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You definitely can't exile players :) I originally had an "except players clause" which if anything played up the "this must target an object (but not)" effect, but decided it was clearer without.
However, I still screwed up. I was sure I'd seen "exile your library" or "exile target player's library" but now I check, the examples are all "exile all cards from..." which makes sense.
But that makes it harder to matter if a card targets a library.
I was considering something like, choose a target or opponent chooses a target, and have one of these effects, where it was broken if you could avoid any of the effects, but it didn't really come together.
Never mind Circu, how about Lava Spike? (Or Bump in the Night to stay on-colour.)
Two card win with Circu, Dimir Lobotomist.
I'm not quite happy with is though. The language doesn't quite seem natural, and it's a bit fiddly to actually make it matter (two four-cost card combo is not that startling in eternal formats).
Jack's Essence Lender made me think of this, and I couldn't help myself. 😈
I think my implementation is not the best one, I'd be interested to see if someone else can do better.
Also just a typo, also fixed :)
No, it's completely functional, it's just a lot of people will read it and assume it has phasing.
Is there any reason this card wouldn't work within the rules?
I thought it didn't work because Ninjitsu isn't a mechanic? (It's spelled Ninjutsu.)
Aw, you (kinda) stole my idea.
That was exactly what I intended. Apart from the capitalisation, I just forgot that, I added it back in.
So obviously this is impossible right now, even if you have Mistform Ultimus. For two reasons, I believe: there aren't any creatures with type Priest (they're Clerics), and there aren't any creatures of type Rouge (that means lipstick; they're Rogues). I don't think the capitalisation ("wizard" not "Wizard") interferes with the functioning of the rules, it's just a style thing. I'm not 100% sure which of those were your intended problems, though...
Should they at least be different creatures?
Not sure if this is in the spirit or not :)
I like it just affecting the Flurry Ninja, mostly because it's so frustrating. With untapping all creatures, or just ninjas, this guy still has an ability that does something relevant (albeit, he/she still belongs in this set. You certainly couldn't print it.)
But when it's only affecting this creature there's a lot more forehead slapping. At least it feels that way to me. But I'm the guy who designed ((C7812)), so I don't know how much one should follow my opinion.
Thanks.
I like jmg's suggestion in that it makes the flaw more obviously a flaw. But I think it's also suspicious to see an "extra combat step just for this" when usually it's a bit more general than that. I considered "ninjas can attack", but didn't help; would "only ~ or other ninjas" work?
I think this one's bugged me for over ten years...
I'm 97% sure this works. If you have four artifacts in play when you cast But a Man, it would lock the cost of the spell in as
. Then you could sacrifice those four artifacts to pay off the rest of the cost.
But that's not intuitive. And while I don't know if "most people would think" it worked one way or the other, I know you just couldn't print this.
Ha, right, no, I see Jack's point. Yes, it does indeed look as if it can attack in the second combat. Nicely done!
Ah. I think you really want:
"Whenever [...] the first time each turn, untap Flurry Ninja. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase. Only Flurry Ninja may attack during this phase."
Ah, good point. I hadn't noticed you'd used the silver border here (I used a grey-everything-out plugin). But that's not quite right: designs for actually printable silver-border cards are different to card designs which are a joke for designers.
Well, it's not useless. But my thought is, it looks like it could attack again the turn you ninjitsu it, bolstered by the "only once each turn text", but it can't cos no haste.
Hm. I'm missing something. This seems to work AFAICT?
"Ambiguous"... hmm. There's probably some fiddly wordings which refer to "that creature" or "that player". Several old cards whose Oracle text now says "the first creature" or "the first player" could be made ambiguous if "the first" was replaced with "that".
I think I tend to hope border colour would hint towards what you're after with thought 2. A card with silver border ought to trigger a "this isn't trying to do the normal things" reflex. But it might be too subtle.