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Who watches the watches, Who guards the guardians?
And the Observer? who reads that?
^That was by me, lol, wasn't signed at the time.
Really like what this does. Wizard's should print more 'fight' cards.
That was my point, yeah. Was trying to be more subtle in referencing it than that though.
I thought it was the reference to rule 701.10d, the inspiration for Yes. It. Is..
Yep. Azorius law prohibits combat outside of the red zone.
Mmm, yeah - that's probably working. Makes a lot more sense now - "Don't fight after all"
Still pretty narrow in usability, but a lot less than it was.
And methinks the easter egg is it not being combat damage?
I think this wording works, although replacing one keyword action with another seems weird. Speaking of flavor, there's an Easter egg hidden on the card, if anyone can find it. (It's not that hard.)
Oh yes; I should have said that. The flavour is delicious. It's just unfortunate that it doesn't really work as often as you'd like. Could it somehow be worded to detain the creature before it fights, so that the fight is prevented?
Love the flavor on this card!
Indeed he doesn't. He's still pestering me to arrange a draft of something from RtR block so he can see some of the cards printed in the last year :)
Vitenka is right in that it's unlikely to fight more than once per turn anyway, not that many cards actually allow creatures to fight multiple times. 6 cards have repeatable fight abilities and 9 have one-off abilities.
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Vitenka, I take it you don't keep up with recent Magic sets?
Ummm... Vitenka, did you see my reply to you over on Dirty Cop? I explained Detain there.
It's a good word; it should be a keyword.
But yeah; no exact idea what it does. Hmm, if you fight a creature; is that creature also fighting and detained?
Because otherwise this seems not so useful - they make it fight; and then it can't fight (or do anything else) until, um, the next time it would want to fight anyway.
I like it. But why no reminder text for detain? I played with RTR a fair amount, but I still forget the precise details sometimes; I'm sure many other players would too.
To contrast with Civic Obedience.
Detain is the Azorius mechanic from last September, as on Azorius Arrester, Martial Law and Lyev Decree.
Your thoughts pretty much apply, though.
So, what; Detainment Spell? I didn't see Detain on the set's mechanics page.
Assuming it's something like that; and the timing issues work out, then I kinda like it and kinda don't. I like it because it's an interesting answer to creatures that isn't a total shutdown. And I dislike it, because the times it's not a shut-down are the times you really really need it to be, and your opponent says "Ok, have a card, I don't care any more."
Dunno. Of course, I might have completely misguessed what detain was.
Well, I guess it already has a niche as a searchable outpost / funny-land enabler. And rainbow vale was largely hated due to being in fallen empires and thus tarnished with the brush of "Terrible and massively overprinted".
So maybe that's OK?