This was ridiculously good at the prerelease. Instant speed card draw is very sweet, particularly when it's this efficient. Great stuff, Wizards, just keep the blue love coming....
@UltimateCenturion: if anyone seriously runs Leyline of Anticipation, I will eat my hat. The problem is you have to start with it in your opening hand for the card to be worth it, which means running 4 and hoping you get lucky with your draws. If you do, that means the next 3 are dead draws. Dead draws are how you lose gain. Some of the other leylines look to be constructed playable, but not that one.
Posted By:
cloneffect
(7/12/2010 2:11:01 PM)
Instant speed makes it good.
Posted By:
tcollins
(11/30/2010 2:40:59 AM)
Instant-speed card draw is good. I'm glad to see this.
Posted By:
dudecow
(7/8/2010 4:36:47 PM)
anyone ever heard of ancestral recall? oh that's right, you all have.
Posted By:
datruuf
(7/8/2010 10:05:46 PM)
It goes to show how broken Ancestral Recall was that you can add 3U to its mana cost and still have a somewhat decent card.
Posted By:
Nagoragama
(6/21/2011 12:04:01 PM)
@Temple Garden:
"BAWWWW MY CREATURE GOT COUNTERED BECAUSE I COULDN'T BE FUCKED TO THINK MY PLAYS THROUGH!
YOU SUCK BLUE, COUNTERSPELLS SHOULD COST 7CMC! SO UNBALANCED OMGLOL"
Am I doing it right, TG? のワの
Posted By:
Azazyel
(7/8/2010 7:01:39 PM)
instant drawing has its uses, but mostly in the form of mill (if the enemy has an Eldrazi lord or something els that shuffles than you can force them to draw in response to the shuffling ability, winning immediately before they have a chance to shuffle) which has better options, and this cant target the enemy anyways. I would rather run Concentrate if all I wanted was to draw for myself.
Posted By:
bijart_dauth
(4/3/2011 12:35:04 PM)
@UltimaCenturion, hate to break it to you, but the fact that players are in magic terms Plainswalkers has been a theme for a long long time, just read the old non-storyline novels like Whispering Woods. just because they came out with a plainswalker card-type and got a little excited with, you know, STORY and FLAVOR, doesn't mean you have to whine. Urza has three whole sets named after him. Complain about something worth-while.
As for the card itself, I do think 5 is a bit much compared to most blue draw; why mill is getting cheaper and draw more expensive I don't know. This card could easily be {1} less if it let you target a player, allowing for swerves or pseudomill; it just doesn't seem cost effective. When will you honestly need three whole cards in a color that pretty much makes it's business in draw and deck-stacking? A bit too extraneous for my tastes.
Posted By:
Dr.Pingas
(7/16/2010 9:39:39 PM)
Strictly worse than ancestral recall.
Posted By:
channelblaze
(8/22/2010 4:58:21 PM)
what, instant speed draw? I thought wizards was done with this, and if it was instant speed it had to be crappy like mysteries of the deep.
Posted By:
mdakw576
(7/8/2010 6:04:16 PM)