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4 months ago ::
Feb 07, 2013 - 2:03AM
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Date Joined:
Jul 16, 2007
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Mental Imbalance -   Sorcery
Target opponent may put a permanent card from their hand onto the battlefield. Then that player discards their hand. I like how this card can go horribly wrong. It would be great for 'Adrenaline Timmy' who likes to live on the edge. I wonder if there has been a set specifically created for that player sub-archetype? If it would have this card, people need something good to get out with it, but they don't want their hands full of high cost spells unless there was some other, adrenaline-fueled way of getting them out - that gave me the idea for this mechanic (which has probably been done before).   Creature - Wurm (U) Risk (You may cast this spell for its risk cost. If you do, flip a coin when it enters the battlefield. If you lose the flip, sacrifice it.)
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4 months ago ::
Feb 07, 2013 - 2:19AM
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Date Joined:
Jan 13, 2012
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HUnted Wumpus  is kinda similar. Or Show and Tell  , but if you're casting show and tell you're definitely doing something degenerate so not really. I really like Imbalance.
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4 months ago ::
Feb 07, 2013 - 3:33PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 12, 2010
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Risk could be fun with dead Mickey  .
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4 months ago ::
Feb 07, 2013 - 3:42PM
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Date Joined:
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Risk seems interesting, but as Bay pointed out, would likely be played in such a way as to amount to cheating on the potential downside.
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4 months ago ::
Feb 07, 2013 - 3:46PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 12, 2010
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Already what I do with Mulldrifter  .
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4 months ago ::
Feb 07, 2013 - 8:56PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 16, 2007
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If Johnny enjoys messing with this Timmy card, that's a good thing. You want to appeal to multiple audiences and have different ways of playing things. YmtC is unsurprisingly full of Johnnies, but combos are only really a problem when Spike starts doing degenerate things (and I don't think he would bother considering these don't have awesome ETB effects like evoke creatures).
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4 months ago ::
Feb 07, 2013 - 9:08PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 28, 2008
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Mental Imbalance feels too strong against control decks. I dunno, would require playtesting.
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4 months ago ::
Feb 07, 2013 - 9:25PM
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Date Joined:
Dec 31, 2012
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Both effects feel red, the risk more than the first, though Mental Imbalance is also partially black.
But thats just me, I'm always looking for red stuffs.
Anyway, I don't really like Mental Imbalance. It sort of seems overpowered and randomly hosing instants/sorceries. At least let me cast any spell I want, not just permanents.
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4 months ago ::
Feb 08, 2013 - 2:35PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 16, 2007
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The wurm could be red if it was a one off card but as a keyword in a set it would be in more than one color, even colors that don't flip coins as often.
If I let them cast a spell instead, it wouldn't let them choose to bring out a land if for some weird reason they wanted to. But I guess it could make the card even more disastrous, so thats a reasonable suggestion.
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4 months ago ::
Feb 08, 2013 - 2:52PM
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I'm not sure the mechanic for Risk would be something that could fill enough cards to warrant keywording it. Cards like that tend not to test well with the majority of players.
For Imbalance, I agree with what TheKazu said, in part. Letting them get a single card, no matter the type, seems more interesting.
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