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I think stave off is one of those "different strokes" card. Timmy/new players see an Apostle's Blessing or Gods Willing, but more experienced players see a Hindering Light that can affect the opponent's permanent.
Basic protection is usually common these days. Mass (Brave the Elements, Faith's Shield), repeated (Emerge Unscathed) or longer-term (Holy Mantle) protection, on the other hand, get pushed up.
Even though this implementation is a bit unusual in its flexibility (I could see
or a slightly higher cost), it's not the effect that is complex, so if Stave Off can be done at common from time to time, this can certainly happen at common too IMO.
Mmm, Stave Off is another example. I'd still argue it's unusual, the exception rather than the rule, so my "normally don't" statement was still accurate; there were just one or two more exceptions than I mentioned :)
Mmm, wizards does try nowadays to move the more interesting stuff out to uncommon. It's, uh, less common for them to do it at common.
But yeah; they do do it, and this is interesting because of it.
"Normally doesn't do that", really? I agree it's easy to forget that Stave Off can hit opponents' creatures, though. I didn't realize that until very late into costing this.
Worse than Apostle's Blessing in two ways (no
and can't protect against artifacts) and better in one (can protect enchantments or planeswalkers). I'd normally rather have Apostle's Blessing, but the simpler version has its place.
Oh, wait, this can hit opponents' creatures? o.o That's a lot more versatile then. It can counter pump spells, make auras fall off, all sorts of good stuff. Wizards normally don't do that, but they did with Vines of Vastwood and a lot of people loved those extra sideways uses, so go for it :)
from
, exchanging ability 1 and 2
I never realized until today that Sorin's final ability actually kills him not matter what. Yet I can't help thinking that it is fitting because, really, after doing THAT to help you, why would he ever need to stay? "There you go, friend. Now I must go."
As you might be able to tell by teh discussion above, the original version had the Rock Jockey template. Vitenka's version is an attempt at spelling that in a single sentence, it's intended to have the same meaning.
Rock Jockey spelled out both halves of it. But it benefitted from competing with a really-only-sorcery-speed-ever action (playing a land). I think Vitenka's being somewhat overoptimistic here and you probably do need the rules text for both halves spelled out. (What happens if I try to cast an instant before this resolves? Is it prohibited, and if so, how? By the rules of the game?)