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Combustion Man
Legendary Creature — Human Assassin
Whenever this attacks, destroy target permanent unless its controller has this creature deal damage to them equal to this creature's power.
Crow_Umbra on How Did WotC Allow Combustion …
9 months ago
Yeah... there's like 20 something comments on here outlining how others feel about Combustion Man not being a color pie break, and being a Punisher. The Scryfall tagger also shows the many other such cases of Punisher effects for comparison.
TL;DR - Combustion Man is a Punisher effect in Red, and is not a break.
wallisface on How Did WotC Allow Combustion …
9 months ago
DemonDragonJ not at all. Red Elemental Blast is doing effects that red shouldn’t be able to do, and the casting player has full control over being able to enact those effects.
Conversely Combustion Man and Enchanter's Bane only permit effects outside of reds colour pie in situations where the opponent refuses to pay the punisher (damage) effect. The casting player has no control over the effect of the card, and the only time the card performs an effect outside of the colours pie is when the opponent allows them to.
DemonDragonJ on How Did WotC Allow Combustion …
9 months ago
Idoneity, in that case, I take back what I said previously and regard Enchanter's Bane as a color pie break.
wallisface, I am saying that, if Red Elemental Blast is a color pie break, then Combustion Man definitely is, as well.
Crow_Umbra on How Did WotC Allow Combustion …
10 months ago
Neither Combustion Man or Star Athlete have a guaranteed means of removing enchantments or other (non-land) permanents, since they hinge on the choice of another player. That choice and lack of guarantee is a difficult means of removing enchantments and other permanents.
If either of those creatures, or any of the other Punisher/Choice effects in this thread lacked the choice element and instead "guaranteed" removal like Beast Within/Generous Gift, then that would be a more direct break.
DreadKhan on How Did WotC Allow Combustion …
10 months ago
Forgive me if this is too repetitive:
Red has long gotten what are sometimes called 'Choice' cards, sometimes called 'Punisher' cards depending on who you're talking to, and Combustion Man is one of them. They're normally pie breaks that Red would LOVE to have, such as Skullscorch, Browbeat, Risk Factor, Breaking Point, and Vexing Devil (playable ones I can think of). It's mostly a Red identity at this point, and it still gets support. FWIW most of these are also below normal cost for the effect, at least for the period of play they were in Standard. They are often Timmy type cards, but I have found if you mix them in with the best Burn effects you can find they play better, if people can't afford to lose the life then you can get some pretty sweet upsides. Fortunately none of them are THAT good, and IMHO this isn't changing anything at 5 Mana that Chaos Warp didn't probably do better for only 3, and Wild Magic Surge for only 2. Both have downsides, but this can be ignored for some life, and as Vexing Devil and Browbeat suggest, paying life for a counter is a good deal most of the time (those cards are bad without support IMHO).
Hope this clears things up a bit!
Crow_Umbra on How Did WotC Allow Combustion …
10 months ago
Also, although Star Athlete is in a similar design space as Combustion Man, it debuted in a commander precon, where as CB is from a Standard set. There's definitely some things that make Star Athlete a bit more pushed, it has more immediate potential for impact compared to CB, at the cost of a slightly narrower means of removal.
Crow_Umbra on Card creation challenge
10 months ago
Adamant Spellbreaker
Creature - Human Warrior Shaman
Menace
Whenever this ~ attacks, destroy target enchantment with mana value less than or equal to this creature's power, unless its controller has ~ deal damage equal to them equal to its power.
3/2
Since we just got Combustion Man, I figured I'd fiddle with his template a bit to be able to add a keyword. I thought Haste might be too pushed unless I made a heavier investment in Red for the cmc, or lowering the P/T
Create a mono creature that can destroy enchantments.