When they have two cards or less left in deck and do not have a laboratory maniac out, or if you somehow have enough draw = damage effects out to kill them.
Which basically means rarely but sometimes against dredge, and almost never to anything else.
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You only target them when you win the game immediately upon resolution or the opponent will die in their own drawstep/they have 3 cards in library, you a. call them and pass the turn and hope they can't stop themselves from decking.
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"Yawgmoth," Freyalise whispered as she set the bomb, "now you will pay for your treachery."
More "common" is the errata allowing you to "force" a teammate to draw 3 cards.
You're not forcing anything as the text on Ancestral Recall reads "Target player draws three cards." A teammate is certainly a player, so thus it is legal to target that teammate as such.
You're not forcing anything as the text on Ancestral Recall reads "Target player draws three cards." A teammate is certainly a player, so thus it is legal to target that teammate as such.
That's what I was talking about.
The OP asked: "When is it correct to force opponent to draw 3 cards?"
Which is why I used quotes on the word forced. A lot of people don't realize that you can target teammates now, which is the most common "player draws 3" aside from targeting yourself.
There used to be a Worldgorger Dragon deck that would use the infinate loop on reanimating an Eternal Witness to recurr Ancestral Rec all infinite times to deck your opponent, but dragon decks have evolved past that win con into better and leaner win conditions.
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if you're playing at the level where you use Ancestral Recall, why would you need to ask this? You use it to deck your opponent. Is there some finer point of card interaction in vintage that i'm missing?
When is it correct to force opponent to draw 3 cards?
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Which basically means rarely but sometimes against dredge, and almost never to anything else.
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GUEdric, Spymaster of TrestUG <- Link! (Mini-Primer - Dredge)
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BGSkullbriar, the Walking GraveGB <- Link! (Aggro)
BUGDamia, Sage of StoneGUB <- Link! (Extinction Control)
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More "common" is the errata allowing you to "force" a teammate to draw 3 cards.
You're not forcing anything as the text on Ancestral Recall reads "Target player draws three cards." A teammate is certainly a player, so thus it is legal to target that teammate as such.
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That's what I was talking about.
The OP asked: "When is it correct to force opponent to draw 3 cards?"
Which is why I used quotes on the word forced. A lot of people don't realize that you can target teammates now, which is the most common "player draws 3" aside from targeting yourself.
Yes. I remember under world dreams/howling mine then ancestral/fork all to well:D. U/R/B control burn decks were rare but nasty.
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Vs oath of druids who used brainstorm to return his creature to the top of his library.
"Sometimes, the situation is outracing a threat, sometimes it's ignoring it, and sometimes it involves sideboarding in 4x Hope//Pray." --Doug Linn
If you have compelling evidence that your opponent has Tinker in hand and a Colossus in the top three cards of their library.
But really, the most common time you cast Ancestral on an opponent is when they have Misdirection in hand and you do not realise it.