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u/Moreldarin 19h ago
Deathless could probably be streamlined to 'Whenever this creature becomes blocked, destroy all creatures blocking it with toughness less than this creatures power at the beginning of the damage step'
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u/PrimusMobileVzla 17h ago
Aegis Form might as well be replaced with First Strike. And Deathless should be a trigger explicitly templated as rule text with an anchor word or replaced with Undying for a more simpler result, not a supertype with an intrinsic trigger attached to it.
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u/AutisticNeighbor831 16h ago
If I gave the Deathless keyword to every card they would end up too long most of the time. Especially with reminder text.
The weaker deathless will get first strike but for the major deathless characters (Siris, Isa, Galath, Radriar, etc), they will get Aegis Form. Although it's not done. As written the infinity blade will never actually exile a deathless because one of the big 5 with Aegis Form would destroy the deathless, causing them to revive rather than being exiled and preventing the revive.
But besides Aegis Form I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Although I'm sure there's always some syntax that could be refined.
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u/PrimusMobileVzla 14h ago
If I gave the Deathless keyword to every card they would end up too long most of the time. Especially with reminder text.
Is not that long, and making a supertype with implicit rule text isn't ideal, especially leaning into nested keywords on a keyword that isn't deciduous. For example:
Deathless -- When this creature dies, exile it with N time counters on it and it gains suspend.
Plain and simple, its the Epochrasite death trigger, with N being explicitly defined (by you equal to half the creature's mana value to keep consistency) and for all I know nobody will critique the lack of Suspend's reminder text in this context, especially as the suggested template considering none of the Deathless are printed with Suspend.
Worst case scenario, as mentioned, replace the whole thing with Undying.
Rather, it strikes at the moment as text boxes being too cramped on their own and Deathless would only make it worse, and that is an overload issue, which means besides not keywording Deathless the text boxes should be trimmed off of some of their abilities.
The weaker deathless will get first strike but for the major deathless characters (Siris, Isa, Galath, Radriar, etc), they will get Aegis Form. Although it's not done. As written the infinity blade will never actually exile a deathless because one of the big 5 with Aegis Form would destroy the deathless, causing them to revive rather than being exiled and preventing the revive.
I don't consider it prudent if the sole reason Deathless and Aegis Form exist in their current form is flavor. You can transmit the idea without this much going on.
But besides Aegis Form I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Although I'm sure there's always some syntax that could be refined.
It's still Super-First Strike, as in countering First Strike and Double Strike, and for no apparent reason besides flavor. It's compromising the complexity of the cards when there's simpler options.
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u/DR_Wafflezzzz 19h ago
Oh infinity blade how I miss you.