Not completely useless in EDH, but damn close.
Posted By:
Continue
(8/1/2013 7:09:54 PM)
Anything with Cipher. (Hidden Strings, hands of binding)
Also, Raven's Crime + Army of the Damned.
Shit just got real.
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(10/3/2013 4:58:26 PM)
Exile a Recollect and Time Warp for infinite turns. You will need to draw 2 more recollects, 3 total, and 1 more time warp, 2 total.
Yeah pyromancer Ascension does this better.
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(11/5/2013 5:22:26 PM)
Because I dont think its quite obvious enough: buyback.
Mystic speculation is probably the best option here. Its one of the cheapest buybacks and is in color for self mill (which you really need if you want to pick a nice fat target for this card).
Too bad so many buyback spells are instants...
Note: while isochron scepter does say "cast", it also says "instant". That combo won't work.
Posted By:
jonrds
(1/20/2014 11:16:32 AM)
Is there a fossil in there?
Posted By:
phi1997
(3/19/2014 2:54:27 PM)
I have seen several people try to build semicasual Modern decks with this thing. Some opt for combos, others just rely on lots of value. Averaging what I've seen them do together, actually get a pretty interesting, not necessarily bad (or expensive) deck. Raven's Crime, Faithless Looting, and other Flashback or Retrace cards work pretty well with it, and those cards do provide helpful effects on their own. Even when they don't get their combo ready, it's still quite useful to copy utility spells.
Their problem is of course that this all hinges on a single artifact in a format where every single deck's sideboard has something to address Affinity. Even then, however, the strategy of using cards that are repeatable, cheap utility to maximize this is far from useless on its own. They're enjoyable to see if nothing else, who doesn't root for the underdog with the wacky deck?
Posted By:
Nucleon
(5/9/2014 1:15:31 PM)