If my opponent had this, Raging River, Ice Cauldron, Android oh, idk, Chains of Mephistopheles, I might Assassinate myself because of the Increasing Confusion.
Posted By:
Kale_Eledar
(7/26/2012 11:04:48 AM)
@ Kirbster - for the first couple printings of Sindbad, players had to rely on the honor system for that one too, because when you drew a card, you didn't have to show it to your opponent to prove it was a land in order to keep it. We always played that you had to show the card, though, to put that issue to rest.
Posted By:
DrJack
(8/22/2012 2:11:36 PM)
SURPRISE DREADNOUGHT!!!
Posted By:
Xineombine
(9/23/2012 7:26:00 PM)
WTF is this. I think this gets the reward for the most confusing card ever. Weirder than Zur's Weirding. For that alone, this should be a 5/5.
Posted By:
Demonic_Professor
(12/27/2012 2:00:09 PM)
Use this card with Doppelganger. Copy any Creature and switch whenever you want :) Requires you to be completely honest, what a great broken, weird, lovely card.
I think I will keep mine forever :)
Posted By:
WILLOW-THE-WHAT
(4/10/2013 9:06:23 PM)
The main effect of this is it can be used to ignore ETB effects that would hurt you - like Phyrexian Dreadnought or Hunted Horror's effects.
Posted By:
Lifegainwithbite
(4/15/2013 1:51:56 AM)
Why did they need to add the sorcery speed clause? :(
Posted By:
Earthdawn
(6/6/2013 10:03:34 AM)
"X Mana: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost X or less from your hand onto the battlefield face down as a 0/1 creature. Put X mask counters on that creature. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery. The creature's controller may turn the creature face up any time he or she could cast an instant by removing all mask counters from it. This effect ends if the creature is turned face up."
That is such a functional change. While the power and toughness were never defined on the original card, and are still up for debate due to global -x/-x effects and stuff like fling, the card clearly requires you to pay it's casting cost, not it's mana cost. Furthermore, the mask counters are pointless and the face down creature can perform ulterior operations while 'morphed'. It can attack and block and deal damage, which further deviates from how this card operates. This summation is a way the card could have been done, but by no means does it do the cards ability ... (see all)
Posted By:
Megadog
(9/12/2013 2:59:36 AM)
I love how it's this, when simplified:
Choose a Creature card in your hand.
Pay the creature's Casting Cost, and cast it face down as a 2/2 colorless creature.
--IGNORE ALL ENTERS THE BATTLEFIELD EFFECTS ON THAT CREATURE-- (or any others it has; it doesn't have them... yet)
If it would tap, take damage, assign damage, or deal damage, flip it face-up then have it tap, take damage, assign damage, or deal damage as normal (flipping does not go on the chain nor does it start one, it merely happens).
Your opponent doesn't know that you just played Phage the Untouchable.
Your opponent doesn't know that you just played Phyrexian Dreadnought.
Your opponent doesn't know that you just played (name an awesome but mid-cost card).
They don't know anything about what you played, and it cost you NO EXTRA MANA (beyond playing this card) to do so.
Sob... now if I could just GET me one of them...
Posted By:
JarieSuicune
(11/19/2013 7:41:16 AM)
@GrimjawxRULES
Correct, except for the bit about shuffling around. You can't shuffle around creatures to confuse your opponents, as opponents are always aware of what objects are what, the battlefield being a public zone. If you cast a morph creature face down on turns 3 through 5, your oppponent knows which creature was played on what turn, no matter what. So you can't shuffle them to mess with your opponents.
Posted By:
CogMonocle
(12/26/2013 11:18:55 PM)