Okay folks, just spoke to an upper level judge last night at FNM. This card does NOT skip your end step. You cannot play it with mimic vat (which is what I tried to do) and keep your token in play. What it actually does is it makes your end step come that much quicker.
Okay, so what's the use?
Here's an example, as he gave it to me.
You attack. Somebody bolts your creature. You play Sundial to end the turn. All spells on the stack are exiled, meaning the bolt fizzles and your creature stays alive.
So in essence, it is kind of like tossing a counterspell in an iscochron scepter. It's a reusable counterspell for things like that.
It can also be used to keep oblivion ring from leaving play when the exiled card returns using Venser. The explanation for that was long and confusing but it makes sense.
Bottom Line: This card doesn't have as many uses as people think. Eventually, WOTC will write up all the rules clarifications for this piece of work and everybody will be on the same pag... (see all)
Posted By:
landboysteve
(8/22/2011 5:11:47 PM)
Seems pretty tricky for a core set. Pacts, Phyrexian Dreadnaught, Eater of Days, Phage the Untouchable. My only wish is that this simply switched it to your opponent's turn instead of going though your end step. Then you could do some really broken things.
If only you could stack up 2 activations of it without clearing the stack, then you could use it to skip an opponent's turn.
Posted By:
alucard311
(7/7/2011 6:57:21 PM)
The name fits it well, the possibilities are truly..."Infinite."
Posted By:
Jesseman
(7/7/2011 7:54:22 PM)
I never realized the implications. I love this card.
Posted By:
TheSwarm
(7/7/2011 10:25:38 PM)
Combos with Solitary Confinement.
Posted By:
Elleran
(7/8/2011 9:10:11 AM)
This+Djinn Illuminatus+Pact of the Titan. Why yes, I would like to make billions of 4/4's and not pay trillions of mana for each of them! Oh, BTW, Coat of Arms. GG
Posted By:
godmetal101
(7/10/2011 9:30:33 PM)
...and then something in Innistrad absolutely breaks this card.
Posted By:
kanguilla
(8/22/2011 3:06:14 PM)
This + Gruesome Encore = stealing cards from people's graveyards for good.
Posted By:
ShatteredMirror
(8/4/2011 11:44:44 AM)
@landboysteve Are you sure that judge wasn't mistaken or wasn't talking about the cleanup step as opposed to the end step? Rule 712.1c (which explicitly mentions Sundial of the Infinite) states that an "end the turn" effect causes the game to skip straight to the cleanup step of the current turn after the ability resolves; this would cause the end step to be skipped since it obviously comes before the cleanup step.
Posted By:
SyntheticDreamer
(8/7/2011 10:18:07 PM)
To be more precisely use Rule 712.3.: Even though the turn ends, "at the beginning of the end step" triggered abilities don't trigger because the end step is skipped.
Posted By:
Merfolk_Master
(8/8/2011 10:45:15 AM)