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Do you mean power? That was the reason for double strike, I'm sure. And with first strike in its place, you could drop this down a mana in cost. A 2/2 first strike for is still seriously good, tag on that ability and it's an instant four-of.

Why not just make it targeted, like a real smoke grenadier?

[wah whaaaa in the..], you may have target unblocked creature become blocked.

It works better as a utility, and is more true to the concept.

When you're developing, don't just look at raw power. Lots of things make up a card's usefulness, like cost. Three mana puts a card into a mid-turn range usually. Two mana puts it into the early game time-frame. That quick access makes a card appealing, makes it powerful. You just want to design content that is appealing and powerful right? Things that are glorious. The next "be amaze" design. Well aside from raw power, things like cost are what can make a card "be amaze". Even if it's not powerful later in the game, like when measured up against big creatures (like Sun Titan ), just being powerful in the early game can alone make the design beyond awesome; like when it's single-handedly killing off and holding off Bloodghast s, Bloodbraid Elf , Garruk's Companion , or Ball Lightning s.

Wet.

I'm not sure why its white, tho.