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CardName: Ripened Fireshot Cost: 4RR Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Ripened Fireshot deals 6 damage divided as you choose among target creature and that creature’s controller. (You may not choose to deal zero damage.) Flavour Text: “As a fun surprise, Homunculi can be served inside the wizards who summon them. Roast on medium for two hours, and season with thyme and garlic.” —Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar, The Underworld Cookbook. Set/Rarity: Homelands Restored Common

Ripened Fireshot
{4}{r}{r}
 
 C 
Sorcery
Ripened Fireshot deals 6 damage divided as you choose among target creature and that creature’s controller. (You may not choose to deal zero damage.)
“As a fun surprise, Homunculi can be served inside the wizards who summon them. Roast on medium for two hours, and season with thyme and garlic.”
—Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar, The Underworld Cookbook.
Updated on 09 Jun 2015 by jmgariepy

Code: CR09

History: [-]

2015-06-08 00:31:53: jmgariepy created and commented on the card Ripened Fireshot

Original Card.

Originally, I was going to give the large direct damage spell to Lightning Blast and call it a day. But the skeleton wanted something more expensive, so I cooked up this number.

It's possible this should cost {5}{r}{r}. It really depends on how red is performing in Limited, I suppose.

I started writing the flavor text as a joke that started with "What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Roast on medium..." But then I realized that Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar is criminally underrepresented on Magic flavor. The Homunculi/Wizard pair makes more sense with the card anyway. Did you know Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar is the Lord of the Pit's official cook? True story, bro.

It's Liquid Fire! Except the "reminder" text here is false for that card. (The reminder text would be accurate if this targeted the player too, bizarrely, as The Great MaGo elaborates in the explanation for Liquid Fire's rules text.)

Agh! Liquid fire's text is horrible but I can't think of much better.

I wonder if "Divided as you choose between target player and/or target creature that player controls" would work (assuming it's ok for a new card to choose to target both). But I'm not sure that works if you don't choose both targets.

Or something like "Deals up to 6 damage to target creature and the remainder to its controller" although that doesn't fix the timing issue.

I was going to recommend targeting the controller anyway, so that the spell doesn't fizzle if the creature is removed in response, like how the recent Commands were templated. "~ deals 6 damage divided as you choose between target player and target creature that player controls. (Your reminder text.)"

Yeah, I wasn't sure how to run the targeting. Here's a weird kicker: If this targets the creature and the player, and the creature is removed, you can now deal 6 to the player. Sounds like a cute way to deal 6 damage to an opponent in combination with Serrated Arrows, say. I guess there's nothing wrong with that... it's just weird. I'll probably switch over to double targets soon. It's probably better to eliminate the more frustrating option.

@Alex: I completely forgot about Liquid Fire! But, then, I guess I had a good reason to. Considering the fact that direct damage in Odyssey was at an all time low, and MaGo's Oracle text is currently a strained monstrosity, I'd say pre-printing it like this is an acceptable choice.

I agree, it almost certainly wants to target the player as well. And ideally it would follow the further constraints of allowing the damage to sent 6 to either, but not targeting something not damaged.

Could it be, "Ripened Fireshot deals 6 damage to target creature or target player, or 6 damage divided as you choose between target player and target creature they control"? The current wording is 24 words including reminder text, and spelling out all three options like that is 26 words.

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