Tasha’s Hideous Laughter is interesting. It is certainly strong when you consider that against some decks with really low curves or a very high land count you might end up exiling 1/3rd of your opponent’s deck, but I’m not sure what constructed mill decks would want this. Standard rogues doesn’t really want to use this because their cards care about the opponent’s graveyard being full and a big part of what makes Modern Mill decks tick is the card advantage from visions of beyond and disruption in the form of sugical extraction and drown in the loch.
At first glance you’d think this would at least gives Modern Mill a mill spell that doesn’t care about sideboard shuffle-in eldrazi, but even then sidboarding in Emrakul, the aeons torn is still not bad vs Tasha’s Hideous Laughter since Emrakul adds a 15 mana value hit, possibly making this into a 3 mana tome scour that exiles rather than a card that can “mill” more cards than archive trap.
What about a control deck that aims to mill instead of use something like a typical control finisher? That would be something I'd be down to try. Mill typically wants to empty libraries as fast as possible, but honestly just slowly grinding out an opponent might be just as good. Plus, it's a cheaper spell to cast meaning you can hold up counters earlier in the game to protect it.
I've been thinking about cards I love that have essentially just faded into the masses of new magic cards over the years. There are a lot of cards like this, and I am sure that y'all have some cards in mind.
For example, one of my favorite cards that I designed one of my first decks around was Hellkite Overlord. I played a very Timmy deck during that time, but now that I play a lot of EDH, I think this card is still useful. I would love to see it reprinted, however it appears that it has just faded away.
What cards do you love that have never/rarely been reprinted?
Arcbound is funny you want 5 counters or a 4/4 with haste.
Salvaging is awesome for madness with the correct timing.
Echoing return is going to be powerful in some decks.
Rats decks will love Echoing Return. Even self-mill decks might like it just to snag multiple copies of cards.
I would probably play this over Reclamation sage in a lot of my decks. It gives you an etb trigger and a death trigger, puts a body in the graveyard, and is technically cheaper.
This should have been a 2-3 mana card. Even in limited, it wouldn't have been that powerful because as of right now the second ability does absolutely nothing in sealed and draft.
Can't wait to flash this out against someone casting a Splendid Reclamation or Gaea's Will or somesuch in Commander.
Nice design besides, good job to Wizards on this cycle.
I like this more than exiling graves. It does the same job but can also be used to prevent your own grave from getting exiled, as well as milled out. A very niche but cool card.
If they dont give me the full cycle i will write an angry letter to them.
Who are the other four Dragons?
Also, I feel like the mana cost could have been a flat 6 due to the heavy mana restrictions and the upkeep cost. It's kind of a big bumb card that's hard to do stuff with.
What about a control deck that aims to mill instead of use something like a typical control finisher? That would be something I'd be down to try. Mill typically wants to empty libraries as fast as possible, but honestly just slowly grinding out an opponent might be just as good. Plus, it's a cheaper spell to cast meaning you can hold up counters earlier in the game to protect it.
For example, one of my favorite cards that I designed one of my first decks around was Hellkite Overlord. I played a very Timmy deck during that time, but now that I play a lot of EDH, I think this card is still useful. I would love to see it reprinted, however it appears that it has just faded away.
What cards do you love that have never/rarely been reprinted?
Rats decks will love Echoing Return. Even self-mill decks might like it just to snag multiple copies of cards.
Not irrelevant in my Gyome deck!
But honestly this shines more in my Lord Windgrace deck for obvious reasons.
Good card is good!
This is more like, "Guy who can escape death"
I think this confirms he is a planeswalker though, where as before he just appeared in multiple arts. Hopefully he gets a fitting card one day.
Damn is pretty neat. The versatility improves its power by a lot.
I like this more than exiling graves. It does the same job but can also be used to prevent your own grave from getting exiled, as well as milled out. A very niche but cool card.
Who are the other four Dragons?
Also, I feel like the mana cost could have been a flat 6 due to the heavy mana restrictions and the upkeep cost. It's kind of a big bumb card that's hard to do stuff with.