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CardName: Catch Spike Cost: {3} Type: Artifact Creature - Pest Pow/Tgh: 1/3 Rules Text: Defender Whenever Catch Spike deals combat damage to a creature, Catch Spike becomes an Equipment type artifact until that creature dies. Attach Catch Spike to that creature. Equipped creature gets -3/-1. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Isolation Uncommon |
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Interesting. Fiddly, but interesting.
Not entirely sure what happens if it blocks a 3/2 creature though.
I mean for it to die if lethal damage is dealt to it. I'm not sure where to put that in and the card is already very wordy.
If Catch Spike ends up attacking and multiple creatures block it and Catch Spike isn't destroyed then it's controller chooses which creature that Catch Spike equips to ( I imagine this bit would appear on the Gatherer and not the actual card).
It's like a Licid (Dominating Licid, Transmogrifying Licid etc). Note that the rules would need this to stop being a creature for as long as it's attached (see the reminder text on Ensouled Scimitar which does this the other way round). I think you'd word this something like
> Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a creature, ~ becomes an Equipment artifact until that creature dies. Attach ~ to that creature.
> Equipped creature gets -3/-1.
This gets the "return it to your side" automatically. Making it become tapped would need a lot of extra words for not much gain, so I suggest you lose that little part of it.
Rather than "until that creature dies", it should read "until that creature leaves the battlefield".
On an unrelated note, Spike is a creature type, but this isn't one. Modern design sensibilities state that if it has a creature type in its name, it should be that type.
Thanks very much. Right now I'm stuck making cards on my iPod, which is a very annoying process. The card will be updated when I have the time.
As for the name, I'm fairly new to Magic so I had no idea about the creature type. I'll probably just pluralist it to Catch Spikes or Catch Prickers or something similar.
Hmm... I disagree slightly with dude1818 on this one. Giant Spider is a Spider, but it isn't a Giant, because the word Giant isn't being used in the same sense as the creature type. The Spikes as in Spike Drone and so on are a particular creature type that Magic made up, like Saprolings or Licids. If this isn't flavoured like one of them, then I don't think it has to have the Spike type.
Note to self: The next time a Magic card pops up with the word "spike" somewhere in it's name on Mashup: The Gathering, add Spike Drone to the mashup.
There are 9 "Creature - Spike"s in Magic, and 24 cards with the word spike in them. I really like the idea of making new spikes out of cards like Lava Spike and War-Spike Changeling (whoops... make that 10 Spikes).