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| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
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Star Athlete
Creature — Human Warrior
Menace
Whenever this attacks, choose up to one nonland permanent. Its controller may sacrifice it. If they don't, Star Athlete deals 5 damage to that player.
Blitz (If you cast this spell for the blitz cost, this gains Haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card". Sacrifice this at the beginning of the next end step.)
Crow_Umbra on How Did WotC Allow Combustion …
3 weeks 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.
Crow_Umbra on How Did WotC Allow Combustion …
3 weeks 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 How Did WotC Allow Combustion …
3 weeks ago
To add onto what everyone else stated above, it's also a 5 mv creature that lacks Haste. So it realistically has to wait a whole rotation to maybe remove a permanent, assuming the controller of the permanent doesnt just eat the damage.
Punisher/choice effects are very much in Red and not new. We also had Star Athlete last year in Duskmourn, which has Blitz as a means to give Haste, but then sacs at EOT. Even then, it might not remove whatever if someone chooses to eat the 5 damage instead.
Yes, there are ways to push both of these and make them better in Commander, but you have to think about how Combustion Man would play in other formats like Standard, which dont have the same card pool depth or "clock" to push this.
Crow_Umbra on Card creation challenge
11 months ago
Thank you! Lol, I was looking at The Mycotyrant initially for templating ideas, TypicalTimmy. I also kinda debated on doing a Goyf style power/toughness growth for the Elder Fungus. The damage/sacrifice effect from Star Athlete was also something I looked to for templating.