Hmmm.... interesting.... I guess? But my qualm is that this usually will always be able to fire with no issue, either because the board is empty and there are no creatures with names, or your sideboard is unlikely to contain any card currently in play. Maybe some additional cost like on activation may make this a bit more fair, but otherwise this should be fine.
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Vesper Equine5BB
Creature - Nightmare Horse (R)
Vesper Equine's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.
When Vesper Equine is put into graveyard from anywhere, if you control six or more Swamps, search your library for a Swamp card and put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle Vesper Equine into your library.
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EDIT: Yeah, forgot flying
Vesper Equine5BB
Creature - Nightmare Horse (R)
Flying
Vesper Equine's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.
When Vesper Equine is put into graveyard from anywhere, if you control six or more Swamps, search your library for a Swamp card and put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle Vesper Equine into your library.
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Interesting Nightmare Variant, but couldn't it just cost 3BBB?
Also, is there a way to do this where you don't need to shuffle? IE, you put it on the bottom of your library iff you return a swamp from the graveyard to the battelfield?
Also, flying?
Gregarious Mage1U
Creature - Human Wizard (R) U, Discard an instant card, T: You may choose an instant card you own from outside the game that doesn't share a name with any card in your graveyard, reveal that card, and put it into your hand.
1/3
I don't know if a cycle is appropriate... but the wish-effect is a nice, shuffle-free way to get players to play a variety of spells somewhat reliably. The ability to get sideboard removal is pretty darned good though... but not what blue'd normally do. It's also worth noting that you could run a few copies of your finisher instant in your sideboard instead of your deck, run lots of counterspells, and then pitch a useless counter to get your combo or finisher piece with this guy...
Gregarious Mage is an interesting design. I think it probably needs some play testing and number-tweaking to get it just right though. As it is right now, I think it might be a bit strong in casual play where outside of the game means anything in your collection. You might also want it to check exile to keep it from comboing with cards like Rest In Peace and flashback spells.
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Blind Butcher2BR Creature - Human Rogue
Haste, First Strike
Blind Butcher can’t attack or block alone.
When Blind Butcher enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 red Devil creature tokens with Haste onto the battlefield.
4/3
Exile's no longer outside the game. I could restrict it to "Sideboard", but the openendedness of it is kind of fun, no?
Blind Butcher - Oh, I see what you did there. Are these the new devil tokens, or just generic abilitless 1/1s? If the latter, this is probably still too strong, despite the drawback. Make it 1 goblin, cut the First Strike or make it a 3/3, and maybe it's fair?
Soul Sing2W
Sorcery (C)
Gain 4 life.
If you control an angel, put a 3/3 white angel token with flying onto the battelfield.
Soulsinger Angel3WW
Creature - Angel Cleric (R)
Flying Recall - Whenever ~ attacks, you may play a card named Soul Sing from your graveyard without paying it's mana cost.
4/4
Exile's no longer outside the game. I could restrict it to "Sideboard", but the openendedness of it is kind of fun, no?
I think you misunderstood. Since it lets you 'wish' for anything but cards in your graveyard, if you have Dryad Militant out, you can just have a stack of, say, lightning bolts or any other instant and keep wishing for the same card every turn. If it kept you from wishing for cards in your graveyard and in exile than it leads to more interesting decisions turn after turn.
Exile's no longer outside the game. I could restrict it to "Sideboard", but the openendedness of it is kind of fun, no?
I think you misunderstood. Since it lets you 'wish' for anything but cards in your graveyard, if you have Dryad Militant out, you can just have a stack of, say, lightning bolts or any other instant and keep wishing for the same card every turn. If it kept you from wishing for cards in your graveyard and in exile than it leads to more interesting decisions turn after turn.
Ah... I see. But I'm more interested in the constructed formats, not casual. That said if they're going to go all that way for a stack of lightning bolts - 3 cards, 2 of which are creatures - why not let them? Surely that's not the straw that'll break casual's back.
Interesting idea... probably way too strong as a sideboard card. Playing this sideboard against a BR deck is simply a strictly better one-sided board wipe for 4.
Morgue Crusher2BB
Creature - Zombie Horror (MR)
Menace
~ costs 1 more to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
~'s power is equal to the total power among creature cards in your graveyard, and its toughness is equal to the total toughness among those cards.
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Menace is probably unnecessary on this. Effectively it's a zombify w/o abilities that keeps getting bigger. You drop a 10/10 in your graveyard on turn 1, nothing else, and it's a 10/10 for 5 mana. I genuinely don't think it'd see play in "swarm" strategies outside of limited, and thus you've just created a zombify variant, instead of the creature you wanted to create I think.
Nettle Creeper1B
Creature - Insect Horror (C)
Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.
1/1
Nettle Broodcaller3BB
Creature - Insect Horrorr (R) Recall - When ~ attacks, you may return all creature cards named Nettle Creeper from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, put a +1/+1 counter on ~.
4/4
This card reminds me so much of Demigod of Revenge, except its a weaker version as it requires other named cards.
Olivia, Vampire Mage1RB
Legendary Creature - Vampire Wizard (M)
When you cast ~, ~ deals 2 damage to target creature or player and you gain 2 life.
Flying
Whenever an opponent cast a noncreature spell, you may return ~ from your graveyard or battlefield to its owner's hand.
2/2
First, it's weird seeing a lightning helix effect on a RB card. WR or B? Sure.
Second, I don't see why this needs to say "When you cast ~" - it's just anti-counterspell language, and if that's the role of red on this card... it's unsatisfying.
Third, ignoring the bounce effect (which has some serious problems I don't want to talk about here), it's way undercosted. A 2/2 flyer MIGHT be able to be printed at RB, and "legendary" doesn't seem to doing anything there and is sort of weird with the bounce effect.
Land of the Lost
Land (C) T: Add C to your mana pool. 4, T, Sacrifice ~: Put a 3/3 golem artifact creature onto the battlefield.
Joden, Lost Explorer1G
Legendary Creature - Elf Scout Recall - When ~ attacks, you may return a card named Land of the Lost from your graveyard to the battlefield. 0: You may tap an untapped golem creature you control. If you do, it is now attacking and all creatures blocking ~ are instead blocking that golem creature.
2/3
The land may need higher cost to make the Golem despite the sacrifice clause; It took 7 mana to make a 2/2, so maybe 9-10 mana to make a 3/3, and sacrifice slashes that cost by only how much?
As for the Recall card, you may need to specify that the ability can only be activated while this guy is attacking. Strong ability; imagine if you have a strong untapped golem and you use this ability. May need some activation cost.
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Kin Of Shadows4B
Creature - Shade (R)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, put a 1/1 black Shade creature token onto the battlefield. It has "B: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn". 2BB: Shade creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
1/1
A bit simple card.... what do you think of the mass buff cost?
I was thinking more of a sacrificial stalking stones. And yeah, "while attacking" is needed for the last effect. Good call.
Kin(g?) of Shadows - I don't like the 2nd effect. If you're going to have a shade army - then I like it that you have to decide how to spend the mana. You'll rarely use the last ability, and it's weird he can't pump himself alone.
My recommendation would be to make this guy a fattie - there's precedent - Ihsan's Shade - and you can just give him the same +1/+1 effect as the tokens, or have him get +1/+1 whenever you activate a token's effect. If this guy was a 5/5 legend for 3BBB with the nontoken shade token making effect and some variant of pump himself, it'd be pretty boss.
Bottled Time6
Artifact (R)
When ~ enters the battlefield your turn ends.
When ~ leaves the battlefield exile it, then take an additional turn after this turn ends.
Wish it also affects itself "Whenever ~ or another nontoken creature you control dies..." as this card requires you control other nontoken creatures to make it useful. The mass buff cost is justifiable.
Mad ScientistU
Creature - Human Wizard (U) B,t, Exile a card from your hand: Draw a card. If you exiled a creature card this way, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield tapped instead.
1/1
I'd be much happier if this was a Vile Rebirth spellshaper, flavorwise. Nice flavor - but, again, even better flavor if it vile rebirths things...
Bottled Time6
Artifact (R)
When ~ enters the battlefield your turn ends.
When ~ leaves the battlefield exile it, then take an additional turn after this turn ends.
Bottled Time6
Artifact (R)
When ~ enters the battlefield your turn ends.
When ~ leaves the battlefield exile it, then take an additional turn after this turn ends.
At six mana this is in the correct range for additional turns and any tricks to use the drawback beneficially are not overshadowing the outcome, so this seems fair. The wording needs some improvement:
Bottled Time
Artifact (R)
When ~ enters the battlefield, if it's your turn, end the turn.
When ~ leaves the battlefield, exile it. If you do, take an extra turn after this one.
In this form I would put it in a set for testing.
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Chrysalis of Creation Artifact (R)
Creature spells you cast cost less to cast. , , Sacrifice ~: Search your library for Insect permanent cards with a total converted mana cost of X or less and put them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.
Genesis Larva
Artifact (R)
When ~ dies, you may pay . If you do, return ~ to the battlefield. Then you may transform it. "Such a humble form takes life that overcomes death, life from which more life springs."
-Lenoth, Hermit of Arborea
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Planar Chaos was not a mistake neither was it random. You might want to look at it again.
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..... Hmmmm... Well, since its ability is strictly on-cast like the Eldrazi titans, maybe ok. Works wonders with Flashback-based self-mill (I mean, discount it first, then flashback-cast). Probably fine.
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Uninspire3U
Instant (U)
Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Its controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals an instant or sorcery card then puts it into his or her graveyard, then shuffles other cards revealed this way into his or her library. "I know what you're going to do next and I'm not happy about it."
Uninspire2U
Instant (U)
Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Its controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals an instant or sorcery card then puts it into his or her graveyard, then shuffles other cards revealed this way into his or her library. "I know what you're going to do next and I'm not happy about it."
I feel like Uninspire could stand to be 2U or even UU. It's even narrower than Negate and the second effect isn't really worth much. Many times it could even be a boon in a deck with lots of flashback or Spellheart Chimera or the like.
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Stromkirk Runner2R Creature - Vampire Scout
Madness 1RR
When Stromkirk Runner or another Vampire enters the battlefield under your control, if it was cast from exile, it deals 2 damage to target player.
3/2
Stromkirk Runner2R Creature - Vampire Scout
Madness 1RR
When Stromkirk Runner or another Vampire enters the battlefield under your control, if it was cast from exile, it deals 2 damage to target player.
3/2
Interesting twist. I personally would go for granting haste until end of turn to any Vampire entering the battlefield if not cast from your hand. I consider that variant a little more open-ended in all the good ways.
The general concept is nice enough already. Good sense to not allow the damage to act as removal IMO.
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Mirrorspook
Creature - Spirit
You may have ~ enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield. If you do, it gains haste and "At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice this creature."
0/0
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Planar Chaos was not a mistake neither was it random. You might want to look at it again.
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I like mirrorspook, it cost one less than typical clone effects, but only lasts one turn. I feel like you could even get away with it returning to the player's hand at the end of their turn rather than sacrificing it. Alternatively you may even be able to get away with a RR cost so long as it exiled itself instead of sacrificing, in a way that would make it quite similar to Twinflame, but with the upside of being able to copy opponent's creatures.
Tripwire2 Artifact
When tripwire enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Sacrifice Tripwire: You may cast a trap card without paying its mana cost. Activate this ability only if a creature has dealt combat damage to you this turn.
Was I the only one who was hoping for more trap cards when they first announced BFZ?
Hmm.... While it does require you to get whacked first, and that some traps can be free to cast when their conditions are met, I think the activated ability need additional cost as this trivializes those trap triggers a bit too easily. That green trap that becomes free when your spell get countered? Now you can play it against nonblue...
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Crusader Of Enmity2R
Creature - Human Knight (U)
Haste
Crusader Of Enmity gets +1/+0 for each permanent you don't control that doesn't share a converted mana cost with any permanent you control. "You are not us. That is reason enough."
2/2
Could be huge in the right situation, but otherwise meh. In vacuum, this means that if this guy is the only guy on your field, any permanent other player controls that has cmc not equal to 3 will boost this guy up. If you can somehow rid yourself of all lands, suddenly those 5+ lands your opponents have boost this guy. Comments?
Weird buff effect, so you shouldn't have any other cards on your battlefield to maximize its effect I think this could be reduce to 1R with toughness reduced by 1 and it would get away with it.
City of Israel
Legendary Land (M)
You can't play nonbasic lands. t: Add CC to your mana pool.
Weird buff effect, so you shouldn't have any other cards on your battlefield to maximize its effect I think this could be reduce to 1R with toughness reduced by 1 and it would get away with it.
City of Israel
Legendary Land (M)
You can't play nonbasic lands. t: Add CC to your mana pool.
This is the type of card you would have to see in set, but it's fine for everywhere else. I almost would say it's too weak; no fetchlands, no Shocks, just basics makes for a very strained mana base.
Lazinous, End of Death RRBB
Legendary Creature - Phoenix
Flying
Sacrifice five creatures: return Lazinous, End of Death from the graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Whenever a creature is put into the graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead. If you do, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token into the battlefield under your control.
2/2
I recently had to question why the Phoenix, a deathless bird by any mythology, has never been put together with a magic that tries to defeat death.
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Oath of the Gatewatch; the set that caused the competitive community to freak out over Basic Lands.
Hmmm.... the Zombie-making ability (should it maybe read "Whenever another creature dies, exile it. If you do, get Zombie"?) is the big booty for this card, but otherwise, not too overwhelming. I think probably ok then.
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Fourona, Witness Of The Other Place2UB
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard (R)
Whenever a player draws a card, you may pay B. If you do, that player sacrifices a permanent. 2U: Each player draws a card. Never ask Fourona for words of wisdom and enlightenment, for she has seen what others will not be able to bear witness to.
2/4
. Lightsquall Paradise
Land (MR) : Add to your mana pool. : Each opponent draws a card. Add to your mana pool. 1, , sacrifice Lightsquall Paradise: Add BRG to your mana pool.
You may only play two Lightsquall Paradise in your deck.
This seems like it has almost too much going - I could see stripping out the sac ability, maybe beefing up the second tap ability, and making it legendary.
Twisting BoltXRR Sorcery (R)
As you cast Twisting Bolt, you may reveal an instant or sorcery with converted mana cost X or less from you hand. If you do, Twisting Bolt becomes a copy of that spell.
Otherwise, Twisting Bolt deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
The lowest planeswalker cmc is 2 which is Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded, and this card at 1cmc and its even blue makes it powerful, should really cost 2.
Jace's Home
Legendary Land (M) t: Add U to your mana pool. 1U,t: Look at the top card of your library. If that card is Jace, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.
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Vesper Equine 5BB
Creature - Nightmare Horse (R)
Vesper Equine's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.
When Vesper Equine is put into graveyard from anywhere, if you control six or more Swamps, search your library for a Swamp card and put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle Vesper Equine into your library.
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Comments?
EDIT: Yeah, forgot flying
Vesper Equine 5BB
Creature - Nightmare Horse (R)
Flying
Vesper Equine's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.
When Vesper Equine is put into graveyard from anywhere, if you control six or more Swamps, search your library for a Swamp card and put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle Vesper Equine into your library.
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Also, is there a way to do this where you don't need to shuffle? IE, you put it on the bottom of your library iff you return a swamp from the graveyard to the battelfield?
Also, flying?
Gregarious Mage 1U
Creature - Human Wizard (R)
U, Discard an instant card, T: You may choose an instant card you own from outside the game that doesn't share a name with any card in your graveyard, reveal that card, and put it into your hand.
1/3
I don't know if a cycle is appropriate... but the wish-effect is a nice, shuffle-free way to get players to play a variety of spells somewhat reliably. The ability to get sideboard removal is pretty darned good though... but not what blue'd normally do. It's also worth noting that you could run a few copies of your finisher instant in your sideboard instead of your deck, run lots of counterspells, and then pitch a useless counter to get your combo or finisher piece with this guy...
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Blind Butcher 2BR
Creature - Human Rogue
Haste, First Strike
Blind Butcher can’t attack or block alone.
When Blind Butcher enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 red Devil creature tokens with Haste onto the battlefield.
4/3
Blind Butcher - Oh, I see what you did there. Are these the new devil tokens, or just generic abilitless 1/1s? If the latter, this is probably still too strong, despite the drawback. Make it 1 goblin, cut the First Strike or make it a 3/3, and maybe it's fair?
Soul Sing 2W
Sorcery (C)
Gain 4 life.
If you control an angel, put a 3/3 white angel token with flying onto the battelfield.
Soulsinger Angel 3WW
Creature - Angel Cleric (R)
Flying
Recall - Whenever ~ attacks, you may play a card named Soul Sing from your graveyard without paying it's mana cost.
4/4
Ah... I see. But I'm more interested in the constructed formats, not casual. That said if they're going to go all that way for a stack of lightning bolts - 3 cards, 2 of which are creatures - why not let them? Surely that's not the straw that'll break casual's back.
Morgue Crusher 2BB
Creature - Zombie Horror (MR)
Menace
~ costs 1 more to cast for each creature card in your graveyard.
~'s power is equal to the total power among creature cards in your graveyard, and its toughness is equal to the total toughness among those cards.
*/*
Menace is probably unnecessary on this. Effectively it's a zombify w/o abilities that keeps getting bigger. You drop a 10/10 in your graveyard on turn 1, nothing else, and it's a 10/10 for 5 mana. I genuinely don't think it'd see play in "swarm" strategies outside of limited, and thus you've just created a zombify variant, instead of the creature you wanted to create I think.
Nettle Creeper1B
Creature - Insect Horror (C)
Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.
1/1
Nettle Broodcaller 3BB
Creature - Insect Horrorr (R)
Recall - When ~ attacks, you may return all creature cards named Nettle Creeper from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, put a +1/+1 counter on ~.
4/4
Olivia, Vampire Mage 1RB
Legendary Creature - Vampire Wizard (M)
When you cast ~, ~ deals 2 damage to target creature or player and you gain 2 life.
Flying
Whenever an opponent cast a noncreature spell, you may return ~ from your graveyard or battlefield to its owner's hand.
2/2
Second, I don't see why this needs to say "When you cast ~" - it's just anti-counterspell language, and if that's the role of red on this card... it's unsatisfying.
Third, ignoring the bounce effect (which has some serious problems I don't want to talk about here), it's way undercosted. A 2/2 flyer MIGHT be able to be printed at RB, and "legendary" doesn't seem to doing anything there and is sort of weird with the bounce effect.
Land of the Lost
Land (C)
T: Add C to your mana pool.
4, T, Sacrifice ~: Put a 3/3 golem artifact creature onto the battlefield.
Joden, Lost Explorer 1G
Legendary Creature - Elf Scout
Recall - When ~ attacks, you may return a card named Land of the Lost from your graveyard to the battlefield.
0: You may tap an untapped golem creature you control. If you do, it is now attacking and all creatures blocking ~ are instead blocking that golem creature.
2/3
As for the Recall card, you may need to specify that the ability can only be activated while this guy is attacking. Strong ability; imagine if you have a strong untapped golem and you use this ability. May need some activation cost.
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Kin Of Shadows 4B
Creature - Shade (R)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, put a 1/1 black Shade creature token onto the battlefield. It has "B: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn".
2BB: Shade creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
1/1
A bit simple card.... what do you think of the mass buff cost?
Kin(g?) of Shadows - I don't like the 2nd effect. If you're going to have a shade army - then I like it that you have to decide how to spend the mana. You'll rarely use the last ability, and it's weird he can't pump himself alone.
My recommendation would be to make this guy a fattie - there's precedent - Ihsan's Shade - and you can just give him the same +1/+1 effect as the tokens, or have him get +1/+1 whenever you activate a token's effect. If this guy was a 5/5 legend for 3BBB with the nontoken shade token making effect and some variant of pump himself, it'd be pretty boss.
Bottled Time6
Artifact (R)
When ~ enters the battlefield your turn ends.
When ~ leaves the battlefield exile it, then take an additional turn after this turn ends.
Mad Scientist U
Creature - Human Wizard (U)
B,t, Exile a card from your hand: Draw a card. If you exiled a creature card this way, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield tapped instead.
1/1
Bottled Time6
Artifact (R)
When ~ enters the battlefield your turn ends.
When ~ leaves the battlefield exile it, then take an additional turn after this turn ends.
At six mana this is in the correct range for additional turns and any tricks to use the drawback beneficially are not overshadowing the outcome, so this seems fair. The wording needs some improvement:
Artifact (R)
When ~ enters the battlefield, if it's your turn, end the turn.
When ~ leaves the battlefield, exile it. If you do, take an extra turn after this one.
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Creature spells you cast cost
Artifact (R)
When ~ dies, you may pay
"Such a humble form takes life that overcomes death, life from which more life springs."
-Lenoth, Hermit of Arborea
Finally a good white villain quote: "So, do I ever re-evaluate my life choices? Never, because I know what I'm doing is a righteous cause."
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Uninspire 3U
Instant (U)
Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Its controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals an instant or sorcery card then puts it into his or her graveyard, then shuffles other cards revealed this way into his or her library.
"I know what you're going to do next and I'm not happy about it."
Comments?
EDIT: Right, I forgot Dispel.
Uninspire 2U
Instant (U)
Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Its controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals an instant or sorcery card then puts it into his or her graveyard, then shuffles other cards revealed this way into his or her library.
"I know what you're going to do next and I'm not happy about it."
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Stromkirk Runner 2R
Creature - Vampire Scout
Madness 1RR
When Stromkirk Runner or another Vampire enters the battlefield under your control, if it was cast from exile, it deals 2 damage to target player.
3/2
Interesting twist. I personally would go for granting haste until end of turn to any Vampire entering the battlefield if not cast from your hand. I consider that variant a little more open-ended in all the good ways.
The general concept is nice enough already. Good sense to not allow the damage to act as removal IMO.
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Creature - Spirit
You may have ~ enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield. If you do, it gains haste and "At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice this creature."
0/0
Finally a good white villain quote: "So, do I ever re-evaluate my life choices? Never, because I know what I'm doing is a righteous cause."
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Legends: The Elder Dragons
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Tripwire 2
Artifact
When tripwire enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Sacrifice Tripwire: You may cast a trap card without paying its mana cost. Activate this ability only if a creature has dealt combat damage to you this turn.
Was I the only one who was hoping for more trap cards when they first announced BFZ?
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Crusader Of Enmity 2R
Creature - Human Knight (U)
Haste
Crusader Of Enmity gets +1/+0 for each permanent you don't control that doesn't share a converted mana cost with any permanent you control.
"You are not us. That is reason enough."
2/2
Could be huge in the right situation, but otherwise meh. In vacuum, this means that if this guy is the only guy on your field, any permanent other player controls that has cmc not equal to 3 will boost this guy up. If you can somehow rid yourself of all lands, suddenly those 5+ lands your opponents have boost this guy. Comments?
City of Israel
Legendary Land (M)
You can't play nonbasic lands.
t: Add CC to your mana pool.
This is the type of card you would have to see in set, but it's fine for everywhere else. I almost would say it's too weak; no fetchlands, no Shocks, just basics makes for a very strained mana base.
I recently had to question why the Phoenix, a deathless bird by any mythology, has never been put together with a magic that tries to defeat death.
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Fourona, Witness Of The Other Place 2UB
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard (R)
Whenever a player draws a card, you may pay B. If you do, that player sacrifices a permanent.
2U: Each player draws a card.
Never ask Fourona for words of wisdom and enlightenment, for she has seen what others will not be able to bear witness to.
2/4
Comments?
This seems like it has almost too much going - I could see stripping out the sac ability, maybe beefing up the second tap ability, and making it legendary.
Twisting Bolt XRR
Sorcery (R)
As you cast Twisting Bolt, you may reveal an instant or sorcery with converted mana cost X or less from you hand. If you do, Twisting Bolt becomes a copy of that spell.
Otherwise, Twisting Bolt deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
Jace's Home
Legendary Land (M)
t: Add U to your mana pool.
1U,t: Look at the top card of your library. If that card is Jace, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.