"If you would draw a card, discard a card. If you discarded a card, draw a card."
Have we achieved an infinite loop with just one card?
Posted By:
Kirbster
(10/16/2010 12:05:35 AM)
Read the text on the card instead of the oracle text, it makes alot more sense.
The oracle text only makes sense when... umm...
Posted By:
exterion
(10/3/2009 3:17:55 AM)
The text box should just have a picture of Trollface.
Posted By:
ookiecookie
(9/5/2011 2:34:04 PM)
I'm glad several people clarified the function of this card... I admit, upon first reading it all I saw was this...
If you would draw a card (other than your first card) instead discard a card....
When you discard said card you then draw a card...
Naturally in my mind I thought... but then you would have drawn another card which would instead force you to discard.
So the conclusion I came to was that an opponent having this in play could sign in blood you to discard your entire hand and then have you mill one...
Yeah... thanks for the clarification. I'll still likely never use this, but I at least don't hate the card now.
Posted By:
Haziad
(4/25/2013 12:47:55 AM)
STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM! Nobody gains card advantage on my watch.
Unless your using Necropotence...
Posted By:
MRK1
(5/21/2013 5:44:44 AM)
horrible oracle text
Posted By:
doolydooly
(10/6/2009 11:07:23 PM)
Wha?
Posted By:
madformedusa
(10/1/2009 9:52:32 AM)
WOULD EVERYONE PLEASE STOP THINKING/IMPLYING THAT THIS CAN PREVENT A PERSON FROM *EVER DRAWING* A CARD???!!! That is absolutely wreckless thinking. If a card did that it would be among, if not THE, most powerful card EVER. It DOES NOT affect players'draw phase***** READ THAT AGAIN*** It does NOT affect the draw phase. Smh Read the card.
Posted By:
supafly13
(2/5/2013 11:59:08 AM)
@GrimjawxRULES Unfortunately your rewording of the card doesn't use proper templating. For the oracle to make better sense, templating rules would have to change which would probably make many of the more modern cards confusing and would likely lead to a significant amount of ambiguity. Given an understanding of the rules regarding replacement effects, the current wording offers no room for misinterpretation.
Also, for anybody actually playing with the card, they will have the original text to reference, which gives a fairly clear, if improperly templated and grammatically incorrect, de***ion of what the card does, with the main piece of ambiguity being the second sentence not being clear about when it is checking whether or not the hand is empty.
Posted By:
RuscoJames
(2/17/2013 7:25:31 PM)
The Oracle texts forgets to mention that you discard a card AT RANDOM.
Edit: why the hell did I write that? It doesn't say it anywhere on the card! I was seriously looking at this comment and thinking "what an idiot" and then I saw my name next to it! Was I drunk or something?
Posted By:
achilleselbow
(8/19/2010 2:24:10 PM)