Exactly!!! So am I the only one to think that this card is severely underestimated?! I mean you got a creature to block safely since blocking a creature is not gonna make you lose Aetherplasm itself, then you get to play a ... 100/100 creature for free potentially early and then you can still play Aetherplasm again...?!
This is good. Will make a smart player afraid to attack and a dumb player very sorry.
Bouchart
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(3 votes)
If you have an Aetherplasm in hand, and one in play, and you block with it, can you use its ability to put another Aetherplasm in play to block the creature? And does the ability trigger again, allowing you to do this as many times as you want?
garbagegatherer
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(4 votes)
@ Bouchart: No. this only happens when a block is announced, and the creature put into play (the battlefield, whatever) will be treated as if it was already blocking.
Omenchild
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(3 votes)
haha id love to see this in a ninjitsu deck. itd make it so fun to watch the opponent try and figure out when its safe to not block and attack
Snaxme
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(20 votes)
Oh look, my Ætherplasm is blocking your 1/1 soldier token.
Oh look, my Progenitus is blocking your 1/1 soldier token.
Can you imagine this thing drawing out a removal spell because your opponent is afraid of a Progenitus or some pro/indestruct creature dropping out of nowhere?
while it sounds hilarious on paper, in reality it just stalls the game until your opponent can find removal. Yeah, you could run something that forces a creature to attack, but... why not just play elvish piper?
TheWrathofShane
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This would not create an infinite loop guys!!!!!!!!! Blocks a creature is the action that's preformed when you declare blockers in the beginning of the combat phase. Blocking is the status of the creature when it is blocking. If this thing choose itself, "blocks a creature" ability would not trigger because it never declared that in the combat phase. It is blocking, but it did not block that creature make sense?????
Maby I should apply to be a judge. First time even seeing this card and I sniffed that flawed strategy out almost instantly, just from my limited experience with magic.
Trygon_Predator
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
sneaks creatures in with elves and abundant mana. pulls them out of the graveyard. , it seems, uses shapeshifting amoeboid illusions.
theNinja-degozaru
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@Brovlen According to the rulings...
"The creature you put onto the battlefield may be the AEtherplasm you just returned to your hand."
You wouldn't even need the second one! =D
feedbacker
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card to me fits in the same type of strategy as Avatar of Might
NorseDT
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
So, if this thing blocks, can it infinitely return itself to play, thus going infinite with Sage's Row Denizen and Soul Warden?
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oh what you gonna do little guy, you gonna tickle me with your tentacles or OH GOD OH MY GOD A BLIGHTSTEEL COLOSSUS
majinara
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Interesting card. Sadly, very narrow too.
First, it's a 1/1 for four mana, which is really bad. Any harmful spell of any sort will kill it, and by itself, it will never do any damage of any sort.
Second, you can never make sure that it works. Maybe your opponent plays a mill deck, without creatures? Or he plays a deck with creatures that are unblockable or have another sort of evasion? Or he plays a discard deck, so you won't have any creatures for Aetherplasm to work with. Or you just have bad luck and don't draw any meaningful creatures.
It could have been 1/4 or 1/5 as well. Then it could at least block small stuff, if you have nothing useful on your hand.
LordRandomness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Arachnos: Oh what you gonna do little guy, you gonna tickle me with your tentacles OH GOD THAT ISN'T TICKLING
2UU: put emrakul from your hand onto the battlefield.
Deaderpool
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Being able to use this guy, ALONE for an infinite combo with any of 600 things ruins it for me. Ponder, Lightning Greaves, Sage's Row Denezin, Courtly Provocature, this, win. You could fiddle with speeding things up to win sooner than turn 5, but the deck is already "solved" so why bother?
GunRecon
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Procs, not price
manaderp
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Deaderpool, NorseDT, presumably others: No. A creature can only "block" during the turn-based action at beginning of the declare blockers step. This would have been incredibly broken otherwise, as you've pointed out.
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WOW! I'd like to see that working with Szadek, Lord of Secrets...^^
Oh look, my Progenitus is blocking your 1/1 soldier token.
Oh, Ravnica Block. You're only the best block ever, silly you.
When you bring Phage the Untouchable into play with Aetherplasm, you lose. Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, on the other hand...
It works as a defensive contrast to the Ninjutsu abilities of the Kamigawa ninjas.
I lurvvvv it.
c:
One in hand
Stall block combo with Genesis Chamber
Ramp enough tokens to chump block plus enough to swing next turn
Same combo with Dire Undercurrents to have them draw their library
Works with other "enters battlefield triggers" like soul warden, essence warden, soul's attendant for Infinite life
Happy Brewing!
Me: Oh I'll just block with a 1/1 I guess... POW! TASTE MY EMRAKUL!!!
Roommate: WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!?!?!
Blocks a creature is the action that's preformed when you declare blockers in the beginning of the combat phase.
Blocking is the status of the creature when it is blocking.
If this thing choose itself, "blocks a creature" ability would not trigger because it never declared that in the combat phase. It is blocking, but it did not block that creature make sense?????
Maby I should apply to be a judge. First time even seeing this card and I sniffed that flawed strategy out almost instantly, just from my limited experience with magic.
According to the rulings...
"The creature you put onto the battlefield may be the AEtherplasm you just returned to your hand."
You wouldn't even need the second one! =D
First, it's a 1/1 for four mana, which is really bad. Any harmful spell of any sort will kill it, and by itself, it will never do any damage of any sort.
Second, you can never make sure that it works. Maybe your opponent plays a mill deck, without creatures? Or he plays a deck with creatures that are unblockable or have another sort of evasion? Or he plays a discard deck, so you won't have any creatures for Aetherplasm to work with. Or you just have bad luck and don't draw any meaningful creatures.
It could have been 1/4 or 1/5 as well. Then it could at least block small stuff, if you have nothing useful on your hand.