Just recently toyed with this in a casual Azorius deck I was working on. Didn't have enough money for Restoration Angels, so this seemed a good substitute for helping keep my creatures alive while trying to get card advantage. All I have to say, Lyev Skyknight makes this card amazing. Can be a card advantage for some of the more aggressive Azorius creatures like the Skyknight, Azorius Arrester, Sky Hussar, and of course Isperia, Supreme Judge help make this card what it could never be back in the day... AWESOME.
Posted By:
DarkonCrack
(1/6/2013 1:48:45 PM)
All are good points but its kinda funny that nobody has mentioned or maybe even thought of using Vanish into Memory on a Phyrexian Ingester. I use it to draw big and drop few while still exiling my opponents creatures and boosting my Ingester. :)
It works just fine in my blue white flicker deck.
Posted By:
QuantumWonka
(5/31/2013 11:20:13 AM)
Epic on a Liliana's Shade.
Posted By:
michael99man
(10/1/2013 1:43:28 PM)
Whoever has rated this as anything lower than 4/5 is absolutely crazy. Not in a good way either.
1) It's instant speed.
2) It can save your creatures OR stop an enemy's incoming fatty.
3) It nets (massive) card advantage.
4) It can remove counters and auras, and force them to spend mana re-equipping equipment.
5) It kills tokens, and you never need to discard. See Dark Depths, Grove of the Guardian and Promise of Power.
6) It can be used in commander on your own commander when it's going to die, and move it to the general zone. Some opponents may move their general's the the general zone, negating the discard.
7) It can be extra effective with ETB effects. See Rasputin Dreamweaver, Flickerwisp.
I could go on, but the point is that this card is amazing. If you're playing UW edh and this isn't one of your cards you should add one ASAP. If you're playing UW modern, it's still prob... (see all)
Posted By:
ElliotSternberg
(10/13/2013 10:21:27 PM)
Cast this on an Ink-Treader Nephilim and watch everyone's head asplode.
Posted By:
surewhynot
(12/21/2013 10:06:02 PM)
Pocket sand! But in all seriousness, it may not always be the best blink or draw spell, but I like it. Its either a slow or a very slow blink, so its even better an offensive tool than slow blinks normally are (removes a blocker and that creature can't attack next turn). Plus it has a variable ideas unbound tacked onto it, which makes it amazing for my casual dreams of the dead/blink deck. Its even better than that, because you can occasionally use the next round of mana to cast some instants before you have to discard them.
My only complaint is that you draw equal to power and discard equal to the toughness. Occasionally you might get lucky, but most creatures, especially any you are going to be running in w/u, will have higher toughness than power.
Edit: I just realized why there's the "if you do" on the end. This obliterates token decks. Or, yaknow, say hi to Hunted Lammasu.
@speednat
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Posted By:
jonrds
(1/14/2014 3:50:27 PM)
I'm a casual player. I don't have a massive collection and an encyclopedic knowledge of every card ever printed. I get a lot of cards (like this one) from precons.
I didn't play during Coldsnap, so I had never seen this card until I suddenly owned one. I've found that most of the time, it only does one of the things you want it to do, but the fact it can do so many things(see ElliotSternberg's excellent post), and sometimes does all of them at once, is why it rocks.
If you play an EDH deck with access to these colors, it almost certainly deserves a card slot. And if not, you'd better have a really good reason why it doesn't.
Posted By:
Phaeoxen
(2/11/2014 1:04:58 AM)
Take that, Marit Lage!
Posted By:
CogMonocle
(4/4/2014 3:54:56 PM)