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Enchantment G, Sacrifice a creature: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand and each other card revealed this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.
I'm thinking this might be fun to have with Whisperwood Elemental, to let you turn manifested lands into actual creatures. I might even try it with some variety of token producers and Prophet of Kruphix so you can get creatures galore. That might be too cute for Standard, though.
Just slap it into a deck with a lot of value creatures so you can effectively blank removal.
Every time someone downfalls your rhino, sac it and you effectively get more gas. This is going to be a standard defining card in some kind of abzan deck.
Sadly that won't work. If you use Evolutionary Leap's ability in response to a wrath of god, it would resolve before wrath of god. so all those new creatures you just got would be dead as well, putting you further behind.
Now this would work in combat situations where your creature is about to die anyway. or you can use it to respond to targeted removal effects.
Sadly that won't work. If you use Evolutionary Leap's ability in response to a wrath of god, it would resolve before wrath of god. so all those new creatures you just got would be dead as well, putting you further behind.
Now this would work in combat situations where your creature is about to die anyway. or you can use it to respond to targeted removal effects.
Evolutionary Leap puts the new creature into your hand, not into play. So they would be safe from the wrath.
In modern: Evolutionary leap + Deathrender + token --> search your library for Emrakul and put it into play equipped to deathrender. Rinse + repeat if they have removal...
Put Evolutionary Leap ability on stack
Sack creature
Put creature from hand into play attached to Deathrender
Resolve evolutionary leap
So you'd need to activate leap again to actually get Emrakul.
Isn't saccing the creature part of the cost of activating the ability, though? So wouldn't it be Sack Creature -> Put deathrender ability on stack -> Put Evo-leap ability on stack?
"To cast a spell is to take it from where it is (usually the hand), put it on the stack, and pay its
costs, so that it will eventually resolve and have its effect."
The spell or ability goes on the stack, modes are chosen, targets are chosen, then cost is evaluated and paid. Think about targeting frost titan. It would need to be targeting the titan before costs were evaluated and paid.
Or just sac the downside of Priest of the Blood Rite to grab another creature. I could definitly see this being abused in builds that utuilize creatures that come into play with tokens. The idea being that a player keeps the tokens and sacs the token maker, buiding up enough cards in their graveyard to do a massive board refill with Rally the Ancestors, and then sac the token makers away again before they are exiled to fill your hand with more creatures.
I've already preordered a copy for my edh deck, but in standard I was thinking of a BGX attrition list with Liliana, Heretical Healer, and possibly Fleshbag Marauder, or something along those lines.
Instant speed flips in response to removal?
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1G
Enchantment
G, Sacrifice a creature: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand and each other card revealed this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.
I'm thinking this might be fun to have with Whisperwood Elemental, to let you turn manifested lands into actual creatures. I might even try it with some variety of token producers and Prophet of Kruphix so you can get creatures galore. That might be too cute for Standard, though.
Every time someone downfalls your rhino, sac it and you effectively get more gas. This is going to be a standard defining card in some kind of abzan deck.
Sadly that won't work. If you use Evolutionary Leap's ability in response to a wrath of god, it would resolve before wrath of god. so all those new creatures you just got would be dead as well, putting you further behind.
Now this would work in combat situations where your creature is about to die anyway. or you can use it to respond to targeted removal effects.
Evolutionary Leap puts the new creature into your hand, not into play. So they would be safe from the wrath.
In modern: Evolutionary leap + Deathrender + token --> search your library for Emrakul and put it into play equipped to deathrender. Rinse + repeat if they have removal...
Put Evolutionary Leap ability on stack
Sack creature
Put creature from hand into play attached to Deathrender
Resolve evolutionary leap
So you'd need to activate leap again to actually get Emrakul.
Isn't saccing the creature part of the cost of activating the ability, though? So wouldn't it be Sack Creature -> Put deathrender ability on stack -> Put Evo-leap ability on stack?
costs, so that it will eventually resolve and have its effect."
The spell or ability goes on the stack, modes are chosen, targets are chosen, then cost is evaluated and paid. Think about targeting frost titan. It would need to be targeting the titan before costs were evaluated and paid.
Instant speed flips in response to removal?