I know the cost would be prohibitive if it happened, but seeing the art (of many people) I really wished it somehow affected each opponent instead since this card reminds me of EDH as a vanity show (of what your deck can do) where your opponents are the audience. But as it is, it's a really powerful political tool (especially with the zombie mode there) to use against a dominant player (since the other opponents are inclined to help protect it as well). It's just the art and flavor feels at odds with its single player impact (I know I could interpret the audience as the player's creatures, but even with that it still doesn't feel quite right in the context of multiplayer EDH to me, flavor-wise).
I wonder if surprised Pikachu is somewhere in the audience...
Flavorful, but holy crap this card is terrible. It is a punisher effect on a 7 mana card. The card that it is most like is Cruel Reality, which was a terrible card at its cost.
To be fair, this isn't quite a punisher card. They are locked into giving you 5 zombies, losing (almost) all their life, and discarding their hand. While yes, they do get to choose the order they do these in, that is a very, very tough 3 turns no matter how you do it.
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Having Hexproof doesn't really help you though. As the ability that grants Captive Audience to an opponent doesn't target, note the lack of the word 'target' anywhere on the card.
This is the colors which tend to play a lot of ritual and silly mana rocks in Commander, so getting to cast, if not resolve it, is not actually that hard. It's a bit slow because three turns of Commander mean a lot of individual player turns and it doesn't do much immediately, but boy would it be nasty in a stax build...
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Cool effect, but it will rarely to never go off in a way that really benefits the player that casts it in constructed.
In limited this does at least something (they will discard the hand first, then give you tokens and/or go to 4 life, so its not really doing anything really great, unless they have absolutely nothing and its a board stall).
Could have been a way cooler card, as the mechanic is sweet, but i dont really see that this does much, unless the opponent has nothing anyway.
I know the cost would be prohibitive if it happened, but seeing the art (of many people) I really wished it somehow affected each opponent instead since this card reminds me of EDH as a vanity show (of what your deck can do) where your opponents are the audience. But as it is, it's a really powerful political tool (especially with the zombie mode there) to use against a dominant player (since the other opponents are inclined to help protect it as well). It's just the art and flavor feels at odds with its single player impact (I know I could interpret the audience as the player's creatures, but even with that it still doesn't feel quite right in the context of multiplayer EDH to me, flavor-wise).
I wonder if surprised Pikachu is somewhere in the audience...
I was under the impression everyone except the chosen opponent was the audience, and the poor sap who gets this is the reason everyone else is watching.
Are Enduring Ideal decks still a thing? Would this be useful?
Well, the ability to set an opponent's life total to 4 could be a better option against decks with infinite lifegain combos than Mistveil Plains. The discard will likely never be useful at the stage of the game the card gets brought out, and the token generation pales in comparison to Assemble the Legion after a few turns.
I mean in standard if you get this down that's essentially a hard clock assuming you've run your opponents out of resources. Who would board in enchantment removal against a control deck unless they are trying to hit eldest reborn? Now I can literally apply zero pressure until I hit my wincon - freeing up the rest of my deck to 2-1 you into the ground.
Less good against control than I initially thought because control decks can answer it on the stack, blink of an eye it, cleansing nova etc. Still I think it's priced to show up somewhere as a 1-2 of in the 75.
I'm a huge fan though. The artwork really makes it a full package for me. Just so good.
Its actually one of the better punishment cards because its recurring and their previous choices rob them of choice in subsequent turns and may just very well haunt them later. Especially with that new enchantment that allows creatures you attack with to deal 1 damage to what they are attacking (opponent or planeswalker). So those 5 tokens from before with that enchantment means they can kill even if they can block all 5 tokens.
Am I wrong, or would this be bonkers in a Show and Tell deck? Your opponent would have to either set their life to 4 or give you 5 zombies, as they clearly won't choose to pitch their hand that early. Either of those choices is stupid good, and then they have to make the other one next turn, assuming they survive that long...
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Oh, I've never seen that card before. Great for Monty Python jokes. And McCarthy impressions. Now, if only there were a way to pass Captive Audience to other opponents. Flickering Zealous Conscripts while controlling Bazaar Trader?
I wonder if surprised Pikachu is somewhere in the audience...
Amusingly, Gather the Townsfolk gives you exactly five 1/1 humans to block those zombies...once.
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Having Hexproof doesn't really help you though. As the ability that grants Captive Audience to an opponent doesn't target, note the lack of the word 'target' anywhere on the card.
In limited this does at least something (they will discard the hand first, then give you tokens and/or go to 4 life, so its not really doing anything really great, unless they have absolutely nothing and its a board stall).
Could have been a way cooler card, as the mechanic is sweet, but i dont really see that this does much, unless the opponent has nothing anyway.
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I was under the impression everyone except the chosen opponent was the audience, and the poor sap who gets this is the reason everyone else is watching.
Well, the ability to set an opponent's life total to 4 could be a better option against decks with infinite lifegain combos than Mistveil Plains. The discard will likely never be useful at the stage of the game the card gets brought out, and the token generation pales in comparison to Assemble the Legion after a few turns.
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Less good against control than I initially thought because control decks can answer it on the stack, blink of an eye it, cleansing nova etc. Still I think it's priced to show up somewhere as a 1-2 of in the 75.
I'm a huge fan though. The artwork really makes it a full package for me. Just so good.
Although if you're the opponent receiving this, if you built your deck in a way to deal with stuff like this, it can be used to your advantage.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
Oh, I've never seen that card before. Great for Monty Python jokes. And McCarthy impressions. Now, if only there were a way to pass Captive Audience to other opponents. Flickering Zealous Conscripts while controlling Bazaar Trader?