Raging River

Enchantment

Whenever one or more creatures you control attack, each defending player divides all creatures without flying he or she controls into a "left" pile and a "right" pile. Then, for each attacking creature you control, choose "left" or "right." That creature can't be blocked this combat except by flying creatures and creatures in a pile with the chosen label.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Oldschool 93/94	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (46)

rtdfjyghc on Technically still blockable

1 week ago

You are correct, however, it was just in your 'One way to block it' section you only list needing 3 Guard Duty. Sorry I didn't specify further. Moonlace is an instant so we cast after deciding Raging River split so we only need 3. If the defender could cast at flash speed for Guard Duty, then we still only need 3, otherwise we need to add in 3 Sky Tether (if we are concerned about only 4x of cards).

legendofa on Technically still blockable

1 week ago

Unless I'm wrong, on the blocker side, all six Lifecraft Engines (including clones) are able to block Ghost of Ramirez DePietro (ignoring the Sonorous Howlbonder + Chitinous Cloak number requirement), and they can be split 3/3 across the Raging River, so Ghost gets blocked no matter which side they choose. Is there something I'm not seeing?

rtdfjyghc on Technically still blockable

1 week ago

Oh yeah, didn't see that lol. Also, Raging River makes it so that our opponent has to split their blockers left and right, and then we pick which side we are attacking, so all 6 potential blockers must be able to block our Ghost of Ramirez DePietro, or else we just go to the other side of the river.

rtdfjyghc on Technically still blockable

1 week ago

legendofa, sounds good. That was what I was thinking you were looking for.

Don't forget that Gornog, the Red Reaper makes it so that when we attack, one potential blocker becomes a coward and so can't block until end of turn, so they need another 2 blockers because of Raging River.

Also, The Black Gate doesn't need it to be a multiplayer game, your opponent just can't have more life than you do.

legendofa on Technically still blockable

1 week ago

For the purposes of this exercise, there's only one attacker, so Bower Passage doesn't offer anything over Skyblinder Staff. Problematic Volcano (Playtest) doesn't really affect anything in the same way Raging River does, since all the blockers could go to the same side. I don't want to focus too much on mana payments, since the defender could theoretically have/produce infinite mana on hand, so I'll take War Cadence and call that good. Battle Strain is more of a punishment than a restriction, since it doesn't stop blockers from being declared. You might die from the damage, but you still got the blockers up.

All the rest are varying degrees of niche-ness, but I think they all qualify. Thanks!

legendofa on Technically still blockable

1 month ago

rtdfjyghc Nice stuff in here. Pulling it card by card:

Agility Bobblehead, Awesome Presence, Hungry Lynx, Vectis Gloves and Raging River are going in. Plot Armor's going in the Un- pile. Spectra Ward's redundant with Moonlace + Executioner's Hood, and I'm trying to keep zero redundancy for this experiment. If this became a full deck, redundancy would be a lot more important.

For alternate creatures, I chose Deathcult Rogue because there are fewer than 600 creatures without changeling that can block it right now, so it's a really heavy negative restriction. Any of your suggestions could also fit into the attacker slot, but I'm too lazy to come up with a specific blocking protocol for each of them, to see if they really are less blockable than the Rogue as a baseline and as a final result. That would be a good project for a slow weekend, and all of them are definitely worth noting as potential alternates.

I guess the key question is, how many creatures am I willing to let the blocking player have? As it stands now, if Hexmark Destroyer replaced the Rogue, the only change to the blockers would be how many Lifecraft Engines would need to be on hand. The other options have more distinct blocking scenarios, which would take some digging.

rtdfjyghc on Technically still blockable

1 month ago

This is right up my alley. Here are a few more I found :D First, Highly Recommend switching to Hexmark Destroyer

Creature buffs

Agility Bobblehead Needs Haste, Awesome Presence Pay Mana! Works great with Hexmark!, Hungry Lynx No Rats, Plot Armor Must have flavor text, Spectra Ward reinforcing the need for a colorless creature, Tanglewalker/Vectis Gloves Artifact landwalk, And of course . . . Raging River Also works great with Hexmark!

Potential alternate creature with different restrictions

Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer, Neurok Spy, Bubbling Beebles, Bursting Beebles, Deluxe Dragster if you can find a way to pay all effects that turn, Garbage Elemental A, Ghost of Ramirez DePietro, Graxiplon, Hazy Homunculus, Hooded Horror, Hurloon Wrangler, Ogre Marauder, Phoebe, Head of S.N.E.A.K., Temple Thief,

Eladamri, Lord of Leaves gives shroud for extra protection

Of course, it is still blocked by Fog Patch XD

Balaam__ on Balaam__

1 year ago

@kamarupa I’ve settled on a worthy candidate. If I were to ask him to build around something (which I won’t because I don’t know him well enough to impose), I can think of no better card than Raging River. It’s as stupid and obtuse as Falling Star with a similar element of real world physicality, but it’s actually legal to play.

The same rules would have to apply though, to actually build around that as the locus card and actually play it (not circumvent it by simply building a discard deck or something like that and heaving it into the graveyard every time it shows up lol).