MTG Salvation

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Fourteen? Geez

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While you can activate any time during your turn, and the effect will last the entire turn, you have to choose the source right when the ability resolves. If there's no eligible source to choose, the ability does nothing. You can't choose a Lightning Bolt, that hasn't been cast yet, for example.

609.7a If an effect requires a player to choose a source of damage, they may choose a permanent; a
spell on the stack (including a permanent spell); any object referred to by an object on the stack,
by a replacement or prevention effect that’s waiting to apply, or by a delayed triggered ability
that’s waiting to trigger (even if that object is no longer in the zone it used to be in); or a face-up
object in the command zone. A source doesn’t need to be capable of dealing damage to be a
legal choice. The source is chosen when the effect is created. If the player chooses a permanent,
the effect will apply to the next damage dealt by that permanent, regardless of whether it’s
combat damage or damage dealt as the result of a spell or ability. If the player chooses a
permanent spell, the effect will apply to any damage dealt by that spell and any damage dealt by
the permanent that spell becomes when it resolves.

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I didn't realize your version could block with standard creatures... I could honestly see it both ways. I wanted to make it as close to your version as possible. So sorry I missed that little detail!

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@perodequeso
We tried your format! I loved it so much I made a video for you! Hope you like it! There's also gameplay footage as well!
https://youtu.be/UZtPIujDpQM

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@caulkwrangler, it's been many years since I've read all the source material, but I remember specifically coming away with the impression that Tom Bombadil
was indeed the most powerful character in Middle-Earth.

Ok. What is your point though? And how are you defining power?

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So, not only Aragorn, but Galadriel and Eowyn as well.

At Reprieve, she looks a lot like just a tiny bit darker Olivia Clarke's Daenerys. And on the Commander deck, assuming it is ALSO Eowyn (because, well, there is exactly NONE other Rohirrim female warrior character), she looks substantially different, with a bronze complexion at best and different facial physiology.

Well, their choice. I won't be mad about it, but I would have not mind them being more true to the source.

Eh, I think Tom Bombadil getting the God creature type is a bigger deviation than skin color. Tolkien left everything but Tom not being a God to speculation. Elder Bard would've worked better.

Yeah, but frankly, I always considered Tom Bombadil a god, something as an aspect of Ilúvatar himself on at least Valar level, so I do not quite mind.

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Bombadil being a god or, more specifically, a manifestation of the mystery of Creation/The Author itself, beyond even the Valar, while never part of the canon, is something that can be at least deduced from canonical material.

But the entire point of Tom is he's outside this entire War of the Ring situation. He's no god, no man, just an old man named Tom who doesn't stop singing. If anything, Elder Bard, just Elder, just Bard, or full Nameless Race would have worked just as well, if not better.

I don't recall at the moment where, but it is specified that Tom is one of the Maiar, on the same order as Mairon/Sauron and the Istari. Thing is, he's an unusually powerful Maia, due to his bond with the land he inhabits.

The Ring does work on Maiar, because it was made for use by one, and they can do even greater things with it - Gandalf and Saruman, for example - but Tom is the only character in the book who handles the Ring and is completely unaffected by it. He is free from desire and temptation because the land (which his power sustains) provides him with everything he could ever want or need. Because of this, and quite frankly because he embodied the author's ideals of a quiet, pastoral life in harmony with nature, he was strong enough that if Sauron ever did get his Precious back and conquer everything, he still wouldn't have been able to touch Tom's territory.

Most readers don't take him seriously because of his clownish nature and goofy singing, but it is made abundantly clear in the narrative that anything evil has cause to fear Tom Bombadil.

The God typing is probably to represent that level of power, which is sort of in between the Maiar and the Valar. The Valar are never specifically said to be gods, but they wield godlike power and are venerated by the Elves, who knew them in the youth of their people. But they are about as close to gods as most mortals will ever interact with, since they're sort of meant to be Eru Ilúvatar's intermediaries for dealing with Creation. Honestly they're more like archangels, in keeping with Tolkien's catholicism and its influence on Arda's cosmology, but they absolutely would get God typing if they were printed as cards, since they fill much the same overall role as gods do in Magic. Immensely powerful, huge, awe-inspiring, smiters of evil and saviors of mortals, rather than omnipotent creator-demiurges.