Sideshow Wizard2U
Creature - Human Wizard (R) Imprint - When Sideshow Wizard enters the battlefield, you may choose a card you own from outside the game and exile it face down. (That card is imprinted on this creature.)
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if it has the same name as the card imprinted on Sideshow Wizard, you may play the imprinted card without paying its mana cost. "Just do what everyone else does, they say. Everyone's a critic."
2/3
Demonicly Tutored2B
Creature - Human Wizard (R) Imprint - When ~ enters the battlefield, you may choose a card you own from outside the game and exile it face down. (That card is imprinted on this creature.)
When ~ dies, you may put the exiled card into your hand.
2/3
Hornrune Minotaur2R
Creature - Minotaur Shaman (R) Imprint - When ~ enters the battlefield, you may choose a sorcery or instant card you own from outside the game and exile it. (That card is imprinted on this creature.)
Whenever Hornrune Minotaur attacks and is not blocked, you may play a copy of an instant or sorcery card imprinted on it.
2/3
Freakshow Shaman2G
Creature - Centaur Shaman(R) Imprint - When ~ enters the battlefield, you may choose a creature card you own from outside the game and exile it. (That card is imprinted on this creature.) xx, t: Create a token that's a copy of a creature card imprinted on ~, where X equals that card's converted mana cost.
3/2
Master Smith2W
Creature - Human Artificer Soldier (R) Imprint - When ~ enters the battlefield, you may choose an equipment card you own from outside the game and exile it. (That card is imprinted on this creature.)
Sacrifice a land, x, t: Create a token that's a copy of an equipment card imprinted on ~, where X equals that card's converted mana cost.
3/2
If there were a 2/3 creature that coughed up llanowar elves every turn for 0, I'd cost it more than 3cc. Freakshow shaman is precisely that (with dryad arbor), plus more. Undercosted.
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"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
Master Smith was the last designed... and I feel needs work.
Sideshow Wizard, though, plays weird - in limited, you can look at your opponent's colors, and then get something from those colors from your sideboard. Your opponent doesn't know what it is. In draft, it encourages hatedrafting removal slightly earlier; if your opponent tries to remove it, you can play your copy. And that's probably the best case scenario in limited; but sometimes you'll just get a free creature or something.
In constructed, as you say, throw a Mind's Desire or whatever in the sideboard, and go crazy. It won't work for everything... but it's quite interesting and will serve to foil some things. That's quite a nice niche for a card. Constructed contender, but not tier 1.
Hornune might be too strong. Maybe he'd need to say "3 or less" or something...
If there were a 2/3 creature that coughed up llanowar elves every turn for 0, I'd cost it more than 3cc. Freakshow shaman is precisely that (with dryad arbor), plus more. Undercosted.
Would you rather I change XX to X2, or add the clause "non-land"?
Hatedrafting is a skill any drafter should develop.
If you're in your 2nd pack, and you have 15 playable cards, and you have to choose between a bomb or removal off color that would wreck your deck, or a mediocre creature, you probably want to hatedraft.
Sideshow Wizard is not great in draft; but it does make your opponent think before acting. Maybe that face-down card is lightning bolt, do you dare cast it when it can backfire? (Yes. IN most cases you do. But sometimes you don't!).
Sideshow wizard might be made better by just comparing color or cmc maybe?
"if its mana cost is equal to the mana cost of the imprinted card" would be perfectly fair at 3 CMC, since it doesn't allow you to sneak in overly powerful stuff unless your opponent is also casting something big, which becomes a huge gamble of whether they'll ever actually cast something at that high a CMC.
I like the mind games with the wizard. What are the chances your opponent will have a magma spray? If it's CMC or the like, then the chances are high. But if it's the card itself... the chances are low, no?
I can see it now. I've drawn murder. I have a 4/4, my opponent a this wizard. I'm at 2, my opponent at 4. Do I cast Murder and swing for the win? If my opponent can get anything that's 3 CMC from his sideboard, I'm pretty sure he can find something in response to my murder.
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Creature - Human Wizard (R)
Imprint - When Sideshow Wizard enters the battlefield, you may choose a card you own from outside the game and exile it face down. (That card is imprinted on this creature.)
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if it has the same name as the card imprinted on Sideshow Wizard, you may play the imprinted card without paying its mana cost.
"Just do what everyone else does, they say. Everyone's a critic."
2/3
Demonicly Tutored 2B
Creature - Human Wizard (R)
Imprint - When ~ enters the battlefield, you may choose a card you own from outside the game and exile it face down. (That card is imprinted on this creature.)
When ~ dies, you may put the exiled card into your hand.
2/3
Hornrune Minotaur 2R
Creature - Minotaur Shaman (R)
Imprint - When ~ enters the battlefield, you may choose a sorcery or instant card you own from outside the game and exile it. (That card is imprinted on this creature.)
Whenever Hornrune Minotaur attacks and is not blocked, you may play a copy of an instant or sorcery card imprinted on it.
2/3
Freakshow Shaman 2G
Creature - Centaur Shaman(R)
Imprint - When ~ enters the battlefield, you may choose a creature card you own from outside the game and exile it. (That card is imprinted on this creature.)
xx, t: Create a token that's a copy of a creature card imprinted on ~, where X equals that card's converted mana cost.
3/2
Master Smith 2W
Creature - Human Artificer Soldier (R)
Imprint - When ~ enters the battlefield, you may choose an equipment card you own from outside the game and exile it. (That card is imprinted on this creature.)
Sacrifice a land, x, t: Create a token that's a copy of an equipment card imprinted on ~, where X equals that card's converted mana cost.
3/2
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
Sideshow Wizard, though, plays weird - in limited, you can look at your opponent's colors, and then get something from those colors from your sideboard. Your opponent doesn't know what it is. In draft, it encourages hatedrafting removal slightly earlier; if your opponent tries to remove it, you can play your copy. And that's probably the best case scenario in limited; but sometimes you'll just get a free creature or something.
In constructed, as you say, throw a Mind's Desire or whatever in the sideboard, and go crazy. It won't work for everything... but it's quite interesting and will serve to foil some things. That's quite a nice niche for a card. Constructed contender, but not tier 1.
Hornune might be too strong. Maybe he'd need to say "3 or less" or something...
Would you rather I change XX to X2, or add the clause "non-land"?
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
If you're in your 2nd pack, and you have 15 playable cards, and you have to choose between a bomb or removal off color that would wreck your deck, or a mediocre creature, you probably want to hatedraft.
Sideshow Wizard is not great in draft; but it does make your opponent think before acting. Maybe that face-down card is lightning bolt, do you dare cast it when it can backfire? (Yes. IN most cases you do. But sometimes you don't!).
"if its mana cost is equal to the mana cost of the imprinted card" would be perfectly fair at 3 CMC, since it doesn't allow you to sneak in overly powerful stuff unless your opponent is also casting something big, which becomes a huge gamble of whether they'll ever actually cast something at that high a CMC.
- Rabid Wombat
I can see it now. I've drawn murder. I have a 4/4, my opponent a this wizard. I'm at 2, my opponent at 4. Do I cast Murder and swing for the win? If my opponent can get anything that's 3 CMC from his sideboard, I'm pretty sure he can find something in response to my murder.