So according to Gatherer community ratings, this card, which saw play in pretty much every competitive control deck of its day and wlll again in Innistrad, is worse than Personal Sanctuary.
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Posted By:
Lyoncet
(9/18/2011 8:57:02 PM)
Actually quite played back in the days. Like Mulldrifter, it was a card that I was almost always happy to see. It's a bonus if you can feed this to their discard spells.
Posted By:
Gabriel422
(1/23/2011 11:40:26 PM)
@grimmah11
By one card advantage he means one more card that he wouldnt have if he hadnt cast the spell. since you lose the card as you cast the spell you need to draw a second card to end up with more cards in hand then when you started.
Posted By:
whiteshadw
(7/22/2011 7:16:30 PM)
It's better than Jace's Ingenuity and much better than Mysteries of the Deep because its ease of casting. Didn't need to cast Counterspell on turn 2? You have card draw on turn 2. Same on turn 3. It is also very nice in control matchups, where they would counter your card draw.
It would be awesome in a deck built around Archmage Ascension.
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(8/2/2011 6:58:09 AM)
From the current rating and the comments, this card seems to be very underrated. A 2 mana cycle is fine, and because it's instant speed you can save your mana for counter magic, then draw a card at EOT if you didn't need to.
Being able to then cycle it *again* for 3 mana is fantastic - same situation; you can easily leave counter mana up, then if you didn't need it, get your card advantage.
It's a 4/5 IMO. And I'm hoping to see it back in Innistrad.
Posted By:
JaxsonBateman
(8/29/2011 9:36:47 PM)
the card that IS a cantrip
Posted By:
Arachibutyrophobia
(9/21/2011 9:44:51 PM)
Fun to dump in a cheap Dredge deck; it's a budget Deep Analysis.
Posted By:
Salient
(8/26/2011 12:31:21 AM)
@ Nathreet:
how is it 5 mana for +1? it's 1U for the first cost, then you can flashback it later on for 2U for another card.
it's 5 mana for two cards which can be paid over two turns if needed. not too shabby.
Posted By:
grimmah11
(12/29/2010 3:39:07 AM)
River Kelpie likes.
Posted By:
majinara
(2/4/2009 8:43:44 AM)
This actually combos quite well with the various looters essentially letting you draw 2 for 3 CMC at instant speed. I would have prefer to see something like this cost U for the initial casting cost and UU for the flashback cost. I don't believe UUU to draw two at instant speed is under cost when Divination and Counsel of the Soratami cost 2U for the same at sorcery speed. The rarity probably moves from common to uncommon in this case.
Posted By:
Ranger12479
(3/1/2011 10:51:12 PM)