MTG Salvation

Worse Tidehollow Sculler.

ALMOST redeems them from the Godhunter Octopus incident.

"I love you, brain maggot, never leave!"
-Soldier

Easier to cast, if smaller, Tidehollow Sculler with the updated wording making it less abusable. Yeah I can find a home for that.

This is going to be incredibly annoying thing for MBD to play against me. x.X

Oh Jeez. We have Tidehallow + Thoughtseize all over again. lol

Its a 'fixed' form of the sculler ability, but its sadly printed in a weaker standard so its not bear sized, albeit with a 1 in there.
I think 1/1 keeps it from being too useful for any deck, but depowered standard has surprised me before. The lack of tribal relevancy also hurts it

Looks a lot like Mesmeric Fiend.

...But with enchantment shenanigans!

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Worse Tidehollow Sculler.

It's also a different Mana cost completely, so really hard to compare buddy.

Almost up there with that Necrite art for most disturbing.

Awesome card will see play yadda yadda yadda... we likes maggotses.

Additional Thoughtseize with +1 devotion for mono black, just in case 4 wasn't enough.
I think it's good enough to be at least tested.

Being an enchantment, it might see play in GB enchantment-theme decks as well.

Mesmeric Fiend has always been a good card so no reason this wouldn't be too. Despite being a 1/1, hand disruption is still powerful.

I was actually hoping for a tidehollow sculler reprint. I like it. It takes a card and eats an opponents removal spell if they want their card back. Im assuming that you can't permanently exile the card with the way they worded it correct?

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The lack of tribal relevancy also hurts it

It's broken with Swarmyard

Oh man. So happy to have Mesmeric Fiend back in Standard. I missed you, buddy!

So I can exile my opponents Supreme Verdict forcing them to either dig for another or use a Detention Sphere on it?

Black gets more hyper powerful cards.

George Clinton approves.

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I suppose they re wroded it so that you can't do the Oblivion ring trick, which is weird because they just did a functional reprint of Oblivion ring.

Not a functional reprint, it's the "fixed" version with the new wording. We will be seeing Banishing Light for a good long while now, I would say.

As for Brain Maggot, seems decent. Mesmeric Fiend gets played in some formats from what I know (Some formats being Pauper,) and Tidehollow Sculler was definitely good.

1) Get a bad hand and mulligan.
2) Turn one, I get Thoughtseized.
3) Turn 2 I get Brain Maggoted.
4) Scream **** you! and flip table.
5) Get banned from LGS.

I wonder with this, Mesmeric Fiend, and Tidehollow Sculler if will ever see card like this:

Thought Seize Dude - BB
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
1/1

I could compare it to ravenous rats, heck Augur of Skulls can be almost more scary if they don't kill it.

Then when we look at cards like Thoughtseize, Inquisition of Kozilek, Duress, Appetite for Brains, Blackmail, Despise, Cabal Therapy, Encroach. How bad could it be? It just leaves a 1/1 behind.

Then when we look at other 2 CMC discard cards that generate card advantage permanently.

Hymn to Tourach, Wrench Mind, Augur of Skulls, Gerrard's Verdict, Rise // Fall.

I think it would be a strong, but not broken its just a 1/1. Distress doesn't really see play so would the 1/1 make it better than thoughtseize not really. T1 thoughtseize can be very important.

If we get any kind of decent discard in M15 to go with this, Thoughtseize, and Waste Not, Mono-black Hand-control could tick off A LOT of players. And since I just finished building my Modern deck which is 8Rack, I might get to play competitive hand hate in 2 formats!

That art is so hard to look at!