Propaganda/Elephant Grass

[sadlyblue]

Hi,
I'm making a deck using Elephant Grass, the rest is quite done, but i'm having trouble how to start coding this.
Has anyone sucessuflly coded one of these? If so, can you share it?
Thanks

[thefiremind]

The problem with this card is the word "you". You can set the characteristic on a creature that prevents it from attacking, you can even set the characteristic on a player that prevents him from attacking with any creature, but there's no way to tell "you can attack everyone, except for that player". This has relevance when there are more than 2 players.

[sadlyblue]

How about a trigger, that if your attacked, and if the player doesn't pay it uses something like Maze of Ith to remove it from combat.
Would a pre-trigger on attackers_declared prevent triggers that happen from a creature attacking?

[Eglin]

How about a trigger, that if your attacked, and if the player doesn't pay it uses something like Maze of Ith to remove it from combat.
Would a pre-trigger on attackers_declared prevent triggers that happen from a creature attacking?

It wouldn't prevent subsequent triggers, no. Not unless you tried to override the trigger. But some things can't be overridden without game-breaking bugs. For example, you can't simply override a spell being cast - it's illogical, and the game doesn't know how to handle it. I suspect, although I haven't tried, that overriding the attackers_declared trigger would fail in a spectacular fashion.

You could try to Blink the attacking creatures, but then you've got to figure a way to avoid triggering their come-into-play triggers after the combat phase.

[sadlyblue]

Thank you guys, for the insights.
You saved me a lot of testing hours, for nothing.

Anyway, if i have another idea, i'll try. In the meanwhile, i'll replace for another card. I am trying the Legacy Enchantress btw.

[thefiremind]

For example, you can't simply override a spell being cast - it's illogical, and the game doesn't know how to handle it.

Just to provide some more information: I actually did, in order to suppress eventual casts from graveyards when Ethersworn Canonist is out. If you override a spell cast from the hand, the card remains mid-air in your hand and it bugs the match, but in the graveyard it doesn't do any harm (as far as I have seen).

[sadlyblue]

good to know.

and have you tried, after overriding the spell from the hand, remove it from game or put in graveyard?

[thefiremind]

and have you tried, after overriding the spell from the hand, remove it from game or put in graveyard?

No, my aim was to forbid playing spells, so I didn't need to move cards.