Erik's Random card 7/7/2011
When Shards of Alara entered development, the Shards and their mechanics were not fleshed out.
Devin Low led the Grixis shard, with Brian Tinsman and me.
We each made some mechanics, and some decks. Brian had a fun mechanic, but it did not feel blue at all to me; essentially it was the "bloodied" mechanic used for Vampires the following year in Zendikar.
Brian then suggested the mechanic that became unearth. That was the clear winner.
Devin asked for some designs of cards that didn't have unearth, but would be useful with unearth.
One of my cards was
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At the beginning of each upkeep, the active player discards a card.
2/1
The development team decided that this was not very fun, so it became 3 mana; it also didn't make your opponent your ddiscard until your next turn. They were right; this card wasn't very fun. I wasn't very experienced, and was only thinking of the person using this card. Your opponent discards and you discard, but yours has unea... (see all)
Posted By:
WotC_ErikL
(7/8/2011 12:07:34 AM)
Grixis has a lot of unearth abilities so set him up with Megrim and Rise from the Grave.
Posted By:
iondragonx
(10/8/2009 9:27:19 PM)
Build a deck with this guy and a Bloodcheif Ascension. Get ready for the fun!
Posted By:
Demonic_Angel13
(11/24/2009 3:44:30 PM)
Solid in any madness/dredge deck.
Posted By:
doitpow
(4/15/2010 7:24:41 AM)
Necrogen Mists with legs. Decent.
Posted By:
RaikouRider
(12/21/2008 11:50:57 AM)
I think This guy is pretty good. it seems to nicely fit the curve in a Hellbent/Madness RB deck and is a scathe Zombies with a decent to good ability. Nice card.
Posted By:
Shoe2
(11/19/2008 1:43:03 PM)
I've bought 2 boxes of shards,and still haven't gotten this card,I just want it to give it a play test for fun. It looks to have a lot of room to build around,especially with 2010 on the way. I think it will have a small impact in standard and extended if madness is in 2010 at all. May have an interesting future,we'll see.
Posted By:
CptAwsm
(6/4/2009 12:19:54 PM)
Idk if anyone has pointed this out yet, but the artist's last name is bonner...
Posted By:
Cuervo_
(7/16/2011 5:36:27 PM)
Say hi to Liliana of the Veil
Posted By:
Ezuna
(10/3/2011 9:34:55 AM)
This card looks interesting for multiplayer- has anyone tried it out in Commander?
Obviously it would be easy to build part of a deck around, but I was thinking more of just adding it in as a kind of inverse Howling Mine or a 'black Divination'. A card like this can let a deck get way out of hand if you try to cutthroat it (Madness, Flashback, and Unearth off the top of my head without even thinking too hard)
So- as just a throw-away source of some card advantage, is it worth it or should I use Syphon Mind instead?
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(11/2/2011 7:19:17 AM)