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CardName: Humbled by the Gods Cost: {1}{R}{W} Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {1}: Deal 1 damage to target creature that doesn't share a color with the mana spent to activate this ability. A creature dealt damage this way loses all abilities until end of turn. You can't spend colorless mana to activate this ability. Flavour Text: The most famous infidels only ever faced mortals' wrath. Those who truly moved the gods by their disbelief have names less than dust. Set/Rarity: Pantheon of Szykielwa Uncommon

Humbled by the Gods
{1}{r}{w}
 
 U 
Enchantment
{1}: Deal 1 damage to target creature that doesn't share a color with the mana spent to activate this ability. A creature dealt damage this way loses all abilities until end of turn. You can't spend colorless mana to activate this ability.
The most famous infidels only ever faced mortals' wrath. Those who truly moved the gods by their disbelief have names less than dust.
Updated on 17 Jan 2022 by Sorrow

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2021-03-31 01:28:04: Sorrow created the card Humbled by the Gods
2021-03-31 01:28:28: Sorrow edited Humbled by the Gods
2022-01-15 04:40:52: Sorrow edited Humbled by the Gods

This seems like it should also remove a card's devotion, but it doesn't. I'm not sure what the point of making it colorless is

"creature loses its mana cost (a permanent's color is determined by its mana cost)"? Too complicated concept for canon magic, but neat idea.

I feel this card is straight up weird, especially the "was dealt damage this turn"; if you have direct damage, you'd rather have used it as removal than turned something colorless, otherwise this would likely be used post-combat which means precious little "until end of turn" left.

Sure, this could elevate burn to deal with indestructible, but in a very convoluted way - and would feel wrong flavorwise, at least if this set's Gods are indestructible. I'd have to check.

I feel, this card might have a very specific purpose, that I'm missing.

@dude1818- Removing the colors sets creatures up for Persecute or the creatures that gain a benefit from being an additional color.

@SecretInfiltrator- The "was dealt damage this turn" was red's condition. That being said, I don't have much in the way of cheap pings for 1, with most burn in the set being slightly more expensive for 2, which does make this hard to benefit from in the set. Besides removal of color benefits in set, loss of ability was just considered a non-specific general boon, for at any given time, how many creatures are in existence whose abilities either directly negatively affect you or positively affect their controller's board to the point that it negatively affects you.

Persecute directly is problematic with this since it only occurs during combat, which also would be the main obvious source of damage to satisfy the condition Humbled by the Gods right now has (a blocking/blocked creature that survived combat damage).

Maybe a Blazing Volley-variant that also makes all affected creatures colorless? Could have similar flavor.

Maybe damage + color/ability-stripping to all attacking/blocking creatures?

Flavor-wise it is weird that making your own creatures colorless would have the same effect on persecute, and likewise this becomes a drawback if an opponent uses persecute... I guess, that's what the Humility is for. I think it's mostly a badly designed aspect of persecute.

There are only three creatures available to red with persecute and not a single mono-white creature with it.

2022-01-17 04:02:05: Sorrow edited Humbled by the Gods:

Removed "{1}:Target creature that was dealt damage this turn becomes colorless and loses all abilities UEOT." I did consider it costing {2} and pinging all creatures that didn't match the colors of mana spent.

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