Since its an instant, after casting this spell, and assuming it resolves-> does it mill his deck BEFORE he begins searching...or AFTER he has searched his library ?
Posted By:
bboi018
(8/12/2010 2:52:38 PM)
This card is great. In a multiplayer game, you could have a deal with another player; he searches his library, you mill the common enemy. Mill is great now, just throw a playset of Hedron Crabs, Tome Scour, Archice Trap, any Cancel type cards you want, Spreading Seas, Contaminated Grounds and Wrexial, The Risen Deep together and you have a possible T2 deck in the works.
Posted By:
NecroticNobody
(9/9/2010 7:53:00 PM)
wow.. like I would pay 5 mana for a 13 card mill.. but that makes it fuuun specially with all the fetchlands and stuff goin around.
Posted By:
TheSwarm
(9/13/2010 1:03:30 PM)
This card is powerful indeed, and hopefully will be played in Standard control-decks more often.
I mostly think of combining it with Memoricide, and Nihil Spellbomb, counters, Into The Roil
Imagine:
Your starting hand is : 2 lands (like an island and a swamp), 1 Nihil Spellbomb, 2 Archive Traps, 1 Spell Pierce, 1 Duress/Preordain/ Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Turn -
a) Put down the Swamp and duress inqusit his hand, just to take a look, and to get rid of counters, Lightning Bolts Birds of Paradise and what else could cause some trouble early in the game.
b) Put down the Island, lay back, opponents turn.
2 Turn - HE knows your playing blue/black, your opponent plays a fetch-land, fetches an island, shuffles, you... (see all)
Posted By:
Ronin_Rain
(10/16/2010 5:02:14 PM)
@divine_exodus I have to disagree... Sadistic Sacrament removes cards instead of milling them, you also get the choice at which cards. When you're facing an opponent who has Emrakul, Kozilek, or Ulamog in their deck, it is only inevitable that one will end up in the graveyard, wasting every cards you used to get to that point. Neither is "better", both have their uses.
Posted By:
Redeemer707
(5/6/2011 3:43:31 PM)
Heh, I'm glad I now have Gitaxian Probe so I can see crap like this coming.
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(5/22/2011 12:37:16 AM)
I like that it doesn't have to be the same opponent. I wonder how in terms of flavor you would justify one opponent's library containing a trap that's triggered by the other opponent's library being searched.
Posted By:
Gelzo
(5/31/2011 2:10:17 AM)
Does scrying, or looking at the top X cards of your deck count as searching? Because if so, this completely hoses it.
Posted By:
Totema
(11/27/2011 10:17:52 PM)
Responding to someone finding their final combo piece on your end step with four of these is friggin' hilarious.
Posted By:
LordRandomness
(1/8/2012 11:59:48 PM)
can you say "intuition"? so you mill 15 cards for 3 mana and if its later in the game you can twin cast it then evil laugh at your opponents.
Posted By:
PeanutTheDestroyer
(1/25/2012 3:56:52 PM)