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bravelion83 wrote: ↑4 years agoEnigmatic Mirage
Creature — Illusion (U)
Whenever Enigmatic Mirage becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, sacrifice Enigmatic Mirage, then draw a card.
: Choose one —
• Enigmatic Mirage gains hexproof until end of turn.
• Change a target of target spell or ability an opponent controls to Enigmatic Mirage.
You won't know whether it's real or not until you try to touch it.
3/3Note on flavor textShowHideYes, it's an intended reference to Schrödinger's cat.
No, there is something that I have missed there, and a rather big thing. I still can't believe that I've missed it! You are absolutely right and my card actually doesn't work in the way I wanted it to. My idea was having a variant of the usual illusion ability that was something good and bad for you at the same time, so that sometimes you wanted that ability to resolve (to draw a card) and sometimes you didn't (to keep the creature). By the way, that's what gave me the idea to have the flavor text be a reference to the concept of Schrödinger's cat, which obviously, being a chemistry teacher myself, I know quite well.slimytrout wrote: ↑4 years ago... Otherwise, the creature would already have been sacrificed by the time the spell would resolve, so the spell would be fizzled anyway. Is there something I'm missing?
The modal activated ability was meant as the means for you to control that: the first mode (gaining hexproof) was to let you not resolve the first ability to keep the creature, while the second (taking an opponent's spell and force it to target the Illusion itself) was to let you willingly trigger the first ability if you wanted to draw the card but at the cost of sacrificing the Illusion. I wanted the first ability of the Illusion to fizzle with the first mode of the activated ability, not your opponent's spell. I think there must be a way to make the card that I had in mind, but yes, this was clearly not it. I'll think about it. If I find a wording that does what I want the card to actually do, I might post the revised version of it in the DCC one of these days. I guess we'll see.
Oh, well, I've willingly tried to play outside the box this month because it's something I need to learn to do, both in Magic card design and in real life. I used this month's CCL as a self-testing ground essentially, and it turns out that yes, I still have to work on that side of me. I would be very surprised to get into the top 8 this month, but hey, at least I've learned something out of it!
But no, don't worry, I'm neither the goblin in question nor the one who actioned the catapult. In my own garrison we don't do these things... But I can't speak for the rest of the Legion, though.
