Ailurophobia

Ailurophobia - fear of cats
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WORD HISTORY:
Ailurophobia is derived from Phobos and Ailuros. Phobos, meaning fear, and Ailuros meaning cat.
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SYMPTOMS:
To be honest, the symptoms are more or less the same as any other phobia. I will probably only have a symptom section every few. Comment if you would prefer for me to list symptoms every time, or just every now and then. Got it?
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SCIENCE:
I am personally a dog person, but there are those who really love cats, there are those who don't particularly like cats, but someone with Ailurophobia is downright terrified of cats. Ailurophobia is a defensive tactic used by the subconscious to protect oneself. Many times, people with this fear, don't know why they fear cats, merely that they do and always have. I could dive into evolution, but I don't think I will for today. As always trauma can trigger a phobia, or even it can be inherited genetically from a parent. The reason why most documented cases of Ailurophobia have no memorable cause, is that children most often, will subconsciously block memory to a traumatic event to keep it from tormenting them. The human brain has been able to do this for a long time and it is also the reason why some of those stories of harassment only a released years later. Just a fun fact.
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The CARD:
I made Ailurophobia a black, green, and white spell in the way I did to add flexibility; those three colors being the main three colors that I have seen with cats. I understand that my -X/-X concept has been getting kind of old, but it still fits with the black color scheme. There really wasn't too much thought that was put into this card aside from a sort of formula that I used for the early Phobia cards. Of course I will be diverting from this formula as much as possible to create cards that are as diverse as the phobias that inspired them.
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Comments

  1. UnknownDecember 10, 2017 at 5:40 PM

    Really interesting to hear about the suppressed memory thing! Not something I was super aware of.
    The card: The mana cost is wonky. I have a few issues:
    a) the recent Cat precon EDH deck is only green/white. It would love to run this but can't.
    b) you can run this without black (not in EDH). G/W shouldn't get access to this effect.
    I'd suggest a pacifism effect:
    Ailurophobia
    GW
    enchantment - phobia aura
    Enchanted creature can't attack, block and activiated abilities of enchanted creature can't be activated as long as you control a cat.
    It's a cheaper Arrest with a rider. Seems fair.
    http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/feline-ferocity-gw-cat-tribal-c17-precon/
    http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=253573

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