OK, so you pretty much take a blocker and change his blocking assignment. Not a bad effect for its cost!
RATING: 3/5
Guest57443454
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
One of the many complex cards printed in Alpha, this card is very flavourful, but this effect hasn't seen play due to the above mentioned ambiguity...
professornutbutter
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I was the first at the local gaming store to figure out the power of this card. On turn 3 I would oftentimes make my Kird Ape (Arabian Nights was the most recent set) unblocked and then Giant Growth + Berserk + Berserk (with the help of Llanowar Elves or Birds of Paradise or a Mox) for a turn 3 kill. It won me quite a few tournaments.
themlsna
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Deathtouch now makes this card doubly brutal. You get your most damaging creature through unblocked, and slide their big defender over to your Glissa, the Traitor.
A great card flavorwise. Unfortunately, forcing creatures not declared as blockers to block was never a part of intended functionality (see original text "play after defender has chosen defense," though that would have greatly increased the utility of the card. Still, can shift a blocker from a non-Trample/Deathtouch/whatever attacker to the Trample/Deathtouch/whatever attacker, or remove a Deathtouch/Venom/Infect blocker entirely.
weasel_fierce
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
For 1 mana, you could get some good use out of this but most people avoided cards with lengthy explanations. Too bad, since it could screw with carefully assigned blocks quite easily. Maybe a strange effect for Red. It seems that it'd be a White card nowadays.
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OK, so you pretty much take a blocker and change his blocking assignment. Not a bad effect for its cost!
RATING: 3/5