Death From Above

[Matt]

Continued from old TMD.

Death From Above
1W
Instant
Tap any number of flying creatures you control. Each creature tapped in this way deals damage equal to its power to target creature.

Since white now shares flying with blue, I moved this from green (where I originally had it when I created it seven years ago!).

The idea is that, okay, here's some angels or birds or whatever, and they're getting ready to fight you--when all of a sudden, they stop flitting about and divebomb in a crushing aerial blow, swooping so fast that you have no time to retaliate.

Current wording:
Death From Above
1W
Instant
Tap any number of flying creatures you control. Each creature tapped in this way deals damage equal to its power to target creature.


Options on the table:
Jacob Orlove: "This could easily cost W. You have to give up an attack to use it, after all."
Dragonfire425: "you could probably get away with an alternate casting cost as well. Since you do need to have out flying creature(s) to use it. And, any big flying creature costs at least 4 - 5 mana."

[stijndon]

Well, yeah! To keep it flavorfull, one could even add the alternate cost of tapping an untapped flying creature instead of paying a mana cost. And then make it cost 1WW, so the alternate cost would actually get used.

Then make it cantrip. It's not like it's broken for 1WW. And the alternate cost would at least have you tap two guys to achieve some effect (barring wanting to trigger cowardice, that is), so cantripping is cool, I guess.

[Matt]

I'm going to put a twenty-four hour clock on this. I'm keeping it at 1W because it IS white direct damage, and while I don't agree that white can't have DD, I do agree that it can't be good. I'm also not going to make it an ACC spell because I want to keep it simple.

[Matt]

Closed and added.[/color]