MTG Salvation

Haven't seen this here: http://www.manaleak.com/store/brain-bottle-p-52896.html

It reads


Brains in a Bottle 2

Artifact (rare)

Artifact

1, T: Put a charge counter on Brain in a Bottle, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Brain in a Bottle from your hand without paying its mana costs.

3, T: Remove X charge counters from Brain in a Bottle: Scry X.

Bottle sounds weird.I like Brain in a Jar better

I was asked to delete the earlier post by our Wotc community contacter.
I guess it was some kind of mistake.
No matter what I wish no one get hurt from this incident.

A gross I/S Aether Vial with a random Scry effect. Don't know what good it will do with the activation costing 1.

Since the cmc of the X spell is the CMC X is 0 with this card right?

I assume removing the charge counters is actually part of the cost of the second ability.

I can dig it though. Definitely has potential in EDH, especially if you run a pretty tight and consistent curve.

This seems very good. Especially since you can remove counters and scry to make sure you can always cast what you need


edit: Fixed!

I said this on the previous post and I'll say it again: It don't think its good enough.
The fact that you can not keep the artifact at a specific level is a huge draw back.

Do we have any reason to believe this is real? The link in the OP has a very bad mock up.

Quote from ImpulsiveKnowledge »

A gross I/S Aether Vial with a random Scry effect. Don't know what good it will do with the activation costing 1.

Vial this is not. It doesn't make the spells you cast uncounterable and you have to manage multiple costs, all while spending mana.

It is not uncounterable. You cast it without paying it's mana cost. It still goes on the stack and can be responded to.

Fixed. Although instant speed sorceries can get work done. I'm envisioning scapeshift liking this. Ticking it to 3 as you ramp, and then being able to drop scape for only 1 and leaving up plenty of disruption seems good. And you can remove counters to keep it where you want, but that part is slow.

Quote from Crypt Rat »

Do we have any reason to believe this is real? The link in the OP has a very bad mock up.

This is the original image, cached from Reddit, for what it's worth, and not that crappy mock-up:

Exactly Bakgat.
It seems "interesting", not sure how great it is. I exclusively play EDH, and it doesn't really jump out at me as something broken. Good in certain combo/izzet type decks yes, but overall... we will see.
As both activations require tapping, unless you can easily and repeatedly untap it (again, edh heavy artifact decks might like it, but then again, they don't play a huge number of instant/sorcerys), it isn't that useful.
just my 3 cents given inflation.

The first ability doesn't have a sorcery speed rider? Interesting.
It may be too slow or inconsistent for modern, but it might be interesting to brew a draw-go goodstuff style deck with it. Nothing like leaving R open that can suddenly turn into Abrupt Decay or Remand.

"1, T: Put a charge counter on Brain in a Bottle, you may cast an instant or sorcery spell with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Brain in a Bottle from your hand without paying its mana costs."

Just realized that they probably phrased it this way as to not break Suspend cards. If you could cast an Instant or Sorcery with 0CMC, you could cast Hypergenesis, Living End, Restore Balance, etc all for free.

So is it possible to cast wrath effects on opponents turn with this? that would be cool.

Btw, this totally confirms Emrakul is in the set

Quote from Shaka »

It was here with a slightly different name but now deleted for some reason.

The OP deleted it.

Coretapper says hello.

Quote from Daevied »

So is it possible to cast wrath effects on opponents turn with this? that would be cool.

Btw, this totally confirms Emrakul is in the set

Umm...no it doesn't?

Interesting card. Sorceries at Instant speed basically. Blue decks will love this in EDH. Great mana sink, doesn't detract since you can cast a spell with it anyway, builds up to allow for big free spells later while leaving lands opens for other things, when it's set to be destroyed sacrifice it, scry a lot and get the late-game win condition you want.

How does this work with things like Boom // Bust?

Easy addition to my Power Conduit deck.

Honestly, get to 2-4 in a Blue deck and you're set. Tap out all you want, then there sits your little bottle of brains, impending that one Counterspell you might have! BOO!

End step.
"Mi-Go?"
Play sorcery.

Quote from duplex037 »

I was asked to delete the earlier post by our Wotc community contacter.
I guess it was some kind of mistake.
No matter what I wish no one get hurt from this incident.

Wait, so is that going to be the procedure moving forward? WOTC doesn't like a leak on MTGS, and they just request a deletion?