Its less of card advantage piece and more of a soft stax piece. As this is white not outright preventing you from doing something, but saying if you break this law, this effect happens.
The wording on the first ability seems... really clunky and unnecessary to me?
Why the change from the much more succinct "Whenever two or more creatures attack you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card."
Your creatures can't attack you, your allies creatures in a 2headed giant game can't attack you, so by definition ANY creature attacking you is one that an opponent controls.
If an opponent attacks multiple people with multiple creatures, but only 1 or less are attacking you (and/or planeswalkers you control), then by definition you (and/or planeswalkers you control) are not being attacked by 2 or more creatures.
The wording is just so inelegant and redundant to me..?
The wording on the first ability seems... really clunky and unnecessary to me?
Why the change from the much more succinct "Whenever two or more creatures attack you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card."
Your creatures can't attack you, your allies creatures in a 2headed giant game can't attack you, so by definition ANY creature attacking you is one that an opponent controls.
If an opponent attacks multiple people with multiple creatures, but only 1 or less are attacking you, then by definition you are not being attacked by 2 (or more) creatures.
The wording is just so inelegant and redundant to me..?
In 2HG, though, you can be attacked by both opponents. With this wording, if each of them attacks you with one creature each, this won't trigger. So it's not completely equivalent.
The wording on the first ability seems... really clunky and unnecessary to me?
Why the change from the much more succinct "Whenever two or more creatures attack you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card."
Your creatures can't attack you, your allies creatures in a 2headed giant game can't attack you, so by definition ANY creature attacking you is one that an opponent controls.
If an opponent attacks multiple people with multiple creatures, but only 1 or less are attacking you, then by definition you are not being attacked by 2 (or more) creatures.
The wording is just so inelegant and redundant to me..?
Rules manager Eli Shiffrin basically says it's so the ability can differentiate whether or not attack you with one creature and your planeswalker with another counts.
It's so that the intervening "if" clause can refer back to "those creatures" without using a pile more words while remaining unambiguous on whether attacking you and your planeswalker each with one creature counts. #WotCStaff
Honestly attack me and I get compensation is a cool way to do white card draw.
I honestly want to see more along the line.
WotC confirmed that yeah, it's something they'll explore more throughly in White's color pie. If W can prevent something from happen entirely by saying "you can't do X", from now on it can also do "I get to draw a card if you do X". This is nice, makes White feel less restrictive and opens up some fun possibilities, like drawing cards at opponents searching libraries, activating abilities, casting spells on your turn or even casting creatures in an unintended way.
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UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
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but I’d much rather see it on an Enchantment,
preferably one that costs 2W to keep up with Rhystic Study...
Why the change from the much more succinct "Whenever two or more creatures attack you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card."
Your creatures can't attack you, your allies creatures in a 2headed giant game can't attack you, so by definition ANY creature attacking you is one that an opponent controls.
If an opponent attacks multiple people with multiple creatures, but only 1 or less are attacking you (and/or planeswalkers you control), then by definition you (and/or planeswalkers you control) are not being attacked by 2 or more creatures.
The wording is just so inelegant and redundant to me..?
In 2HG, though, you can be attacked by both opponents. With this wording, if each of them attacks you with one creature each, this won't trigger. So it's not completely equivalent.
Rules manager Eli Shiffrin basically says it's so the ability can differentiate whether or not attack you with one creature and your planeswalker with another counts.