This is a cross forum contest for a bit of fun. Your cards will be compared against members of another forum. Grading system tba. If you have accounts on both forums, it is recommended that you only take one side (but I have no way of enforcing this).

The idea is to figure out what sort of mechanically interesting cards can be done with the abilities of Theros, but weren't - either because r&d didn't think of them or because they are saving them for a later set in the block.

First round - make a card with Heroic

Ooo neat idea.

Fated Farmhand
Creature — Human Warrior
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Fated Farmhand, search your library for a card named Fated Farmhand and put it onto the battlefield.
He was the inspiration for the rest to rise up.
2/1

Enlightenment --
Enchantment (MR)

Creatures you control with activated abilities have "Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets this creature, activate one of its activated abilities without paying its activation cost."

When Heliod's reign was threatened, he found a way to stifle his foe.

Selfless Bodyguard 1WW
Creature - Human Knight
Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets ~ you may change the target of target spell or ability with a single target to ~.
/Hey poet, LOOK OUT!/
2/3

Seabreeze Rider :3m::u::u:
Creature - Human Wizard
Flying
Heroic: whenever you cast a spell that targets ~, you may return target creature to its owner's hand.
3/4

Captured Cyclops
Creature - Cyclops
Haste
Monstrosity 3 --
As long as ~ is monstrous, it has lifelink and "Heroic-- Whenever you cast a spell that targets ~, put a +1/+1 counter on ~."
3/3

Hey dudibus and/or altimis? How are you getting your mana symbols to be properly spaced? Mine won't appear unless I space them.

MC tags

This is awesome!

And yeah, use [ mc ] [/ mc ]

Vexing Spirit
Creature - Spirit
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Vexing Spirit, you may put a token that's a copy of Vexing Spirit onto the battlefield.

1/3

Kellon, Commanding Officer --
Legendary Creature - Human Warrior
First Strike
Heroic -- Whenever you cast a spell that targets Kellon, Commanding Officer, you may copy that spell once for each other creature not named Kellon, Commanding Officer that has Heroic and target each with a copy of that spell.
3/4

~SE++

Jaxon of the Flickering Aegis |
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier (R)
Vigilance
Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets ~, exile it, then return it to the battlefield under your control. You may choose new targets for that spell.
3/3

As an aside: Loving the designs that copy or redirect targets, but they don't work. See this article: http://wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/Heroic

The copy effects don't function because you don't cast copies created on the stack. Effects like Panoptic Mirror should still work, I think.

Mine works perfectly fine in the rules.

I refuse to divulge my... oh, it's already been answered?

Yeah... MC tags. That's right... Nice guy here 8^p

I mentioned it in the request thingy-ma-jig someone said that is what the MC tags were for, and someone else said they'd look into it so long that they could get a version working that didn't break everything.

Yours works, though the second spell doesn't retrigger heroic.

Well yeah but its not supposed to, its supposed to kill him.

Mine also functions as intended.

Yeah, well, mine won't trigger the other heroics, but at least it'll hit more creatures... I dunno, too lazy to go edit something that'll work better.

~SE++

I just figured I'd point out the fact. It does seem counter-intuitive. Sucks it doesn't trigger from abilities. Whats more heroic than a hero wielding an amazing weapon?