Also, I predict that someone, somewhere, is going to be very frustrated by this card when his opponent thinks he can just cast anything for absolutely free and start casting Kuldotha Rebirths and Infernal Plunges all willy-nilly (sorry, bad examples, but they were the first 2 that came to mind). Any particular reason why the card doesn't just remove all costs, period?
Probably for cards like Momentous Fall, which require the additional cost to function.
For linking a card to Gatherer without writting the name of said card for readers, use the autocard brackets together with and equal sign and right the name of the real card. Then put the message you want inside the tags, like you would do with autocarding. Like this:
I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".
Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.
Now, now. 1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".
Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms. "THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?
I like to think up what I consider clever names for my decks, only later to be laughed at by my wife. It kills me a little on the inside, but thats what marriage is about.
Of course, the best use [of tolaria west ] is transmuting for the real Tolaria.
Absolutely. I used to loose to my buddy's Banding deck for ages, it was then that I found out about Tolaria , and I was finally able win my first game.
Browbeat is a card that is an appropriate deck choice when there's no better idea available. "No better idea available" was pretty much the running theme of Odyssey era.
Modern is like playing a new tournament every time : you build a deck, you win with it, don't bother keeping it. Just build another, its key pieces will get banned.
I always find it helpful when im angry to dress up in an owl costume and rub pennies all over my body in front of a full body mirror next to the window.
Dymecoar:
Playing Magic without Blue is like sleeping without any sheets or blankets. You can do it...but why?
Omega137:
Me: "I love the moment when a control deck stabilizes. It feels so... right." Omega137: "I like the life drop part until you get there, it's the MtG variant of bungee jumping"
Zigeif777:
Just do it like Yu-Gi-Oh or monkeys: throw all the crap you got at them and hope it works or else the by-standers (or opponents) just get dirty and pissed.
Normally it's difficult to pick up on your jokes/sarcasm. But this one's pretty much out there. Good progress. You have moved up to Humanoid. You'll be Human in no time.
This card is a match made in heaven with Arcanis. He's not really omnipotent, he's omniscient. The enchantment isn't omniscient at all, it's omnipotent. Together, they make you into a god. Arcanis even helps you draw into lands to play the enchantment or other spells go generate ramp. They even both cost triple blue.
It's a really cool concept, but as a card, all it's going to do is ruin a lot of EDH games.
It might, but as cards in that category go I think this is a fairly benign one. There has long been a trend in WotC's card designs that at 9+ mana a card can basically just win the game. This one is counterable, can be taken out by Enchantment removal and doesn't even do anything on its own. I don't imagine I'd often consider a game won by this card to be "ruined". If nobody at the table can do anything about it that seems like a fairly legitimate win to me.
Look at it this way: it makes spells free. If you have TEN MANA, why do you need free spells?!
(That said, I'm off to build a deck that sticks this under a Hideaway land... )
Sorry, Zac. You can try justifying the flavor of this all you want, but you're wrong. This card doesn't represent 'knowing everything' at all. It represents unlimited power. It's Omnipotence, not Omniscience.
Knowledge, in Magic, is cards in hand. Knowing everything would be having access to any card in the game. It would, in terms of a game of Magic, be represented as having access to your entire deck at once, via either drawing your entire library, or being able to tutor each turn for exactly the card you need.
No matter how much this may reduce the cost of your spells, it doesn't give you any knowledge (card draw) at all. It's an absolute, undeniable failure as a top-down design.
Cool design. But definitely the wrong name.
Yes. Exactly. Exactly why I was sad when I scrolled down. How could they whiff so monumentally? Now the word Omniscience is used and they can't use it again, and it's wrong (you can even hear him reaching in the article for why it makes sense, but it doesn't).
I was brainstorming what Omniscience could be. I alighted on knowing what your opponents are thinking:
Omnscience 7uuu enchantment You may look at any opponent's hands or libraries at any time. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that opponent declares which spells they will cast that turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent declares which of their creatures will attack you during their turn.
Enh. THAT's horrible. Also more PREscience than omniscience. Hmm.
But yeah, this card is more omnipotence than omniscience. What would omnipresence look like?
I play Eric: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA823318E42AA7CBA
It's a really cool concept, but as a card, all it's going to do is ruin a lot of EDH games.
It might, but as cards in that category go I think this is a fairly benign one. There has long been a trend in WotC's card designs that at 9+ mana a card can basically just win the game. This one is counterable, can be taken out by Enchantment removal and doesn't even do anything on its own. I don't imagine I'd often consider a game won by this card to be "ruined". If nobody at the table can do anything about it that seems like a fairly legitimate win to me.
Look at it this way: it makes spells free. If you have TEN MANA, why do you need free spells?!
(That said, I'm off to build a deck that sticks this under a Hideaway land... )
this...EDH doesn't need these possibly broken/banned cards. If I wanted to play yugioh (which I don't)...
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