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CardName: Pigmented Ooze Cost: {G} Type: Creature - Ooze Pow/Tgh: 1/1 Rules Text: Ulterior motive (If this creature would deal combat damage to a player, you may instead have it fight target creature that player controls.) Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Districts of Kestner Common |
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common 1 mana simple ulterior motive
It's Laccolith Grunt! Wait, no it's not. It's Zealot il-Vec.
It's pretty much "~ must be blocked if able" :)
Hang on; that's lure. That's an actual green ability. Do that.
Well, any saboteur ability is lure to some extent. But that does't mean "Whenever ~ attacks and isn't blocked, defending player discards three cards" should go on a green card.
Yeah, but this is literally "Ok, if you don't block me, I'm going to pretend that you did, except I get to choose what blocked me and you don't get to hit me back"
Yeah, this is basically "If you don't blcok this creature, it gets to Rabid Bite" and has the whole attacking a creature directly thing going that provoke had as well - it's a mechanic that fits in the same color arc of red-green-white easily.
The nice thing of this over provoke/lure is that it actually allows you to hunt down Llanowar Elves. I am a little wary that you can make your choice of "prey" after blockers are declared. The removal capabilities of this mechanic are already quite strong.
I don't care for the name. I like names like "Stalk", "Tracking", "Pursuit" or "Hunt". "Predation"?
I really don't seem to understand why an Ooze of all things does this, or why an oily one in particular.
@SecretInfiltrator Yeah the name could use a change definitely, it was just random word searching at the time :P And yeah, if it gets unblockable it could become very powerful, good to consider that.
@Vitenka Thanks for the comments, I'll judge ulterior motive cards by that description now :)