This is a finishing clip from a game where I was able to use Twisting Talisman in a way I hadn't planned on: my own creatures Deception has a lot of ways to boost strength, but then those characters get cleared quickly. TT lets you turn any creature into a switch duelist for a turn.
Here's how the armor lurked wound up here (wish I had recorded the whole game):
- Buffed with two Selfless Guidmates and attacked face.
- Became a 9/1 with 1 armor.
- Used god power to hide him.
- Next turn, went face again.
- He became 9/1 with 0 armor.
- I used twisting talisman to make him 1/9 and then hid him again.
- Then the finishing turn is in the video.
I started thinking about Twisting Talisman because of all the new strength steal cards. I was (and still am) running Munosian Infiltrator because you can instantly kill any creature that you've lowered to 0 strength. The downside of Munosian is that it's only creatures 3 mana or less.
Twisting Talisman doesn't have this restriction, so I gave it a try. It is effective at creature removal when combo'd with all the new strength steal Deception has. Deception isn't known for relics, so an opponent (not deck peaking) would likely mulligan away removal. At only 2 mana, it's not hard to get equipped while maintaining some tempo.
It wasn't until this game, where I was looking at a 9/1 armor lurker about to get killed that I thought to check to see if the relic works on your own creatures.
Conclusion
Is this meta? I don't know. Maybe not. BUT, this is what I love about TCGs: discovering something new. To my knowledge, no one has put this together yet, and even if so, it's still rewarding to have discovered it own your own. I'm still refining my deck, but I'll probably post it in the next week or so. Just wanted to share this for now.
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