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CardName: Oblique Statue Cost: 1GU Type: Enchantment Creature - Illusion Pow/Tgh: 3/3 Rules Text: Hexproof {G/U}: Oblique Statue becomes a 3/3 Enchantment Creature - Illusion with hexproof until end of turn. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Uncommon |
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: Oblique Statue becomes a 3/3 Enchantment Creature – Illusion with hexproof until end of turn.
For Challenge # 066. Simic loves creatures. It loves them to death. It wants to do all kinds of freaky things with creatures.
I opted for a different kind of blue/green, where green is using life magic to turn blue inanimate objects into perfect, unchanging creations. Originally this card had "power and toughness cannot be changed, permanents cannot be attached to it, and tokens cannot be added to it" but that was too heavy a hand. I like this, though. No matter how you try to twist this card, it keeps telling you it's a perfect 3/3 creature. I'm not sure if that's how the rules work, however.
Layers and timestamps. (I'm not sure how they work, but they must be relevant.)
That ability doesn't really do anything. Even if you make Quicksilver Gargantuan into a copy of it, the copy just ignores the ability and stays 7/7.
The only case I can find where it's relevant has nothing to do with the "3/3" part of the ability, but rather with the "creature" part. Specifically, since it says nothing about "in addition to its other types", if you have a preexisting Mycosynth Lattice or Enchanted Evening and then drop this, the Statue will not be an artifact or enchantment, respectively. (If either of those cards postdates the creature, it will win out and paste its type onto this.) Cytoshape and licids also act weird around this, but then again they act weird around everything.
Yeah. I went to lunch, and realized I hadn't really done anything here. I changed it to an activated ability instead, so we can at least say it does something.
Now it beats Godhead of Awe and the few effects that are like that, but not Sudden Spoiling (since you can't use the ability out from under that), Mutilate (or even non-lethal variations like Nausea), and -1/-1 counters. By being constrained to layer 7b, the rules really don't want effects like what this is trying to be, to work as advertised.
Mm... I know. I just wanted the card to do something. I'm going to have to come back and take another stab at this idea... probably by doing something completely different. I probably have to infuse a lot of flavor...