I like this card a lot...I find myself wishing there was a coda that had a drain life effect if there are no creatures in play, only because Form of Dragon has a way to interact directly with your opponent as well, but great concept.
Exactly...is there a card type that black is associated with? Often Blue is associated with Instant, Red with Sorcery, Green with Creature/Land as noted...nothing jumps to mind.
Looking at Tutors...it looks like Black tutors largely put card in hand, Blue has moved to putting cards on top of library...just a thought. I like the Aether Vial feel though.
I like the throwback feel of the dark ritual, but it does seem to be fairly firmly in red now.
I do like the overall concept of...I don't know, a repeatable super charm I guess is what it feels like. Maybe pick a different middle ability and see how it feels.
Power wise, I'm not sure first ability couldn't straight up be a reanimate ability...
My submission was a top down idea that started as an enchantment version of Vampire Nocturnus with shades of Necropotence...(wording to be juggled around)
Players play with the top of their libraries revealed. If the top card of any library is black, black creatures you control get +2/+1 and have intimidate. You may cast the top card of any library as if it were in your hand if it is black. Pay 1 life as an additional cost to cast cards in this way.
Thanks for the feedback, I will play around with getting the signet in there. I'm printing these on transparency sheets...thick plastic 8 1/2 x 11 sheets.
First things first, the idea for this comes from this guy: http://imgur.com/a/E4AJB#PxufZ as found on Twitter today. I took the idea, which is great by itself, and took it a step further.
While only at the proof of concept stage, I printed cell bars and the poison token'esque "DETAINED" directly on transparency. This way, the Detained token can be slid into a card sleeve over the detained critter.
the FTV is very limited so my lgs, as i imagine most would, takes preorders and sells only one per customer. Usully the first 5 or 6 (not sure how many each store gets) people who ask get them. in fact, i think ill tell my lgs this week to hold one for me assuming the unrevealed cards will be worth it.
That certainly would be a good solution as well. And it works both ways, I've seen LGS sell some intro packs at below msrp and some above, and that worked out great as well, as the less desirable packs still moved, and the ones that had money rares evened them out.
My lgs has been around for 20 years in the same spot always selling everything at msrp. Customer loyalty seems far better than trying to make a quick buck. the fact is any store could sell them at msrp or close to it and still be making money off them, that they know you ppl are willing to pay outrageous prices for them is why they sell them so high.
I would argue that sometimes the LGS serves their loyal customers by going above MSRP in some rare instances...and this could be one of them. I know this sounds counter-intuitive, but imagine a LGS gets in 5 of these, and sells them for MSRP. If the first person to drop in is your "scalper" type...he buys all 5, and flips them on ebay anyway. If the LGS sells them close to their true market value (the way the would singles for example)...the supply is more likely to last and serve 5 customers instead of 0. This happened in the early days of Magic when packs were scarce, I'm talking like Legends boosters...LGS bumped up the prices, and as a result, the supply lasted longer and more players had a chance to get the packs.
Just as a quick case study...I had a single Temporal Mastery up on ebay, and started slowly ratcheting down the BIN price...it went at $15 with 6 or 7 watchers. So...I'll be kicking myself a little if it finds a deck in the next few weeks and takes off.
The biggest problem with mill decks is the that you attack something that's hardly relevant until you actually kill them, their deck. Your mill spells don't attack the board, refill your hand or disrupt the opponent's plans in any meaningful way.
Agreed, though I think that is part of the allure of the deck, that you are attacking via an avenue not traditionally defended against.
I like the new Surgical Extraction for this deck, seems like good disruption with mill, as you will have in theory better targets.
This deck needs x4 Gitaxian Probe. It gives you a 56 card deck, option to win the turn casting Leveler, and valuable info many times.
Agreed...and maybe a looter type card as backup to drop early to provide instant speed draw on the table when the library goes away however that happens?
"Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies during combat..."
As seen on Cathedral Membrane gatherer text.
Actually second effect is in Green and Blue in slightly different ways...so this is my take on a Black version of the ability.
Looking at Tutors...it looks like Black tutors largely put card in hand, Blue has moved to putting cards on top of library...just a thought. I like the Aether Vial feel though.
I do like the overall concept of...I don't know, a repeatable super charm I guess is what it feels like. Maybe pick a different middle ability and see how it feels.
Power wise, I'm not sure first ability couldn't straight up be a reanimate ability...
Players play with the top of their libraries revealed. If the top card of any library is black, black creatures you control get +2/+1 and have intimidate. You may cast the top card of any library as if it were in your hand if it is black. Pay 1 life as an additional cost to cast cards in this way.
While only at the proof of concept stage, I printed cell bars and the poison token'esque "DETAINED" directly on transparency. This way, the Detained token can be slid into a card sleeve over the detained critter.
That certainly would be a good solution as well. And it works both ways, I've seen LGS sell some intro packs at below msrp and some above, and that worked out great as well, as the less desirable packs still moved, and the ones that had money rares evened them out.
I would argue that sometimes the LGS serves their loyal customers by going above MSRP in some rare instances...and this could be one of them. I know this sounds counter-intuitive, but imagine a LGS gets in 5 of these, and sells them for MSRP. If the first person to drop in is your "scalper" type...he buys all 5, and flips them on ebay anyway. If the LGS sells them close to their true market value (the way the would singles for example)...the supply is more likely to last and serve 5 customers instead of 0. This happened in the early days of Magic when packs were scarce, I'm talking like Legends boosters...LGS bumped up the prices, and as a result, the supply lasted longer and more players had a chance to get the packs.
Agreed, though I think that is part of the allure of the deck, that you are attacking via an avenue not traditionally defended against.
I like the new Surgical Extraction for this deck, seems like good disruption with mill, as you will have in theory better targets.
Shout out to my buddy Matt for getting the writing gig on this one.
Agreed...and maybe a looter type card as backup to drop early to provide instant speed draw on the table when the library goes away however that happens?