Friendship is Card Games: Daring Don't · 10:01pm Dec 8th, 2013
Hello, all. I'm glad to say that the "Twilight's friends are useless without her" streak I mentioned last week has been officially broken. She's just as ineffectual when Daring Do's involved! Meanwhile, the "Fluttershy reminding the rest of the Mane Six which side of the fourth wall they're on" count is at one episode and counting. 
In an ironic twist, an episode focused on the pony who'd be right at home on Zendikar gives us no further Traps. What it does give us is... well, come and see.
Cyclonic Tailspin W
Instant
Prevent all noncombat damage that would be dealt this turn.
A pony's magic is limited by only two things: her tribe and her imagination.
Talicon Arrow Defense XW
Instant
Talicon Arrow Defense deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target attacking creatures.
A stick is your friend. A pointy stick is your good friend. A thousand pointy sticks flying towards you are friends who are getting a little too friendly.
Flight Training 1U
Enchantment
1U: Target creature gains flying until end of turn.
Everything fights gravity, and can be taught how to win.
Innocuous Disguise 1U
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has defender and hexproof.
1U: Return Innocuous Disguise to its owner's hand.
"It's amazing how many ponies you can fool with little more than a pair of glasses."
—Daring Do
Doctor Caballeron 1UU
Legendary Creature — Pony Rogue
U, T: Target opponent gains control of target artifact you control. You draw two cards.
"My acquisitions go to whoever values them most. Logically, that is the highest bidder. Otherwise, somepony else would've offered more."
1/3
Daring Do, Ruin Raider 2UU
Legendary Creature — Pegasus Scout
Flying, protection from Traps
Whenever Daring Do, Ruin Raider deals combat damage to a player, that player reveals the top card of his or her library. If that card is an artifact, you may put it onto the battlefield under your control. Otherwise, you may put it on the bottom of that library.
2/3
Argue Minutiae 3UU
Sorcery
Each player draws cards equal to his or her devotion to blue.
"Only if you assume that the Rings have yet to be retrieved, and the ring Caballeron just stole isn't the last to completely restore the dark tower and its cruel hold on Tenochtitlan! Did you ever think of that?!"
—Rainbow Dash, Bearer of Loyalty
Irrepressible Admirer RR
Creature — Pegasus
Flying
Whenever a legendary creature enters the battlefield, that creature's controller gains control of Irrepressible Admirer.
Restraint doesn't come easily to a heart as big as the sky.
2/1
Arsenal Barrage 3R
Instant
Arsenal Barrage deals damage to target creature equal to the number of Equipment you control.
When in doubt, keep throwing.
Caballeron's Thugs 3RR
Creature — Pony Warrior
Trample
Whenever Caballeron's Thugs deals combat damage to a player, gain control of target artifact that player controls for as long as you control Caballeron's Thugs.
"I did not make my fortune by paying ponies."
—Doctor Caballeron
3/3
Fight Smart 1G
Instant
Target creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
"Any would-be archeologist should know at least seven extinct languages, nine bygone mythologies, and a dozen ancient martial arts."
—Daring Do
Adventurer's Pith Helmet 1
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature gets +0/+1 and has "Unattach Adventurer's Pith Helmet: Regenerate this creature."
Equip 1
Made of cork, cotton, and second chances.
Secure Codex 2
Artifact
T: Exile a card from your hand face down.
You may look look at cards exiled with Secure Codex.
2, Sacrifice Secure Codex: Return all cards exiled with Secure Codex to your hand.
Load-Bearing Altar 3
Artifact — Fortification
Fortified land has "T: Add 2 to your mana pool."
When Load-Bearing Altar becomes unattached from a permanent, that permanent's controller sacrifices that permanent.
Fortify 2
The Rings of Scorcherro 4
Legendary Artifact
At the beginning of your upkeep, but a ring counter on The Rings of Scorcherro.
If a source would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals that much damage plus X to that permanent or player instead, where X is the number of ring counters on The Rings of Scorcherron.
2R: Put a ring counter on The Rings of Scorcherro or remove one from it.
Cunning Escape (gu)W
Instant
Target creature you control gains protection from converted mana cost X or less until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
"These deathtraps get more ridiculous every time. It's like Ahuizotl wants me to escape."
—Daring Do
Independent Streak 1(rw)
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can only attack or block alone.
"I. Work. Alone."
—Daring Do, to Rainbow Dash
Death by Piranha 1UB
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a flood counter on Death by Piranha. Then, if the number of flood counters on Death by Piranha is equal to or greater than enchanted creature's toughness, destroy enchanted creature.
Spectate 1RW
Instant
Target creature attacks this turn if able. Other creatures can't attack this turn.
When watching a living legend do battle, it's easy to forget that you can help her.
Defictionalize 3(ur)(ur)
Instant
You may put a permanent card you own from outside the game onto the battlefield. Exile that permanent at the beginning of the next end step.
Stories are like pearls formed around irritating bits of truth.
Ahuizotl, Dread Despot 5RG
Legendary Creature — Hound Warrior
Trample
Whenever Ahuizotl, Dread Despot deals combat damage to a player, untap target artifact that player controls. Gain control of that artifact until end of turn.
1RG, Sacrifice an artifact: Put a 3/3 red and green Cat creature token onto the battlefield.
6/5
I get the feeling that Irrepressible Admirer should come with a drawback, like not being able to block.
And the ahuizotl is actually described as dog-like in the original mythology. Which does make it a bit odd that he surrounds himself with cats...
And perhaps Defictionalize should come with "If that card is a creature, it gains haste and -2/-0 until end of turn."
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Haste isn't necessary for Defictionalize. Just cast it during the end step of the turn before yours. By combat, you'll have controlled the creature since your last upkeep.
Also, Ahuizotl is now a Hound. Which raises interesting questions about his relationship to the Diamond Dogs...
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Ah, I missed that it was an instant.
I'm getting Unglued/Unhinged vibes from Defictionalize.
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More along the lines of a Wish.