Justice Strike

Instant

Target creature deals damage to itself equal to its power.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

nuperokaso on Boros Impact

10 months ago

• Kabira Takedown  ^Flip or Case of the Gateway Express is more appropriate removal than Justice Strike in your deck.
• I would suggest adding one extra land. Remove one of the 2-mana token makers.

9-lives on Swans of Bryn Argoll and …

2 years ago

If i have Swans of Bryn Argoll on the battlefield, and wish to cause its ability to trigger, could I use Justice Strike to do so without killing Swans of Bryn Argoll?

9-lives on

2 years ago

Got rid of Hindering Light and Mana Leak and added Justice Strike. Purely aikido, but yet probably very useful with certain cards. This is the most fun deck I've made yet.

Beebles on Hit Me Baby! | Akiri Damage Ricochet | V-DSK

3 years ago

Hey 9-lives, thanks for your reply.

I can see why copying would not fit the aikido description. That’s an interesting detail. If you woud tell the folks that maintain this site, they might change that.

Apart from those semantic details, we seem to agree that Aikido, like the martial art, is about turning the strength of your opponents against them. My view on this deck regarding that hasn’t changed: This deck is not about turning the strength of my opponents against them.

It may run some cards that could be used for that purpose, but that doesn’t automatically mean it’s the strategy of this specific deck. Proposing that my deck is Aikido because it runs cards that are also used in Aikido decks is a deductive fallacy: all birds are animals but not all animals are birds. This deck is a different animal.

The intent of this deck is to first attack with equipped creatures to then dig for damage-based combo’s that all start with self-inflicted damage. It’s an equipment aggro deck that turns into a (self-inflicted-damage-redirection) combo deck in the late game. Nowhere in that game plan is it about making use of the strength of my opponents. It is a “stop-hitting-yourself” deck. Not an Aikido one.

Then, for your card suggestions: I like Justice Strike but as explained in the deck description, there isn’t a lot of room for instants and sorceries in this list. If I wanted another card that can trigger my combos, I would rather go for something like Sword of Fire and Ice. Mutiny I like less, because there is no synergy with my combos.

9-lives on Hit Me Baby! | Akiri Damage Ricochet | V-DSK

3 years ago

Perhaps add Justice Strike considering that you're using Guilty Conscience? Also, Mutiny might fit in? And, Aikido is very much known for using Boros Reckoner.

I would rather use the term "Tactical Redirection", as that is a generally equivalent term, and definitely covers what you are doing. IF you understand what the term aikido means, it is simply using the opponent against themselves, such as them damaging you to damage themselves, damaging creatures to damage their own creatures, and on and on. So, it covers a large base of cards. The idea that aikido is to copy is completely wrong, in the definition of aikido. In the way people used to make aikido decks, and used the term wrongly, they made creature copy/mirror cards. This is not aikido, this is simply mirroring. Only if you can control a creature and then use it to damage an oppoenent's other creatures or life total would it be aikido. Deflecting Palm is the essence of Aikido.

When you play a chess game, if you mirror your opponent, you're bound to lose. Hardly anyone has won a tournament with this type of deck. If you use aikido, and place a defensive formation, and then they lose a piece from attacking one of your pieces, and they lose a more valuable piece while you either don't lose your less valuable piece or you do. I know that each attack in chess is always losing a piece, but regardless I tried to explain it.

wallisface on Boros Modern Soldier

3 years ago

I have the following suggestions:

• add in 4x Lightning Bolt, 4x Lightning Helix, 4x Monastery Swiftspear, 4x Searing Blaze. The burn spells will help clear a path for your attackers, and/or hit directly to-face to close a game out. Swiftspear is one of the stronger creatures you could be playing, so should be in here.

To make room for those 16 cards, I’d suggest removing the following:

• 2x Solar Blaze. You don’t need a janky board wipe, and generally you want your curve low. Dropping these’ll mean you can run less lands

• 2x Land. You should only need 22 at this point

• 1x Feather, the Redeemed. You have almost nothing that can even target it, making it fairly useless

• 3x Legion's Initiative. You don’t want to waste a turn with this - you need to be spending every turn either presenting threats, or removing your opponents.

• 2x Boros Signet. Same as above. I see no need for this.

• 2x Boros Swiftblade. These guys are fine, but Monastery Swiftspear is better.

• 2x Justice Strike. I think keeping 2 could be good for big problem creatures, but running 4 is overkill - generic burn spells should be able to deal with most things.

• 2x Response / Resurgence. Its just too situational a card to be useful

ThatTroutThing on Card creation challenge

3 years ago

Embodiment of the Legion

Creature - Incarnation

Vigilance, Lifelink

Whenever ~ attacks, other creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. Then, each creature each opponent controls with the greatest power among creatures they control deals damage to itself equal to its power.

5/5

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Definitely could have worded that better but I just woke up and I'm too tired right now. Basically the idea is a Justice Strike across the board.

Wildcard

Polaris on Pithing needle against Phyexian Obliterator

4 years ago

There are a few ways around Phyrexian Obliterator 's ability, though Pithing Needle is not one. You could counter with something like Voidslime , though you'll have to do this every time. You could also remove the ability with a card like Kenrith's Transformation or Frogify .

Of course, the best way is to use Justice Strike and see if that makes them concede.