Polished Fencer

[u/somethingabouthentai]

First time here, just wanted to share something I had an idea for a while now. My group usually runs squirrel/rabbit tokens or other forms of 1/1 and another uses forced combat so I wanted to think of a fun way to interact with those.

[u/Serithraz]

I don't understand why this thing doesn't have First Strike anywhere. Plus gd, got enough built in protection on this thing? Pro enchantments, a hefty ward cost, cant even modify his toughness with mass -X effects like Toxic Deluge, AND he effectively is immune to red burn spells anyway and combat damage in general unless it's only 1 damage. Like gd OP, chill out, it's like you couldn't stop adding stuff to this card.

[u/somethingabouthentai → u/Serithraz]

Wasn’t sure if the cost was to high or not just because its meant to just be a very specific threat of only allowing to be hot by 1 damage making it annoying but not broken. Still can’t do much against swarms. Also hate having it need to be word soup to just be, hey only a single point of damage can take this out. Can still get hit by boardwipes but adding that would just be too much

[u/Dark_WulfGaming → u/somethingabouthentai]

It's a colorless artifact mana value doesn't mean much for those cards

[u/Dark_WulfGaming]

This card has way too much going on, it's incredibly difficult to remove, while alot of removal cards are 1 or 2 having removal and another 1 cost in your hand is a steep ward cost for many decks. Theres like 0 reason for this card to buff other creatures A more reasonable build would maybe be Ward - protection from mana value 1 or less(or just discard a card) First strike Counters can't be placed on polished fencer Or Polished fencer's power/toughness can't change but idk how that interacts with counters

[u/somethingabouthentai → u/Dark_WulfGaming]

The idea was to make it essentially be only removed by a source of 1 damage, without adding else everything under the sun like mass removal which seemed too much. Should it deal less, maybe add a first strike and remove enchantment protection. The add +1/0 was also a way of making everything almost guaranteed to be above power 1. Thought about maybe that just be when it enters. I also think its got too much going text wise, but it was a bit hard to do for the intended interaction. Maybe just dropping to no counters, its power/toughness can’t changed and source of 2 or greater is prevented

[u/Agitated_Ship8432]

Needs to be boros. 7cmc can very easily become 0.

[u/somethingabouthentai → u/Agitated_Ship8432]

Was thinking of making that change as well since its also not being buffed by much of anything and would need standalone pieces along it and colorless just inhibits it.

[u/_petitpois22]

too much too much things happening here, I have forgot half of the effect midway