Jace, Artist of Minds4UU Planeswalker - Jace {M}
/+2\ Draw a card, then discard a card unless you reveal three blue cards from your hand.
\-3/ You may tap or untap target creature. Draw cards equal to its power.
\-9/ Search your library for up to nine cards and put them into a face-down pile. This pile becomes one of your caches. (Any time you would use your library to perform an action, you may choose to use a cache instead of your library.)
3
Am I missing anything with the following rules?
401.9. One card (Jace, Artist of Minds) creates a cache. The rules for caches are identical to the rules for libraries as described in rules 401.2 through 401.8, with the following additions.
401.9a If a player would move a card from his or her library to another zone (including drawing a card), and the library isn't empty, he or she may move a card from his or her cache to that zone instead. If that player would look at cards in, search, reveal cards from, or shuffle or put cards into his or her library, he or she may perform these actions on one of his or her caches instead. If that player's library is empty, but one of his or her caches is not empty, that player must choose to perform the action on one of his or her caches if possible. These are not replacement effects. The player decides whether or not toe perform these actions on his or her library or on one of his or her caches after all replacement effects are applied.
401.9b A player can't "roll over" any actions described in rule 401.9a. If it becomes impossible to perform one of those actions because the chosen library or cache is empty, the player can't choose another library or cache in the middle of the action and continue that action.
Example: Alice has a library and a cache. Alice casts Preordain, which reads, "Scry 2, then draw a card." To scry 2, Alice chooses to look at the top two cards of her cache. To finish scrying, Alice can't choose to put any cards on the top of her library, since she chose to scry with her cache.
Example: Bob has a library and a cache. He casts Divination, which reads, "Draw two cards." Since each draw is performed individually, Bob can choose whether to draw from his library or his cache for each individual card draw. He can choose to draw both cards from his library, both cards from his cache, or one from each in any order he chooses.
401.9c Effects that involve a player's library may also involve that player's cache.
Example: A player controls Aven Mindcensor, which reads, "If an opponent would search a library, that player searches the top four cards of that library instead." That player's opponent chooses to search one of his or her caches. That player may only search the top four cards of his or her cache this way.
Example: A player owns a Panglacial Wurm in his or her library. That player chooses to search his or her cache for a card. While searching his or her cache, he or she may cast Panglacial Wurm from his or her cache.
401.9d If a player would perform an action described in rule 401.9a on another player's library, that player may not choose to instead perform that action on one of the caches of the other player.
Example: Darren casts Condemn on Evelyn's Elite Vanguard. Evelyn has a cache. Darren must choose to put Evelyn's Elite Vanguard on the bottom of her library rather than the bottom of her cache, since it is Darren who moves the object from the battlefield to the library. If Evelyn were to cast Condemn, however, she would be able to put Elite Vanguard on the bottom of her cache instead of on the bottom of her library if she chose to do so.
401.9e If a cache becomes empty due to having no cards in it, the cache no longer exists. (This is a state-based action. See rule 704.)
401.9f If an effect tells a player to play with the top card of his or her library revealed, that player must play with the top card of at least one among that player's library and caches revealed. At any time that player has priority, that player may choose one among his or her library or a cache whose top card is not revealed and play with the top card of the chosen library or cache revealed. This causes all previously-revealed cards to no longer be revealed. This is a special action that doesn't use the stack. See rule 115. Effects that check for the characteristics of the top card of a player's library instead check for the characteristics of the top card of whatever library or cache whose top card is revealed this way.
401.9g If a player attempted to draw a card from a library with no cards in it since the last time state-based actions were checked, he or she loses the game only if that player doesn't have any caches. If a player attempted to draw a card from a cache with no cards in it since the last time state-based actions were checked, he or she loses the game only if that player's library has no cards in it. This is an exception to rule 704.5b.
401.9h Cards in a player's caches are still considered to be in the library zone, even though they are in a different face-down pile than a player's library.
Private Mod Note
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Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
How to use card tags (please use them for everybody's sanity)
[c]Lightning Bolt[/c] -> Lightning Bolt
[c=Lightning Bolt]Apple Pie[/c] -> Apple Pie
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I'm not 100% on the rules issues here but I just wanted to pitch in that I far prefered the term Sub-Library that you used in your original version. Far more intuitive.
I'm not 100% on the rules issues here but I just wanted to pitch in that I far prefered the term Sub-Library that you used in your original version. Far more intuitive.
Thanks for the input. I like "sublibrary" a bit better as well, but I figured that some people wouldn't, so I preemptively changed the name with that assumption in mind.
I forgot to mention, but the reason I don't want to use an "exile face up; you may play cards exiled this way for as long as they're exiled" templating is because that eliminates the factor of the "cached" cards being in the library. Creating a sublibrary "zone" would be easier than to tag on "sublirary rules" to random cards in exile that just so happen to be exiled by a specific set of effects.
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
How to use card tags (please use them for everybody's sanity)
[c]Lightning Bolt[/c] -> Lightning Bolt
[c=Lightning Bolt]Apple Pie[/c] -> Apple Pie
Vowels-Only Format Minimum deck size: 60 Maximum number of identical cards: 4 Ban list: Cards whose English names begin with a consonant, Unglued and Unhinged cards, cards involving ante, Ancestral Recall
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Jace, Artist of Minds 4UU
Planeswalker - Jace {M}
/+2\ Draw a card, then discard a card unless you reveal three blue cards from your hand.
\-3/ You may tap or untap target creature. Draw cards equal to its power.
\-9/ Search your library for up to nine cards and put them into a face-down pile. This pile becomes one of your caches. (Any time you would use your library to perform an action, you may choose to use a cache instead of your library.)
3
Am I missing anything with the following rules?
401.9. One card (Jace, Artist of Minds) creates a cache. The rules for caches are identical to the rules for libraries as described in rules 401.2 through 401.8, with the following additions.
401.9a If a player would move a card from his or her library to another zone (including drawing a card), and the library isn't empty, he or she may move a card from his or her cache to that zone instead. If that player would look at cards in, search, reveal cards from, or shuffle or put cards into his or her library, he or she may perform these actions on one of his or her caches instead. If that player's library is empty, but one of his or her caches is not empty, that player must choose to perform the action on one of his or her caches if possible. These are not replacement effects. The player decides whether or not toe perform these actions on his or her library or on one of his or her caches after all replacement effects are applied.
401.9b A player can't "roll over" any actions described in rule 401.9a. If it becomes impossible to perform one of those actions because the chosen library or cache is empty, the player can't choose another library or cache in the middle of the action and continue that action.
Example: Alice has a library and a cache. Alice casts Preordain, which reads, "Scry 2, then draw a card." To scry 2, Alice chooses to look at the top two cards of her cache. To finish scrying, Alice can't choose to put any cards on the top of her library, since she chose to scry with her cache.
Example: Bob has a library and a cache. He casts Divination, which reads, "Draw two cards." Since each draw is performed individually, Bob can choose whether to draw from his library or his cache for each individual card draw. He can choose to draw both cards from his library, both cards from his cache, or one from each in any order he chooses.
401.9c Effects that involve a player's library may also involve that player's cache.
Example: A player controls Aven Mindcensor, which reads, "If an opponent would search a library, that player searches the top four cards of that library instead." That player's opponent chooses to search one of his or her caches. That player may only search the top four cards of his or her cache this way.
Example: A player owns a Panglacial Wurm in his or her library. That player chooses to search his or her cache for a card. While searching his or her cache, he or she may cast Panglacial Wurm from his or her cache.
401.9d If a player would perform an action described in rule 401.9a on another player's library, that player may not choose to instead perform that action on one of the caches of the other player.
Example: Darren casts Condemn on Evelyn's Elite Vanguard. Evelyn has a cache. Darren must choose to put Evelyn's Elite Vanguard on the bottom of her library rather than the bottom of her cache, since it is Darren who moves the object from the battlefield to the library. If Evelyn were to cast Condemn, however, she would be able to put Elite Vanguard on the bottom of her cache instead of on the bottom of her library if she chose to do so.
401.9e If a cache becomes empty due to having no cards in it, the cache no longer exists. (This is a state-based action. See rule 704.)
401.9f If an effect tells a player to play with the top card of his or her library revealed, that player must play with the top card of at least one among that player's library and caches revealed. At any time that player has priority, that player may choose one among his or her library or a cache whose top card is not revealed and play with the top card of the chosen library or cache revealed. This causes all previously-revealed cards to no longer be revealed. This is a special action that doesn't use the stack. See rule 115. Effects that check for the characteristics of the top card of a player's library instead check for the characteristics of the top card of whatever library or cache whose top card is revealed this way.
401.9g If a player attempted to draw a card from a library with no cards in it since the last time state-based actions were checked, he or she loses the game only if that player doesn't have any caches. If a player attempted to draw a card from a cache with no cards in it since the last time state-based actions were checked, he or she loses the game only if that player's library has no cards in it. This is an exception to rule 704.5b.
401.9h Cards in a player's caches are still considered to be in the library zone, even though they are in a different face-down pile than a player's library.
[c]Lightning Bolt[/c] -> Lightning Bolt
[c=Lightning Bolt]Apple Pie[/c] -> Apple Pie
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Thanks for the input. I like "sublibrary" a bit better as well, but I figured that some people wouldn't, so I preemptively changed the name with that assumption in mind.
I forgot to mention, but the reason I don't want to use an "exile face up; you may play cards exiled this way for as long as they're exiled" templating is because that eliminates the factor of the "cached" cards being in the library. Creating a sublibrary "zone" would be easier than to tag on "sublirary rules" to random cards in exile that just so happen to be exiled by a specific set of effects.
[c]Lightning Bolt[/c] -> Lightning Bolt
[c=Lightning Bolt]Apple Pie[/c] -> Apple Pie
Vowels-Only Format
Minimum deck size: 60
Maximum number of identical cards: 4
Ban list: Cards whose English names begin with a consonant, Unglued and Unhinged cards, cards involving ante, Ancestral Recall