There didn't seem to be a thread for Seven Card Prophecy, so I made one!
For those who don't know, Seven Card Prophecy is a fun little thing invented by Doug Beyer where you use your opening hand to predict your future. The method for doing so can be found under point six here (And his favorites from among the submitted results can be found here), but for the sake of convenience here's how you do it:
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Shuffle your deck. I don't care which one—just whatever one you have lying around.
Now focus on a question. It should be some issue about the future that you're unsure about. Through the power of prophecy, your deck will tell you the answer (actual cards from the Prophecy set not required). Will I get that job I want? How should I ask that person out? What does a sample hand of this deck look like? That sort of thing.
Flip the top seven cards up one at a time. Remember, they have powerful meaning! Focus on each one carefully, using the art, card concept, name, and everything else about the card to guide your thoughts and help you unlock the mysteries of the world. I find it helps to hum the theme to Three's Company as you turn over the cards.
1. The first card represents the past—that which is behind you. It could relate to some issue that came up a lot in your youth, or something that happened to you yesterday.
2. The second card represents your frame of mind. It's the mental stage on which your question is set.
3. The third card represents your home and your environment. It's the sum total of your local surroundings, including the emotions you feel there.
4. The fourth card represents you—or the side of you that's focusing on this question. It may be an aspect of you that's been hidden and is trying to come out.
5. The fifth card represents a person who's important to you. It could be an important person already in your life or someone you've yet to meet, but it's someone who relates to the issue you're focusing on.
6. The sixth card represents your destination. It's a place you'll be soon—a literal, physical place, a new frame of mind, or a new life context.
7. The seventh card represents the future—that which is still to come. It's how the issue will be resolved in time. It's the change that awaits you.
When I saw this I immediately wanted to give this a try! There didn't seem to be a thread for it, and Galspanic said that Magic General would probably be the best place for it, so here we are. Now let's see what my future holds...
1. Forest -- Well, green is the color of growth, and I've grown a lot as a person since I was young (Though I still have a ways to go.) Simple enough.
2. Mind Stone -- Well, uh, my frame of mind is certainly... mental... I guess that since Mind Stone can either generate mana or receive mana to draw a card, my mind is in a good state to be interpreting this reading.
3. Swamp -- Well, my apartment is a mess at the moment, thanks to a certain housemate making a general mess of things. Like the forest, fitting and unsurprising.
4. Bonehoard -- I've just weathered through some rough spots in my life, and the fallout isn't quite over yet. I suppose Bonehoard represents my desire to pick up the pieces of my life that got thrown into the graveyard, and to persist even if what keeps me going may get destroyed, to find something new to help me move on.
5. Corpse Cur -- That housemate again... He's certainly a toxic sort of person, and "Cur" describes him quite adequately:mad:.
6. Forest -- Well like I said in number one, I have quite a ways to go.
7. Sporemound -- I'd have to say that this represents a continuation of the feeling that I don't belong. Since, you know, Sporemound shouldn't be in this deck, especially when my other main deck uses land ramp. Why did I decide to put this card in here? Maybe this means that I will continue to suck at deck construction.
Anyway, that's me. Now you try! Pick a deck, see what your opening hand tells you, and share with us what Magic says your future holds!
(Now watch, and be amazed, as it turns out there was a thread for this after all and I just embarrassed myself again)
I'll ask something patently ridiculous, like:
"Do I have what it takes to become a pro magic player?"
1) Godless Shrine. The flavor text says, 'judgment without hope', which is a pretty adequate description of my high school.
2) Godless Shrine. Yeah, I'm a skeptic, and a person like me trying this out is about as ironic as a shrine without a God.
3) Swamp. Yeah, my dorm is a mess. Still, this is a little unfair; it's cleaner now than it has been in months. I think my room at least deserves a shock land.
4) Mutavault. I'm a changeling? I was switched at birth? Maybe I have unlimited possibilities before me, and I can become an Assassin, a Vampire, a Goat, or whatever I dream to become. Me being represented by a Modern staple in Standard seems like a pretty good sign.
5) Read the Bones. Huh? The dead know lessons the living haven't learned. I don't know any dead people who played magic in life. I guess the important person only suffered a metaphorical death, as in they quit the game. I actually started collecting cards buying up the unwanted collections of other kids back in middle school.
6) Blood Baron of Vizkopa. This is my destination. There's a bunch of weird cages in the art for some reason, so I'm going to assume this means I am bound for jail or prison.
7) Desecration Demon is my future. The other prisoners will fear me, and they are going to make a lot of sacrifices to me in prison. Their sacrifices will only make me stronger, of course. Cool!
So, probably not becoming a pro magic player anytime soon.
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Modern: Kiki ChordWBRG
TokensWB
EDH: Kuon, Ogre AscendantBBB
Hmm, sounds neat. I was going to use ANT at first, but everything in it is depressing. So I went with the deck that makes me happiest, one where I laugh everytime I play it. Cheerios!
1. Ornithopter: Well, I was a mechanic out of high school, then an Electronics Tech in the Navy, then went to college. So the flavor text referencing Urza's apprenticeship seem fitting. I've spent a lot of time learning different things.
2. Crimson Kobolds: "Kobolds are harmless" -Bearand the Bold, Epitaph. Ummm, a zero power, unassuming card that facilitates a silly win condition, and flavor text that matches that perfectly. Subtly maybe? this is hard.
3. Memnite: My parents recently bought several adjoining pieces of property, and turned it into a sort of ranch. There are several houses there, and now my parents, my sister, her husband, my brother, and my son all live together on our little family ranch. All pitching in for a greater good type thing. A little ambitionless drone thing isn't a stretch there.
4. Glimpse of Nature: Nature, meditation, and patience (not what you would expect from a card that is a key part of a turn 1 combo). I've always enjoyed nature, spending the day out in the woods, and the peace and quiet that comes from getting away from civilization. I think most problems can be solved my sitting down and thinking about them for a bit. Or even thinking about something else while your subconsciousness mulls it over. not sure if I should be more patient or that I already am patient with this though.
5. Kobolds of Kher Keep: I'm not getting much from this one. The art kind of looks like children. Ugly, deformed, creepy, red, smelly children.
6. Shield Sphere: My destination huh? Maybe I should have picked a deck with more than 1 land in it. I guess my destination is a place or frame of mind where I'll be protected? Maybe someplace where I can get to really annoy my opponent's Tarmogoyfs?
7. Land Grant: I kind of like this one. As long as I'm completely honest, for better or for worse, I'll be able to get what I need and go where I need to go.
That was kind of fun, if confusing. Also I ripped 3 sleeves in a single mash shuffle doing this. I hope that's not too bad of a sign.
I asked the vague question "Will the future be cool?" using a junky life-gain deck.
1. Martyr of Sands is my past. Not sure what to make of it, and the flavor text always confused me. Strong-weak life?
2. Plains is my state of mind. Yeah, I'm thinking pretty plainly.
3. Path to Exile is my home. I'm scared now.
4. Another Martyr of Sands represents me. Am I going to die?
5. Wing Shards represents a person who is important to me. Wing Shards has storm and makes people sacrifice stuff. That doesn't sound pleasant at all.
6. My destination is another Plains. I'm going nowhere aren't I?
7. Path to Exile is my future. So, the future sounds like I'm going to die and maybe get exiled from somewhere. That's not cool at all. If this opening wasn't full of removal and a decent curve, I would want a mulligan just because the fortune makes me sound like I'm screwed. I'm glad I don't take this seriously.
My question is: Will I get to make my dream move to Scotland.
1. Simic Signet - So I guess in my past I was creating trademarks, making biological stuff? Huh.
2. Omniscience - Well if that were the bloody case I wouldn't ask the bloody question now would I?
3. Sphinx of Uthuun - So...my current home (A small apartment) is represented by a big sphinx of riddles and knowledge? I guess the riddle part sounds right.
4. Forest - Well, the forest is kind of a chaos and I do feel rather chaotic right now, so that works.
5. Tranquil Thicket - The tranquility could indeed represent my beloved (For whom the move is). That person is indeed rather tranquil especially compared to me these days.
6. Worldly Tutor - I suppose this means I'll be a teacher of druidic lore and such soon? Hmm.
7. Prophet of Kruphix - The arms of the prophet, the arms of my beloved...yeah I got nothing.
Well then.
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My Commander decks:
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
RE: Job / Finances / The Stress of Life in General
1 : "Past" : Grindstone
So it says "My past has been like a grindstone."
That seems to fit nicely given the question.
I keep grinding away, yet it keeps grinding away.
3 : "Surroundings" : Enlightened Tutor
The answer is already there, I just have to find it.
I have the means, it'll just take until my next turn.
4 : "Me" : Magus of the Tabernacle
I feel taxed. There's never enough.
Perhaps I am the taxer as well?
5 : "Person" : Grindstone
It fits. I won't explain.
6 : "Destination" : Plains
Isn't that perfect. My destination is Plains.
Plains would best represent the color White as a whole.
"White puts value in the group, the community, and its civilization as a whole. White's ultimate goal is peace, harmony, and perfection — a world where everyone gets along and no one seeks to disturb the bonds of unity that White had worked so long to forge. To govern and protect its community, White makes use of and puts value in a number of broad concepts; morality (ethics, grace, truth), order (law, discipline, duty), uniformity (conformity, religion), and structure (government, planning, reason). "
I will be in a peaceful, harmonious place where everyone gets along and no one seeks to disturb.. etc. In short, there will no longer be Chaos.
7 : "Future" : Static Orb
At first this seems very foreboding and ominous. Everything stays "tapped out" and static. However, this could be easily interpreted with "Two things will be untapped." Perhaps the two of us - my wife and I - will continue on and move forward as everything around us slowly come together and work themselves out.
I asked; Will my first born be a girl?
the results are a bit frightning to be fair.
1: Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius
This shows my love for lateral thinking. And that I used to search for people on my level.
2: Bogardan Hellkite
This would mean that I've got a lot of cropped up anger.
3: Hellkite Overlord
Obviously means I'm feeling chaotic in my enviroment.
4: Form of the Dragon
"It may be an aspect of you that's been hidden and is trying to come out."
This card fits so perfectly with number 4. However it means that I could burst any moment.
5: Cruel Ultimatum
My girlfriend is very important to me, does this mean that she will ahte me for something?
6: Sulfur Falls
I would love to see this in real live though I don't know what this means.
7: Woodland Cemetery
This is very grim, and not the card you want to draw as number 7.
Why OP, why did you let me do this
For your number 6 - Sulfut Falls I'd say your in a calming area when something violent interupts you.
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Modern: U Merfolk | GR Tron | WUR Jeskai Control | WBG Abzan Company
I decided to try this. I got a no-land hand, but for purposes of this...
1) Into the North - Probably a reminder of before I was born, maybe when my family moved to Canada...
2) Medomai the Ageless - A sphinx. Appropriate for this thought experiment we're doing here.
3) Canopy Cover - We're not really in a forest, but we do wish we had hexproof...
4) Jenara, Asura of War - Maybe a reminder of some Daily Regimen, perhaps? I wasn't feeling like anyone who wanted to go into war.
5) Angelic Destiny - Sounds like finding just the right singer for my band (and possibly also a sign of ♥).
6) Sublime Archangel - Does this tie in with #5, maybe?
7) Wargate - I hope there are no times of war coming up.
EDIT: OK, it seems I didn't read carefully and didn't think of a question at the beginning... I just applied these in a general-case scenario. Ah well.
For those who don't know, Seven Card Prophecy is a fun little thing invented by Doug Beyer where you use your opening hand to predict your future. The method for doing so can be found under point six here (And his favorites from among the submitted results can be found here), but for the sake of convenience here's how you do it:
When I saw this I immediately wanted to give this a try! There didn't seem to be a thread for it, and Galspanic said that Magic General would probably be the best place for it, so here we are. Now let's see what my future holds...
1. Forest -- Well, green is the color of growth, and I've grown a lot as a person since I was young (Though I still have a ways to go.) Simple enough.
2. Mind Stone -- Well, uh, my frame of mind is certainly... mental... I guess that since Mind Stone can either generate mana or receive mana to draw a card, my mind is in a good state to be interpreting this reading.
3. Swamp -- Well, my apartment is a mess at the moment, thanks to a certain housemate making a general mess of things. Like the forest, fitting and unsurprising.
4. Bonehoard -- I've just weathered through some rough spots in my life, and the fallout isn't quite over yet. I suppose Bonehoard represents my desire to pick up the pieces of my life that got thrown into the graveyard, and to persist even if what keeps me going may get destroyed, to find something new to help me move on.
5. Corpse Cur -- That housemate again... He's certainly a toxic sort of person, and "Cur" describes him quite adequately:mad:.
6. Forest -- Well like I said in number one, I have quite a ways to go.
7. Sporemound -- I'd have to say that this represents a continuation of the feeling that I don't belong. Since, you know, Sporemound shouldn't be in this deck, especially when my other main deck uses land ramp. Why did I decide to put this card in here? Maybe this means that I will continue to suck at deck construction.
Anyway, that's me. Now you try! Pick a deck, see what your opening hand tells you, and share with us what Magic says your future holds!
(Now watch, and be amazed, as it turns out there was a thread for this after all and I just embarrassed myself again)
I'll ask something patently ridiculous, like:
"Do I have what it takes to become a pro magic player?"
1) Godless Shrine. The flavor text says, 'judgment without hope', which is a pretty adequate description of my high school.
2) Godless Shrine. Yeah, I'm a skeptic, and a person like me trying this out is about as ironic as a shrine without a God.
3) Swamp. Yeah, my dorm is a mess. Still, this is a little unfair; it's cleaner now than it has been in months. I think my room at least deserves a shock land.
4) Mutavault. I'm a changeling? I was switched at birth? Maybe I have unlimited possibilities before me, and I can become an Assassin, a Vampire, a Goat, or whatever I dream to become. Me being represented by a Modern staple in Standard seems like a pretty good sign.
5) Read the Bones. Huh? The dead know lessons the living haven't learned. I don't know any dead people who played magic in life. I guess the important person only suffered a metaphorical death, as in they quit the game. I actually started collecting cards buying up the unwanted collections of other kids back in middle school.
6) Blood Baron of Vizkopa. This is my destination. There's a bunch of weird cages in the art for some reason, so I'm going to assume this means I am bound for jail or prison.
7) Desecration Demon is my future. The other prisoners will fear me, and they are going to make a lot of sacrifices to me in prison. Their sacrifices will only make me stronger, of course. Cool!
So, probably not becoming a pro magic player anytime soon.
Modern: Kiki ChordWBRG
TokensWB
EDH: Kuon, Ogre AscendantBBB
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1. Ornithopter: Well, I was a mechanic out of high school, then an Electronics Tech in the Navy, then went to college. So the flavor text referencing Urza's apprenticeship seem fitting. I've spent a lot of time learning different things.
2. Crimson Kobolds: "Kobolds are harmless" -Bearand the Bold, Epitaph. Ummm, a zero power, unassuming card that facilitates a silly win condition, and flavor text that matches that perfectly. Subtly maybe? this is hard.
3. Memnite: My parents recently bought several adjoining pieces of property, and turned it into a sort of ranch. There are several houses there, and now my parents, my sister, her husband, my brother, and my son all live together on our little family ranch. All pitching in for a greater good type thing. A little ambitionless drone thing isn't a stretch there.
4. Glimpse of Nature: Nature, meditation, and patience (not what you would expect from a card that is a key part of a turn 1 combo). I've always enjoyed nature, spending the day out in the woods, and the peace and quiet that comes from getting away from civilization. I think most problems can be solved my sitting down and thinking about them for a bit. Or even thinking about something else while your subconsciousness mulls it over. not sure if I should be more patient or that I already am patient with this though.
5. Kobolds of Kher Keep: I'm not getting much from this one. The art kind of looks like children. Ugly, deformed, creepy, red, smelly children.
6. Shield Sphere: My destination huh? Maybe I should have picked a deck with more than 1 land in it. I guess my destination is a place or frame of mind where I'll be protected? Maybe someplace where I can get to really annoy my opponent's Tarmogoyfs?
7. Land Grant: I kind of like this one. As long as I'm completely honest, for better or for worse, I'll be able to get what I need and go where I need to go.
That was kind of fun, if confusing. Also I ripped 3 sleeves in a single mash shuffle doing this. I hope that's not too bad of a sign.
Well, Liches aside, we all end up there eventually anyways. At least it didn't say immediate future.
1. Martyr of Sands is my past. Not sure what to make of it, and the flavor text always confused me. Strong-weak life?
2. Plains is my state of mind. Yeah, I'm thinking pretty plainly.
3. Path to Exile is my home. I'm scared now.
4. Another Martyr of Sands represents me. Am I going to die?
5. Wing Shards represents a person who is important to me. Wing Shards has storm and makes people sacrifice stuff. That doesn't sound pleasant at all.
6. My destination is another Plains. I'm going nowhere aren't I?
7. Path to Exile is my future. So, the future sounds like I'm going to die and maybe get exiled from somewhere. That's not cool at all. If this opening wasn't full of removal and a decent curve, I would want a mulligan just because the fortune makes me sound like I'm screwed. I'm glad I don't take this seriously.
My question is: Will I get to make my dream move to Scotland.
1.
Simic Signet - So I guess in my past I was creating trademarks, making biological stuff? Huh.
2.
Omniscience - Well if that were the bloody case I wouldn't ask the bloody question now would I?
3.
Sphinx of Uthuun - So...my current home (A small apartment) is represented by a big sphinx of riddles and knowledge? I guess the riddle part sounds right.
4.
Forest - Well, the forest is kind of a chaos and I do feel rather chaotic right now, so that works.
5.
Tranquil Thicket - The tranquility could indeed represent my beloved (For whom the move is). That person is indeed rather tranquil especially compared to me these days.
6.
Worldly Tutor - I suppose this means I'll be a teacher of druidic lore and such soon? Hmm.
7.
Prophet of Kruphix - The arms of the prophet, the arms of my beloved...yeah I got nothing.
Well then.
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
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1 : "Past" : Grindstone
So it says "My past has been like a grindstone."
That seems to fit nicely given the question.
I keep grinding away, yet it keeps grinding away.
2 : "Frame of Mind" : Magus of the Tabernacle
I feel taxed, exhausted.
3 : "Surroundings" : Enlightened Tutor
The answer is already there, I just have to find it.
I have the means, it'll just take until my next turn.
4 : "Me" : Magus of the Tabernacle
I feel taxed. There's never enough.
Perhaps I am the taxer as well?
5 : "Person" : Grindstone
It fits. I won't explain.
6 : "Destination" : Plains
Isn't that perfect. My destination is Plains.
Plains would best represent the color White as a whole.
I will be in a peaceful, harmonious place where everyone gets along and no one seeks to disturb.. etc. In short, there will no longer be Chaos.
7 : "Future" : Static Orb
At first this seems very foreboding and ominous. Everything stays "tapped out" and static. However, this could be easily interpreted with "Two things will be untapped." Perhaps the two of us - my wife and I - will continue on and move forward as everything around us slowly come together and work themselves out.
This proved most interesting.
No longer staff here.
For your number 6 - Sulfut Falls I'd say your in a calming area when something violent interupts you.
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U Merfolk | GR Tron | WUR Jeskai Control | WBG Abzan Company
EDH:
G Ezuri, Renegade Leader, Fighting for Rivendell
WU Brago, King Eternal, Long Live the King
WUBRG Scion of the Ur-Dragon, Worship the Dragon
1) Into the North - Probably a reminder of before I was born, maybe when my family moved to Canada...
2) Medomai the Ageless - A sphinx. Appropriate for this thought experiment we're doing here.
3) Canopy Cover - We're not really in a forest, but we do wish we had hexproof...
4) Jenara, Asura of War - Maybe a reminder of some Daily Regimen, perhaps? I wasn't feeling like anyone who wanted to go into war.
5) Angelic Destiny - Sounds like finding just the right singer for my band (and possibly also a sign of ♥).
6) Sublime Archangel - Does this tie in with #5, maybe?
7) Wargate - I hope there are no times of war coming up.
EDIT: OK, it seems I didn't read carefully and didn't think of a question at the beginning... I just applied these in a general-case scenario. Ah well.
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