This card is red because red was originally the color of COMBAT, besides being the color of earth and fire. White was more oriented to group combat and team strength (see banding, for example), while red was more on tactics. Now the color philosophy has changed, and white is about the team in every aspect, included tactics, while red is all about chaos and anarchy. Were it printed now, it would be a white card.
Posted By:
Paolino
(1/20/2012 1:55:25 AM)
For the same reason that Master Warcraft and False Orders were allowable in red. The idea that red is universally mindless/impulsive/chaotic has been emphasized a lot more since WotC got hung up on their beloved simplistic "color pie".
The color has always had a fairly strong association with militarism in general, and this used to cover strategic deception... or in other words combat tricks.
Posted By:
nibelheim_valesti
(6/22/2010 12:18:29 PM)
A flavourful combat trick, allows you to save a creatures from a problematic blocking situation. However the application remains quite narrow...Had it been printed in Ice Age or later, I would bet that it would have a cantrip.
Posted By:
Guest57443454
(11/25/2009 5:52:30 PM)
I wouldn't call the color pie simplistic, it gets bent quite a bit. Planar Chaos is a good example of that.
Posted By:
TDL
(10/3/2010 10:58:20 PM)
So it's basically a card to fog a single group of creatures in combat.
Taunting Elf seems to work nicely with this card. Although Wirewood Symbiote will do better...
But Lure creatures in general could be used a second time with this card. But there are various enchantments and equipments that can permanently ensure their survival.
The advantage is the low cost of this card. And since all of them get tapped, this can work nicely with additional combat phases.
It's not too amazing, but i think it could find some use, and as aforementioned in the very least it's pretty flavorful.
Posted By:
Mode
(7/23/2011 6:54:24 AM)
Why is this red?
Last time I checked a feint was a tactic, and tactics by their nature require a degree of organization (white) within the army. Red doesn't bother itself with organizing its attacks; it just attacks! Furthermore, a feint is a somewhat sneaky (blue) maneuver. As a whole, this should probably have been a white card. (The mono-red common slot vacated by this could have been used for another damage-dealing red creature.)
Posted By:
Zher0
(1/21/2010 10:06:05 AM)
This is not simply a limited fog. it is a combat trick as previously noted. You use it say, if they are deathtouching your favorite creature, or to temporarily neutralize their best blocker (at the cost of your creature's combat damage).
As for everyone who says this isn't red, yes and no. This was red before red turned into "FIRE FIRE BURN BURN!!!"
Posted By:
Conservator
(12/25/2013 10:55:18 AM)
How do I get this to pin to my right-hand action bar? Is there mod to display the cool down?
Posted By:
Kyric1899
(2/27/2014 2:14:49 PM)