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Ætherdrain Aspect
Enchantment
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, tap target permanent that player controls and untap target permanent you control.

I thought the idea of draining the energy from an opponent's stuff was kind of interesting.  At first, I had this costed at 3 mana, but for what amounts to repeatable removal in blue each turn, that didn't seem like enough.

This card seems blue in theory, but the fact that it can function as a mass Stone Rain for four mana makes me wary. As innocent as the effect seems, I actually think it's undercosted.

agree with Fezzhead

Dec 28, 2012 -- 12:52PM, Zokorad wrote:

agree with Fezzhead

disagree with both of you. Mass stone rain? Maybe in a 6 player game where you only target one player >_>

I like it. I mean, I've always liked mirrored effects, but this is done quite well. All the little neat tricks make me happy to brainstorm the possibilities.

Dec 28, 2012 -- 2:15PM, ChaosLight wrote:

Dec 28, 2012 -- 12:52PM, Zokorad wrote:

agree with Fezzhead

disagree with both of you. Mass stone rain? Maybe in a 6 player game where you only target one player >_>

You can only target each player once, so mass stone rain is pretty hard, unless you cast multiple. In which case, that's as much mass stone rain as mass stone rain is.

Looks like a better Martial Law to me.

Dec 28, 2012 -- 3:04PM, Mown wrote:

Dec 28, 2012 -- 2:15PM, ChaosLight wrote:

Dec 28, 2012 -- 12:52PM, Zokorad wrote:

agree with Fezzhead

disagree with both of you. Mass stone rain? Maybe in a 6 player game where you only target one player >_>

You can only target each player once, so mass stone rain is pretty hard, unless you cast multiple. In which case, that's as much mass stone rain as mass stone rain is.

Looks like a better Martial Law to me.

See, even less whatever he said.

It can be used as a mass Stone Rain because it triggers at the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, and you can tap down one of that opponent's lands at that time. Unless your opponents are able to cast their spells during their upkeep, you can lock down their best land permanently with just one card.

Mass Stone Rain would imply using multiple Stone Rains, which has the consequence of preventing the use of multiple lands. This can never be more than one Stone Rain.

Do you think Wizards would ever allow this card to be printed?

Stone Shower
Sorcery
For each opponent, destroy target land that player controls.

Yes, possibly at 3R

It's very interesting that something like this wasn't printed before, and most similar cards aren't really close.. However, they just printed Martial Law and detaining appears to be treated as weaker ability..

Martial Law -esque.
I like it.

I can certainly see an argument for this at 5 mana.
Oh, and hi Jo.

Dec 28, 2012 -- 7:16PM, FezzHead wrote:

Do you think Wizards would ever allow this card to be printed?

Stone Shower
Sorcery
For each opponent, destroy target land that player controls.

Dec 28, 2012 -- 7:21PM, ChaosLight wrote:

Yes, possibly at 3R

QFT. I hope you didn't mean this as an argument for why this card is overpowered, because this card is really not very ridiculous.

WOTC doesn't try to balance cards for casual free for all.  And even if you did bring this card to multiplayer, the moment you cast it, everyone would team up to kill you.