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CardName: Hell's Shock Troops Cost: B Type: Creature - Devil Warrior Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Rules Text: Infernal attacking 1 (when Hell's Shock Troops is blocked by a creature, put a -1/-1 counter on that creature.) Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge Common |
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For Challenge # 083
A variant on Wither or Infect, or maybe first strike. Would have to go in another tribal -1/-1 counter set.
I'm not sure this has to be a tribal mechanic, but it could be.
Infernal does a similar thing to wither or first strike, but with a different knob to turn. Hopefully if there are not too many infernal creatures, it won't be too confusing remembering how many counters they give.
It's deliberately "1" not "equal to the power" so it CAN be blocked. And it can be varied -- shock troops are basically a 2/2 like rakdos cackler, but another creature could be effectively unblockable if it had a high infernal number, or a stompy common or uncommon might have high P/T but only 1 infernal. And a splashy rare could have big both.
I feared it might be too good if it could always block infernally too, so I decided it should be "infernal" or "infernal attacking" or "infernal defending", but maybe that's not necessary.
I assume devils will be in B and R and the other colours will have other tribes.
It's a pretty good take on Flanking+Wither, true. It makes me wonder if creatures with Infernal should not get the counters. I wonder, if they made Flanking today, how they would have ruled that.
MaRo said that one of the reasons they haven't brought back flanking is because players forgot about the exception for flanking blockers. So I think if it were being designed today they'd give it a slightly different flavour in order to allow it to work on all blockers.