Aminatou's Augury6UU Sorcery {R}
Exile the top eight cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield. Until end of turn, for each nonland card type, you may cast a card of that type from among the exiled cards without paying its mana cost.
Eight potential hits. If you're in silver-border, you can also hit Interrupt, either in the form of Denied! or with R&D's Secret Lair, which also introduces Mana Source and Summon as card types. Of course, you're only exiling eight cards, so...
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Yeppppppppppp Esper deck is busted, this card is going to do so many shenanigans, and you can snap it back too!
Want this so much.
This is basically the blue Tooth&Nail, but better because blue.
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Currently focusing on Pre-Modern (Mono-Black Discard Control) and Modern (Azorious Control, Temur Rhinos).
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Yeppppppppppp Esper deck is busted, this card is going to do so many shenanigans, and you can snap it back too!
Want this so much.
This is basically the blue Tooth&Nail, but better because blue.
Easy there friendo, you're stepping into hyperbole territory.
This card costs 8, exiles 8 cards, can potentially give you 8 cards for free, has 8 butterflies in the art and Aminatou is 8 years old. I SEE YOU WIZARDS!
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Nice card, but it would be far better if its deck had G to get to 8 mana consistently. As it is, it's... weird. Reminds me of Apex of Power, except this isn't hot garbage.
Will probably see far more play in UG decks than Aminatou herself.
Damn it. I love this card. But, why, why, blue at 8 mana can cast 8 cards free (and even play a land from them eventually!), and red at 10 mana got that crap of Apex of Power? Why this damn spoiled brat with butterflies have more powerful stuff than the best Nicol Bolas in all his power? That feels so unfair.
Honestly, this card seems to bring back my suspicions that Apex's current design was a last-minute swap intentionally made bad, akin to Archangel's Light.
Aminatou's Augury was the original Apex of Power, but they realized it would be too strong for Standard, gave its design to Aminatou and made a garbage mythic at the last second so intentionally bad just to ensure that it would never hit Standard.
And anyway, I'm also failing to see how this card in particular, feels designed especially for Commander, and why it couldn't go in basically any random magic sets. This card feels completely generic and not tied to anything in particular.
Because this would just chain into itself, which would chain into itself, and you'd end up vomiting a good portion of your library onto the battlefield for just 8 mana. Assuming you're playing 4 copies. If you are playing 3 you might just hit one another Augury, which you play for free, which "just" gets you another X more spells and the extra land drops. That would get silly in a real hurry.
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The "Crazy One", playing casual magic and occasionally dipping his toes into regular play since 1994.
Currently focusing on Pre-Modern (Mono-Black Discard Control) and Modern (Azorious Control, Temur Rhinos).
Find me at the Wizard's Tower in Ottawa every second Saturday afternoons.
The art of that baby is creepy as hell and i just cant stand that they made it a "baby".
But the card itself, getting a bunch of free spells is just strong.
In constructed this kinda plays like a Mind's Desire combo deck, it just doesnt need the storm to get started, but it seems like it could be a real deal (like a Legacy or even vintage deck with power this card becomes crazy).
The crazy part is that you can chain these into more copies of itself and as it doesnt exile itself, you might even get to recur it in a endless loop, even with Snapcaster Mage, could even get the mana from stuff like Veteran Explorer. Seems like a really nice card to build around, or give these UR(b) decks a combo finish.
Sorcery {R}
Exile the top eight cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield. Until end of turn, for each nonland card type, you may cast a card of that type from among the exiled cards without paying its mana cost.
Choose one of these judge of creation:
Make Strionic Resonator shine!
You can not grasp the true form of Ashiok's attack!
You forgot Instants, Sorceries, and Tribal
Yep, you get one of each. So eight potential hits. Math.
On phasing:
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Want this so much.
This is basically the blue Tooth&Nail, but better because blue.
Currently focusing on Pre-Modern (Mono-Black Discard Control) and Modern (Azorious Control, Temur Rhinos).
Find me at the Wizard's Tower in Ottawa every second Saturday afternoons.
Many thanks to DNC at Heroes of the Plane Studios
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Will probably see far more play in UG decks than Aminatou herself.
Aminatou's Augury was the original Apex of Power, but they realized it would be too strong for Standard, gave its design to Aminatou and made a garbage mythic at the last second so intentionally bad just to ensure that it would never hit Standard.
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I see that now. For some reason, I had only permanent cards on the brain that you could cast off this.
Because this would just chain into itself, which would chain into itself, and you'd end up vomiting a good portion of your library onto the battlefield for just 8 mana. Assuming you're playing 4 copies. If you are playing 3 you might just hit one another Augury, which you play for free, which "just" gets you another X more spells and the extra land drops. That would get silly in a real hurry.
Currently focusing on Pre-Modern (Mono-Black Discard Control) and Modern (Azorious Control, Temur Rhinos).
Find me at the Wizard's Tower in Ottawa every second Saturday afternoons.
The art of that baby is creepy as hell and i just cant stand that they made it a "baby".
But the card itself, getting a bunch of free spells is just strong.
In constructed this kinda plays like a Mind's Desire combo deck, it just doesnt need the storm to get started, but it seems like it could be a real deal (like a Legacy or even vintage deck with power this card becomes crazy).
The crazy part is that you can chain these into more copies of itself and as it doesnt exile itself, you might even get to recur it in a endless loop, even with Snapcaster Mage, could even get the mana from stuff like Veteran Explorer. Seems like a really nice card to build around, or give these UR(b) decks a combo finish.
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