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4 months ago ::
Feb 19, 2013 - 8:52AM
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Boooo...the rules specifically state that you can't put cards you don't own into your hand? These comp rules are starting to irk me somethin' fierce.
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These cards are Ball Tightening.
Perfect originality is overrated and often ugly. The best and most beautiful cards I've ever seen were clearly inspired by something else.
Cards are not entirely unlike living organisms in this regard. All the good ones are a result of long evolution; the 'original' ones are either monocellular or mutant aberrations.
The weird part is reaching over the table, grabbing a card from their hand, and just staring slowly back at them, awkwardly, as you slide their voice of resurgence slowly into your pants.
Graveborn are strictly better than Zombies. I mean, look at that wicked beard  . You try growing that when your dead. And I know aging fellows who are suffering from Male Pattern Baldness, who would kill for a Mop like Ribsy's over there.
Hey Dudibus, I can't take you seriously until you take your shirt off!
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4 months ago ::
Feb 19, 2013 - 8:57AM
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Boooo...the rules specifically state that you can't put cards you don't own into your hand? These comp rules are starting to irk me somethin' fierce.
yeah
am at work, and the rules are blocked
but it is in there
look at all the bounce cards -- always talk about returning a creature to its "owner's" hand, not controller
and all the cards that fetch from graveyard are limited to "your" graveyard for this same reason
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4 months ago ::
Feb 19, 2013 - 10:39AM
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I meant Thrulls. And I suppose it's a Zombie. So what's your criticism? Overcosted? Isn't worth it? 0/1 Thrulls can be used for more than just chump blocking, my good fellow: this single creature bears fruit to 7 sacrifices and a 4/4 Zombie. That could be 7 +1/+1 counters on a Carrion Feeder
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4 months ago ::
Feb 19, 2013 - 11:53AM
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Habreno = Brush Aside = interesting take on the artwork -- really complicated and messy spell, though -- multi-kicker of sacrifice and pay 2 life to copy a spell tacked onto a Twincast  // Reverberate  which you can get into any color deck by paying the life for the phyrexian mana.. -- so, if you have three creatures and 12 life and 2 extra mana, you can turn a Cruel Ultimatum  into -20 life (and all the other crazy effects on that monster) -- if you have no creatures and are playing mono black, this is a cmc 5 Redirect  in black -- you're trying to do way too much here and it just gets too messy and bizarre.
Brush Aside |   Instant [R] As an additional cost to cast Brush Aside, sacrafice any number of creatures. Split Second. You may choose new targets for target spell. For each creature you sacraficed, you may copy that spell. If you do, you lose 2 life and may choose new targets for each copy. Did you really think I would let you get away with that?Gatherer: Spoiler:
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A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid.
To calculate the converted mana cost of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.
As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X.
If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.
Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't add Phyrexian mana to their mana pools.
You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, you can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
If the targeted spell is modal (that is, it says "Choose one --" or the like), you can't choose a different mode.
If you cast Brush Aside targeting a spell that targets a spell on the stack (like Cancel does, for example), you can't change that spell's target to itself. You can, however, change that spell's target to Brush Aside. If you do, that spell will be countered when it tries to resolve because Brush Aside will have left the stack by then.
Brush Aside can target any spell, not just an instant or sorcery spell. For example, you could use it to change the target of an Aura spell. However, if the targeted spell has no targets (for example, if it's an instant or sorcery spell that doesn't specifically use the word "target," or if it's a creature spell), Brush Aside won't have any effect on it.
If, for example, the spell you are copying is an Aura, only the original spell (who's target may or may not have been changed) will enter the battlefield. The others will resolve, and then cease to exist.
You don't need to sacrafice any creatures when you cast Brush Aside. If you don't, you simply won't copy the spell.
The creation of each copy and the casting of each copy are both optional.
If the spell Brush Aside copies is modal (that is, it says "Choose one --" or the like), the copy or copies will have the same mode. You can't choose a different one.
Each copy will have the same targets as the spell it's copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, you can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
If the spell copied by Brush Aside has an X whose value was determined as it was cast (like Earthquake does), each copy has the same value of X.
You can't choose to pay any additional costs for each copy. However, effects based on any additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for each copy too. For example, if a player sacrifices a 3/3 creature to cast Fling, and you copy it with Brush Aside, each copy of Fling will also deal 3 damage to its target.
If each copy says that it affects "you," it affects the controller of each copy, not the controller of the original spell. Similarly, if each copy says that it affects an "opponent," it affects an opponent of each copy's controller, not an opponent of the original spell's controller.
((Sorry for the Gatherer being long. When you combine Redirect with Reverberate with Phyrexian Mana, you get the Gatherer of all of them.)) Copied the card and put my Gatherer rulings in spoiler to shorten the post. Black has a habit of doing things other colors do, but not as efficently or with other costs. Paying life for Black is not a new idea, nor is sacraficing creatures for your benefit. I always felt that Black could use a fairly expensive Redirect, and also thought that if we're going that high in costs, we can add in a copy ability. Giving it Split-Second may be a bit much, but if you put so much into this, all for a simple Cancel  to ruin your day, you're not going to be happy. Normally, a high-CMC spell is a risk anyway, because you're putting resources into one thing vs many. Here, you're also putting your entire board state and game state on the line for one spell. It's akin to a coup. And a coup, I feel, would fit Black rather well. As an honest question, what do you feel would balance it?
If a card works well in Standard, does fun but not totally broken things in Modern, and gets stupid in Legacy, I call that designing for everyone's enjoyment.
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4 months ago ::
Feb 19, 2013 - 12:05PM
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Dec 27, 2012
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Why does it need the phyrexian mana in the mana cost anyway? Removing it would both simplify and balance the card.
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4 months ago ::
Feb 19, 2013 - 8:42PM
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If a card works well in Standard, does fun but not totally broken things in Modern, and gets stupid in Legacy, I call that designing for everyone's enjoyment.
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