Solid
Posted By:
Ace8792
(7/10/2010 7:10:44 PM)
are you people kidding me? this card is RIDICULOUS. I use it in a U/G graft deck(like there's ANY other kind) and this card usually wins games for me. the deck's built on awesome graft creatures, massive card advantage, and other quirky U/G concepts. is the scope I find this card useful in limited? maybe.
it's high mana cost, but you shouldn't be playing this card if you're not already banking on card advantage, right? I don't see a reason to have a 7CMC draw card in a deck unless your deck is full of draw - Shielding Plax, Ponder, Wistful Selkie, etc. - in the first place. more draws = more lands = you saying "psh, 7 mana? I can do that and have left overs. what's that, you're getting manascrewed over there?"
I expect to draw cards, so there's a Spellbook and a Reliquary Tower or two in there, as well as a Psychosis Crawler.
I really only drop Biomantric wh... (see all)
Posted By:
ziggefranz
(5/13/2012 2:31:53 PM)
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Posted By:
Myaccount01
(2/18/2009 3:21:03 PM)
I want something like this in White!!!
Posted By:
Dr34m0f7hi5
(11/22/2009 1:48:49 PM)
Possibly a truly great combo card that can be taken outside of the simic guild and into the izzet. I see the high mana cost as being something to reign you in from casting this too quickly and wait for the creature drops. Then when the battlefield is just right, with Mr.Niv-Mizzet, You can bring utter destruction on many opponents at once. Spellbook Is good as well when you want to keep the cards you grab and not turn this sorcery into a late game winner. I give it a 4, -0.5 for it being a sorcery (btw, this can be cured by another blue card.. Quicken. for just U more..) and another -0.5 for a potentially lethal mana cost. (This can also be cured with a few artifacts that help out your entire deck depending on its colors. Cards include: Medallions and even Grand Arbiter Augustin IV himself; if you can manage him.)
All in all, with a few cards, this could be a true gem in both blue ... (see all)
Posted By:
Temporal_Arcanist
(9/7/2010 7:37:50 AM)
I'd have taken just one target player if it had meant a lower mana cost. Even just 6 cmc would have made it more usable.
Posted By:
Discoduck
(4/18/2011 2:37:08 PM)
Seven mana in green is not that hard if you've got some ramp going on. Get a bunch of elves out, Overgrown Battlements and the like. After you've played everything in your hand, do this. You want to play this later in the game anyway. Bonus if your opponent(s) are running some weenie beatdown or token generaton (e.g. Eldrazi spawn).
Posted By:
jfre81
(6/7/2011 12:04:07 AM)
in the long run, this card should draw you more cards off of a single cast than any other card. play in EDH. you just might mill yourself.
so wait until you have a Laboratory Maniac ;)
if you don't draw at least 10 cards when you target yourself, you aren't playing these colors correctly at all. this should nearly always get you 12 cards or more, with a relatively dry board. if the board is thick, you should be able to draw 20-40 cards. not even kidding y'all.
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(12/4/2011 5:02:54 PM)
It's not terrible, but its main upside is that its heavy card draw that can potentially be played in a monogreen deck. Even then, there are likely better options - Soul's Majesty targets a creature (and is thus capable of giving the opponent a 2-for-1), but is cheaper and can draw more cards depending on what creature you have out. Garruk, Primal Hunter has the same effect as Soul's Majesty, but is more reliable because you don't even need to target a creature.
It's certainly not a bad card... it's just very expensive for how variable the effect can be.
Posted By:
JaxsonBateman
(12/22/2012 7:43:30 AM)
Even if this ends up making you draw 14 cards or something like that, who cares? A couple people have made passing mention of having to discard cards from drawing too many, but obviously you're going to be discarding the worst cards you drew and/or the cards you have the least use for.
I know I'd rather draw 14 cards and discard 7 than draw and keep 8.
Posted By:
Yukikah
(8/22/2013 4:04:42 PM)