I think it will possibly be important come RoE, as charlequin suggested. I think this is an example of Wizards pulling the ol' "Vampire Nocturnus" trick from M10. I mean, dang, nocturnus sure seemed like a waste of a mythic slot then.
There are Changelings. Besides that I very, very strongly doubt it.
Because patience is a virtue.
Let's say the eldrazi turn out to be quite strong, part of a major Standard archetype that winds up running this card. Are you still going to be unhappy that you pulled them from WWK? What if you picked up extras while it's a $.50 card and resold them at $4-5?
If Eye of Ugin is a crummy card, it'd be exactly as much a waste of space in RoE as it is here; either way it's a dead card nobody really wants. If it's a good card, it has the advantage of being an under-the-radar good card that canny players can pick up ultra-cheap while it's still useless.
Either way, it allows WotC to preview RoE in a pretty unique and interesting way, so I give it a
Yes, I would still be disappointed that I pulled it from WWK, because I don't think it should be in the set. I find nothing unique or interesting about this; they already flooded an entire set with "future" mechanics, and yet they made all of those cards so that they might be able to do something when they first came out. That was unique and interesting, this is just that on a for-now useless microcosm. You may find this acceptable, and even somehow exciting, but I really just can't.
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I'm starting to like Selective Memory more and more. Stack your degenerate combo deck to just the winning pieces you need. Maybe after a cranial on Scapeshift, you can Selective Memory your deck to just Valakuts, Mountains and Explores and try to get there manually
That's probably just the Johnny in me who loves jank rares though.
I like this point, but it is just a little too weak. Kudos for the close attempt, but any deck that would run this to sure up it's combo would probably rather just have a counterspell.
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The only colorless nonartifact creatures have been creaturetokens.
What about morph creatures?
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and yet they made all of those cards so that they might be able to do something when they first came out.
It does do something right now: it tutors up artifact creatures from in your deck.
The complaints about this are completely ridiculous. The card is supporting a mechanic that will be fully implemented in the very next set that's released; it will be playable (as playable as the design allows for, anyway) in Block Constructed and Standard for as long as any of the cards it supports are. That it's not fully usable yet (and again, it does have a use in the interim) is no different from how Shield of Kaldra was not a fully usable card when it was released in Darksteel; four months is a short time compared to the years and years in which these cards will co-exist in Magic's future.
It does do something right now: it tutors up artifact creatures from in your deck.
The complaints about this are completely ridiculous. The card is supporting a mechanic that will be fully implemented in the very next set that's released; it will be playable (as playable as the design allows for, anyway) in Block Constructed and Standard for as long as any of the cards it supports are. That it's not fully usable yet (and again, it does have a use in the interim) is no different from how Shield of Kaldra was not a fully usable card when it was released in Darksteel; four months is a short time compared to the years and years in which these cards will co-exist in Magic's future.
You may find my complaints ridiculous, but then I might also find your inability to understand that someone else is not the happy with the card being included as ridiculous. As for your argument about me calling it "useless," good call on me using hyperbole. I'm sure you never use words like "always" and "never" as an exaggeration of "oft times" or "sometimes." And yes, this card can tutor up artifact creatures, but only colorless artifact creatures, and with this following up Alara block in standard, a lot, i.e. most, of the artifact creatures I would want to tutor for would not be colorless. So that's another reason I don't like it right now.
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The complaints that this is card couldn't possibly be printed because it currently has very little use are ridiculous.
Yes, I questioned the verification of this card because it has very little use. Is there something wrong with a dissenting opinion? I was not as clear on this point, but I was also wondering if we knew this was the exact wording of the card. I believe that Wizards could and probably has included it in this set, but this does not mean I cannot hold the opinion that it should not be in this set.
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You may find my complaints ridiculous, but then I might also find your inability to understand that someone else is not the happy with the card being included as ridiculous.
I perfectly understand those reasons, they just strike me as out of keeping with what is apparently unlikable about the card.
Cards are printed all the time that aren't actually intended to be useful yet. Knight of the Reliquary was printed in Conflux, yet its actual purpose was to interact with Zendikar's land theme; same goes for Vampire Nocturnus in M10. The Eye of Ugin is a particularly obvious case of this, but it's also only showing up a set early and it's got an obvious ultra-Johnny combo (with Mycosynth Lattice) for people to use it with in the interim. Meanwhile, it may turn out to be an extremely strong card once its supporting pieces show up, exactly like the cards I mentioned above.
This card isn't any different from other flavorful "filler" rares with poor play value -- a type of card we regularly see in every expansion -- but the fact that this card is referencing forward to cards in an upcoming expansion has somehow made people more angry at its existence. That just doesn't make sense. It seems similar, to me, to the way people got so angry at Mindless Null despite it just being a "23rd card" limited filler creature like hundreds of others before it. In both cases, it seems to me like the fact that there are people who are enjoying the flavor of a (currently) almost-useless filler card somehow makes other people dislike it much more than if it were simply a boring, mediocre almost-useless filler card.
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Colorless Eldrazi spells cost 2 less to cast. 7, T: : Search your library for a colorless creature card, reveal it and put it in your hand. Then shuffle your library.
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^regarding above, Eldrazi isnt a tribal type....so do they mean "cards with the word Eldrazi in the name"? from a rules point, it makes no sense....but from a flavour point, its fair enough...i mean, if they use "the land continues to burn" as reminder text, they can do what ever the hell they want :>
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Colorless Eldrazi spells cost 2 less to cast. 7, T: : Search your library for a colorless creature card, reveal it and put it in your hand. Then shuffle your library.
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^regarding above, Eldrazi isnt a tribal type....so do they mean "cards with the word Eldrazi in the name"? from a rules point, it makes no sense....but from a flavour point, its fair enough...i mean, if they use "the land continues to burn" as reminder text, they can do what ever the hell they want :>
When the card becomes legal then Eldrazi will become a creature type.
Coward became a creature type when Boldwyr Intimidator was printed in Future Sight. Same thing.
Is selective memory actually useful in limited? Come turn 6 filter out all your lands (okay, maybe in landfall block this doesnt work as well) and draw spells for the rest of game? I'm tempted to pick it 4th or 5th and give it a try.
Too bad it isn't instant... EOT tutor up the one removal you need to push through ftw seems awesome
Is selective memory actually useful in limited? Come turn 6 filter out all your lands (okay, maybe in landfall block this doesnt work as well) and draw spells for the rest of game? I'm tempted to pick it 4th or 5th and give it a try.
Too bad it isn't instant... EOT tutor up the one removal you need to push through ftw seems awesome
NONland cards. good i guess in casual combo decks. it can help take out cards you really don't need.
I believe that Eye of Ugin is real from a developmental point because it makes sense.
1. It is a cute little spoiler to make us look eagerly for RoE to come out.
2. It makes the next set, which still happens on Zendikar, somehow tied into this one and acts as a convenient bridge.
3. It expands development space through lands by showing off a mythic land, which makes sense in a little set and in a block designed around land.
4. It is splashy and makes you think, two good qualities in a mythic.
Also I predict that in the friday spoilers WotC will show the Eye off as a wrap up for preview week. How better to end the spoilers than to show off the one that spoils the next set?
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I'm curious as to why it says colorless specifically. I think this hints that there will probably be a couple colored Eldrazi spells, because as a tribe, it could have just read "Eldrazi spells... etc"
Yes, I would still be disappointed that I pulled it from WWK, because I don't think it should be in the set. I find nothing unique or interesting about this; they already flooded an entire set with "future" mechanics, and yet they made all of those cards so that they might be able to do something when they first came out. That was unique and interesting, this is just that on a for-now useless microcosm. You may find this acceptable, and even somehow exciting, but I really just can't.
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I like this point, but it is just a little too weak. Kudos for the close attempt, but any deck that would run this to sure up it's combo would probably rather just have a counterspell.
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This is not arbitrary. i.e. stands for Latin "id est," while e.g. stands for "exemple gratia."
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It does do something right now: it tutors up artifact creatures from in your deck.
The complaints about this are completely ridiculous. The card is supporting a mechanic that will be fully implemented in the very next set that's released; it will be playable (as playable as the design allows for, anyway) in Block Constructed and Standard for as long as any of the cards it supports are. That it's not fully usable yet (and again, it does have a use in the interim) is no different from how Shield of Kaldra was not a fully usable card when it was released in Darksteel; four months is a short time compared to the years and years in which these cards will co-exist in Magic's future.
They have had subtypes (Equipment and Contraptions) for a long time.
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You may find my complaints ridiculous, but then I might also find your inability to understand that someone else is not the happy with the card being included as ridiculous. As for your argument about me calling it "useless," good call on me using hyperbole. I'm sure you never use words like "always" and "never" as an exaggeration of "oft times" or "sometimes." And yes, this card can tutor up artifact creatures, but only colorless artifact creatures, and with this following up Alara block in standard, a lot, i.e. most, of the artifact creatures I would want to tutor for would not be colorless. So that's another reason I don't like it right now.
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Yes, I questioned the verification of this card because it has very little use. Is there something wrong with a dissenting opinion? I was not as clear on this point, but I was also wondering if we knew this was the exact wording of the card. I believe that Wizards could and probably has included it in this set, but this does not mean I cannot hold the opinion that it should not be in this set.
Mr. Jiggles comin' to town and gonna take you on down to the hootenanny, so y'all best be lookin' out for a good, jiggly time.
I perfectly understand those reasons, they just strike me as out of keeping with what is apparently unlikable about the card.
Cards are printed all the time that aren't actually intended to be useful yet. Knight of the Reliquary was printed in Conflux, yet its actual purpose was to interact with Zendikar's land theme; same goes for Vampire Nocturnus in M10. The Eye of Ugin is a particularly obvious case of this, but it's also only showing up a set early and it's got an obvious ultra-Johnny combo (with Mycosynth Lattice) for people to use it with in the interim. Meanwhile, it may turn out to be an extremely strong card once its supporting pieces show up, exactly like the cards I mentioned above.
This card isn't any different from other flavorful "filler" rares with poor play value -- a type of card we regularly see in every expansion -- but the fact that this card is referencing forward to cards in an upcoming expansion has somehow made people more angry at its existence. That just doesn't make sense. It seems similar, to me, to the way people got so angry at Mindless Null despite it just being a "23rd card" limited filler creature like hundreds of others before it. In both cases, it seems to me like the fact that there are people who are enjoying the flavor of a (currently) almost-useless filler card somehow makes other people dislike it much more than if it were simply a boring, mediocre almost-useless filler card.
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Will be kept until 12/31/2013 to prove if Right or Wrong.Proven right 1/27/2013yeah just like people complained when Shield of Kaldra came out because there was no Helm
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eye of ugin-0
colorless eldrazi-0
legendary land-0
eldrazi spells-0
colorless creature card-0
colorless creature-0
THE ORB HAS SPOKEN!
(however both Ugin and eldrazi appear exactly once in the set, make what you will of that.)
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Will be kept until 12/31/2013 to prove if Right or Wrong.Proven right 1/27/2013The Orb only detects single words, not entire phrases.
And please don't double post.
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Wizards know how much people love Steamflogger Boss, and at least this card won't remain a useless rare for as long as Steamflogger Boss.
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Colorless Eldrazi spells cost 2 less to cast.
7, T: : Search your library for a colorless creature card, reveal it and put it in your hand. Then shuffle your library.
Illus. James Paick #136/145
^regarding above, Eldrazi isnt a tribal type....so do they mean "cards with the word Eldrazi in the name"? from a rules point, it makes no sense....but from a flavour point, its fair enough...i mean, if they use "the land continues to burn" as reminder text, they can do what ever the hell they want :>
When the card becomes legal then Eldrazi will become a creature type.
Coward became a creature type when Boldwyr Intimidator was printed in Future Sight. Same thing.
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And so the "colourless" part of the card text is to prevent Changelings and Mistform Ultimus costing 2 less? Makes sense, I guess.
Assuming the 3rd set has spells that may cost 2 less if you have this land, I speculate that they will suck at both full and discount price.
It's spelt "ridiculous", people, not "rediculous" - get a dictionary or perhaps a better education.
Too bad it isn't instant... EOT tutor up the one removal you need to push through ftw seems awesome
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Will be kept until 12/31/2013 to prove if Right or Wrong.Proven right 1/27/20131. It is a cute little spoiler to make us look eagerly for RoE to come out.
2. It makes the next set, which still happens on Zendikar, somehow tied into this one and acts as a convenient bridge.
3. It expands development space through lands by showing off a mythic land, which makes sense in a little set and in a block designed around land.
4. It is splashy and makes you think, two good qualities in a mythic.
Also I predict that in the friday spoilers WotC will show the Eye off as a wrap up for preview week. How better to end the spoilers than to show off the one that spoils the next set?
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