If I was stuck on two lands, I'd be frustrated to know that I couldn't reequip the gun. But, yes. I do like the mechanic.

Huh. That's a nifty keyword for it. And quite a widely applicable effect.

Bestowing Hurricane.

That's a tree I can get behind.

The change seems similar to what I've been doing with "you get X, where X is blaa" texts by essentially replacing them with "for each blaa, you get 1" or "you get X equal to the number of blaa".

Yeah, no card references here so that makes sense.

EDIT: I started looking for existing cards to pick out those reference points, but I find that references in general are kind of weird actually. It's not that much of a stretch to say that this refers Revenant, Scion of the Wild, and/or Crusader of Odric though not explicitly so. Flavor text on Revenant especially is quite similar and the general themes are close, even with Crusader.

I dislike this wording change simply because it removes the * symbol from cards which looks really cool in the p/t stat box.

I understand why they're making the changes from a rules perspective but from an emotional perspective I'm sad to see it go and will use the old style in my cards when possible.

(I won't be naming my one Legion since the cube supposed to be nostalgia orientated and not introduce new planes/factions. Feel free to use it here and congratulations on the art and flavour text.)

See http://www.magicmultiverse.net/cards/92300 in "25th Anniversary Cube".

Dominaria spoilers suggests this will be the preferred way in the future to implement these kind of variable p/t creatures.

"Bound Ravager"?

My thinking was that the actual text (not reminder) is somewhere along the lines of:

> ": Remove ~ from combat. It blocks target attacking creature (if able?). Activate this ability only during the declare blockers step."

> ": Remove from ~ combat. It attacks the defending player if able? Activate this ability only during the declare attackers step."

Hmmm, this would mean that the blocker would have the last say since that step comes afterwards. Eh, maybe the mechanic's implementation could be envisioned in some other way.

Also, there would have to be rules about who divides the combat damage between blocking creatures and such.

EDIT:

Perhaps you could try removing the option for other players to "hire" them and have the ability just be ": Gain control of ~ UEOT."

Ie.

For hire (This creature isn't controlled by any player. It has ": This creature's owner gains control it of until end of turn.")

Eenteresting. Does attacker get first refusal? What if there are multiple attacking or defending players? What happens if both sides pay?