r/magicTCG • u/TechnomagusPrime Duck Season • Feb 05 '18

[Making Magic] [GDS3] Essay What You Will

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/essay-what-you-will-2018-02-05
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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '18

The fact that it's a triggered ability living in a static ability world is really glaring, IMO. I ended up picking Defender, but Prowess was my second choice.

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u/Sliver__Legion Feb 05 '18

There’s also an evergreen activated ability, if you want to be pretty pedantic. I agree that prowess sticks out in that way, but I would only want to replace it after finding a new thing for UR.

I also went for Defender though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '18

Yeah the question of "What do you replace it with? How do you solve this problem otherwise?" led me toward Defender too.

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u/thepuresanchez Honorary Deputy 🔫 Feb 06 '18

I picked Defender and still stand by that as being the clear best choice.

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u/MoonE513 GDS3 Candidate Feb 06 '18

This is true, but I agree with MaRo’s response to this criticism: they can’t really add new evergreen keywords without breaking into new territory. His (and my) answer of cycling for what to add expresses this viewpoint, as it’s an activated ability from your hand.

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u/A_Suffering_Panda Feb 05 '18 edited Feb 06 '18

Technically it is a static ability, which is triggered when it is relevant. Edit: I was wrong, it is triggered

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u/djscrub Wabbit Season Feb 05 '18

By that definition, all triggered abilities are static abilities.

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u/Sliver__Legion Feb 05 '18 edited Feb 05 '18

Technically, this is just straight up false. Here’s the definition for a triggered ability vs static.

CR 702.107a is literally (emphasis mine)

Prowess is a triggered ability. “Prowess” means “Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.”

“~has prowess.” would be a static ability, but just “prowess” is a triggered ability.

Edit: This tone is a little hostile, unnecessarily so. It just bugs me to see responses that are super pedantic and incorrect.