Phoebe, Head of S.N.E.A.K.1UB Legendary Creature - Human Spy (Mythic)
Phoebe, Head of S.N.E.A.K. can't be
blocked by creatures with flavour text. 2UB: Phoebe permanently steals target
creature's text box. (That creature loses all
rules text, flavour text, and watermarks. This
creature gains them.)
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2/3
She doesn't lose her own abilities. She just keeps taking everyone else's.
They're referring to the fact that stealing the text off another card removes its flavor text, meaning she can be blocked by the newly flavortextless creature. Granted, this is blue black, so it's not like you don't have other ways of making her evasive, and there's nothing about her that actually requires dealing damage, so it's just a small non-bo.
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"Permanently" implies at least until the end of the current game (in Unland, given MaRo's ruling on Modular Monstrosity, it may be even longer than that!) which makes this lady an INSANE Commander if your group is down - like Experiment Kraj and Mairsil, the Pretender on super silver-bordered crack. Her abilities are non-bo, but you can certainly steal your own creature's texts to make a super-commander and if she steals, say, Flying it doesn't matter that the creature she stole from can now beat her text as they can no longer fly.
Steal the text of Do-it-Yourself Seraph and Mairsil, the Pretender for total anarchy. Also enjoy animating artifacts, then stealing their gametext. Or stealing Gideon, Ally of Zendikar's text in response to his attack (this mostly does nothing, but as it is a zero ability I think she gets to start making Knights every turn? And certainly Gids suddenly reverts to being a textless Planeswalker card). This is all bananas in the best possibly way.
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"Permanently" implies at least until the end of the current game (in Unland, given MaRo's ruling on Modular Monstrosity, it may be even longer than that!) which makes this lady an INSANE Commander if your group is down
I'm pretty sure you'll have a *much* harder time convincing anyone to let you run her as a Commander
if you don't "return" the stolen textboxes at the end of the game.
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
"Permanently" implies at least until the end of the current game (in Unland, given MaRo's ruling on Modular Monstrosity, it may be even longer than that!) which makes this lady an INSANE Commander if your group is down
I'm pretty sure you'll have a *much* harder time convincing anyone to let you run her as a Commander
if you don't "return" the stolen textboxes at the end of the game.
Agreed. I like until the end of the game. That's how I'll use her
If the text stealing really is permanent, you can steal the text box from the Commander 2014 PW, say Nahiri, the lithomancer (somehow turning them into creatures, there's a combo for that). Then , from now on, she has "~ can be your commander" as a rule text so no one can ever deny you playing her as a commander forever more.
According to blogatog, MaRo says Phoebe only keeps the text boxes until she leaves play, so as a Commander she wouldn't get the text boxes over multiple casts. I'd imagine most playgroups who're already ok with allowing Phoebe would allow her ability to last until the end of the game, though. Seems more in line with the idea of Un-Magic.
According to blogatog, MaRo says Phoebe only keeps the text boxes until she leaves play, so as a Commander she wouldn't get the text boxes over multiple casts. I'd imagine most playgroups who're already ok with allowing Phoebe would allow her ability to last until the end of the game, though. Seems more in line with the idea of Un-Magic.
That was my question he answered clarifying that. I have to say, I'm a bit disappointed. I think he's using a very lame definition of permanently. Until the end of the game, or perhaps until your opponent(s) changes makes much more sense to me.
According to blogatog, MaRo says Phoebe only keeps the text boxes until she leaves play, so as a Commander she wouldn't get the text boxes over multiple casts. I'd imagine most playgroups who're already ok with allowing Phoebe would allow her ability to last until the end of the game, though. Seems more in line with the idea of Un-Magic.
That was my question he answered clarifying that. I have to say, I'm a bit disappointed. I think he's using a very lame definition of permanently. Until the end of the game, or perhaps until your opponent(s) changes makes much more sense to me.
Agreed- with this she went from "favorite card of the set" to "mostly unplayable"
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I wouldn't call the card unplayable, but now I don't understand why they even used the word permanent. It would have been more intuitive to how it really worked if they kept it the same but just left that word out. I guess because if she leaves the battlefield, the creature still remains blank?
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I wouldn't call the card unplayable, but now I don't understand why they even used the word permanent. It would have been more intuitive to how it really worked if they kept it the same but just left that word out. I guess because if she leaves the battlefield, the creature still remains blank?
If the creatures remain blank even after she leaves the battlefield then she's still broken. I still don't get why that case of permanence isn't until the end of the game? Mairsil is pretty much that way - and that's a black-bordered card.
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Phoebe, Head of S.N.E.A.K. 1UB
Legendary Creature - Human Spy (Mythic)
Phoebe, Head of S.N.E.A.K. can't be
blocked by creatures with flavour text.
2UB: Phoebe permanently steals target
creature's text box. (That creature loses all
rules text, flavour text, and watermarks. This
creature gains them.)
This space intentionally left blank.
2/3
There are so many possibilities with this!!
BGU [Primer] Sidisi, Brood Tyrant BGU | BG [Primer] Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest BG | G [Primer] Polukranos, World Eater G
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Steal the text of Do-it-Yourself Seraph and Mairsil, the Pretender for total anarchy. Also enjoy animating artifacts, then stealing their gametext. Or stealing Gideon, Ally of Zendikar's text in response to his attack (this mostly does nothing, but as it is a zero ability I think she gets to start making Knights every turn? And certainly Gids suddenly reverts to being a textless Planeswalker card). This is all bananas in the best possibly way.
RCRDaretti: Superfriends Forever RCR
WGBDoran: Ent-mootWBG
GGGMultani: Group Bear HugGGG
GB(B/G)The Gitrog Monster: Dredgefall DurdleGB(B/G)
RGWGahiji, the Honored Group Hug MonsterRGW
UB(U/B)Yuriko, Ninja Trinket AggroUB(U/B)
WUBRGAtogatog: Assembling a OHKOWUBRG
I really wish they would allow more stuff like this into the actual game-
we have a sort of a precedent in Dark Impostor.
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Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Need a Rachel and a Monica
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I'm pretty sure you'll have a *much* harder time convincing anyone to let you run her as a Commander
if you don't "return" the stolen textboxes at the end of the game.
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Agreed. I like until the end of the game. That's how I'll use her
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That was my question he answered clarifying that. I have to say, I'm a bit disappointed. I think he's using a very lame definition of permanently. Until the end of the game, or perhaps until your opponent(s) changes makes much more sense to me.
Agreed- with this she went from "favorite card of the set" to "mostly unplayable"
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
If the creatures remain blank even after she leaves the battlefield then she's still broken. I still don't get why that case of permanence isn't until the end of the game? Mairsil is pretty much that way - and that's a black-bordered card.
BGU [Primer] Sidisi, Brood Tyrant BGU | BG [Primer] Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest BG | G [Primer] Polukranos, World Eater G
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