I once bought a pack of Magic that came packaged with about 30 random cards, and I was lucky enough to get a copy of this bad boy! :)
But anyways, I'm not sure which is better this or Nemesis of Reason. Glimpse cost 3 less. But Nemesis is a multi use mill. But Nemesis does have to attack first.
5 stars anyways
Posted By:
John-Bender
(12/19/2009 9:36:32 AM)
SICK CARD
I agree, this would be a good "scepter" card.. to bad though, right?
How ever, If you can muster 5 colorless mana, (impossible, I know) then you can try to just "Panoptic Mirror" this card. Its basically the same thing..
For 2 colorless mana each turn (if you can dodge anti-affinity) by the time you cast 3 copies of the imprinted Glimpse the Unthinkable your average cost for the Mirror and all subsequent spells is 2.75.
5 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 11
11 / 4 = 2.75
..not too far off from "third cast" on Isochron Scepter.
Hard investment.. But think about it this way, if your mirror gets destroyed that's 7 years bad luck for your opponent..
P.S. Szadek is the dude being quoted in the flavor text.. I don't think its about him.. who ever he is
P.P.S. SICK CARD
Posted By:
Tangwall
(6/4/2009 8:27:12 AM)
@BegleOne
Laboratory Maniac?
Posted By:
Oyster450
(10/10/2011 7:22:12 PM)
I like the art a lot, but the flavour text is pretty silly despite being quite fun. Surely Szadek of all people is intelligent enough to recognise how predictable his guild's real purpose was? As for the card itself, it does its job well but I find it somehow lacking some key spark of fun shared by both Millstone and its variants, and Traumatize.
Posted By:
stygimoloch
(2/15/2009 4:06:38 PM)
Dontchu love this flavor? Seeing something so above our capacity of logic that it gives us brain damage? sometimes when I think about the sacred mysteries I fell like ten cards have been dropped from my brain.
Posted By:
TheSwarm
(2/2/2011 8:27:47 PM)
You can't see it, but Djinn Illuminatus is actually secretly a Dimir creature made to be used with this card.
Posted By:
MyrBattlecube
(3/27/2011 12:10:24 AM)
Also hoping this gets reprinted in RtR, Time to make mill a real deck, wotc!
Posted By:
Fenix.
(7/22/2012 11:27:10 AM)
Who downvoted TimmyForever? Making a politics joke/statement seems valid for a card like this. If he'd said George Bush, I bet'd he'd have gotten 5 stars. :P
And yeah if they don't reprint this in RtR the only reason would be if they give us an Even Better Mythic that costs more, but in addition to driving you insane, it runs over your dog, leaves a horse head on your pillow, eats your girlfriend, then kicks you in the nuts and in general makes you wish you were in The Dragon's Dungeon instead.
Mind Sculpt makes me think that's more likely than Reprinting this, since even Tome Scour makes it seem less special than it's glory days. We are getting an Evil Badass Spell that Was Never Cast, by the Wizard Who Never Lived, during the Duel that Never Took Place though. We'd seriously better >;D
Posted By:
ParallaxtheRevan
(7/7/2012 12:49:55 PM)
Any Dredge deck builder who thinks "OMG this is the perfect card for my deck" inevitably goes through the five stages of Glimpse the Unthinkable Grief:
1. Denial. "It's okay that this card just gets dredged into my graveyard most of the time. When I draw it, it's going to be killer."
2. Anger. "WHY DO YOU COUNTER THIS EVERY SINGLE TIME I TRY TO PLAY IT"
3. Bargaining. "Well, four was too many, but maybe I can keep one or two in the deck, as a surprise?"
4. Depression. "...doesn't replace Breakthrough, doesn't replace Careful Study, doesn't even replace Tireless Tribe well, there's nothing left in the deck to try to swap out for it anymore..."
5. Acceptance. "Hey Jerry, I'll trade you eight rares for one -- four Glimpse the Unthinkable and four Memory Plunder for your Baneslayer..."
Posted By:
Salient
(8/15/2011 3:56:38 PM)
Ill To The Max
Posted By:
MasterOfEtherium
(5/23/2009 1:02:05 PM)