Magic 2013... You can do "whatever...."
@OMG_A_Fox: Can you site a historical precident for this claim? Because blue traditionally has the most expensive cards in the game at higher rarities. To say otherwise is just foolish.
Posted By:
Thrull_Champion
(7/31/2012 11:29:39 PM)
@Michael_Bender-I KNEW I've seen this art before... Not complaining though, the art is fantastic. Although it's probably not competitive worthy, the card looks good for casual if you can pull it out.
Posted By:
Wurmcaller
(8/6/2012 12:05:39 PM)
Best use of this I've seen so far:
After it was brought out of a Jhoira suspend with the help of timecrafting, the first card to be cast was grozoth, which tutored inkwell leviathan, and artisan of kozilek. Then with the help of windfall, trench gorger, pathrazer of ulamog and balefire dragon were cast. It was an intimidating turn 5, to say the least.
Posted By:
tarvofthemudhole
(8/10/2012 1:57:17 PM)
The flavor of this card, while wonky, makes some sense if you think about it -- I do agree that Omnipotence would be a better fit, but achieving omniscience would also imply that you have learned how to cast spells without mana, via some heretofore undiscovered means.
Cardwise, I do love the art, and this card just sends the mind reeling with possibilities...
Posted By:
Inanimate-
(8/10/2012 3:45:37 PM)
Would it have been so bad to let us cast our flashback cards with this? It costs ten freaking mana. Were they really worried spending a turn to search it up with increasing ambition, next turn spending ten mana to play it, then getting to flash back your increasing ambition getting double sorin's vengeance would be too good?
All the other cards that do similar things (Aluren and Dream Halls) let you cast spells from the graveyard, so why not this one? Why make a huge expensive combo cards and then truncate its combo potential? Makes no sense to me.
Posted By:
Hamishfox
(8/10/2012 3:49:16 PM)
I run this in an EDH deck with Cromat as commander so this is great with Conflux, even if you have to Conflux first and play Omni next turn; picking the best card of each colour and playing them for free is cheap for 10 mana (what would you choose?). Rush of Knowledge works very well with it too. It's a shame it can't be used to play a commander but we can't complain really. It scored me 1300 aggro damage in one turn, thanks to the combos it pulled.
Built for EDH IMO.
Posted By:
Wizard-of-the-Toast
(8/16/2012 12:03:33 PM)
I was so excited by what I thought this card might be able to accomplish, when it was first spoiled for M13. It quickly, alongside Talrand, became one of my favorite cards in the set. But even though I tried to make it work, it wasn't as interesting as I had hoped. I was wasting so many card slots in a deck just to make drawing this, and being able to cast it feasible. I had few spots left to take advantage of interesting things to cast. It ended up being a sub-par combo deck rather than the bag of lulz I expected this card to be.
Then I tried it in EDH.
My commander is Jhoira of the Ghitu, and my theme is Wizards. I've suspended this card as early as turn 4, and had it out by turn 6 with some lucky draws. Once it's out there, cards like Arcanis the Omnipotent, combined with the draw power of the deck, allow me to plow through the deck. Cast all the things!
Some high-cost blue threats that I think work well with Omniscience:
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Posted By:
Reversed
(8/22/2012 12:57:13 AM)
See. Inanimate has it right, what is Omniscience but unlimited power. If you know everything what else is there? Omnipotence is really just fluff for Omniscience. Who is more humble, Arcanis the omnipotent, or Arcanis the Omniscient. You can be all powerful without being all knowing.
Posted By:
MindAblaze
(9/1/2012 2:31:06 PM)
@Negated you forgot to black lotus into show and tell to make the entire thing a first turn combo :P
Posted By:
Wormfang
(9/13/2012 5:30:33 AM)
Omniscience is hilarious in commander. Ditch your hand to Demonic Collusion to search for Doubling Season, Tamiyo, the Moon Sage and Time Warp/Time Stretch. Take ALL the turns!
Posted By:
Tzenmoroth
(10/2/2012 7:23:19 PM)