Everybody says Selfishness is the most useless card from set 1, so I proposed myself the challenge of building a deck where this card would play the major role.
I remembered that if you steal an ally from your opponent's deck by Transference or Dimension Ripper and summons it on your side of the field, the game would still reckons your opponent as the original owner of that ally. For example, if he uses Retreat on an ally you stole from him, the ally returns to his hand because he is the owner of it.
So, and if I could attach a Selfishness to a stolen ally? Nobody remembers the other effect of this card, "and the ally can't be targeted by its controller while Selfishness is attached". You would have an almost invencible ally on your side of the field, because your opponent would not be able to target it, thus having only some limited ways to get rid of it (board wipes, counter-attacks, etc).
Try this on an Elementalis deck where you could use his ability to constantly buff the untargetable ally and you get a solid deck! Even if you steal only a single Kris, after some buffs he would turn out to be a fierce fighter without the fear of death.
The problem is, currently you can't target an ally that is on your side of the field with Selfishness, even if you aren't the original owner of it. Maybe that is a wording problem? The card says "Target opposing ally loses...", so I thought that maybe a stolen ally could still count as an "opposing" ally even if it's on your side of the field...
What do you guys thing?
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