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6 months ago ::
Jan 14, 2013 - 8:37PM
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Jan 14, 2013
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Definitive answer was given by Ultiville: "As for the initial question: barring errata, you can definitely use the ability on the same creature you just hit. There's no "another", so there's no ambiguity in the rules; when you hit a creature, you get a trigger that lets you hit again."
The only differences between Flashing Blades and just a more powerful regular attack are that the Flashing Blades damage can be negated for 10 HP cheaper (ie a prevent 20 damage is enough to block all 30 total damage from the Drow Blademaster, and a prevent 10 damage is enough to block all 20 damage from the Human Ranger) but the tradeoff is that Flashing Blades is slightly more flexible; you can break 10 damage off onto a second target IF YOU WISH; so for example under the right circumstances the Drow Blademaster could kill both a 20 hp and a 10 hp creature with 1 attack if you are standing adjacent to both of them and they have no defence and don't cower; whereas if you had just a 30 damage attack you could normally kill only 1 of them.
It's a relatively minor power and overall net worse than having 2 attacks unless your enemy is running a mook swarm, and I agree that the Human Ranger in particular is an underpowered creature.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 16, 2013 - 11:29AM
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Jan 14, 2013
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Here's a question though: Blademaster attacks a creature with Block 10; he hits for 10 damage with the initial damage. Does the block 10 activate a second time and block the follow-up damage as well, or is this treated as damage from the same source and thus not blocked twice?
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5 months ago ::
Jan 16, 2013 - 11:43AM
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Here's a question though: Blademaster attacks a creature with Block 10; he hits for 10 damage with the initial damage. Does the block 10 activate a second time and block the follow-up damage as well, or is this treated as damage from the same source and thus not blocked twice?
Sadly, "Source" in Dungeon Command means "discrete thing on the stack" so block 10 basically just destroys all the Flashing Blades dudes; that's a big reason I think it's a liability over just doing all the damage at once.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 16, 2013 - 8:18PM
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Jan 13, 2013
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But for a level 3 blademaster to do 30 damage per attack when block 10 isn't around is decent compared to other level 3 cards, none of which swing for thirty. It is defintely situational, but versus for example a goblin deck it can be quite effective. My opponent will tend to cower the first 20 to avoid the 10 though. Perhaps I should start going Tarkon Draal...
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