Rethink on Vigilance

MTG_Mage
MTG_Mage Posts: 224 Tile Toppler
edited March 2017 in MtGPQ Suggestions & Feedback
Vigilance: this creature blocks your opponent's creatures but lets creatures with Defender or Reach block first.

This isnt much different than defender other than it has lower priority.
There are very few times it is mentioned or in any cards, whereas defender or reach is in many.

So I suggest that it gets one change added to it: a creature with Vigilance will only block the first enemy creature it is able to
(so if being attacked by 3 creatures, it will only block the first one it can, and the other 2 will pass it and hit the planeswalker)

This would make a HUGE change in the game and would make creatures with defender or reach more significant and defensive, and it also makes the placement of Vigilance more strategic.
Depending on the situation, it can be both a good and bad change
There are only 3 ways to grant Vigilance: 'Sharp Eyes' (Gideon1 first PW ability), true-faith censer, and Haunted Cloak

Do you think vigilance should change or keep it the way it is?

Comments

  • hawkyh1
    hawkyh1 Posts: 780 Critical Contributor
    always watching, knightly valour and ionas blessing?

    I've always thought vigilance was a way for overpowered
    cards to get out of the constraints of defender.

    HH
  • arNero
    arNero Posts: 358 Mover and Shaker
    Yeah, the problem with vigilance in this game is that it's simply a worse Defender. Not useless, mind you (Gideon v1 + Consul's Lieutenant was one of the nastiest combos around, and now you can replace him with Gisela for even more brokenness; and don't forget the pre-fix Runaway Carriage), but just weird when Defender beats it in most functionality.

    I might suggest removing Vigilance altogether, frankly; I mean, given that abilities in card games don't translate verbatim to the PQ version (looking at you, Emerge, Crew and Overload), why must we keep Vigilance anyway? Throw it away, replace all vigilance with Defender, and nobody's complaining.
  • AngelForge
    AngelForge Posts: 325 Mover and Shaker
    Well, that nobody would complain, I would not say because vigilance is actually better since defender regarding all those cards that target defender and reach but not vigilance!

    But I agree, that it should be replaced with defender to give some worth to almost totally useless cards.

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