Piercing takes away armour for that attack that it is in effect so the card piercing strike uses the "the next time" rule .... I thought I could kill IRON GOLEMS with ease using FM and thought spore spam casting Piercing strike but my friend pointed it out to me...almost every other ability gives it until end of round.

This whole thread makes me very happy that this card is only a promo!!!

I can drive down on an a ranged wed night if I had 2 weeks notice also maybe we could meet in Decatur Indiana on a sat since it would be closer for you and some people from now Ohio might be interested

Plagued plus regeneration equals awesome

And like you said the worst thing happening is not having a card to play when you need it. Those two creatues in my book take up 30 pts!!! But thought spore is 2pts and stalker is 5 and psylok (if you wanted to waste space) is also 2 pts. So force only creatures amout to 21 pts total if you use max copys. And i have tried to use other creatures like timber wolves, angels, malacoda, and brogan. But LOF and NV keep themselves alive. The only other card that works well is VALSHALLA. But without other creatures to support her and build up her counters i find the legendary lof better suited for a imeadiate effect against a warlock to prevent his own Lof: from coming out.

Rot and burn bypass armor and cannot be advoided

i would use moonglow amulet because equipment cards have to be within range of 1 to destroy. harmonize i would use more if i was a wizard otherwise i would only run 1. shift enchantment is novice and i find that moving it is easier than mage binding it. As far as crystal and flowers go I think 1 each JIC.

charm states "if the CONTROLLER of charm attacks AND DAMAGES this creature, destroy charm." IMO that includes all the objects controlled by that mage.

The card tooth and nail says "all animal" gain piercing plus 1. The forums said that this implies to only the creatures controlled by that mage. So I understand that has nothing to do with this question in particular. I do apologize for the confusion.

The implications about The dancing scimitar would mean my creatures could attack and damage the charmed creature and charm would still be on the creature. That's the best card ever. I really hope this gets a official answer.