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Anti-Entreat the Angels !

Nightmare for populate decks! This card helped create a new trend, Bant Control.

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Posted By: Hakkology (10/30/2012 3:13:11 AM)

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_____ will stay out of jail, thank you very much.

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Posted By: tenkaze (9/30/2012 7:35:27 PM)

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This is to Oblivion Ring what Maelstrom Pulse is to Putrefy. Sort of, but you get my point.

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Posted By: Trygon_Predator (9/26/2012 1:10:00 PM)

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While it's mostly better than o-ring, the only really consistent thing this will do better than o-ring is hit tokens that put many into play at once. With bonfire still running rampant, that shouldn't happen too often in standard.

If you have the money then this is worth it over o-ring, but at the same time if it's out of your budget it's still okay to run o-ring.

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Posted By: mdakw576 (10/2/2012 6:09:39 AM)

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This would be epic in multi-player if most of your opponents are playing with nearly the same zombie deck.

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Posted By: Purplerooster (10/10/2012 8:15:52 AM)

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Notice the cost of both this and o-ring fall underabrupt decays reach. I think that had to happen to secure golgari's spot as number one.

either way I love this card, with supreme verdict and counterspells, U/W has some neat tricks.

Ooo... Combine this card and o-ring, arrest, ethereal armor and righteous authority, plus some detain effects( martial law anyone?) and protection... I can see that deck getting very out of hand.

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Posted By: Vakyoom (10/7/2012 2:42:35 PM)

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Venser's puting people in detention. This will definetly find a place in my W/U control deck.

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Posted By: DeFectiveDeity (9/25/2012 3:11:01 PM)

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Oblivion Pulse? Maelstrom Ring?

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Posted By: SyntheticDreamer (9/25/2012 7:55:20 PM)

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An Azorius guard stands watch at the freshly-captured b-ball essence of Charles Barkley.

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Posted By: Ironsharp (11/8/2012 6:48:57 AM)

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@Amorgan

No one here has stated that this can be used as a MASSIVE Tutor combo card.

Think about casting this on YOUR OWN Blade Splicer, so now you kill your Sphere and all the sudden you just got 4 3/3 First Strikers and 4 1/1s.

Not good enough? How about Geist-Honored Monk? Anyone want 4 12/12 Vigilance and 8 1/1s ?

Sorry bro, but nobody has mentioned any mass tutor tricks because, well, this card doesn't work that way. A permanent is only a permanent when it is in play on the battlefield, otherwise it is a card. Detention Sphere only exiles permanents on the battlefield with the same name, similar to Echoing Truth. There is no search the library clause like on Eradicate. If it did work that way though it would be pretty broken like you said, but then the situations where you would want to use this card on an opponents permanent would drop significantly. Oh well, better luck next time ;)

@Axelle

You on the other hand just broke t... (see all)

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Posted By: FirstPrime (10/23/2012 2:08:18 PM)

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Oblivion Rings, bow before me for I am your new master and together we will RULE THE WORLD.

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Posted By: Lifegainwithbite (5/8/2013 2:27:10 PM)

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I see why they added the second part to this card. After a few spheres came up, someone could just play another to exile all of them, bringing all the cards back, but then, what would happen after you o-ringed that sphere and the other spheres came back into play? MY BRAIN!

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Posted By: Araganor (4/29/2013 7:24:24 AM)

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Lets just say for the sake of a good example that your opponent has 97 nonland permanents on the battlefield all having different names, and you have 3 oblivion rings on the battlefield exiling 3 of your opponents nonland permanents, again, all with different names. You have to find a way to get rid of every single one of those nonland permanents before your next turn. In hand you have 2 cards, Detention Sphere and Oblivion Ring.

Play Detention Sphere exiling your 3 oblivion rings.
Play Oblivion Ring exiling Detention Sphere.
3 O-Ring ETB triggers go on the stack.
1st O-Ring exiles another of the 3 O-Rings.
Exiled O-Ring's leave play ability goes on stack and resolves with nothing coming back because it hadn't exiled anything yet.
Exiled O-Ring's ETB trigger exiles a nonland permanent, permanently.
3rd O-Ring triggers exiling the O-Ring that exiled the Detention Sphere.
Detention Sphere exiles two O-Rings, bringing back 2 O-Rings.
1 O-Ring exiles a nonland permanent, the other exiles... (see all)

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Posted By: am802g (4/19/2013 5:54:58 PM)

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Selesnyan commander is in desperate need for Sundering Growth.

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Posted By: Winhert (3/16/2013 2:57:19 AM)

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oh good they brought it back -_-

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Posted By: Xineombine (3/13/2013 7:18:26 AM)

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I run two of these in my casual u/w deck. Like many have already said this card works best against combo and tribal decks. And if you're already playing u/w you might as well replace Oblivion Ring with this. You're most likely spending a blue to pay for the ring anyways, so why not give it a little more power, even if that power's situationally based on whether or not the opponent has more than one copy of any given card on the field

@Amorgan

Derp.

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Posted By: collintendo (2/25/2013 1:39:14 AM)

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One advantage this has over Oblivion Ring is that when your opponent responds with an overloaded Mizzium Skin or Simic Charm, you can choose not to exile a permanent of your own, whereas with Oblivion Ring you must target one of your own permanents. Then again this isn't a terribly likely occurrence, but it has happened before.

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Posted By: lemonadecat (2/23/2013 6:01:12 AM)

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