BY YOUR POWERS COMBINED, I AM DARK SUSPICIOUS LOOKING MAGE
Posted By:
NARFNra
(12/19/2010 9:43:36 PM)
Go go Gnomish Rangers!
Seriously though, it's a cool combo card and you have to love that art.
Posted By:
TPmanW
(11/8/2011 10:54:43 AM)
You know when I read this card's flavour text way back when, I thought that the answer was "mana". To this day, I still don't know if that's the correct answer to this "riddle".
EDIT: I got it now! If you look at the back of your Magic card (assuming it's not double-faced) you see the arrangement of colors in Magic. Drawing a line from jungle (green) to sea (blue), from sea to stone (red), from stone to field (white), from field to bone (black), you almost get a pentagram or star. It just needs another verse to finish it. :\ Also, Ersatz Gnomes seems like an anagram for something with star?
Posted By:
oHspoke
(9/24/2011 10:03:47 PM)
"Ersatz" is the German word for "substitution".
I can't rate this card but five stars: they are five gnomes shooting energy rays under the command of a dark mage, they substitute color with colorless and they are called like "Substitution Gnomes", they have a rhymed flavor text with a Zhalfirin riddle...
Posted By:
Paolino
(1/16/2012 3:48:39 AM)
You can still use this to hit emrakul, you just have to cast a spell targeting something else, then change it to colorless, then change the target with another spell or ability to emrakul. it works.
Posted By:
Amnesigenic
(7/17/2011 4:01:28 AM)
you cant kill emrakul guys you cant even cast the spell targeting him, so its not on the stack so you cant change it's color.
Posted By:
greg2367
(1/27/2011 11:03:16 PM)
Why don't I have 50 of these yet?
Goes to Ebay
....
I have no money...but I have lots of pretty colors now! Yay! :D
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(3/2/2012 12:57:16 PM)
@juggling: Also the one on the front is FIRING HIS LAZOR!
Or maybe just retching.
Posted By:
Arachnos
(4/14/2012 11:37:18 AM)
They're not shooting rays...there's one for each colour, they literally suck the colour out of spells and permanents!
Also...anyone else get here by searching Gatherer for "Ersatz"?
Posted By:
LordRandomness
(9/19/2012 3:16:29 AM)
Wait...this could not be used to target Emrakul, at least without being redirected after being cast. The spell would target Emrakul while still being colored, which is a no-no.
Posted By:
Stinga
(1/3/2013 5:44:19 PM)