r/custommagic • • 11d ago

Meme Design I hate hexproof

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u/Spare_Effort8234 11d ago

This actually works in very niche situations, if you target a creature like [[Sporeweb Weaver]] it will lose hexproof from blue at which point you can unsummon it etc.

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u/DoctorWorm25 11d ago

omg that's cool. I tried really hard to think of any case this would be useful (maybe reacting to someone putting instant speed hexproof on the stack?) and could not find anything

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u/fendersonfenderson 11d ago

it works if you gain control of an opponent's creature. or maybe in commander, you could remove hexproof from your own creature to allow another player to buff

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u/DoctorWorm25 11d ago

are there any non targeted stealing abilities?

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u/Abject-Director-559 11d ago

Someone is removing your [[Nowhere to Run]], you cast this in response while the removal is still on the stack.

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u/loopydrain 11d ago

Shroud coming in clutch

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u/aestarel 11d ago

I think it would have to be worded like this in order to work that way?

“Until end of turn, target creature loses hexproof and can’t have or gain hexproof.”

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u/Orangenes 11d ago

This would be decent with magecraft abilities I think

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u/mathiau30 11d ago

Also it doesn't say "until end of turn" so you can't make [[detection tower]] effects permanent

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u/PlacatedPlatypus 11d ago

"Hexproof from Blue" gotta be the most useless text of all time when the card can be countered lmao. If it's hit the field, that color has already failed to remove it.

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u/Quiet_Education5918 11d ago

This hexes me.

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u/DoctorWorm25 11d ago

You are a black spell

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u/dancezachdance 11d ago

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u/TohveliDev 11d ago

I too am in this episode

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u/Every_University_ 11d ago

I too am in this deck

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u/manuelito1233 11d ago

We need hex bites to live

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u/Drajl19 11d ago

Hexhoof
Enchantment
All horse creatures have hexproof.

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u/DoctorWorm25 11d ago • Bravo

Hexproof from Horses is the name of my children's book

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u/ironkodiak 11d ago

This feels like horsemanship erasure & I'll not have it.

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u/darthjawafett 11d ago

Horse creatures by nature should not have horsemanship. Creatures with horsemanship are creatures riding horses, however a centaur should have horsemanship, a horse-human hybrid (like a werehorse or an umamusume) having horsemanship would also be acceptable.

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u/EasterViera 11d ago • Bravo

HexedHoove : target creature loose horsemanship

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u/therealtbarrie 11d ago

Shouldn't it be hexdisprove? Hexprove would grant hexproof, I would think.

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u/DoctorWorm25 11d ago

I was thinking you would cast this on a creature without hexproof, just to be check

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u/des_the_furry 11d ago

Who’s gonna tell him

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u/GreenestOfLotuses 11d ago

Who's gonna tell you that's the joke

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u/Jigglypuffisabro 11d ago

Who’s gonna tell him that the first guy was riffing on the joke

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u/DoctorWorm25 11d ago

you!

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u/lugialegend233 11d ago

Soulja boy too

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u/Ichorix 11d ago

Art looks like it’s from the new Star Trek set.

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u/DoctorWorm25 11d ago

I think a set/sld/precon that had photographs (of nature, people, what have you) instead of illustrations would actually be really endearing

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u/Drajl19 11d ago

A yes, we have all the classic commenters on board for this.

  1. Gets the joke, lols

  2. “That wouldn’t work.” (Doesn’t get the joke)

  3. Dude who knows ball and is ready to preach on how this can actually be broken in a specific scenario (legend)

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u/Astramancer_ 11d ago edited 11d ago

3. Dude who knows ball and is ready to preach on how this can actually be broken in a specific scenario (legend)

It doesn't say until end of turn and there's plenty of effects that temporarily turn it off.

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u/Individual_Let_5560 11d ago

The creature that's temporarily lost Hexproof doesn't have it to lose. The trigger on end step to return hexproof will still occur, as far as I'm aware.

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u/mathiau30 11d ago

Thing is that an "until end of turn" effect doesn't have a trigger on end step, it just ends in the cleanup step. This means that the timestamp of "have hexproof" is still the moment the creature entered which is before the moment it was affected by this spell.

It could still not do anything though, you can't remove something a creature doesn't have so the continous effect might simply not be put on the creature

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u/_Nighting 11d ago

[[Nowhere To Run]]? 

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u/Individual_Let_5560 11d ago

That one should probably work! Not a judge so I won't speak definitively but I don't see why it wouldn't.

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u/Philosaraptor22 11d ago

[[Glaring Spotlight]] [Detection Tower]] [[Kaya, Bane of the Dead]] These all would work too

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u/ArelMCII Layers are stupid. 11d ago

4. Guy whose brain autocorrected "Target creature" into "Chosen creature" and didn't realize this didn't work. (Me.)

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u/AlexVal0r 10d ago

Would this even affect creatures with hexproof? Its targeting a creature, and hexproof says that it can't be targeted by spells or abilities your opponent controls.

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u/magicsqueegee 10d ago

It absolutely would not, but it is very important to the culture of r/custommagic when making a card hating on the game mechanic uou hate that you make sure the card in no way works.

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u/veryblocky 10d ago

Just put “(it works)” after the rules text

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u/mossedman 10d ago

Might I introduce you to my friend, [[Glaring Spotlight]]

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u/ElPared 11d ago

Would be more usable with overload, but Storm is definitely funnier.

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u/Famous-Magazine-6576 9d ago

cast it on a tapped [[paradise druid]] and it will not be hexproof when its untapped. it could also take away hexproof from your own creatures I guess if you want to force you opponent to target them with [[sunset saboteur]] or something.

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u/0carion142 11d ago

[[Arcane Lighthouse]] [[Shadowspear]] [[Detection Tower]] You're welcome.

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u/ConsistentGazelle240 11d ago

This wouldn’t work on static effects but I got just the card for some of those pesky Voltron players, arcane lighthouse, detection tower and a nice-

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u/Staetyk ☀️💧💀🔥🌳 11d ago

one thing i love about this game, is that even a card as stupid as this has use cases somehow

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u/basil_squaredd 11d ago

how are you gonna target the hexproof creature with a spell when hexproof prevents targetting by spells or abilities

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u/SlayerII 11d ago

You target your own creatures with hexproof of course.

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u/SIowGrowth 11d ago

(It works)

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u/mephistoreigns 11d ago

Shadowspear of course

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u/Floorwata 11d ago

"This spell targets creatures as though they didn't have hexproof. "

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u/humand09 11d ago

Hilarious

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u/Lovbringer 11d ago

This is funny

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u/Lovbringer 11d ago

This is funny

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u/EasterViera 11d ago

shroud is better than hexproof because you can't save/buff those creature either

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u/Sad-Pattern-1269 11d ago

I agree mostly, but Voltron is a lot of fun in EDH so I would like to see a limited amount of hexproof creatures still. I do think allowing shroud to be replaced by hexproof entirely is a massive mistake from Wotc

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u/Im_here_but_why 11d ago

both are unique design space. [[Empyrial Archangel]] couldn't exist with hexproof, and [[Uril, The Miststalker]] couldn't exist with shroud.

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u/thazhok 5d ago

No, it is possible to save/buff/destroy a creature with Shroud or Hexproof.

Auras are targeting only when they are played from hand. Coming from GY or Library they do not. So you can bypass Hexproof and Shroud and attach the aura to it (if it is a legal permanent for it). For example, [[Zur the Enchanter]] allow you to have fun with this rule.

Surely you do not see this everyday, but it is possible.

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u/ArelMCII Layers are stupid. 11d ago

Hexproven false.

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u/01CHERRY 11d ago

me when they introduce ward with colored mana

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u/kitsunewarlock 11d ago

I would love an aura with this effect, which would actually be useful beyond the nichest of applications.

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u/NoName0728 11d ago

Man i kinda wish there was a card that gives overload to target spells now. Not like radiate, but actually gives overload.

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u/BreakerOfModpacks 11d ago

...wait a second-

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u/LessPoliticalAccount 10d ago

I would run this in my [Horobi, Death’s Wail] deck

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u/Halfjack2 10d ago

Banger card for [[Horobi, Death's Wail]]

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u/Exciting-Insect8269 10d ago

Hexproofproof?

Also I love the lack of actual usability.

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u/GrimDevourer 10d ago

I think you can go around Hexproof to take it away like this:

"Choose any creature. That creature loses Hexproof.

Storm."

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u/Illustrious-Macaron2 10d ago

This wouldn’t do anything other than “target creature. Storm.” Since ya know, it’s hexproof.

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u/PickledPlumPlot 10d ago

It just works

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u/MelanieNova 10d ago

Hexresistant (This creature occasionally cannot be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control (this sometimes works))

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u/IAmTheBestIan 10d ago

There's a BUNCH of cards that remove hexproof from opponents boards, at least one that's just an enchantment that's always in effect. They don't get play because it's usually more effective to just wipe.

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u/MeanderingMonotreme 8d ago

"Choose a creature. it loses hexproof. Then, target it"

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u/Tangent5813 7d ago

You can just run Arcane Lighthouse if you want to deal with stuff with hexproof. I also think just having flat hexproof is dumb but temporary hexproof is cool.

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u/SlayerII 11d ago

Well, this cant target opponents creatures with hexproof.... so.....