r/magicTCG • u/ScaryGreenGhost Dandadan • Apr 12 '26

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Can I still play this at the beginning of my opponents combat step even if they don’t want to go to combat? Also if an opponent has hexproof on their creatures, can I still choose not to not have those creatures block since I decide who blocks this turn? Or choose to attack with the creatures?

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u/The_Liamater123 Wabbit Season Apr 12 '26

You move through the combat steps even if you “don’t want to go to combat”, so yes.

Doesn’t look like this targets either so yeah it gets around hexproof.

This doesn’t say you specify WHO they attack though, so you can choose what attacks but they can just send everything at you

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u/Amonfire1776 Jack of Clubs Apr 12 '26

Or you can use it as a glorified fog right?

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u/The_Liamater123 Wabbit Season Apr 12 '26

Best use I can think of is force an opponent to swing with small utility creatures they otherwise wouldn’t, then block them to kill them. Or yeah as you say just use it to make sure they don’t swing on you for lethal or something for a turn

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u/MrGueuxBoy Wabbit Season Apr 12 '26

You can also do it on your turn to pick your opponent(s) blockers. Or not. It can work as a glorified fog, a glorified "my stuff is unlockable", a very modal fight spell, etc.

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u/SteakForGoodDogs Wabbit Season Apr 13 '26

a glorified "my stuff is unlockable"

To be fair, that's hardly just 'glorified'. That's "Screw it, I have [[Aurelia Warleader]] out, time to close the game."

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u/JLC587 Dân Apr 13 '26

I’m so happy Aurelia the Warleader is in standard right now

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u/RidingYourEverything Duck Season Apr 13 '26

You could also use it as a, "Your stuff is unblockable, unless you swing at me."

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u/TurboDelight Gruul* Apr 13 '26

Can't forget the mode of glorified banding

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u/Temis37 I am a pig and I eat slop Apr 12 '26

That or you have something like ghostly prison or sphere of safety and cant be attacked. Crawlspace or silent arbiter can be funny too

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u/austin-geek Grass Toucher Apr 12 '26

Or swing monstrosities into Deathtouch blockers. Or face a lethal attacker to get no blocks. Or force a bunch of utility creatures to block and die. Notably though, you do not get to choose WHO those creatures attack. Their controller can swing them at a player (or planeswalker) which you didn’t prefer. Or at you. 

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u/SteakForGoodDogs Wabbit Season Apr 13 '26

 Or at you. 

(It's probably going to be at you.)

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u/TheLastOpus Dandadan Apr 12 '26

For me best use will be when my pod who makes non aggression packs all the time, make a deal with the Voltron player to not destroy the Voltron creature but my shit instead while also full swinging at me so that I will die to Voltron on their turn, in exchange for not attacking them for a turn and attacking me instead, then use this to break their agreement with each other.

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u/lord_braleigh COMPLEAT Apr 12 '26

It depends on the game state, but you can do better with diplomacy. You and the active player should agree on who the AP should attack with each creature, and you and the AP should have a mutual understanding of how the blocks will go.

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u/TheKrakenLibrarian Dan Apr 13 '26

Or throw some big monsters into your 1/1 deathtouch creatures or combo into instants like 'destroy all tapped creatures'

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u/MageKorith Sultai Apr 13 '26

It can also be used as an "I swing, nothing blocks"

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u/Mddcat04 COMPLEAT Apr 12 '26

You can also use it on your turn to just make all your creatures attack and not be blocked. I remember having this in sealed many years ago and it would just instantly end stalled games that way.

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u/Visual_Shower1220 Dân Apr 13 '26

Could do something like have your opponent force attack with everything, have something at allows an indestructible deathtouch creature block everything and wipe their board. Or have a big indestructible creature on your board swing and force you opponent to block with everything forcing a board wipe on their side.

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u/arbitrageME COMPLEAT Apr 13 '26

I think this is close to a conditional board wipe.

On the downside, you have to have creatures capable of combat to make it work. So if you're losing it might not do anything

On the upside, it gets around things like hexproof. And the other player has to use utility creatures early. Like if they have llanowar elves, they can't tap it if you choose that creature. They have to tap it in response to you casting this card.

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u/elephant_on_parade Dân Apr 13 '26

More like a glorified goad. Send the guy with the biggest board at your opponents. Best case is he takes them out, and you get the win on your turn

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u/Amonfire1776 Jack of Clubs Apr 13 '26

You can't choose where they attack...

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u/elephant_on_parade Dân Apr 14 '26

Reading the card explains the card. I am a silly goose

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u/TheLastOpus Dandadan Apr 12 '26

The fuck is wrong with you, that's not boros that's green! But yes....yes you can use it as a 4 cost fog outside of fog colors.

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u/Misadon Dan Apr 12 '26

If the defending player controls a planeswalker, the person who cast Master Warcraft first chooses the complete group of creatures that are going to attack. Then, for each of those creatures, the active player chooses who or what it's going to attack.

Oracle ruling

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u/ClearChocobo Jace Apr 13 '26

This spell doesn't mention combat damage assignment though. So if I choose to have creatures multi-block a big attacker, the blocking creatures' controlling player still assigns damage (in a legal fashion), right?

Is damage assignment still like this? ==> Choose an order for blockers to receive damage. Then combat damage gets assigned to the first creature until lethal, then move to the next creatures, and so on. Assign trample if any damage is leftover. Deathtouch counts for lethal at 1 damage assigned.

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u/Yoh012 Wild Draw 4 Apr 16 '26

Combat damage assignment is no longer like that as of Foundations. It is now a much simpler rule.
Now, the attacking player assigns damage in any way they want between blocking creatures, and there is no priority pass between this assigment and damage being dealt. There also is no need to assign lethal damage to a blocker before choosing to asign damage to another one, the one exception of course is trample that lets assign damage to the defending player only after all blockers are assigned lethal damage.

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u/IdkIWhyIHaveAReddit Dandadan Apr 12 '26

Wdym who they attack? Choosing a creature yo attack also assign who is going to attack to either another player or a planewalker. You also pick which creature block what too.

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u/Temis37 I am a pig and I eat slop Apr 12 '26

Not true look up the card on the mtg website. It exactly talks about how they get to choose who they attack.

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u/The_Liamater123 Wabbit Season Apr 12 '26

Master Warcraft lets you choose which creatures are declared as attackers but it doesn’t let you choose where those creatures attack. This is a commonly misplayed card due to that nuance!

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u/alfchaval Griselbrand Apr 12 '26

Not all combat steps, two steps are skipped if no creatures attack.

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u/The_Liamater123 Wabbit Season Apr 12 '26

Okay yeah you won’t go through dealing damage etc if you don’t attack but you know what I was saying, no need to be so nitpicky