Lightspeed Kami - CotW nominee (4/4/2005)

[St@rWizard]

Lightspeed Kami
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Creature - Spirit
You may play Lightspeed Kami anytime you could play an instant.
Whenever a creature with haste attacks you, you may put Lightspeed Kami into play from your hand with a +1/+1 counter on it.
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[keldon]

Whenever a creature with haste comes into play, you may put Lightspeed Kami into play.

Into play from where?

[St@rWizard]

Into play from where?

from my hand, fixed it. and made the effect until end of turn, otherwise its a tad bit too good...

[MazerPriest]

I'd drop the haste part - it's out of flavor for white and rarely does much, unless you're playing hasty creatures, and at that point a 2/1 instant speed for 2 is just fine.

The main part about the free drop when a haste creature comes into play is anti-red primarily. They drop a Raging Goblin into play, you drop a viable blocker. That part looks good. The way that (right now) you can drop a Raging Goblin into play, get a free creature, and attack for 4 immediately is just too much.

Even without the Haste, I can see putting this creature into a fast red deck loaded with Hasters.

[fooligan]

fun times.
although the haste make it somewhat out of flavor i would prefer youd keep it

[St@rWizard]

Thanks for the comments. What do you think now?

[MazerPriest]

Much better. Still pretty useful, but more balanced and white now. Bofu.

[FrankTheTank]

this definately gets my vote. WW for ever! :)
even if the opponent doesn't play hasters, this is a surprise blocker. And besides, it is a spirit, which can trigger some nasty things on other creatures (tallowisp, thief of hope, all bakus....)
and yet it still isn't broken. nice balance.

[St@rWizard]

Woot, another nomination! It´s been only a few days since Scounting Owls was nominated ^^

I´m happy. Thanks, and thanks to all who vote for my Kami. I´m glad you liked the concept :)

[Risky]

There's one problem I have with the whole anti-haste thing. It applies even when the opposing creature is not "using" its haste. That in itself isn't really a bad thing, but it seems to go against the flavor of the thing.