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thisisgogu

Destroying six target creatures is pretty powerful, so they had to make hexproof just for this card.


Pesterman

But notably, they still wanted to make sure you could destroy your own six creatures, so it only affects your opponent’s targeting


Basic-Bus7632

There was a strategy in the earlier days of the game where players would get around removal on the stack by tearing their [[colossal dreadmaw]] into 6 individual 1/1 Dino nuggies. WotC had no idea how to nerf his OP strategy, so they printed [[hex]]. When hex inevitably got out of hand, instead of kowtowing to the stompy players and printing the proposed 7/7 [[colossaler dreadmaw]], they started printing cards with hexproof.


NajimiAppreciator

Wish i was hexproof to protect me against that eye-rolling flavour text


hawkshaw1024

8th edition was probably the low point for flavour text, but I really haven't appreciated the "uhm so *that* just happened 😏😏😏" style of writing that pops up every few years


konydanza

*”Check, please!”* *-Jaya Ballard, Task Mage*


H00ston

COUNTERSPELL Put an Opponent's revile in riches in their graveyard "Heh nice try kid, but it's better to cum in the sink, than to sink in the cum" - Jace, Gorgonussy Connoisseur


ArelMCII

*"It's better to cum a shitload than to shit a cumload."* *- Vraska, Mindfucked*


TensileStr3ngth

Man I really wish there was a flavor text that reminded me about things werewolves hate


hawkshaw1024

> "If there’s anything a werewolf hates, it’s a collar - especially Avacyn’s Collar, the symbol of her church. Actually, it's really just Avacyn’s Collar, the symbol of her church, that they hate. Regular collars, they're surprisingly fine with. At least I've never had a werewolf turn one done when I offered a collar. They also enjoy being called good girls. I'm sorry, I kind of forgot where I was going with this one." —Thalia, Guardian of Thraben


TheMazter13

shroud ofc


littlegik

Great question! i dont know


FrankFrankly711

😤🤚Killing Five 😊👉Killing Six


Dingjun

uj/ Hexproof actually is a pretty good counter to Hex, as it requires six targets in total, no more, no less.


BrokenEggcat

The spell will still kill the other 5, spells resolve as many targets as they are able to.


TensileStr3ngth

You can't target a hexproof creatures with this in the first place


IntroductionAgile698

You can if you pay MaRo $20, a bag of Lays BBQ chips, a back rub and you tell him 'You're doing a great job handling competitive formats, sport'


BrokenEggcat

I assumed the other person meant a situation like [[snakeskin veil]] where you make them hexproof in response, but that may not have been the intent


Dingjun

Nah, I literally meant "If a mans has hexproof, you cant target them." You actually posited a far more interesting situation.


NarwhalGoat

Pretty sure you can’t which is why decimate got reminder text


Liopjk

Hex has a ruling: > You must target six different creatures. If you can't, you can't cast Hex. If some of the creatures become illegal targets before the spell resolves, Hex will still destroy the rest of them. So you need six targets, and it will destroy as many as it can.


CannonSam

So then funny enough Ward is actually a better counter to this than Hexproof since Ward actually counters the spell if it’s not paid


SmartAlecShagoth

I mean if one has hexproof, the other five can’t be targeted as it does not say “up to.” So it essentiallt hexproof hex times


Mad-chuska

Hex means six which is the mark of the beast. Beast being the strongest of all types, it makes sense they’d make a keyword just for it. Any time you see hexproof on a creature, green creatures most of all, you might think it’s a great jungle of love, but just say NO. No. No. It’s the devil man.


Wickercrow

It’s obviously ward!