I was just wondering. Is there any cards you can put in your deck that stop you from dying when hit with an infinite Stroke of Genius? I mean, besides countering it..
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I was just wondering. Is there any cards you can put in your deck that stop you from dying when hit with an infinite Stroke of Genius? I mean, besides countering it..
Also cards that keep you from being targeted to begin with - Ivory Mask, Witchbane Orb, Leyline of Sanctity, etc.
The misdirection effects are only technically not counters, but Obstinate Familiar and Abundance seem more in the spirit of things. Shrouding yourself is a good idea too.
This raises an interesting question. What if, in a tournament, your opponent hits you with an infinite mana Stroke of Genius. You ask him to name a finite value for X, he says "A trillion". Then, since you have Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir on board, you flash in a Sages of the Anima. You definitely draw all your creatures, but what happens to the other cards is more difficult. If the number of noncreature cards is not divisible by three, then, correct me if I'm wrong, the arbitrary number of reorderings allows the victim of the Stroke to order the deck in any possible ordering he wants (I think, I could be totally wrong). What makes this even more difficult is that the cards are revealed off the top, but the order they are returned to the bottom does not have to be revealed to the opponent. So the opponent would get some sort of partial information about the final reordering of the deck, but not complete information.
When the noncreature cards are divisible by three, that's also interesting. You actually have to find what trio of cards ought to be on top based on the remainder of dividing the trillion. And actually, if the player with the Stroke deck was, like, totally ready for that flashed Sages of the Anima tech, he could select an arbitrary number that ensures the bottom three noncreatures cards of the deck become the top 3, which would be a strong play if the Sages of the Anima are going to get destroyed or sacrificed later and the bottom cards of the deck have poor quality due to earlier Preordain effects.
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Also cards that keep you from being targeted to begin with - Ivory Mask, Witchbane Orb, Leyline of Sanctity, etc.
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The misdirection effects are only technically not counters, but Obstinate Familiar and Abundance seem more in the spirit of things. Shrouding yourself is a good idea too.
EDIT: Sages of the Anima, Parallel Thoughts and Pursuit of Knowledge turn up after searching the gatherer for "if you would draw a card". Tomorrow, Azami's Familiar lets you Enter the Infinite, which would be rather hilarious if you can flash it in just in time.
This raises an interesting question. What if, in a tournament, your opponent hits you with an infinite mana Stroke of Genius. You ask him to name a finite value for X, he says "A trillion". Then, since you have Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir on board, you flash in a Sages of the Anima. You definitely draw all your creatures, but what happens to the other cards is more difficult. If the number of noncreature cards is not divisible by three, then, correct me if I'm wrong, the arbitrary number of reorderings allows the victim of the Stroke to order the deck in any possible ordering he wants (I think, I could be totally wrong). What makes this even more difficult is that the cards are revealed off the top, but the order they are returned to the bottom does not have to be revealed to the opponent. So the opponent would get some sort of partial information about the final reordering of the deck, but not complete information.
When the noncreature cards are divisible by three, that's also interesting. You actually have to find what trio of cards ought to be on top based on the remainder of dividing the trillion. And actually, if the player with the Stroke deck was, like, totally ready for that flashed Sages of the Anima tech, he could select an arbitrary number that ensures the bottom three noncreatures cards of the deck become the top 3, which would be a strong play if the Sages of the Anima are going to get destroyed or sacrificed later and the bottom cards of the deck have poor quality due to earlier Preordain effects.