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CardName: Body or Blanket Cost: WW Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Choose 1: •Destroy up to X target creatures with counters on them, where X is the number of artifacts and enchantments you control. •Destroy up to X target artifacts or enchantments, where X is the number of creatures you control with counters on them. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Ulaqat Rare

Body or Blanket
{w}{w}
 
 R 
Instant
Choose 1:
•Destroy up to X target creatures with counters on them, where X is the number of artifacts and enchantments you control.
•Destroy up to X target artifacts or enchantments, where X is the number of creatures you control with counters on them.
Updated on 28 Aug 2018 by Sorrow

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2018-08-16 02:51:05: Sorrow created the card Body or Blanket
2018-08-18 12:31:35: Sorrow edited Body or Blanket

That first mode is more aggressive than white usually gets to be. Sure, there's a hoop to jump through; but removing all of an opponents creatures is the kind of targetted destruction white doesn't usually get.

I just realized both modes should be "up to X." I had hoped that the counter restriction was limiting enough.

The counters are not something that feels inherently like something white would lash out against. Usually white gets to target those that get aggressive against it first, by attacking/blocking/tapping (implicitly to attack or activate an ability against white) or just being one of those high-power people (that are implied to be more aggressive than the good defensive high-toughness folk).

Counters are actually something that white is neutral to friendly with - outside of the explicit context of -1/-1 and poison counters, and even then white is more about healing away the counters than purging the victims.

Having a purely flavorless card like this doesn't help. I don't even know which option is "Body" and which is "Blanket".

Since this is an instant it could exile/destroy up to X attacking creatures.

2018-08-20 00:08:05: Sorrow edited Body or Blanket:

Followed SecretInfiltrator's suggestion and now destroys attacking creatures. Second mode remains unchanged.

Is there anything speaking against making the second mode count attacking creatures? After all the symmetry was part of the original design and this is an instant, so you could play it like that.

You mentioned both modes should be "up to", but only the first one is. I agree, that the second mode doesn't feel like it should blow up your own stuff.

How do you choose where to insert additional line breaks? How does the "Choose 1:" deserve to be separated from the options you choose, but the options themselves are really tight to each other?

2018-08-27 17:35:18: Sorrow edited Body or Blanket:

Removed line break

I probably forgot to make the second mode include "up to."

Do you suggest the second ability should be any attacking creatures, or just attacking creatures the player controls? I wouldn't be opposed to letting the player use this to blow up opponents' artifacts and enchantments based on the number of the opponent's attacking creatures. That penalization feels pretty white; however, that version would omit "your control," breaking that aspect of symmetry. I would think only allowing this to hit off one's own attacking creatures wouldn't feel useful for defensive styles of play that white may have, and could thus make the mode very bad in certain decks.

I thought "you control" would be a necessary part of the symmetry - even if the color pie can support otherwise.

Isn't the defensive build already served really well by the ability to remove multiple attackers for two mana? Which seems insane, thinking about it. Hmmm...

Well, anyway. It's a card with multiple modes. Not all modes need to be useful in every deck in every situation, but I can see a white deck e. g. throwing some tokens into the red zone to get some sweep out of it.

2018-08-28 15:04:00: Sorrow edited Body or Blanket:

Returned to "target creatures with counters on them." As +1/+1 counters appear in this set, and generally seem to be the most frequently appearing type of counters, I believe this state is a bend on white's "destroy target creature with power 4 or greater."

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