This, on the other hand, is a pretty sweet card that seems like it'd have quite a bit of play. It is, however, hilariously power-creeped over something like Zoetic Cavern.
Well, powerful enough or not depends on the format, so that's the first thing where I do not agree on with you. Second is that the new one returns two mana (and can color fix) and has ward 2 when morphed. There are corner cases where the old one is better, e.g., only two lands available but the new one is a free unmorph as opposed to costing 1.
I would like to avoid functional eratta on a widespread scale
The fact this card is playing it as a joke and bitter triumph is playing it straight faced is the most humorous thing about the similarity
Exactly! Thus not hilariously power crept
Wouldn't you agree?
Well, they did that with mana burn. Tapped blockers do deal combat damage. Combat damage not on the stack...I would like to avoid functional eratta on a widespread scale
"No actually, you can't kill my facedown creature here, lemmie just pull up this article on the mtg website that says so..."
The fact this card is playing it as a joke and bitter triumph is playing it straight faced is the most humorous thing about the similarity
Well, I rather have the new one than the old one... That's power creep not? (Not that that is a bad thing, it is still not breaking the bank in most formats)Exactly! Thus not hilariously power crept
This is such a silly card; I adore it. It's got some great synergies with what my black section is already doing, and I love having another excuse to put an enchantment in my graveyard for Delirium. The fact that it's written in a way that's easy to misunderstand is slightly annoying (a Twitter user figured out a much better way to template this imo) but I think it'll work out.
I really love Magic cards. What a fun game, lol.
I don't believe multiplayer factors into the wording here, the awkwardness comes from planeswalkers themselves effectively functioning as different players. Obviously if multiplayer didn't exist you could just have it trigger any time an opponent attacks with two creatures and ignore that it now also works with battles. I do think there are probably better ways it could have been worded, but there might be some considerations I haven't thought of as to why they didn't do something like "Whenever an opponent attacks you and/or planeswalkers you control with two or more creatures", like it might ambiguously lead people to think it could trigger multiple times.
Are they in an open relationship?
Yeah, but how many creatures have 3+ power these days? If it was MV2 or less, I'd be interested, but half of my two drops in white are over that limit, so this basically just rips 1-drops from the top of my deck.
It costs two!
I *JUST* put together a new "Anti-Commander" (lol) monored Goblins/Burn Commander deck and, well, now I may have to tweak it a bit...this looks pretty fun, honestly.Goblin storm somehow?
Krenko, Baron of Tin Street
Over half of all the creatures in mine are 2 or less. Not that this is the type of card I want to play with.
Most cards have corner cases when the more powerful are worse than the less powerful. So, no, when a card is most of the time better, then it is often a power crept version. And no, I do not agree that a card has to be in your upper tier and then made stronger to talk about power creep. If the creatures get more powerful, then whole strategies become useless. That could be:
Do not be fooled: you divvy they choose means "draw zero relevant cards"
5 mana Steam Augury where you get a flier the size of the number of cards in the pile your opponent bins.
I think I'll run this? Seems like a very strong proactive play, maybe slightly too much, but making piles is fun.
I don't really understand where the thopter comes from flavor-wise.
Most cards have corner cases when the more powerful are worse than the less powerful. So, no, when a card is most of the time better, then it is often a power crept version. And no, I do not agree that a card has to be in your upper tier and then made stronger to talk about power creep. If the creatures get more powerful, then whole strategies become useless. That could be:
A cube with only a few tier 1 creatures a bit more tier 2 and a lot tier 3. Changing the tier 3 creatures to tier 2 is a creature power creep (could be for the best or not, depends on the wishes) and then a whole slew of strategies could be inviable (and maybe a few new ones emerge).
