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Cute.

I'm always fond of these cards despite my draft attitude being more that of a Spike...because although they're "bad" rares at first glance, they're clever and creative design, and do have the possibility to be broken. I don't mind ending up with one, because at worst it's a card I like thinking about, and that can possibly go in a goofy casual deck.


Incidentally, my first thought for a deck was..."Ooh, lots of Relentless Rats, plus four of this!" :P

Riftsweeper seems like a good card for that deck.

Sep 16, 2012 -- 9:53PM, Squab wrote:

The thing that gets me is its 5 mana + a condition to take an extra turn. 4U, meet a condition, take an extra turn, vs 3UU take an extra turn. I'd like to either see this card cheaper or give a bigger payout. Maybe 6 or 7 mana and take two turns?

You forgot that it also draws you 5 cards.

While I think it's an interesting challenge, the reward is utterly underwhelming. If I have to somehow fetch five specific cards, at that point I can just as well create infinite tokens, get infinite life, draw infinite cards, have infinite mana, etc. Hell, it's probably even easier to set up a Magosi combo for a whole lot more turns than this. Not to mention that with blue/red copying (which the Izzet's guidlmage provides in this very set) you might as well just get a whole lot of mana, cast an extra turn sorcery and copy it.

I love a challenge, but with almost no reward it just feels like a waste of time. At least winning with a Homelands deck allows you to say you've won with a Homelands deck, but this card just gives you a mere extra turn, after which you'll be obliterated by your opponents since you've just been wasting so much effort getting this thing to do *something*. Not much of an impressive feat.

Just pointing out that Search the City is not entirely dead in Commander: Praetor's Grasp .