Daily Card Redesign #171: Battle Rampart

Daily Card Redesign is a daily Magic: The Gathering design exercise where I randomly choose a card for the scenario of it being scrapped late during its own set's development. I design a replacement card that uses the same art, is the same color(s), is the same rarity, and has a name that, alphabetically, keeps it within the same collector number for the set.

ORIGINAL:

REDESIGN:

Hah! I redesigned my card without looking at what the power, toughness, and mana cost was. I then see I designed exactly the same stats and cost. Seems appropriate! It's a wall on wheels, so it's bound to deal at least minimal damage. And because it's a mobile wall, it's not really as high-toughness as the  ground-bound walls.

Anyway, the idea here is that whenever this thing charges in for an attack, your other creatures are behind it. In order for anything to interact with your other creatures, they must first deal with that wall the rest of your creatures are hiding behind.

Besides this being an offensive Wall of all things making this red - red normally can cause creatures to not be able to block. This kind of card feels like an extension of that idea. Encourages an aggressive strategy of attacking, and it does this by dealing with potential blockers.