make it clear what goes on and makes it easier to tell what happens if you eshew the additional cost; only one line will be left: "Tap target creature." and it can its own paragraph.

Wow this is wordy for a small effect.

Would 'kicker' actually shorten it?

Tap target creature.
Kicker (tap an assembly worker you control): Tap another target creature.

Yeah, kicker would definitely work for this, I was just avoiding keywords in general. I could also consider Replicate.

The name was originally just Obstruct, but I wasn't sure if people would read it as an order/command, and Commands already have that namespace taken up.

The additional cost is at the beginning because that's typically where additional costs go, and the copy ability is at the end because that's typically where spells that copy themselves copy themselves. I could remove the additional cost and template it like the Chain cycle, and either add a mana cost to copy or change it so you only get one tap.

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