In response to Assassin's Trophy. I was trying to think about exactly what a pushed boros removal spell would look like.
Boros StrategumRW
Instant (R)
Choose one:
-Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
-~ deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
-Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.
I decided to cost this at 2cmc, considering how pushed Assassin's Trophy is. Do you think this could see print?
Not sure this could see print as-is because of the second mode. Most creatures with 3 or less power also have 3 or less toughness; as a consequence, this card can effectively just destroy most creatures, all artifacts and enchantments, and some planeswalkers. This is too much for RW with no drawback.
If the damage mode hit PLAYERS and planeswalkers I think it'd be printable.
This feels much more like a card trying to be very good than Assassin's Trophy. Assassin's Trophy is just a versatile card with a very good rate, while this is an modal charm card which rather than using a selection of neat utility effects which are good in different situations, has all the modes be almost playable as individual cards in power level and versatility and all work towards the same broad end.
Just feels like someone sat down and said "How about a removal spell that destroys an artifact or enchantment? That's not good enough. What if it could also deal 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker? Even more! Let's make it destroy target creature with power 4 or greater!'
I don't like it.
Why Boros should have a pushed removal spell ? Outside standard White already has PoE and StP which are both huge color pie distortions. In Standard it's important to keep White removal behind Black and on par with Red.
Boros Strategum RW
Instant (R)
Choose one:
-Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
-~ deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
-Destroy target creature with power 4 or greater.
I decided to cost this at 2cmc, considering how pushed Assassin's Trophy is. Do you think this could see print?
If the damage mode hit PLAYERS and planeswalkers I think it'd be printable.
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Just feels like someone sat down and said "How about a removal spell that destroys an artifact or enchantment? That's not good enough. What if it could also deal 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker? Even more! Let's make it destroy target creature with power 4 or greater!'
I don't like it.
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