Intriguing challenge. 5 extra cards and an extra turn if you can pull it off. Duplicate some of your best spells even if you can't pull it off. Can be aided by Riftsweeper , Pull from Eternity , or as Noel spotted Misthollow Griffin .
A few other ideas: Manamorphose is a nice spell to copy, as Pyromancer Ascension players know. Casting that and getting a copy off a Search will net you a bunch of mana and a couple of cards, ready to hopefully cast another Search target. Storm spells are another category of spells that like having copies of themselves around.
Diabolic Revelation or Insidious Dreams could be very nifty followups to casting the Search. Find out what 5 cards you need, then stack your hand/deck with those 5 on top of it in the optimal order.
I agree, the article did seem pretty short; but perhaps that's just in order to leave some of the best ideas for us?
This card seems like it was designed by an amatuer, like something you might see on the forums. The card doesn't feel cohesive at all, it just feels like somebody had a cute idea and forced it onto a card. It's not even really flavourfully resonant.
This isn't what amatuer design looks like. It is just pretty subtle top down design with some interesting interactions. Amatuer design normally beats you over the head with purpose or power.
"I think me going Bang bang bang I win is pretty intuitive"
I think the "play one card, get another one into your hand", although only useful in the right deck setup is interesting enough. The extra turn is just bonus. Especially in blue where you can draw, index etc..
It's also interesting for your opponent to play around. Say you have one card in hand and there's a counterspell of some sort between the exiled ones. For your opponent you either have none, or you have two. It makes for interesting play mechanics, and incidental fast turnarounds, which makes Magic interesting for me.
This card seems like it was designed by an amatuer, like something you might see on the forums. The card doesn't feel cohesive at all, it just feels like somebody had a cute idea and forced it onto a card. It's not even really flavourfully resonant.
This isn't what amatuer design looks like. It is just pretty subtle top down design with some interesting interactions. Amatuer design normally beats you over the head with purpose or power.
This seems way more like bottom up design than top down design to me. Civilized Scholar was top down designed to be a Dr. Jekyll, what pre-existing flavor was this card top down designed to be?
Search the City does work in Commander, ironically, with Scouting Trek and basic lands. However, any deck full of four-of's shouldn't have too much trouble doing this blind if the game lasts long enough, especially if it's full of cheap cantrips. The next thing I'd think of is combining this with Spellweaver Helix.
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.
Anyone else thinking about Pyromancer's Ascension? It will combo well with this.
My thoughts exactly. I think two of them will find their way into my pyromancer deck - should help consistency a lot, although even in that deck 5 mana might be a bit too steep to be really good. Would have been awesome at 4, but I guess they ran out of "power points".
I had a similar thought. The hard part would be making a deck that both plays with this card, and somehow manages to use it to win the game. Getting 2-3 "free" cards would be nice if you could pull it off. Using something like Mirri's Guile to stack the deck also seems plausible and fits into the same general deck. Flashback is nice too.
This card is more interesting than I originally thought it was.
5 mana-draw 5 cards, take an extra turn. Sure there a few hoops to jump through, but well...solving such riddles is a large part of the fun in being a Johnny.
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the0uroboros asked: How in the same set can we have a hexproof, unsacrificable(not a word) creature AND a land that makes it uncounterable. How does this lead to interactive play?
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